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Peoria, Illinois UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 44 UFO sighting reports in Peoria, Illinois to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (5 reports, 11.36% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 15.91% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 34.09% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 15.91% of total).
- 09/11/00 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 4.55% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (22 reports, 50.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Peoria, Illinois
These Peoria, Illinois UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Multiple lights going above clouds at various patterns and speeds On October 7th, 2023 my daughters, best friend and I were making smores in the backyard and I looked up and noticed a light and said “what is that”. We all looked in the sky and see behind the clouds was a light. It looked like a flashlight was being shined in the sky, then more started to appear in various speeds and patterns.
We eventually went inside after taking videos and pictures because we were scared.
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i noticed star moving… can not take picture. must zoom in on video. hard to capture Ive watched for 2 yrs.
now. This object moves , stays in a area., flashes.
A weather balloon doesn't stay put in one area. zooms every direction fast. hoovers.
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I saw a large mother ship with about 8 smaller ships flying around it. The mother ship and smaller ships were very high in the sky. I was in the drivers seat of my car and stopped, waiting to turn left on an entrance ramp to Route 6 North.
I looked up and saw the ships. I grabbed my cell phone and took a few pictures of the sky. When the photos are enlarged, I can see a small black orb.
In one photo, you can see 2.
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started in the east heading west with green small light, as it got closer the green light was no longer visible.
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Multicolored flashing moving light in sky Around 230am in peoria illinois, a witness observed a flashing light in the sky that seemed to be changing colors rapidly. The witness called me over and I seen the bright multicolored light as well. We were amazed because of the bright colors that seemed to be flashing and continued to look at what resembled a flashing colorful star.
As we observed the object we both watched it rotate and even noticed it get closer and further away. In addition to the changing distance between us and the object, it looked as if it was darting from side to side, dipping, and elevating. We watched this for at least an hour.
Eventually the light got further away and lower in the sky and dimmed out. Witness 1 is a 50 year old Male who does not believe in aliens or UFOs and he brought the object to my attention immediately. I am a 30 year old female who has not experienced such a thing but have always been interested in the unexplained.
We were in the back yard playing cards whe! n this happened. Witness 1 was actually so perplexed that he called 911. I couldnt get a photo.
Peoria IL July 3rd 2020.
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On 6/8/2019 I was walking around the second floor balcony of a hotel when I looked into the sky around 7:25 PM I noticed a huge weird Uap flying really fast around the sky with a mist around it on the west side of the Hotel, It seemed kind of close but it was about at least 300 yards away. It had a indescribable shape with flashing circle green and red lights at the bottom. I continue to walk around the second floor balcony to see if I could gather more intel about what I saw.
Finally, I went back to my room on the 3d floor of the Hotel and I looked out the window it was still there. I decided to go back down to the second floor balcony to see if I could get a picture, but when I went back down it was gone.
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7 red-orange orbs in Peoria, IL, sky on 9/14/18 First of all, I am not a night sky watcher, astronomer, UFO hunter, weather tracker or any form of such things. I might watch a UFO documentary once in a while, but I want nothing to do with aliens, both fictional or non-fictional. I happen to know a few of the constellations from school and my father.
I saw Neptune through a telescope once, out of state. I know a little bit about weather but this is the extent of my experience with such things. I was crossing a parking lot to go home tonight and I saw a strange man cross my path.
I looked up and he turned to look at me. When I realized he wasn’t interested in me, I just watched him for a couple seconds and then something caught my eye overhead of him. When I realized what I was seeing, I turned to see if the man was still around because I wanted to draw his attention to the lights but he was already gone.
I looked up to see two reddish-orange orbs flying upward in the north sky. I just stopped to watch them. Usually, there are planes that cross this path going south to the nearby Peoria Airport.
The lights were big like the lights of a big plane nearby. They were spaced far enough I thought they were the lights you see on either wing of a plane. Only one problem, there was no plane in-between or attached to these lights.
I watched them ascend, in a slight curve and then turn right (my left) and as they went over this one spot in the sky, they dimmed, almost turning white and completely fizzled out. There was a single light coming up from the tree line, same kind of light but single. I watched it ascend, also take a right turn and disappear in the exact location as the first two.
But again, before it completely disappeared there was another light ascending. Also, these were doing this as in formation and pace and such. All together, there were the first pair of lights and then 5 single lights after - 7 lights total.
Every one of them disappeared in the exact same spot and in the same manner. I was searching my brain for an explanation of what these were: planes, weather balloons, hot air balloons, falling stars, fireworks, comets, Chinese lanterns, helicopters, flares, you name it, I was thinking about it, and ruling each one out. I am colorblind with reds/greens/browns and can see these colors if the brightness and hue and lighting is just right.
