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)
Mundelein · IL, USA
Saw large flying saucer in corn field 150ft away, maybe 15 ft off the ground. I wasn't alone my friend was with me, Mundelein, IL.
Salem · IL, USA
Object with string of red lights hovers over strip mall then moves over interstate highway before shooting into the sky.
Peoria · IL, USA
Saw a U.F.O. over backyard at very close proximity to house located across from airport. Saw first hand object and passengers inside.
Bloomington · IL, USA
I I WAS WATCHING FOR METEORITES FROM MY FRONT PORCH, LIKE I DO EVERY YEAR ON AUG.10AND11. I HEARD A LOUD CRASH LIKE FARM MACHINARY SHU
Evanston · IL, USA
A witness in Evanston, Illinois reported a roughly 90-foot, gray, saucer-shaped object with white spinning lights on its underside, during a five-to-six-minute sighting in August 1972.
Bedford Park · IL, USA
This was a sighting of a glowing being. The date is approximate. I think I was about 8 years old and it was summer. A friend and I were
Winnebago · IL, USA
A witness in Winnebago, Illinois reported a triangular object during a thirty-minute sighting in June 1972, describing an impression that it reacted to their conversation.
Arlington Heights · IL, USA
I was stopped at a stop sign. A Nike Site was on my left. A saucer the size of a small car hovered over the hood of my car and then b
Arlington Heights · IL, USA
I was at a stop sign on my way home to Rolling Meadows, between the Hospital and the Nike Site. A disk or saucer appeared above the ho
Hutsonville · IL, USA
A witness near an electrical power plant in Hutsonville, Illinois reported a low-pitched humming noise and a series of bright lights at ground level, during a two-minute sighting in June 1972.
Moline · IL, USA
A witness in Moline, Illinois reported a spherical craft with windows, rotating and moving up and down within about 25 feet of the ground, during a ten-to-fifteen-minute sighting in May 1972.
Schaumburg · IL, USA
UFO Lands In Mrs Larson's Backyard
Chicago · IL, USA
Witnesses in Chicago, Illinois reported a strangely shaped object in the sky near Midway Airport during a ten-minute sighting in March 1972.
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Saw a disc shaped craft with 3 lights
Beardstown · IL, USA
1970 mysterious light in beardstown IL
Mundelin · IL, USA
A witness near Mundelein, Illinois, reported a disk-shaped object in September 1970 whose unusual movement, more than its appearance, left a lasting impression during the brief thirty-second sighting.
Quincy · IL, USA
A witness in Quincy, Illinois, described a bright blue-white light in September 1970 and reported an unexplained gap in memory afterward, an incident lasting about three hours.
Seymore/Farmer City/Weldon area · IL, USA
Large Aluminun-colored "Saucer"
Lockport · IL, USA
Witnesses in Lockport, Illinois, described three lights chasing one another in July 1970, speeding up, slowing down, and making instant ninety-degree turns over about one minute.
Downers Grove · IL, USA
A flying-saucer-shaped object was reported traveling across the daytime sky over Downers Grove, Illinois, in June 1970, for five to ten minutes.
Geneseo · IL, USA
Early morning abduction
Chicago · IL, USA
A bright white, circular disk-shaped object was reported descending along the outside of a high-rise on Chicago's lakefront in June 1970, for about five minutes.
La Grange · IL, USA
Saucer sighting
Chicago · IL, USA
Three reddish-orange spheres were reported moving from south to north over Chicago, Illinois, in April 1970, following a mechanical, straight-line path for about one minute.
Olney · IL, USA
A cigar-shaped object about the size of a fifteen-hundred-square-foot home hovered roughly two hundred feet above a house near Olney, Illinois, for ten minutes in October 1969.