Illinois UFO Sightings in 2020

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Orb of light seen above clouds with unusual acceleration patterns Around 1:16 A.M., I was heading west down Montgomery Rd.

, just passing Middleburry Dr. The sky was dark and cloudy; the clouds themselves were low. Just above the clouds, I noticed a glowing orb/light traveling east towards my car.

With no one behind me, I decided to slow down so that I could get a better look. The object itself was low enough that the light emitting from it was peeking through, almost like a flashlight under a blanket. It maintained a slow but constant speed for about 3-5 seconds, then accelerated into a rapid zig-zag pattern before shooting off into the distance and disappearing almost instantly.

I’ve lived in this city for 22 years and I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s common to see commercial airliners flying in this area, however the rapid zig-zag patterns and the speed transition I witnessed are absolutely impossible to replicate with any aircraft of that size. The object was also significantly smaller and flying at a much lower altitude.

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It disappeared behind a tree. A group of people were watching an RC car when me and 1 other person witnessed a hovering white oval. It did not leave a trail and when it went behind a tree it disappeared.

Nobody but myself and another seen it.

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Chicago: Shiny disk shaped UFO in daylight I saw a shiny object from my window in high rise apartment in downtown Chicago. Object was moving around and seemed to be heading West (my view faces North). At first I thought it could be a balloon that was shining from the sun reflection but it seemed bigger and decided to get it on video.

After zooming in and further analyzing the video it looks like a saucer/disk/ship. It went fast, I was able to look at it for about 10-15 seconds before grabbing my phone and recording it a 6 second video before it disappeared from my field of vision. As you can see in the video the object maneuvered and did some kind of flip in which you can see the bottom angle of the disk as well.

I would like to note that I saw a helicopter flying in the distance shortly after seeing the object (might be unrelated but mentioning just in case), the helicopter was not flying on the same direction where I saw the UFO.

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Ufo travelled at high speed and disappeared in a portal? So I was out walking my dog and I was looking at the sky because I’m in love with the universe and we’re outside for about 15 mins. We begin to walk back home headed east, the sky is clear you can see every single star. I continue to stare at the sky and I noticed what I thought was a shooting star.

I instantly thought no way I’ve never seen a shooting star my whole life. The ball of light went straight and picked up an immense amount of speed it leaving behind a white tail of light as it travelled across the sky. All of a sudden the light disappeared like it went behind a curtain and the tail followed behind and disappeared into the night sky.

I can only describe the visualization as it possibly opened a portal and disappeared once inside taking the tail of light with it. I’ve never seen something travel across the sky like this! It cleared 2/3 of my field of vision in what felt like two seconds.

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Witnessed near grocery store Ufo was spotted near grocery store by friend while walking dog, it was night out and they saw the lights on the ufo, and said it looked as if it was in a box shape.

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12-15 white dot/dashes in straight line formation in Northern Illinois We were heading west on Route 120 just west of McHenry in Northern Illinois at approximated 18:45 on 04-Dec-2020. Approximately 12-15 white dots in a straight line (resembling lines on pavement) at a 45 degree angle pointing southwest appeared in the southwestern sky. The line did not move and remained stationary for about 3 minutes or more and then all lights vanished.

There were no clouds present and it was very clear. We were not able to get a photo, as we were driving and there was heavy traffic. The cars in front of us were swerving as they apparently saw it, too.

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String of lights in the night sky I walked outside in the back yard and looked up and noticed a string of lights approximately 20 or more and they were white in color and in a straight formation. I'm not sure but I would say that they were approximately 40 feet or more in between each of them. I did not hear any noise from them and ran in to get my wife who also witnessed this.

I grabbed my iPad and tried to record it but it was unsuccessful. Soon after the lights rose up and vanished out of sight.

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row of lights in perfect order and spacing While on a walk, we witnessed 20-30 small lights in a row, perfectly spaced out and silent, going at the same rate of speed from west to east. Viewed for 5 or so minutes, then vanished.

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Walked outside to take my dog out. Looked up at the sky and saw several things that looked like stars moving across the sky to the south in a shallow arc. They seemed to appear out of nowhere at a point in the sky, travelled for a distance and disappeared in the same manner.

I knocked on the window and waved for my parents to come outside. My mom came out and saw the same thing. I don't know how long it was going on for but I caught the last minute or two of the event.

I've seen planes lined up waiting to be called into an airport. These lights were too high, moving too fast, and too close together to be that.

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saw a vertical line of 6 lights that were equidistant apart rising in the distant sky. They appeared to disappear into the clouds slowly one at a time from the highest to the lowest.

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Saw between 20-30 diagonally aligned lights that looked like stars. They were southwest of Springfield, Il. They did not move but after no more that 2 minutes, most were gone.

They just disappeared leaving 4 or 5. Shortly after, those were gone, too. There were no blinking or colored lights.

They just looked like stars. There was no sound.

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MADAR Node 98.

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2 White lights moving in unison in Granite City, IL I was standing in my backyard and when I turned around and looked up I saw two bright round lights hovering above me with no sound and they turned in unison and slowly went up. In around 4 more seconds, the ufo rapidly disappeared. I didn't have time to grab my phone/camera before it disappeared and was wondering if anyone else in Granite City seen it too.

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Stationary light fades from view At approx. 0330, I stepped outside to take a look at the sky. Looking to the north, I noticed an "extra" star in the bowl of the Little Dipper, between the stars Kochab and Pherkad.

