UFO Sightings in Illinois
4,055 UFO sightings reported in Illinois since 1946, peaking in 2012 (270 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 4,055
- Span
- 1946–2025
- Peak year
- 2012 (270 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1946–2025 · peak 2012 (270 reports)
Top cities in Illinois
Chicago
1952–2021 · peak 2012 (29 reports)
Tinley Park
1971–2021 · peak 2004 (92 reports)
Rockford
1964–2022 · peak 2001 (42 reports)
Springfield
1979–2021 · peak 2020 (8 reports)
Oak Lawn
1946–2020 · peak 2010 (10 reports)
Orland Park
1995–2019 · peak 2005 (15 reports)
Peoria
1966–2020 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Naperville
1997–2022 · peak 2001 (4 reports)
Northbrook
1999–2022 · peak 2020 (16 reports)
Bloomington
1972–2020 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Oak Forest
2003–2016 · peak 2005 (18 reports)
Aurora
1995–2022 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Plainfield
1999–2020 · peak 2016 (5 reports)
Joliet
1979–2021 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Palatine
1961–2021 · peak 2012 (4 reports)
Crystal Lake
1968–2021 · peak 2011 (4 reports)
Norris City
2018–2022 · peak 2018 (13 reports)
Elgin
1982–2021 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Frankfort
1996–2017 · peak 2004 (4 reports)
Lombard
1997–2019 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Sugar Grove · IL, USA
3 red lights - triangle shape N NE sky 45 degree angle off of horizon
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Sept. 30th 2005 Red Lights Sighting 11:18pm Tinley Park, IL
Palos Heights · IL, USA
UFO spotted over Chicago's Southwest suburbs
Orland Park · IL, USA
Red lights over sky of Orland Park, IL
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Two red lights in the sky
Tinley Park/Oak Forest · IL, USA
Tinley Park Lights May have retured Three red lights in a triangular formation
Tinley Park · IL, USA
red lights over tinley park, IL
Tinley Park · IL, USA
The 3 red lights of south chicago
Oak Forest · IL, USA
red circle in sky flashing on and off
Orland Park · IL, USA
Three red lights that formed a triangle.
Orland Park · IL, USA
Two pulsing bright red lights in eastern sky seen around 11:30 p.m. from my backyard in Orland Park, IL
Berwyn · IL, USA
A bright light, like that of a candle over the city of Berwyn, IL.
Bolingbrook · IL, USA
MY NEPHEW WHO IS 13 AND MYSELF WHO IS 35 SAW 1 LIGHT, APPEARANCE THAT LIKE ONE OF A STAR BUT MOVING. THREE DIFFERENT FIVE MINUTE TIME I
Belvidere · IL, USA
Triangular noiseless flying craft with brightness on its underbody.
Chicago · IL, USA
3 cigar shaped lights
Chicago · IL, USA
they started out like comets from the sky converting into circle of lights moving side to side
Wheaton · IL, USA
Sighting of bright orb in sky, following an unusual path, reversing directions twice
Rockford · IL, USA
One of the sightings in Rockford I have seen.
Woodstock/Harvard · IL, USA
While driving home in August from our families' cabin, we spotted a red/yellow light in the horizon. The light went up directly from th
Highland Park · IL, USA
A red hazy object, faster than a plane and slower than a satellite, headed from the NE to the SW.
Murmet Springs · IL, USA
An extremely bright light that moved tremendously fast, stopped, flickered and then took off at a right angle to it's previous path.
Berwyn · IL, USA
I was sitting on my back porch gazing at the stars when I notice a light moving north bound across the sky, then all of a sudden the li
Evanston · IL, USA
Locagion: over Lake Michigan, seen from South Blvd. Beach in Evanston, IL. 200-300 yards from shore @ about 10:00PM. A hovering obje
Owaneco · IL, USA
Large very bright oval object that appeared to the right, left then right.
Chicago · IL, USA
UFO's seen at The Chicago Air Show!