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Schaumburg, Illinois UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 26 UFO sighting reports in Schaumburg, Illinois to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (11 reports, 42.31% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 15.38% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 23.08% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 11.54% of total).
- 06/22/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 3.85% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (14 reports, 53.85% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Schaumburg, Illinois
These Schaumburg, 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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I saw a white circle suddenly appear and then disappear. I was out smoking on my patio when I saw a white, circular object appear and then disappear. This was not anything that I have seen in person.
The object was unidentifiable to me. I live close to O'hare Airport (ORD) and a regional airport. I didn't have any equipment with me and there is no recording of it.
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It was a bright, increasing and light in the sky that move very slowly a small amount before faded off and disappeared. My husband and I were sitting outside on the patio and I was noticing that there were a lot of clouds and not sure if we’d be able to see any of the proceeds meteor shower tonight. When something caught my eye and I looked up and there was a very bright light and I told my husband look and he turned to look and it grew very bright as it was slowly moving and then it faded away and it was gone 10/22 tops.
I do not think it was a meteor because it was moving very slowly.
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20 or more white dots moving erratically in Schaumburg, IL 6/13/19 On a clear day with only a few clouds, my wife and I were walking the dogs and saw about 20 or more white dots drifting slowly and heading east in Schaumburg, IL. All of the objects were moving erratically, and in a slow motion. The objects were moving up and down, and side to side, just slightly.
After a few minutes, all of the objects slowly faded away. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Exactly at midnight 12 teardopped shapespacecrafts filled the sky and raced in oval shaped patterns very quickly in the sky.
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Orb of light crosses the sky and turns sharply in Chicago Suburbs. Leaving my office after working well into the night, an amber orb of light moved across the sky above me to the south of my location and then seemed to become multiple lights (still in one unit) and became more white colored. The light blinked at an interval but not like any plane I’ve seen.
It made no sound yet was only a couple hundred feet above ground. It then turned west and south and I lost sight of it for a few seconds behind buildings as I drove. It then came flying back north right over me as I drove West it.
Then it got higher in the sky and trurned sharply east towards Chicago and paralleled interstate 90 (which I was now on going east as well) and it traveled around 90-100 mph before blinking out of site ahead of me. I noticed several other small lights in the sky. I felt some moved and were planes others may be stars.
But this area doesn’t get much visibility to stars because of light pollution. This is O'Hare airport area, but this was not typical for flight patterns and it turned to fast and was too small to be a plane. My car's engine light and lights went on for the first time ever (the car is in great shape) after the incident.
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Orange-red lights traveling in formation quickly over suburban sky Observed fast-moving linear-appearing procession of 14 orange-red lights approaching from south, a brief pause followed by 3 of same, heading in northeast trajectory. No sound. It didn't resemble any aircraft, Chinese lanterns, or fireworks.
Local Police Department had not received similar calls.
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There was a big light that looked like a blood moon then we realized that the object was giving off a red aura Then slowly floated away An object arose from he trees so fast it looked like a time lapse of a blood moon roaring but it was an aura this object only had the aura for 30 sec before I ran to get the camera when I came back it was a fireball almost this object was "breathing" a red light it would dim and brighter slowly the further it got the smaller the light became also there was no noise to the object unlike the thousands of planes we get over here ever day this made no sound.
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Seen two, three paired circles rotating and converging into single circle and coming back to its original position n doing same thing again and again. You can see those lights in cloud cover. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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When i first saw the light i thought it was a unusual looking star, It was very high in the sky, after about 30 seconds the light started moving very quickly and had two red lights on opposite ends, in a matter of seconds it traveled west almost out of view and then almost instantly returned to its original location, i thought at first maybe it was a helicopter because of the way it was moving in all directions but it was far too high and fast to be a helicopter. i called the local police who transfered me to 911 distpatch and he was not able to tell me if anyone else had reported it but i know other people had to have seen this thing because it was visible from probably anywhere in schaumburg and it was very noticeable. I also took a picture with my phone, just looks like a light but when you soom you can see what looks like a horseshoe shape.
