Illinois UFO Sightings in 2005

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lights in clouds, 4 witnesses for sure around 7:00 pm while going north on US 51, north of Cairo IL. , near I-57, I observed pulsating lights that looked like lighting in the clouds, they were in sinc. I could clearly see the ground below and there was nothing other than other traffic.

The lights were white and they did not seem to move. On my way back south 0n 51, the lights were not there. I am a self employed business man and a serv adv.

at a auto dealership. Also the lights were about a quarter of a mile in width, I think.

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Red laser light beam in Evanston, Illinois Single red laser light beam came through slats of shuttered window on our second floor; window faces south. The light was coming from a higher point, seemed like 45 degrees or more from horizontal. Based on the angle, it didn't seem like it could possibly be coming from a neighbor's house.

Too freaked out to look outside afterwards. There was no sound.

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3 Lights stopped and turned on a level plane Driving home from work I saw 3 lights in the sky that at first sight looked light airplane lights. Then I noticed that they were spread too far apart to be a normal aircraft strobe lights. There were 2 white pulsing lights in tandem and then 1 red light that was fixed in what appeared to be the front of this object.

I could not actually see the object but could see the lights and they moved together like they were attached. These lights were low in the sky and below the normal flight line of normal aircraft on approach to ORD ( there were many other aircraft in the sky at the time and this object must have been noticed by other planes ). What really made me stop was the fact that they just stopped and then turned like they were on some sort of swivel.

They then started heading east at a rapid speed and made another swivel turn to the south when I lost sight of them behind the tree/building line. When the object turned I never lost sight of the lights ( they were never obscured like a plane banking) and they turned on a level plane.The two white lights got wider apart and the red light actually moved to the middle of the 2 white lights and then the object seemed to move away from me.

If I had to guess a distance I would say 1-5 miles away and below the normal flight height of approaching aircraft into Ohare over Lombard. This object seemed to be 3-4 times as large as a normal passenger jet .

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Four to six EXTREMLY fast moving lights, "played" around 5 stable, glimmering vertical "stars". ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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Multicolored large, bright object in Southeast sky over Lockport Illinois. There was a object hovering in the Southeast sky on Monday Dec 19 2005 over Lockport IL. It was higher then an airplane but lower then stars.

It was quite large in relation to stars or planes. It flashed blue, green, and white. On the zoom lense of my video camera it looked like a ball of energy--with a center core of white light.

(Like the toy they sell at the mall--the sphere where if you put your hand on it all of the light goes to your fingers). We have hours of video tape and could not stop watching this mystery. That night we also saw several red pin sized dots all over the sky.

We called the police and they could not explain what it was. I would like to know what this is!.

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Bright white object in sky of north side Chciago traveling west at a fast speed. A oval shape of light appear on the sky and a circle object came out of the oval shape of light at a incredible speed. The circle object was a real white bright light that illuminated my bedroom and kitchen.

The circle shape had a tail that faded away as it moved and I heard a whizzing sound as it moved.

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Big Huge Bright Light Seen Over By My Cousin's House In Orland Park I was over at my Cousin's House for our family Christmas Gathering over in Orland Park. I was waiting for a taxi-cab to take go home that evening. (this was around 6pm Sunday evening).

All of a sudden, I happend to look out the window and then I saw this big huge bright light up in the sky! It was NOT moving at all! It stood up there for about 15 minutes. My taxi-cab had already came, and I was already gone. I was not too sure which way the front of my cousin's house was facing, because I only go there once a year for Christmas.

Everytime whenever I go my cousin' house, It is alway cloudy, cold and gloomy outside. I have not told anyone especially my cousins, because they were all to busy getting drunk by being stress out for a future planned wedding. However, I was not drinking, because I am NOT much of a drinker.

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hovering, flashing object in night sky Often at night I sit on my back porch. I face due east towards Chicago (45 miles east). My porch has a spectacular view of the night sky.

I sit and watch the planes come in and out of O'Hare Airport as well as the beautiful night sky. More times than not, I can locate an object that appears to be a brilliant star. However, it moves.

