Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about UFO reports over Illinois.
That's correct, UFO reports over Illinois.
Found these over at New Fork. Lots of cool sites.
This first one's dated 615-2025, duration 3 minutes.
Observers 3 Johnston City IL Location details above the high
school football field shaped triangle colored neon green size
20 feet viewed from land direction from viewer N annual
of elevation is 75° a couple 1000 feet for closest distance.
Estimated speed slowly descending then took off in a
flash. Lights on object or hazer on
object. We saw a triangle shaped UFO
hovering above the high school football field.
There were three of us in the parking lot of another high
school at around 9:10 PM. All of a sudden, we saw a bright
light in the sky appearing to descend.
As it got closer, we were able to see it more clearly.
It was a triangular shaped object with a glowing neon green
light above the bottom. We had no idea what it was and
I'd never seen anything like it. As soon as it became clearly
visible, it shot off and disappeared in a flash.
We were shocked. Now that would be amazing.
Just seeing this thing hovering over the football field.
Really, really cool. This one's dated 6/14/25.
Duration 30 seconds. One observer.
Military location at Big Rock, IL.
Location. Big Rock campground shaped disc
color black, maybe 3 feet across.
Viewed from land. Viewer direction W angle
elevation 45°. Closest distance 300 feet
possibly Balloon. OK, small black disc doesn't
sound like a balloon. Looked up to see a small skinny
black disc about the size of a tire just above the trees.
It maintained a slow speed and did not change direction or
altitude and was out of my view within 30 seconds or so.
Heading north. Well if that's a balloon, that's
a strange one that's for sure. Very cool sighting.
The sighting stated 5/24/25 duration 4 minutes.
Observers 2 Chicago, IL shaped cylinder reflective, Brown says
are uncertain now they've got pictures of this thing.
It's pretty good sized it. Yeah, it's weird cylinder
shaped. I'm not sure what this thing is.
Estimated size 1/4 to 1/2 the size of a plane viewed from land
direction from your S angle of elevation 55°.
Closest distance over 6500 feet Question mark.
If that's the case and it's pretty good sized object
approximately 100 mph says question mark comparable to
planes taking off. Explanation.
Balloon probable. Well I'm not sure.
Do balloons normally travel at 100 mile an hour?
I don't think so. Lights on object or hazer on
object. Tumbling cylinder with bright
reflections or lights. We were outside enjoying the
nice weather this afternoon when we saw a cylindrical object
tumbling end over end. It was moving from east to West
toward O'Hare while the wind and clouds were moving in the
opposite direction from West to east.
OK, let's reread that. We were outside enjoying the
nice weather this afternoon when we saw a cylindrical object
tumbling end over end. It was moving from east to West
toward O'Hare, while the wind and clouds were moving in the
opposite direction from West to east.
Now, it defies common sense to think that a balloon would be
travelling 100 mile per hour against the wind.
OK, that's not physically possible.
Just want to put that in there. One of us thought it was a dark
color, had a flashing light, and appeared to have some kind of
disturbance or distortion around it and the shape of a ball.
The other observer thought it was brown and was reflecting
sunlight in a blinking pattern as it tumbled.
It moved fairly quickly at first, then appeared to hover in
place for a short time before being obscured by clouds.
When the clouds passed, the object was no longer visible.
Yeah, this is definitely a UFO. This absolutely 100% does not
sound like a balloon to me. And if it is a balloon, what
kind of an idiot releases that size of a balloon that close to
O'Hare International Airport? Yeah, just amazing.
Very cool sighting though. Thank you for sending that in.
This sighting is dated 51325 duration about one minute.
Observers 2. Military location at Pekin, IL
appeared from the east, moving W at an altitude of approximately
3000 to 4000 feet. It was an orange orb moving
slowly. Shape Orb Estimated size 75 feet
in diameter. Viewed from land direction from
viewer 130 to 90 to 45°, angle of elevation 45°, Closest
distance 3000 feet. Estimated speed 80 mile per
hour. Explanation.