Never been a UFO believer until last night because whatever it is i saw is not like anything i have ever seen befor! e and 100% positive it was not a plane or copter, there was actually a plane that flew under it at one point, the light was much much higher than the plane.
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I saw a large, low flying, silent, slow craft in the shape of a triangle. It was the color of the sky I went outside from the side door of my house at 2:50 am for a final cigarette break before bed. The side door is on the north side of the house.
I usually turn on the outside light but this time I didn't. The lights in my house were also off. I was alone outside.
There were other people inside the house but they were sleeping. I am absolutely certain of the time I walked out the door. It was 2:50 am.
I checked my clock right when I walked out the door. My clock is accurate. I lit my cigarette and sat down on the bench and soon saw small and odd flickers of light a number of times for about 1 minute in the backyard, reflecting in the grass area on the west side of my yard to my right.
A short few minutes later, probably about 2:55 am, I saw a flying craft in the sky come in to view to my right from the west headed east. There is a large area of trees on the west side of my backyard that are about 50-60 feet high. I saw the craft as soon as it passed the treeline.
It was an equilateral triangle. It seemed large. If I had to guess, I would say each side was maybe just under 20 feet.
It seemed rather low flying, just above the tree line, maybe at about 80-90 feet. The triangle was the same dull black color of the sky but the sky had stars that night and the craft did not. It seemed very thin, practically flat, I could see hardly any dimension to it.
It moved very slow. It flew directly over my seated location above my head. It never changed pace.
It did not make any sound what so ever. There was an off-white light on each of the 3 points of the triangle. After it passed I saw an additional light in the middle of the back side of the ! triangle that flickered at an odd but seemingly calculated rate.
I don't recall the color, I don't think it was exactly the same color as the others. I went back inside the house through the side door again after the craft went out of view. I went upstairs when everything was quiet and went to bed, afraid to turn on a light.
I spent probably about an hour thinking about it, wide eyed and awake, then I must have somehow drifted to sleep. I woke up the next morning but did not recall the events until a few hours later and everything came flooding back to memory. A note about my location: We have a large airport for small private planes which is about 1 mile west of my home.
In the summer just one year before, in 2012, we were constantly seeing black hawk helicopters coming from the direction of the airport so I assume they sometimes have military contractors using the site. As I understand it, on record from an FAA map , unmanned military drones were not permitted to be flown in this area at that particular time. I've seen all kinds of planes and helicopters and jets and model toy drones and even Chinese lanterns but I have never seen anything like the triangle I saw that night.
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Bright circular light moves and fades to black. round bright light traveling slowly from east to west , that had somewhat constant motion and then slowed and very clearly faded to dark within 2 seconds and disappeared. This is the second time we have seen what we think is possible military type craft? it is not like a flying saucer or space ship it is a bright circular light that moves somewhat slowly but does change speeds gradually we are near O'hare but it is clearly not a plane we want to know if anybody else has seen this activity.
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We were sitting outside, when I saw 2 burnt orange color lights floating in the southeast sky, below the half shaped moon. There was nothing blinking, and no sound. I said "What is that" and my husband looked and said he didn;t know.
i DO believe in UFO's, but he does not! He said, "What happened to it?" because it blinked out. Then we saw 4 more coming from the same direction, in a row. They moved along the same path, then just faded.
By this time I had run to get the binoculars, but when we both took turns looking, all we really saw was a lighted round-like orange color shape. Again, no blinking lights or sounds. We saw airplanes moving in the sky thru-out this event, but these were NOT airplanes! We saw a total of 7-9 lights.
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unusual light in sky slow moving almost comes to a stop and slowly moves on My best description of the object would be it was similar in shape to a planet it was a constant brightness a whitish color . at first we thought it was a very large satellite it's motion was constant at first similar to a satellite not fast at all but then it started to slow down and slightly curve it's path. this when I really rose to attention then it came to an almost complete stop and slghtly curved back and then slowly continued on it's path.