It also flashes green, red and what I guess is yellow. It's not a plane, I know it's not a star, it's not a sattelite. If you sit and watch it with just the naked eye, it appears to be hovering and flashing different colors.

It's usually out there. With sophisticated recorders (better than my hand held), I know anyone would see what I'm seeing. What is it?? I will try to tape it this week.

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Spinning flat objects I was on the porch smoking, and it was around 9 p.m., and I saw a bright object in the sky.

I watched it and it was moving southeast, it looked flat in shape, and it appeared to be moving in a spinning motion, and looked like one side of it was the color of fire. I immediately called my daughter, so that she can see that I was not seeing things! She couldn't believe what she saw either! It continued to move higher into the sky, and I saw another one coming from another direction and it looked like it went right up to the other one, and both of them just kept on going. They both looked flat in shape and they both moved in a spinning motion and they appeared to have the color of fire on one side.

Very weird!.

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Craft flies very low over our heads!! This sighting occurred in December of 2005. We did not report as we are unsure of what happens with these reports. Before this sighting we have noticed alot of strange UFO activity in our rural location such as weird lights in the sky, unknown sounds in and on top of house such as "something" running arcross roof late at night or very early in the morning hours.

Also, a few months before this sighting we observed five to six "helicopters" with very low humming engines and air to ground spotlights flying around the area as searching in a grid formation. We(husband, wife and child) went outside to the rear of our home to gather the trash cans and wheel them out front to the curb. About mid-way I(husband) happened to look up and saw a huge "ship" and proclaimed " What the !@#! is that?" at which time my wife and son also looked up and observed the object.

It was moving from South to North VERY slowly and was less than 150 feet in the air or right above our tree tops. The object was sort of rectangluar in shape but not quite. The rear of the object was "glowing" an yellow orange color and making a low humming sound.

In the center of the object was looked like a large dome that hung below the object and pulsated the same yellow orange color. As we only saw the underbelly of the object we also noticed many what seemed to be "tubes", my wife said it looked to her more like a flying generator. To say the least, we all three were very shocked and with me being a ufo buff got quite excited! Since this encounter we have heard that same "humming sound" on other occassions that seem to come from right above our home.

We also hear very strange sounds that come from the woods around our home quite frequently and still see strange activity. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. Date of event may be approximate.

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ufo spaceship in elmhurst a disk with lights around on it. it was like a giant space inside the circle and it went in circles for like 40 seconds and it was gone.

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The Curtain Call. We saw this tremendous object. About 100 foot across and not very high up.

It looked like a brown, undulating curtain that was rather thick. It was noiseless and disappeared after a while. The dogs were barking at it.

There's this satelite or something to the south-west of my place. When this thing passed by, this other object blazed up like it as on fire. (It has never done this before.

)I contacted Nasa about it but they've not had time to get back on it (if they will). The closest I could find in similarity was a trifid nebula but those are WAY up there and we were watching this with nothing other than the naked eye. Alien or no.

It was pretty awesome! P.S. There was a giant silver pinball thingy around the same area, too, a few days ago.

A jet was trailing it. So, I could do a visual size estimate. The ball thing was monsterous.

Yet, both passed behind some clouds and I only got to watch for about 6 minutes. We have always seen weird sky things for years. Scott Airforce Base is about a 2-3 hour drive from here.

Most of the stuff is probably theirs (even though it's odd looking). Yet, some of this stuff is pretty far out. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous.

PD)).

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Was approaching Illiopolis IL on Interstate 72 headed east. Object came straight down all the way to the ground. It was huge, as bright and as large as the full moon.

With a tail stretching back for miles. Just beautiful.

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Flashing lights from a huge object in a sky behind cloud cover My wife and I were on our way home from work, having to cross a bridge into the city of Mt. Carmel. We were carrying on a conversation when my wife interupted and asked me what the blinking light outside my passenger window was in the sky.

