State Report
UFO Sightings in Illinois
6,898 sightings on record from 1925 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
6,898
Share of US total
3.22%
Peak year
2012
520 reports
Top shape
Light
1,427 reports
Years active
98
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-18 | Waterloo | orb | <5 seconds | Viewer was driving home from work. Saw "3 balls of light" that fell amazingly fast towards the ground. Sighting lasted... |
| 2023-12-14 | Chicago | triangle | A minute | I saw a line cloud descending from space as far as I could see and I couldn’t recognize the object I assumed it was... |
| 2023-11-30 | Woodstock | formation | 5-10 seconds | 2 groups of 25silver lights with 1 above the other seen clearly the bottom group faded away before the upper group faded... |
| 2023-11-28 | New Lenox | circle | Approximately 2 minutes. | Bright deep yellow sphere with red bottom with long yellow trailing tail in appearance of a fireball |
| 2023-11-24 | Odell | sphere | 5 to 10 seconds | We saw a 10’ black ball off our right wing at 5500’. |
| 2023-11-22 | Hillsboro | circle | Still ongoing been 20 min | Lights rotating in a circle |
| 2023-11-18 | Fairfield | sphere | Saw it for about 2 mins | Clear blue skies. I was pulling out of my property and saw the sphere. |
| 2023-11-17 | Lincolnshire | other | 6-8 seconds | The craft was totally stationary, totally silent and visible just above a tree. |
| 2023-11-15 | Lincolnshire | rectangle | 10-12 seconds | Platform type craft traveling low over forest with lights illuminating the top but no lights on bottom, at night. |
| 2023-11-14 | Chicago | cigar | 20 mins | Saw two craft, one approaching from the SW and another about 1500 ft away relatively close to my building. |
| 2023-11-12 | La Grange Park | formation | Less than a minute | Shape with two points of light at each end at low altitude |
| 2023-11-09 | Batavia | formation | 5 minutes | Long slow moving straight line of lights that change color and shape that dim like a light bulb |
| 2023-11-09 | Joliet | unknown | 1-2 minutes | We were on our way home from the VA Hospital. |
| 2023-11-09 | Little Rock | formation | 1 min | Observed an anomaly of lights in the sky |
| 2023-11-08 | Chicago | oval | 3 seconds | An oval-like light shot across the sky from north to south within 3 seconds. |
| 2023-11-03 | Sterling | cube | It’s still there | Was not a drone, plane or helicopter |
| 2023-10-17 | Chicago | circle | 4 minutes + | I woke up at 4am and went kitchen to get water. I looked out of my window and there was a very bright light that wasn't... |
| 2023-10-16 | Grayslake | circle | 45 seconds | Rotating copper craft changing brightness every few seconds |
| 2023-10-14 | Oswego | orb | Like 15 minutes | It may have been four lights from one object, the lights seemed to travel along a set path |
| 2023-10-14 | Murphysboro | unknown | About an 1hr | Peculiar event with a lot going on. |