Illinois UFOs: Check Out The 34 Sightings Reported In 2025

I'm sure you already have it on your calendar and are planning some sort of celebration, but just in case you're not, World UFO Day is coming up on Wednesday, July 2nd.

You may be wondering what World UFO Day is all about (other than having something to do with UFOs), and what you're supposed to do on Wednesday. Well, according to what I've been able to find, World UFO day is a day set aside for people to gather together and scan the skies for UFOs.

The stated goal of World UFO Day is also to to raise awareness of "the undoubted existence of UFOs," and to try to get world governments to release and declassify their files on UFO/UAP sightings.

That's all fine, but let's get to the sightings that have been reported in Illinois so far in the first 26 weeks of this year.

At This Point In The Year, Illinoisans Have Reported 34 UFO Sightings To The National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)

According to the NUFORC website, Illinois and Wisconsin have had the exact same number of UFO sightings reported since the first of the year, and our Midwestern neighbors are all in double-digits, too:

Illinois: 34

Wisconsin: 34

Indiana: 25

Missouri: 23

Kentucky: 19

California is the state with the most reported sightings nearly every year. So far in 2025, Californians have reported well over 150 UFO sightings.

Here's What Illinois Residents Are Claiming They Saw In The Skies During The First Six Months Of This Year (And Where They Were When They Saw Whatever They Saw)

If you click here you'll be taken to the National UFO Reporting Center website's Illinois page with a full list of places and sightings going back years.

In the interests of space, here are some of the sightings reports, along with the dates and places from Northern Illinois in 2025:

• 5/29/25-Worth, Illinois: Diamond shape. "While on duty, I observed an object above the horizon, too bright to be a star. Captured image."
• 5/24/25-Chicago, Illinois: Cylinder shape. "Tumbling cylinder with bright reflections or lights."
• 5/18/25-Chicago, Illinois: "Strange sound recorded during sleep, and crystal sphere appeared at bedroom window."
• 4/27/25-Chicago, Illinois: "Solid metal offset stacked flat cylinders over lake Michigan watching over Chicago."
• 4/22/25-Arlington Heights, Illinois: "Two lights observed in the sky from Arlington Heights station—one large and bright, the other smaller and dimmer."
• 4/08/25-Gurnee, Illinois: "In bed out my window and saw a orb shaped craft about 300 feet away."
• 2/10/25-Carol Stream, Illinois: "A white oval shaped light is seen on my front door, Ring camera."
• 1/23/25-Chicago, Illinois: Triangle shape. "Appeared to change its light or even its shape, shifting from a boomerang-like object to a large circle."

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