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)
Lombard · IL, USA
Black Hawks chasing object outside O'Hare airspace.
Crystal Lake · IL, USA
Shiny silver white disk vanishing out of thin air, then reappearing.
Lisle · IL, USA
2 red-orange balls of light in sky in Lisle, IL.
Pecatonica · IL, USA
Large, silent, triangular craft.
Matteson · IL, USA
Strange bright objects in sky over Matteson, Il. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD))
Sublette · IL, USA
Def not planes...red orange lights looked like fire almost in side of something that wasn't a plane but more of a spaceship shape Saw 3
Mount Vernon · IL, USA
Small object hovering over a neighbor's house.
Chicago · IL, USA
((HOAX??)) There were three oval shaped crafts in the sky moving around.
Swansea · IL, USA
Orange Glowing Ball over Swansea, IL.
Iola · IL, USA
A very bright, pinkish colored object, slightly brighter than the northern star, was seen in broad daylight.
Savoy · IL, USA
Several fireball/orange orbs silently gliding in a line from South to North, then disappearing in the near distance.
Palatine · IL, USA
Red/orange lights or flames in the late evening sky--moving northwest.
Crystal Lake · IL, USA
Six orange fireballs in formation.
Aurora · IL, USA
VERY bright ball of light, sat there for a while, dimmed down and just floated off and dissapeared.
Rockford · IL, USA
Large extremely slow moving craft with red and white lights makes several low altitude passes over Rockford.
Bartlet · IL, USA
Intermittent changing lights in sky west of Bartlet. Blue, yellow, purple. The lights dropped 1 by 1 then vanished. Happened numerous t
Oswego · IL, USA
Three triangles shaped aircrafts followed my friends and I from the sky while we were driving through our neighborhood for three hours.
Jonesboro · IL, USA
Strange round green ball appeared in the night sky. Object moved in a horizontal position for 3 seconds, and then shot downwards.
Crystal lake · IL, USA
6 Diamond, faintly lit objects flying amongst each other.
Oswego · IL, USA
Triangle shaped space craft that has followed my friends and I when we drive through our neighborhood and is definetly not an airplane.
Chicago · IL, USA
Blue lights high-speed with a sudden stop, Chicago il near downtown.
Galena · IL, USA
A very bright orange reddish stationary light in the eastern slightly southern sky about 30 degrees above horizon.
St. Charles · IL, USA
I was traveling west on route 64 down town St Charles. I noticed a chevron shaped object flying east.I figured it was a plane headi
Barrington · IL, USA
I randomly have been seeing small light in the sky changing colors moving around. It's been like this for the past week.
Orland Park · IL, USA
As I lay down to sleep my eyes glanced the bedroom sliding glass down. An oval orange light flew by, travel east.