Chinese Lantern. Anything.
Summary. It came over twice.
OK, that seems weird to me that the same line would fly over
twice just minutes apart. We videotaped and took pictures.
I was sitting on my couch watching TV when I noticed
something orange in the sky to the east, moving westward from
behind my Maple tree. My wife and I went outside and
saw an orange orb slowly moving W.
She tried to take pictures with her phone and I told her to use
video instead. After it disappeared, we went
back inside. A minute or two later, I looked
outside again and there it was in the same area once again
moving West. This time.
I told her to grab my phone and I recorded a video of it for
about a minute until it disappeared again.
Several minutes later. I went back outside and believe
I saw it a third time, this time moving S but I didn't have time
to record it. Yeah, they got video of it here
for the first one. Looks to me like a classic
orange orb. Some for some folks, the Chinese
lanterns, the go to thing on these.
I can't say that's what it is, but yeah, very, very
interesting. The sightings dated 4/27/25.
Duration 5 seconds. Observers 2 Military Chicago, IL
Object pass slowly about 100 feet off the left north wing of
flight AA4382, approximately 2 miles east of Chicago, overlake
Michigan. OK, sounds like this must be a
in flight signing shape. Other color polished titanium
size roughly the size of a small child.
Depth was hard to gauge viewed from aircraft direction.
From viewer I was looking at north northeast, closest
distance 0 to one, 150 feet. I mean, it's just on top of you
in the air. Speed 50 mile per hour.
Characteristics, electrical or magnetic effects.
Solid metal offset, stacked flat cylinders overlake Michigan.
Appeared to be watching over Chicago.
I saw it and was stunned for a couple of seconds.
Literally burst out. What the heck was that?
I heard at least one person react as if they had seen it
too, with a woe. I meant to ask the pilot if he
had seen it when I got off the plane.
I have excellent vision and even blinked hard just to be sure.
It could have been stationary in the air or moving slowly east,
but but our plane overtook it. I observed it for about 5
seconds total, but didn't begin reaching from a camera until it
was too late. As we passed it, it appeared
mostly stationary, but rotated once.
It looked like solid metal. There was a weight to it, maybe
the size of a little kid. Solid polished metal, A bit like
2 old school film reels, stacked vertically but offset slightly.
The bottom half was more trapezoid or geometric rather
than than circular. As we passed it, I noticed many
bright zippy things in the air, almost like ionization.
Kind of like the stars you might see when you rub your eyes.
The overall it was faint. Now that's wild.
Just looking at the airplane and seeing this thing just hovering
there in the sky once again. How could this thing be man
made? And if it was man made, think
how dangerous that is to have this thing floating around in
the in the air traffic zone. Commercial flights going back
and forth over O'Hare and we have the stuff flying around
there and nobody even keeping track of it.
The sightings dated 4/22/25 Duration 10 minutes Observers 20
Location Arlington Heights Arlington Heights Metro station
Shape Fireball color white Large object 4 to 6 meters Small
object 2 meters View from land north northeast Angle of
elevation 45 Closest distance one mile Speed 40 mph Lights on
object. It's got a map here.
And then it looks like a gal standing for a motorcycle.
Maybe this is a person that sent this in not that far from the
airport I don't think. Two lights observed in the sky
from Arlington Heights station, one large and bright, the other
smaller and dimmer. This morning while at Arlington
Heights station, I observed 2 lights in the sky, one larger
and brighter, the other smaller and dimmer.
The larger light had great intensity and both lights moved
very slowly at first, then began rotating rapidly.
I opened the flight radar app to check for aircrafted area, but
none were visible on the radar at that time.
Yeah, they got a 17 second video here.
You can just see this really large orb and small and behind
it just drilling across the sky. Doesn't look like an airplane to
me. That's weird.
The signing is dated 4/11/25. Duration 3 to 4 seconds.
Number of observers 3. Neoga, IL driving north on I-57
from Memphis to Chicago. Objects seen by multiple people
on multiple occasions. Shaped orb color blue size
large. Unclear due to distance.
