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)
Manteno · IL, USA
Vibrant, stationary orange light hovering above farmland
Monee · IL, USA
Small, orange light spotted on a back drop of clouds, then diminished and disappeared.
Ingleside · IL, USA
20 orange lights passing over Northern Illinois
North Aurora · IL, USA
Strange object slowing moving west, arc north, disappear and return, shifting shape and color as it moved near North Aurora, Illinois.
Homer Glen · IL, USA
Sightings of 7 different objects in the night sky over Homer Glen, Illinois
Deerfield · IL, USA
Weird twinkling light or array of lights flies around, then disappears.
Lincolnshire · IL, USA
Triangular symmetric object flying low in a straight line over North Shore Chicago suburbs.
Saunemin · IL, USA
Object lit up the sky and shifted directions before zooming over my head and into oblivion.
East Peoria · IL, USA
Neon green cigar shaped object traveling at high speed,through low level clouds.
Canton · IL, USA
2 green lights traveling subsonic with no sound
Sparland · IL, USA
A bright green circular object was seen flying in the sky in Sparland, IL
Lake Forest · IL, USA
3 Triangular UFOs Sighted in Lake Forest, IL
Rockford · IL, USA
White Diskus And Strobing light
Montgomery/Oswego · IL, USA
Huge object hovers then disappears?
Bethalto · IL, USA
Triangle-shaped flying object that had strobe-like lights and could maneuver abruptly.
Mendon · IL, USA
My friends an I were walking by a graveyard in Mendon, Illinois when one of us noticed a white light with a purple halo-like ring aroun
Tinley Park · IL, USA
Black rectangle object moving from Southeast to Northwest.
Aledo · IL, USA
Four white metalic spheres with red glass-ish window on the front heading East over Aledo, Il.
Lisle · IL, USA
Stationary fireball lights on horizon facing Ohare.
Lockport · IL, USA
Ufos in lockport IL
Manteno · IL, USA
Object Exploded after being struck by lightning
Oswego/Montgomery · IL, USA
Oswego, IL, UFO? U tell me
Oak Lawn · IL, USA
UFO Cigar I think I saw was crazy
East Moline · IL, USA
2 glowing amber disks fly slowly overhead in different directions.
Machesney Park · IL, USA
objects moving downward in a perfect row also, flashing in a reddish color.