I estimated the brightness to be about second magnitude. Being not quite fully awake, my first thought was, "That planet is out of place". After a moment, I realized what I was thinking, came fully awake, and started watching the light.

After approx. two minutes, the light simply faded out over a period of about three seconds. I've observed probably hundreds of satellites and the ISS over many years and the thing that strikes me was the total lack of motion against the fixed stars before it faded out.

I suppose though that might have been a projection effect. I noticed no aircraft in the area, shy was clear, and wind was calm. Heavens Above site showed a pass of "US3A07" but the timing was somewhat off and there was no track, contrary to that predicted on HA.

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There is objects in the sky that at first looked like stars but then when I looked closer it was lights that were blinking . Been watching it for about a week sometimes couldn’t take picture or video because it would be kind of far away but today I did. The objects move sometimes forward sometimes in circular motion and today when I started filming it seems like it started coming down every time I looked at it through the window.

At first I taught maybe it’s drawn or something but it seemed weird that the sky is full of them. And when I took a video and photo it looks like it has some kind of aura it changes shapes, kind of hard to describe.

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I seen what looked like a flock of birds flying but as it got closer it was perfect triangle with dim lit lights moving in unison. If it were a car on the ground I'd say it was moving about 40-50 mph. It made no sound at all.

There was a helicopter off in the distance that you could hear and it was going the opposite way. The ufo was traveling from Illinois to iowa.

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It was an absolute object.traingluar shaped with circular lights in the pockets of the triangle. I will never forget that night! On November 9, 2020 (around 21:00) I was outside sitting on my back deck.

I always look up at the stars when I am outside. There weren´t a lot of stars out on this particular night. While I was looking in the sky, I saw something that caught my eye.

I saw an odd form that was in the shape of a triangle that had two circular lights in the back and one in the front. The lights were not bright but dim, and were located in the pockets of the triangle. As I was trying to get a better look at the object, I noticed that it was moving at a smooth, medium pace.

I only saw it for less than 30 seconds before it disappeared behind the roof of my house, heading eastbound. I sat there and contemplated what I saw.Was it a plane? Did I just see a UFO? With my luck, my answer to that was ¨Thereś no way I just saw a UFO or possibly anything!.

¨ I knew it wasn´t a plane because of the shape, the speed it was traveling, and the lights being dim (plus there were no blinking lights like there are on planes). After a few minutes, I still sat there wondering what I just saw. The night after it happened, I wished that I would have drawn a picture of what I witnessed.

I finally did this evening. Without explaining the picture I drew, I showed it to my brother. As soon as he saw it, he said that it looked like a UFO that he saw on a documentary he watched, going into significant details of the UFO that was spotted in IL 20 years ago (actually in the same town I spotted it).

I have another brother who lives in Vegas, and I texted him the picture, JUST the picture. He responded right away with ¨Yeah. The UFO over Millstadt.

¨ Before this ¨sighting¨ I had never heard of the shape of the object nor seen it. My brothers knew what it was before I even did, just by my amateur drawing. I watched the video on YouTube, UFO Over Southern Illinois.

The description of the object seen 20 years ago described the one I saw on November 9, 2020, not too far from the first sighting in 2000.

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The sighting Starting at around 10:00 pm my brother and I filmed and took photos of a low flying light or craft hovering over our home. About 5,000 feet above the house. We called the South Barrington Police who also witnessed the light over the house.

It was first stationary round bright orange colored light then made erratic movements. It was not a comet or star - too low. A plane from Ohare was flying nearby which gave a good perspective that it was not an airplane.

I personally think it is a low flying satellite that may be used in bioterrorism spreading covid virus. I saw a similar light craft last month in Lake Geneva Wisconsin and nobody could figure out what it was either. The fact that I have seen this again is alarming.

I think the military should investigate.

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they stay still ,but not a hellicopter. I saw orbs of light. I saw one a while ago when it was visible a beach ball wit.

red leds small. they cloak as invisible showing a one dimensional circle of clear light moving kinetically.

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While sitting outside last night, I witnessed a seemingly low-flying egg-like object move incredibly fast through the sky. The view from my 3rd story deck spans from northeast to southwest, and the object crossed the entirety of that view in a span of about a second and a half, similar to the speed you might witness in a shooting star. In trying to judge how high it was flying, I can compare against the backdrop of skyscrapers I see southeast from my location, and it appeared to be flying at perhaps the height of a helicopter (there was also a great deal of helicopter action in the sky last night due to the election).

I was also able to make out in that brief moment that it was an elongated, oval or egg-like shape, which also suggested it wasn't flying terribly high. Additionally, I saw it pass in front of my view of several of the skyscrapers of downtown Chicago, which are between 1-2 miles south of me. The object itself was egg-shaped from the brief glimps! e I got, and it glowed.

There were no distinguishable individual lights on it, and nothing blinking. A very large tail of light followed behind it, perhaps due to speed. The light was bright, but not blinding.

It moved in a gently arced, horizontal line, not straight across the sky. There was no sound as it passed, which struck me as peculiar given its incredible speed and seemingly low-flying position. It traveled from east to southwest, disappearing from my view as it flew past the visual barrier I have of the exterior wall of my building that defines the end of my outdoor space.

My husband and neighbor were also outside, but by the time I could shout out, the object was already gone. I would be extremely curious to hear if anyone else had a similar sighting.