View from land Angle of elevation 31°, Speed over 3000
mph. Lights on object or hazer on
object. Blue orb shot across the low sky
with no streak over short distance.
While driving north on I-57, we saw the same type of object fly
across the sky. Short burst.
The object appeared a total of three times.
This occurred over the course of approximately 1 1/2 hours while
we while we remained on the same Rd.
The object appeared to move generally from South to north
parallel to our direction of travel.
No streak followed the orbs. The orbs travelled in a single
direction as far as we can tell. We have seen shooting stars many
times before. This definitely was unlike
anything familiar. Wow.
The sightings stated 4925 direction 30 seconds.
Observers 1. Jerseyville, IL in the air above
my house. Shaped rectangle color white,
approximately 200 feet long and 50 to 75 feet wide.
Viewed from land east to West. Angle of elevation of 50°,
closest distance 33,000 feet. Estimated speed 1000 to 1500
mile per hour. Or a haze round object left the
trail. They've got a video.
It's, it's yeah, I don't, I don't get it.
It's the quality is not like super clear and crisp, but you
could definitely see this large object just zipping around up
here in the sky, silent, fast moving rectangular craft with
rounded edges. My father, brother and I were
outside reeling when I looked up and saw something unusual.
My father used to be a private pilot.
My grandfather was an aircraft mechanic during the war and also
a private pilot. He even helped build the
Jerseyville airstrip with a couple of war buddies.
Aviation runs in our family. While I don't consider myself an
expert, I'm an emphatic aviation enthusiast.
I haven't taken classes or anything, but I enjoy reading
NTSB reports for fun. Even the boring parts fascinate
me. I love learning about
aerodynamics and avionics, and the more I learn, the more I
realize how much there is still to understand.
So no, I'm not an expert, but I know far more than the average
person. This object was flying at what
I'd estimate to be cruising altitude for commercial jets
around 33,000 or 34,000 feet. It made no sound.
It looked as though I were viewing it through a haze or
distortion of some kind. It was traveling at least 1000
mph, much faster than a commercial jet, comparable to an
F16 at top speed, but the shape was completely different across
the sky in under 20 seconds. There were no wings, no visible
propellers, and no lights of any kind.
The craft was white, rectangular, and relatively thin
with rounded edges. The air around it behind it
appeared to warp. Very strange.
From a closer perspective, I'd estimate its size to be around
200 feet long and 50 to 75 feet wide.
It was large for a rectangular craft.
My dad said he'd never seen anything like it, and he's seen
a lot. Nothing that fast, ever.
I grabbed my camera and managed to get a video, but
unfortunately due to the object speed and distance, it's not
very conclusive. It's shaky and very brief.
As I mentioned. I'm no expert, but I've seen a
lot of aircraft. We live near a hospital where
helicopters are constantly flying in and out and near 2
airports, 1 being Saint Louis Lambert International.
I can't stress this enough. We know what airplanes look
like. We know drones and helicopters
too. This was not one of those.
No, it definitely is not one of those.
You can see that from the very just just from the the video
they've taken. This is a strange one.
The sightings dated 22025. Observers 2 Johnston City, IL
Above the lake at Arrowhead. Campground shaped disk collar
metallic, approximately 20 feet in diameter.
Viewed from land toward the middle of the lake,
approximately 500 feet above elevation 75°, closest distance
around 1000 feet speed Unknown lights on object or haze around
object. Summary A metallic disk was seen
hovering above the lake. Just thinking about this.
Looking out over the lake and there's this metallic disc just
hovering there. My wife and I were sitting by
the parking lot near the cemetery when all of a sudden we
saw a large metallic disc shaped object hovering about 500 feet
above the lake. The bottom of the craft was
glowing with an ember colored light.