When Mars was visible people would say, “Look how red it is!” And I could not see this for the longest time. At one point, when it was at a different location, I was finally able to see a faint redness to it. These orbs were very distinct, bright, true color-there was no question what color they were.
Because I was coming home from a bunch of errands, I did not have my digital camera with me and I was not wearing a watch. But it was somewhere between 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM and lasted close to 5-10 minutes. I was also questioning how the orbs just disappeared when I saw the first two and thought it was just a plane turning and making it skinnier from the angle.
I also thought about the fact that maybe this set of lights went into/behind a cloud. But it didn’t take me long to realize, there’s no clouds! I could see the big dipper to my front left, another constellation (forget the name) to my front right and I could see a cluster of stars and individual stars where these lights kept disappearing. I scanned the sky to see when I would see the lights again and it was evident that when they looked like they fizzled out, that was the last I was going to see of them.
It almost gave the impression they went into a door, portal or whatever it was, to make them disappear. I waited after the 7th one for almost 5 minutes to realize that the show was over. The thing too, is that had they turned to make it harder to see them, they would have eventually straightened out and I would have seen them again.
This did not happen. I rushed home, set all the stuff down, grabbed my digital camera and went back out there. I waited around another 10-15 minutes; I was hoping to see something again but nothing else happened.
I called NBC WEEK 25 to inquire about this sighting and was transferred, but no one answered and it did not go to voicemail to leave a message. I then decided to E-mail them but no one has responded as of yet. I have also been scouring the internet for the past two days, to see if anyone posted this sighting, to no avail.
I really want to know if anyone else saw these and possibly know if these orbs are indeed UFO’s or drones or something else. I only know they are nothing I have ever seen before. One last thing I would like to point out is that when I was back out there with my camera, a plane went overhead that was very high-the height of a cross-country flight.
And I could see it fairly well, the blinking lights, the movement and such and the orbs I had seen earlier made this plane pale in comparison.
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Bright, White, Long, Huge Cylindrical Object above my place. I had just come home from a movie. I literally got out of my vehicle and looked up and there it was.
I would say it was the size of 6 C4 Transport planes side by side. It was almost dusk but still light out. It was glowing white super bright.
It moved very slow over my place. It was big and long, too. Then slowly it left and was gone like disappeared.
I would say it was about 1 or 2 football fields in height above me or maybe 20 stories to 40 stories above me. I clearly make out the color, dimensions. No sound at all whatsoever.
Unfortunately, I didn't get the opportunity to record my phone was shut off. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Long, Big, Bright White Cylinder over my place in daylight I had just gotten home from a movie. It was still daylight. I got out of my car and saw it.
Large, Bright White, glowing, long Cylinder. It was approaching my place above. It was as long as 6 C4 Transport planes put together.
Height of it probably two tractor trailers (the part that stores stuff in) in height put together. It made no sound and extremely slow. It was maybe 20 stories above the ground maybe less or maybe the length of a football field up above me.
I watched it clear in an opening in the trees and once it cleared the opening was gone. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Friend and I saw an oval object omitting red/green light, followed it and at some point went 3+ miles within the span of seconds,. Around about 11:41 pm, my friend and I noticed a red dot while on the highway. We decided to watch it further for a bit, thinking it was a plane but it remained stationary until we came close to a nearby lighted shopping center and saw that it flashed red and green.
Upon entering the shopping center, one of the buildings blocked our view of it, and by the time we backed up so we could see it was about 3-5 miles away within a few seconds. We then proceeded to watch it until it disappeared miles away.
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Entities in my home November 15, 2016 Encounter with 3 beings: I awoke around 3 am to see 3 beings standing in my bedroom door. They are translucent, soft light emanating from their bodies. I sat up in my bed and I stared intently.
My impression was a Mother with a child. She was tall and lean with olive-shaped dark eyes. She had long arms and she was without clothing.
I could not make out any specific shapes we would call genitals. Her mouth was narrow with an oval shaped face, no hair on the body. The child entity stood next to the mother holding her leg.
The child came up to her hip in height. I got the feeling this was a boy. Same appearance only the head was shaped slightly smaller and stout with arms and legs.
The eyes were big and looking at me as if this was its first time seeing a human being. The third entity stood behind them. Same soft light emanating from the body.
At this point, I could tell all 3 bodies seemed to be floating like a hologram. The 3rd entity was different in that on top of its head were these antenna with olive-shaped eyes. There must have been 8 or so of these attached to the head and looked like they were part of the scalp.
I had the impression this being was a scout and the antenna were cameras. I went to get up out of bed and the beings turned their backs and floated down the hallway and just disappeared. I thought ok, that was a strange experience.
The next evening around the same time, 3 am. The being with the antenna on the head appeared standing in my hall near my coat closet and hung onto the woodwork. I looked up and waved my hand.