It was not a visible craft in any form but looked like a star or planet that could move it was completley silent which also made it unusual seeing we are near O'hare and I though it maybe a plane but there were no flashing green and red lights it was circular and made no noise like the planes do we see planes in our yard at 1000 ft and 30,000 ft all the time i this was not even close to the way they look. It was not a satellite because it slowed down and curved we seee them quite often and they are much smalle! r and have a constant path across the sky. My wife and I are not ufo believers and are not telling our neighbors because I always said I thought UFO's are bullshit and dont want to look stupid but I googled how to report ufos and here i am I wanted to report in hopes somebody else in our schaumburg,IL area saw it.
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Bright red pulsating object in sky. i walked outside to walk the dog and looked up in the sky and saw a large bright red pulsating object in the sky. per my iphone compass the object was located at 251 degrees west traveling southwest.
i ran in called my kids to see the object and grab a camera and the object started to immediately get smaller and less bright, until it disap eared completely. it was not a metorite since it was not breaking up on its path. was not a plane, no flashing lights, not a planet in the sky since it was moving with no sound.
didnt get image on my flip video it disappeared before i got it to record footage, i called schaumburg illinois police department to report object and they hadnt got any other reports at the time i had called it in. at around 10:35pm.
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Three small spheres come together to create the shape of a triangle During my lunch break at school (The Illinois Institute of Art, Schaumburg) on a clear sunny summer day at the schools parking lot I witnessed three white spheres appear out of thin air, move around each other and then form a triangular shape in the sky. I was in my car with my door open eating lunch when I witnessed this. I was looking up at the clear blue sky watching some airplanes fly by in the very far away distance when I saw these spheres appear out of nowhere.
It’s almost as if they appeared just for me, and I say that because they appeared in the exact area that my line of sight was at the entire time I was looking at the sky. After they appeared in the sky they "danced" around each other and then finished off with a triangular formation. After these spheres made that triangular formation in the sky I thought that they would be visible for a bit longer so I tried to take out my cellphone and try to get some video footage of the spheres; but as I was reaching in my pocket to pull out my cellphone I saw them disappear into thin air the same way they had appeared.
I also believe that the mood that I was in might have played a factor in their appearance. I was in a peaceful mood with a clear head, meaning that I did not have many if hardly any thoughts going through my mind at that time. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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It was shining a beam down towards the pond and the pond lit up. I was letting my dog in and I saw it. It was a rectangle with indents on the sides.
It was a purple color for about 10 seconds. Then it moved faster then any human aircraft changing colors to black green purple orange blue neon. It made a sound kind of like really high pitch scream.
It moved forward then backwards then it started to circle and it took off towards the moon. It was hovering over a pond I'd say about 60,000 feet high. When I saw it my whole body froze and I couldn't move for a minute and I kinda blacked out afterward.
I was about to take a picture and that's when it took off. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. The source may be the person who called from Schaumburg, but we have no way of knowing.
PD)).
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White light with greenish aura falling from sky over Schaumburg toward the East A white ball of light with greenish tinge fell slowly from the sky. Viewed from my window looking to the East in Schaumburg, IL. Was only in sight for about five seconds, came into view in my window and then disappeared behind the houses.
No "tail" (falling star, meteor, etc.) and no flashing (plane lights, etc.) Almost looked like remnants of fireworks falling.
((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD)).
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Two oval shapes seen in Chicago western suburbs, moving south. Friday, Feb.2 At 4:30 p.
m., Friday February 2nd I was traveling south from Schaumburg when I spotted two brightly lit, elliptical shapes in the sky. I have trouble gauging distances but I would say they were at least five to ten miles away.
They "floated," or "hovered," with no apparent propulsion system, moving south-southwest. Between the shapes was a light that flashed every fifteen seconds. What intrigued me most was the fact that the shapes did not change in distance between each other as they moved.
I was too far away to view any details, if there were any. My initial thought was that they were cloud formations, but after seeing them move for twenty minutes I did not see any change to them, and they remained equidistant from each other. Then I thought that they could have been a pair of airplanes pulling advertisement banners.
I have seen these planes over the last few months, but they stayed fairly close to the Schaumburg region. These shapes were quite a distance away from Schaumburg. They were not jets, blimps or other aircraft that I’ve seen before.