We were both frozen and awe. The object remains stationary,
hovering for almost 3 minutes, then suddenly shot straight up
into the sky. In an instant, it was roughly 20
feet in diameter. It had an almost hypnotizing
effect on us. It felt as though the object
sensed our presence. We were unable to reach for our
phones. It was a surreal experience, and
I am now a believer. Yeah, I guess it only takes
once. This one's dated 3/13/25.
It says duration 2 minutes and 57 seconds.
Observers, too. Looks like the time on this is
about 739 in the evening location.
Springfield, IL standing on my back porch just looking up.
Shapesphere color bright yellow, white, a little bigger than a
car viewed from land. Estimated speed, slow lights on
object. I was standing out back on my
porch just talking with my wife when this bright slow moving
light caught my eye and I got a video here.
It's just like he describes it. I was standing out back on a
porch just talking with my wife when the Sprite slow moving
object cut my eye. The object was bright yellow
white. It looked like a bright slow
moving ball. There were also planes flying in
the sky at the same time and my wife I both witnessed it flying
right under them. It wasn't making any noise, just
silently going through the sky. I took a video and a picture and
when you zoom in on the picture it looks to me like an egg yolk.
No solid objects in the center but an orange blowing ball and
the outside is yellow like yeah that's exactly what it looks
like. Very cool siding.
The siding happened on 2/10/25 duration 3:00 AM until 5:30 AM.
Observers 1 Carol Stream IL Location details at my home
address. The house faces north in the
video, the object is visible to the northwest.
Shape, Oval collar, white light, size unknown.
Viewed from land direction from viewer northwest angle of
elevation 45°, closest distance unknown.
Speed slow. Visible for approximately 2 1/2
hours. Characteristics or or haze
around object. A white Oval shaped light was
captured on my Ring doorbell camera on February 10th, 2025
between approximately 3:00 AM and 5:30 AMA.
Oval shaped white light was recorded by my front door Ring
camera. Our house faces north, and in
the video the object is seen descending slowly from the
northwest sky. The light moved gradually,
eventually disappearing behind trees and rooftops.
Our Ring camera records in three minute intervals.
We live about four blocks from a forest preserve, which the
object may have been descending toward.
While watching the video, I observed no blinking lights that
would typically identify as a conventional aircraft.
On Tuesday, February 11th, I went to our local police station
and showed the footage to the front desk staff and officer.
Neither could explain what the object might be.
Then on Saturday, February 15th, my youngest son and I visited
the DuPage Flight Center at the DuPage Airport, 2700
International Drive, West, Chicago, IL.
We showed the video to to seven people who were there at the
time, most of whom were pilots. None of them could identify the
object either. One of the young men took down
my information and filed a report with the FAA.
For context, I'm a senior food technologist working for a
flavor manufacturing company. Well, retty cool siding.
Yeah, I just showing U on the doorbell camera like that, or
the Ring camera I guess. This one's dated 11425.
Duration of 15 minutes. Observers 1 Palatine IL 2 flying
from north to South, one flying from West to east.
Shaped diamond, red and white flashing.
Larger than commercially available drones.
Viewed from land, flew overhead. Angle elevation 20°.
Closest distance unknown. Slower than a plane possibly
doing it says lights on object. 3 Low flying, slow moving craft
flying due north of standard flight path into O'Hare.
So here they are. They're flying around O'Hare
International Airport but and nobody knows what they are.
That's not a great idea. Witnessed 2 low flying possible
drones flying north of standard flight path that come over our
house every day. They look to be following each
other and moving at it at normally slow speed.
Appeared very large compared to commercially available drones.
No other air traffic was in the sky other than these two slow
moving low flying craft. The lights flashed and
unfamiliar but steady pattern. 1/3 identical craft blinking in
the same unfamiliar pattern as the first two showed up on the
horizon flying from West to east.
Wow, this sounds like the stuff that was going on out there on
the East Coast last year. And here we have a busy airport
and aircraft flying around that nobody knows who they belong to
or what they are. I tell you, this is just a
recipe for disaster. This sighting is dated 11325,
duration 5 minutes. Observers to Crystal Lake, IL
witnessed across a main road from our home.