It matched my hand wave and a slight smile like a Mona Lisa Smile appeared on its face. I went to get up and it disappeared. I could only describe the movement of the beings like watching seaweed floating in the ocean.
They were opaque but I could see through them. I remember feeling a joy in my heart unlike any other. An overwhelming sense of love and wonderment.
It was a marvelous experience. I wish to remain anonymous. My family would not believe me, I have told 2 close friends.
Whether they believe I do not care. I felt like I should share. I believe these beings are walking among us at this moment.
Observing us. Maybe they are here to help or just waiting to pick up the pieces after we are gone. Sincerely, A believer.
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Circular rotating solid light gets followed by solid red light, and at the same time a c130 takes off headed to same area. It all statted the first night with the kinda crappy videos i got Of what appeared to be a rotating light so much so that it was a perfect circle. Luming from orange to red.
It was very far off but still big enough to tell it was rather large. It hung in the sky for almost an hour before dissapearing off intonthe sky. The second night 9/6/16 Walking outside at work at 10pm to do trash with a manager looking up to see the same circular light hanging in the sky in the same area but definitely a lot higher up, we looked at it for awhile and went to the dumpster, while waking back we could see it on the other side of the sky hanging there miles from where it was.
It had to have moved in the blink of your eye to have been able to get from where it was. Once we rounded the corner of our building we noticed a larger solid red light moving in the direction of the circular light. And then a c130 flew right over top of our building kinda gliding to the right of where ! the lights were.
It struck me as weird to see the c130 fly over ive never seen them take that path before. After watching the lights get closer and kinda dissapearing further up i had gone back into work. ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no contact information.
PD)).
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A friend and I sighted a glowing ball shaped object, flashing red/green/blue and very bright in the sky. It was lower to the ground than any stars but higher than planes would be. The object did not move and kept flashing very bright for a duration of about 20 minutes.
((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star? Sirius? PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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It was november 23 around 9 oclock im a sky dweller so I look up at the uh sky alot very often u know and this time I uh see a star u know and it was moving faster then plane and it illuminated and turned back into dimond this isnt a joke u know im vrry serious about situataion and this isnt first time many many more times this has happend to me and not just star shaped I mean fireballs in the sky and very very close it didnt freak me out I was just cunsern and I still am and will be for rest of my life (and this no name is bullshit I know what I saw and im not ashamed).
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Fireball sightings in peoria, Illinois my boyfriend and I were in the McDonald's drive thru when I noticed this large orange light shooting straight up into the sky FROM THE GROUND. We have both been ufo fanatics for a while now and still have not seen one until tonight!!! We have video and everything of it! On YouTube. Anyway.
We followed it with my phone while in the car and after looking at the video we took, it showed another one appeared right next to the first one and went in these crazy fast diagonal directions and then disappeared into the sky. It's a freaking ufo people. We are not the only people on this earth :).
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Several stationary orange lights in sky west of Peoria, in a descending arc which dissappeared in twos after a short period of time. We were traveling north on Rt. 8 just north of Farmington Road at 9:15 p.
m. We saw what at first appeared to be orange street lights above the ridge to the west and I thought it was strange that street lights had been installed along the top of the ridge. As the view cleared of trees we realized they were much higher in the sky than we first thought.
We lost sight of them behind the trees as we drove so we u-turned and stopped in the clearing. Three other cars had also stopped to look. They were 5 to 6 bright orange round lights in sky, west of Peoria, stationary in a descending arc.
They were unusually bright. They began going out, or disappearing, in twos. The last two went out more slowly, it seemed as if they were traveling away at a high rate of speed, we could see them growing fainter as they got further away.
We u-turned again and continued north, there was a jeep and a few people standing outside the trailer park and we stopped to ask what they thought this was. They then pointed out that there were three more orange lights north of where we saw the original lights. These also disappeared quickly.
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Pattern of orange/red round objects seen over Peoria, IL at about 11:00 PM on 11/17/12 On November 17, 2012, at approximately 2300 hrs, my wife and I exited our apartment in Peoria, IL to take our dog out for a short walk. Shortly after I stepped outside, I observed several (approximately 5 or 6) orange or red round objects in the sky to the north of our apartment. For purposes of orientation, I can say that the objects were visible north of the intersection of Allen Rd.
and Willow Knolls Rd. over that area’s car dealerships (Lexus, Toyota, Nissan). The objects were in some sort of pattern, possibly a diamond shape.
At first I thought the pattern looked like a fireworks display of some sort, but I heard no explosions. In fact, I did not hear any noise at all coming from the area. I pointed the objects out to my wife and she began trying to take photos and video with my cellular phone.