Anybody else see these things? (digital illustration attached).
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Black rectangle further details I almost fell out of my chair when I read the possible explanation for my black rectangle sighting of Nov 9, 2006. Still, I appreciate the open and questioning nature of the NUFORC website, and I’d like to respond. First of all, I am well aware of the planes towing the banners.
Usually they are for the "12 Oaks" Townhouses. It couldn’t be more obvious that a small plane is towing a white banner with clearly legible type. Not by any stretch of the imagination is this remotely a possibility for what I saw.
Neither was it a billboard or a streetlight or a street sign. It was a smoky matte black rectangle, close enough so that I could see it was quite large, in the same way that you can quickly tell if a nearby airplane is a child’s toy, a small plane like the ones that tow the banners, or a large jumbo jet. This rectangle was clearly a jumbo.
And it was hanging in the air, moving slowly or possibly not at all when I first sighted it. It was electrifying to see it, and in one second I ruled out all the usual suspects- a sign, a light, and yes, I even briefly considered a banner as a possibility. But this was obviously an independent floating or flying craft of some kind, with no supporting poles or strings attached.
I got a very clear and long look at the rectangle in a large open area, above the horizon, with no obscuring foliage, as I continued down the raised highway. It was one of those things I’ll remember crystal clearly for the rest of my life. At this point it was evident that yes, the craft was moving, albeit relatively slowly, much slower than even a small airplane would move.
And the edges were distinct and crisp, although there was an unusual, almost ominous tone to the black color. It was sort of unearthly, actually, a smoky matte black, as I stated earlier. I felt that it was metallic.
I believe I was looking at a side panel or back panel or front panel of the craft. At the time, I thought that the rest of the ship was hidden by perspective, but now I tend to think it was camouflaged with the exception of this one panel, for whatever reason. My great regret is that I didn’t stop the car and flag down other motorists to be witnesses.
I thought of doing it, but it would have been very dangerous in the rush-hour traffic with a narrow shoulder, with me not wanting to take my eyes off this incredible ship in the sky. I’m glad I was able to keep looking at it, though, because as I was watching it in this wide-open area it just faded away, or "cloaked out," before my eyes, as if it realized it was being watched. Briefly, I could see a diffuse rectangular shape well camouflaged against the blue sky, sort of like a rectangular panel of water hanging in the air might look like from a distance.
The ship definitely disappeared from "cloaking," as opposed to traveling too quickly to observe. Absolutely amazing. Since then, I’ve researched these types of sightings quite a bit.
The shape I saw is very much like the shape I’ve seen witnesses draw of the sides of "black triangles" or similar craft. Some people believe these are secret American military craft- perhaps a "stealth blimp"- but I find that very hard to believe. Reports of these types of sightings go back over half a century, and have become quite common the last decade or so.
These ships, usually seen in heavily populated areas, are sometimes seen to move at incredible, apparently instantaneous-type speeds. I saw one fade from view right before my eyes. If we’ve had these ships for half a century, which in itself is ludicrous, we’d have been using them in battle for quite some time now.
I’ve seen a Stealth Bomber flying up close, and as awesome as the Stealth Bomber was, I have to say that the black "rectangle" was a lot more amazing. An advertising banner? Absolutely not!.
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**Constant light moving in zig-zag pattern.faded away*** One night in July, my girlfriend and I were looking at the stars outside of my house. I saw a bright star that was moving at a constant speed and it was too high for a plane.
I told her to look straight up and she noticed the object as well. And there was no doubt in my mind that it was an alien craft of some sort. It moved in a zig-zag pattern and as it was moving, the light suddenly faded away.
It did not blink light aircrafts do. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Schaumburg, 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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Light | 11 reported sightings | 42.31% of all reports |
Circle | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Schaumburg, 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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May | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
June | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
November | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Schaumburg, 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 | 6 reported sightings | 23.08% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Schaumburg, 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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06/22/12 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
08/11/23 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
08/05/01 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
04/27/12 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
02/10/24 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Schaumburg, 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 | 14 reported sightings | 53.85% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
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