I figured since it was in the sky it was a plane and ignored what she was looking at. Again, she asked me about the light and this time looking for it where she was pointing, it moved from us observing it from the passenger window of my car to the driver's side. Having caught my attention with the rapid rate of speed, what had me in awe was now it was stationary.

We were unable to make out a shape due to the cloud cover, but the lights spread at a pattern to large to be a plane. They now appeared dirrectly above us as I drove into town. I found myself leaning as hard as I could on my steering wheel to observe these odd lights.

The lights burst through the clouds reminding me of powerful spot lights or explosions, except the lights would flash in the exact same position in different patterns. The lights appeared to be a fire orange, but again more as a powerful spot light not a flame. Going from two to six to four, it changed constently flashing a different number of lights every second.

I immediatley called a co-worker from my cell phone to see if he could see the ligths from the town to the east of us. Picking up his phone the first words were not hello, but "What are those lights in the direction of your house?". Soon after the phone call the lights disappeared from what I could see, but the co-worker could still see them.

I had turned around with no luck of resighting the strange lights. The next day I spoke with the co-worker and he advised he had seen the same type of pattern of lights. The only difference was that he described them in an orb shape.

Another co-worker had heard the conversation and said she had seen the same type of orb shape with the same description of lights. I still am curious as to what could have caused not only a huge area of lighting, but to be able to move at the witnessed speed of the lights. Especially to come to a halt after the rapid speed.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Quick flash in the sky I was driving home from work about 6:30 at night and was stopped at a red light. I noticed a quick whitish-grey flash in the dark sky (all cloudy that night no stars were out). The flash last for about 4 seconds and went from North to South and disappeared into the clouds.

I looked around to see if the driver next to me noticed and I saw the two people in the car point to the sky and were talking to eachother.so I knew I was not the only one that saw it. I know for sure it was not a plane.

This object left a light trail that soon disappeared after the flash. It was too quick to be a plane.

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I had just gotten out of my car. The night was mild for November and clear. I paused to look up at the stars above the roof of my house.

Movement to the east caught my attention. I looked east and there were 15-20 (best guess) objects flying very high, I would guess 30,000 feet, from east to west. They may have been higher than that but I have no idea how large the craft were so I have nothing to base a better judgement on.

They were in a line that formed north to south but it wasn't an organized line. As they flew the line flucuated as to which 'craft' was in the lead. It reminded me of how a flock of geese act when they are trying to decide which will lead the flock until the V formation is made.

They were illuminated a blue/white but were high enough that I could not determine a shape. They resembled small blueish stars. Although they were flying at high altitude and a high rate of speed I was still able to stay focused on them from east to west.

At the rate they seemed to be traveling I would guess it was would have taken a very short time for them to cross the distance (east to west) of Illinois. I heard no sound, either before I caught sight, during nor after. I did not observe any contrails from them.

The illumination seemed steady, not flashing and only the blue/white hue. No orange, red or yellow at all. I did not observe any other aircraft in the night sky.

At the time there were no clouds to speak of. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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A large, green ball of fire fell out of the sky over Chicago, viewed from just North of the city A large, green ball of fire was observed from a rooftop just North of the Chicago Loop along Lake Michigan. While looking at the skyline to the South, a large green ball with a small tail appeared and travelled at a 30-45 degree trajetory (down and to the right), disappearing from view behind the BP skyscraper. The object made no sound and was observed by 2 people.

It seemed characteristic of a meteor, except that it appeared MUCH larger than any previously seen by the observer. The object appeared to be 1/4 to 1/2 the diameter of a full moon.

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Flickering colored lights appear in the sky at the about the same time each night for about 45 minutes and then disappear. My wife saw this object three nights ago. It was low and moving silently across the horizon in a gradual descent that she thought may result in a crash but it disappeared instead.

Both my wife and I have seen it the last two nights in the same position in the sky about 15-20 degrees above the horizon. The shape is indistinct but one can see the changing colors (green, red, white) with the naked eye. It is impossible to judge the size, altitude or distance from us.