Unfortunately, upon review of the video, the objects were not visible. We also saw a male exit a vehicle up the road (unknown how many passengers we! re in the car) from our apartment to look at the objects, but we did not speak to each other. As we continued to observe the objects in the sky, we noticed that some of the objects would suddenly fade away.
However, we also saw new orange/red round objects rising up from the ground in the same area north of our apartment. While they were ascending, I noticed that the objects hovered in a manner that was somewhat similar to helicopters. But, I have never seen helicopters move quite like this and I can’t imagine why helicopters would be forming patterns in the sky at night.
The rising objects then joined the other objects before they also vanished. By about 2305 hrs, all of the objects were gone.
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Red Orange spheres seen in Peoria Il My husband and I were out to take our dog for her last potty break of the night at 11:00 pm when he pointed out a strange arrangement of lights north of us. The lights were red and orange in color and brighter than any star in the sky. The sky was clear and the stars were visible and the lights I saw were not stars or Chinese lanterns.
The lights were arranged forming a round x, five for each curved line, then more lights, four that I was able to spot. I probably missed a few because I was trying to record it with a cell phone camera that did not capture a thing. The four lights seemed to launch from below and join the moving x, then all the lights that were forming the curved x disappeared.
After that, only three were left that just moved upward north and vanished into the sky. This beautiful occurrence lasted only 5 min.
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Round, bright red lighted objects of 10 or so, very quiet, flying south to north over Peoria, Illinois on 9/15/2012. There were several round red and orange lighted objects in the sky, flying from the south to the north. They were silent, not in any formation but traveling a moderate speed.
The lights flashed and made them most noticeable in the night sky. What were they?.
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Two sets of flickering orange lights in triangular form (6 lights total) seen over Rt 6 between Peoria and Chillicothe, IL, 9/15/12 At approximately 20:15-20:30 of Saturday, September 15, 2012, I and another were driving NORTH from PEORIA, IL toward CHILLICOTHE, IL on ROUTE 6. As our vehicle got further from the city, the treeline allowed us to see what was previously obscured: two sets of what appeared to be TRIANGULAR LIGHTS. The two sets of lights were EAST from our location.
We were very confused and fascinated at first, uncertain of what we were seeing. My companioned asked, "Are those stars?" But I had mistaken them as lights of communication towers. However, we quickly both understood neither was correct, as: -We were unable to see any stars due to light pollution from being near the city.
-There are no communication towers in that specific spot or at that specific elevation. -The set of lights nearest to us were found to be slowly moving. There were two triangles, very large and very peculiar ih their shape and position in the sky.
It was enough that we immediately knew we were not witnessing something normal. We have traversed Route 6 many times at night and never have seen these before. Both sets had three individual lights which flickered or twinkled like fire or a very bright star.
The color of the lights was ORANGE-RED. We pulled over on the side of Route 6 and turned off our lights to get a better view after approximately two minutes of witnessing the phenomenon. By this point, the lights furthest from us (Figure B in my illustration) were either too distant/sunken behind the tree line to see, or had very peculiarly suddenly disappeared.
Either way, we were unable to see Figure B any longer. Figure A (the nearer set), was drifting very slowly toward our location. NO SOUND was issued from the lights.
I strained to see any more details, but was unable to. I was unable to see any visible lines or structure of any kind between or connecting the lights. I was unable to determine the make or nature of the lights, other than that they resembled fire of some kind, orange and flickering.
Unfortunely, I am not equipped to determine how high the lights were, but am able to say they were below a thin and scattered/spotty cloud cover. One by one, they began to slowly fade. First the light nearest us, and then the two behind at the further end of the triangle.
The lights dimmed very slowly and then went completely dark. We were unable to see anything again after that, and after waiting for a moment, once more turned on the vehicle's lights and resumed our drive. I distinctly recall seeing a program on television a year before about triangular sets of lights a few years back in Tinsley Park, which is a few hours from this location.
From the amateur footage and photographs I saw on the television, these lights matched them very well. I wanted to obtain a photograph or video footage as proof of the objects, but the triangles' lights were not bright nor large enough for my phone to be able to capture among the surrounding darkness. No visible moon was present at the time.
After pulling alongside the road, the remaining lights were visible for approximately 2-3 more minutes, making the total window of visibility at approximately 4-5 minutes.
Peoria, Illinois UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Circle | 5 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Light | 5 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Formation | 4 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Peoria, Illinois UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 7 reported sightings | 15.91% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
October | 6 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Peoria, Illinois UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 15 reported sightings | 34.09% of all reports |
Sunday | 7 reported sightings | 15.91% of all reports |
Thursday | 5 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 6.82% of all reports |
Peoria, Illinois UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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09/11/00 | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
09/15/12 | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
07/20/18 | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
11/17/12 | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
10/20/07 | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Peoria, Illinois UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 22 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 9 reported sightings | 20.45% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Peoria, Illinois
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