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)
Schaumburg · IL, USA
One brightly-lit oval took off from the ground into the sky.
Hodgkins · IL, USA
What I saw was purely unexpected, the sun had just set and I was sitting in my car when I noticed one plane being followed by what look
Anna · IL, USA
I saw a light going across a field after dusk. It was to fast for a plane and it had no landing lights.
Mokena · IL, USA
We were looking out my window, and there it was, just sitting there, making no sound and hovering at around 25 feet up, and it dissapea
Tolono · IL, USA
Out cutting hedges and saw object in sky
Chicago · IL, USA
Alien healing. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Litchfield · IL, USA
It happen in my backyard
Belvidere (5 miles north of) · IL, USA
Large blue flash and con trail similar to meteor, however with a evenly split blue tail. And a con trail that sustained for approximate
Rushville · IL, USA
TWO BRIGHT ORANGE LIGHTS SIDE BY SIDE AND TWO BRIGHT YELLOW LIGHTS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THEM
Mt Sterling · IL, USA
8/21-8/27 Approx. 50 lights in south sky moving up & down, & side to side.
Round Lake Beach · Illinois, IL, USA
Two brighter than star objects first observed at zenith; appeared that one was "chasing" or following the second which was, at times,zi
Chicago · IL, USA
Series of star-like points, approximate visual magnitude +3, shifting positions among each other, but as a group moving uniformly in a
Franklin Park (60131) · IL, USA
Yellow circle in northeast sky moving northward
Scales Mound · IL, USA
Three, what we thought were satellites, converged in to a triangle and flew off in a different direction.
Tinley Park/I-57 (Between · on I 80), IL, USA
It looked like two strobe lights flying together
Chicago (downtown) · IL, USA
i was taking my kids to school in the morning,i was on highway 290 heading east when i noticed a shining chrome like object in the sky!
Chicago · IL, USA
Three pearl like or chrone pin ball like objects in figure eight formation in sky
West Chicago · IL, USA
We were standing in my driveway and this enormous thing flew over my house about 100 feet in the air. It was a dark mass in the sky wi
McHenry · IL, USA
light in sky chased away by two jets.
Urbana · IL, USA
Silver Metalic cylinder over Urbana
Alpha · IL, USA
I was with my 2 kids, Teenagers we went to visite my Uncle on his Farm, we knocked no answer, so we went up the road, just for a drive
Manito (2 miles north of) · IL, USA
2 unknown flying objects moving, far too complex for a plane. There is no area around where missles would be launched
Midlothian · IL, USA
Huge, black cube shaped object floating in the night sky.
Carpentersville · IL, USA
Bright round object in sky
South Holland · IL, USA
4 disk shaped objects traveling in a NNE direction.Emiting no sound and appearing to change course to ENE after reaching Lake Michigan.