Both objects traveled. E shape changing color bright
white. Estimated size large enough to
be mistaken for a plane. Viewed from land direction from
viewer N angle of elation 45° less than half a mile,
approximately .2 miles. Estimated speed.
Unknown explanation. Possible drone lights on object
aircraft nearby. Summary A large bright white
light hovered above our homes, slowly descended, then headed.
EI was in my kitchen, washing my hands and looking out the window
which faces N. Suddenly I noticed a bright
white light just above the tree line.
At first I thought it might be a reflection on the window since
there's a street light in the same general direction which I
could also see. I walked over to get a better
view from the back door. At that point I could clearly
see that the light was slowly descending.
It appeared as a single bright white light in the video.
The object remains this way until about 12 seconds, when it
begins traveling east and suddenly activates blinking
lights. There didn't appear to be much,
if any, sound coming from it. Shortly after it began moving
east Side spotted another object that appeared to be a plane.
However, I couldn't find anything on my flight tracker
that matched either object's path.
My husband and I, who both witnessed this, lived directly
under a flight path and near a small local airport, so we're
very familiar with the appearance of and sound of
conventional aircraft. This occurrence was noticeably
different from anything we've seen before.
I've uploaded video and photos for reference.
The combined daytime photo is provided to show the location
for scale. In the night screenshot for the
video, the light on the left is the aforementioned street light.
The one on the right is the unknown object above the Gray
blue house and tree line. Yeah, you can see it there,
floating along. Just another classic orb
sighting. Very strange.
We'll go ahead and do three more here and wrap this up The
sightings dated 12/12/24 duration more than 30 minutes
observers 1 Chicago IL viewed from the lakefront trail between
Sydney R Maravitz golf course and Bill drivers bird sanctuary.
It looks like the timeline this is around six O 5:00 PM shape
orb color light yellow. They got some video here.
It looks like a classic orbs to me.
Estimated size comparable to a small car or motorcycle viewed
from land direction from your E angle of elation 10°
approximately 1 mile or less away.
Speed 15 to 25 mile per hour Possible drones characteristic
or Hazron object. Several mostly stationary orbs
hovered just above Lake MI, roughly one mile from shore.
OK really? Do we have orbs off?
Do we have commercial drones out there a mile off out into the
lake? I don't know.
I observed at least 4 orbs of spheres emitting a break.
Pale yellow light about one mile offshore overlake Michigan.
The objects were closer than the Chicago Waterfront Filtration
Filtration cribs, which are located 2 miles offshore, though
the exact distance was difficult to judge and I estimate they
were approximately 1 mile away. The orbs appeared to pulse or
flicker and what occasionally disappear and reappear at random
intervals. Some of them move slowly, others
seem stationary. The objects were low over the
water, and since my position on the Lakefront Trail was about 25
feet above the lake, the angle of elevation was nearly head on,
estimated at about 12 to 15°. At their lowest point, the
objects appear to be hovering 100 to 200 feet above the water.
Several emitted much brighter light intermittently, then
dimmed or disappeared completely.
The video I captured shows only part of the event, but clearly
demonstrates both the movement and pulsating effects of the
light. Yeah, it's a cool video.
I mean you could definitely see these things out there hovering
over the lake and what they are I have no idea.
This Sightings dated 12424. Duration 20 seconds.
Observers 1. Military.
Hinsdale, IL Flying W over at Route 294 N of Ogden Ave.
South of Salt Creek grout mill. Townhouses shaped, triangle
collar darker black. Size approximately 20 to 40 feet
in length. Hard to judge.
View from land. Direction from view and N angle
of elevation 83°. Closest distance 200 to 250
feet. Size or speed 50 to 70 mile per
hour. Lights on object aircraft
nearby. Summary Older prop cargo plane,
followed closely by two triangular objects with three
round white lights underneath each.
An older 4 engine propeller plane, brownish and collar with
no lights on in the cabin area or on the plane itself.
Was flying W over Route 294. Wow this is crazy isn't it?