It appears about 23:00 and disappears very gradually into the distance in 30-45 minutes. Last night we could see it moving up, down and side to side abruptly but never too far from its original position. Tonight it was more stationary and slowly disappeared to the west as if moving away from us.

The tower at the local airport closes at 23:00. The sky has been very clear and we have seen several shooting stars the last two nights. I have been around aircraft since I was a boy and built many a model airplane.

And I have seen space junk a number of times. My wife is a graphic artist and has a good eye. We have never encountered anything like this.

((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Dear Mr. Davenport: Mars was orange/yellow and very bright above and behind us to the east. The object was in the western sky and much nearer the horizon so that we had our backs to Mars as we watched the object.

We observed the object with binoculars which made the changing colors, not just a distorted shimmer but a flashing, more apparent. It isn't the usual 'twinkle'. I checked periodically last night waiting for the object to appear and when I looked out about 23:00, there it was.

The night before last, it was moving very distinctly in small increments back and forth and up and down. That's what really threw us. It didn't move as much last night.

Springfield is 110,000 people and we live about 5 or 6 miles east of town and the last few nights the atmosphere has been very clear and absolutely beautiful, but I don't see any body behaving or looking like this. It's just a very odd thing to see. Regards, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)).

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pulsating row of 4-5 very bright lights in SW sky (southern IL), Triangle of 3 lights of same intensity, also small pulsing orbs At approximately 8:10 p.m. this evening (11-02-05) my husband and I were on our way into town to grab a late supper.

We live in a very rural area, with no city lights to obstruct the night sky view and it was perfectly clear this evening so every star seemed visible. As soon as we pulled out of our driveway and headed south we saw 4-5 VERY bright lights in a row at about 45 degrees up from the horizon in the south western night sky. We noticed them at the same time and simultaneously we said to each other "What the h--- is that?" The lights were in a row and glowing very brightly, probably 5x the brightness of the brightest planet/star in the sky.

They were so bright that we thought at first someone was shooting off fireworks somehwere south of us. But it only took a second to realize that these lights were standing still, in a row. We stopped the truck and got out to see better as soon as we saw them.

Suddenly they began to move slowly to the west in this manner: the light to the far left end of the row of lights would fade completely out and a new light would appear to the right end of the line and then the last one on the left would fade, then a new one appear to the right end of the line. It kind of snaked its way along like that for about a minute. Then, we saw three more lights of equal brightness forming what appeared to be a large triangle formation around the first group of lights, but at a distance.

These lights glowed brightly, then dimmed completely out, then glowed brightly again, then dimmed completely out. After about 4 repetitions, all the lights diappeared, then the sky in the area they had been in was filled with random sparkles of light, much smaller then the first lights. After about another 30 seconds we saw a single bright light identical to the first ones more to the south and higher in the sky.

It got very bright then dimmed completely out probably 3 times before disappearing. Then we spotted another one, this time in the west, about 70 degrees up from the horizon. Same bright light, exact same intensity, same glowing and dimming pattern.

After about three reps it, too, faded completely out and we saw more of the small sparkles. At first I thought 'meteor shower' but meteors don't come in in lines, nor fade and glow over and over, do they? The last set of sparkles took on a pattern, like: 3 blinks, no blinks, 3 blinks, no blinks, and moved in a very randam, almost haphazard pattern. It was too weird.

This all took place in about a five minute time span. We got back in the truck, going on and on to each other about how cool and weird that was. We headed east toward town and I spotted another light, exact same brilliance, to the southwest again, same dimming and glowing pattern, then disappearing.

And again, after it disappeared, there were two sparkly lights, doing the 3x blink pattern. I have never seen anything like this before, and would welcome any sensible explanation! We saw several airplane lights in the sky at the same time, as we alwasy do at night, but they were obviously just that, airplanes, blinking, moving slowly across the sky. These things were NOT airplanes.

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we were feeding animals and there were about 7 lights in the souther sky and they were bright yellowish-orange. they were there for about 30 sec then slowly faded in brightness ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD)).