And what this looks like this happened like what 10 O clock at
night or something? OK, it says 2 dark Gray black
triangular shaped objects rose up from a wooded area, a forest
preserve east of Route 294 N of Ogden Ave.
These objects speed up and position themselves under the
tail area of the plane, moving back and forth beneath it, one
under each side. Each triangular object had three
round white lights flush mounted underneath, possibly two to
three feet diameter, one light under the front and two under
the rear of each object. The altitude of the object was
approximately 100 to 200 feet. As they flew over my building, I
lost sight of the objects as they passed overhead.
The prop plane's engine noise was audible, but the object made
no noise. The objects appeared to be about
20 plus feet in length and moved quickly to catch up with the
cargo plane. My impression was that the plane
had just taken off from Midway Airport as across the forest
preserve area, the objects rose from the woods and accelerated
to observe or perhaps chase a cargo plane.
No exaggeration. Former police officer, college
graduate, MINSA member. Huh.
Well, there you go man. That's something else, isn't it?
Just imagining this thing taking off from the airport, these
triangle shaped aircraft rising up out of the forest preserve.
They are pursuing this thing. Makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I have no idea, but that's a classic UFO sighting involving a
commercial aircraft it sounds like.
OK, we'll do one last one here. This last sighting is dated
11/14/24. Looks like duration is 15
minutes. Observers 1.
Glenwood, IL. It's like the time on this is
about 4:15 AM. Location details in the sky.
Coasting, Dying light no more than 80 feet above Glenwood.
Felt low enough that I could clearly see it.
Shaped cross reflective emerald green.
Estimated size approximately 6 miles from point to point, but
only about two stories tall. Viewed from land direction from
viewer directly above angle of elevation 45°.
Closest distance 80 feet. Speed 10 to 20 mile per hour.
It wasn't that fast. Lights on object or haze around
object changed color. Now 6 miles.
That's that's massive. I watched an almost T shaped or
cross shaped craft hover above town.
After locking eyes with it, it seemed to pulse or vibrate.
I was taking out the garbage. I could have thrown it away
upstairs, but I didn't want to stink up the kitchen.
Without thinking twice, I ran outside.
It was dark, which is normal for our area due to the lack of St.
lights. Normally if there's a full moon
we get some light. Not a lot, but enough to make
out shapes around us. After throwing the trash away, I
noticed the light was an unusual emerald green color instead of
the usual white or bright green moonlight.
It was out of the ordinary, but not alarming.
I figured it was just the moon in a way that I had never seen
it before. Maybe like a blood moon.
Then I looked up. I still don't know why I didn't
just go back inside, but I figured I'd glance up.
No harm in that right? That's when I noticed an
enormous T or cross shaped figure.
At first I felt a rush of chills through my body, like seeing the
Lord themselves somewhere to being jump scared.
I stood at the base of the driveway, staring in absolute
awe. It made no noise.
In fact, when I focused on it, I couldn't hear anything else.
I had nothing but my eyes. I wanted to get my phone, but I
was afraid it would leave before I came back outside, so I just
stood there in disbelief. The craft was at least 80, maybe
90 feet above my head and the town.
It felt like it might descend and cover the entire town.
The craft hovered motionless, stagnant, like a player lagging
online. It seemed suspended in the air,
as if held by a string. The center of the cross had a
bright green light or glow, and at each end were smaller orange
or possibly yellow lights. Still standing there, I wouldn't
move. I wanted to see how this thing
would cloak itself. After about 20 minutes of
nothing, my ears popped, similar to how they popped when
submerged underwater. At that moment, I realized I
hadn't heard a single sound the entire time I had been standing
there. Wow, that's weird.
It's almost like we're missing something here, like maybe there
was some missing time or something.
Doesn't really tell us how the thing disappeared or what
happened. That is strange.
This massive, massive emerald cross just floating slowly
across the sky and happened to be lucky enough to go out there
and see this thing. I can't explain that at all.
So very cool sightings here from Illinois.
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