NUFORC UFO Sighting 156938
Occurred: 2020-06-05 11:30 Local
Reported: 2020-06-06 12:28 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Mchenry, IL, USA

Shape: Cylinder


A bright red object traveling like a plane going southwest. As I watched, a red spark rained downward from The object and the object kept going. Weirdest thing I have ever saw.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153681
Occurred: 2018-10-09 18:13 Local
Reported: 2020-02-28 01:27 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: McHenry, MS, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Reflective spherical object hovering in sky then after few impossible maneuvers disappears into cloud evading 3 black helicopters.

Reflective spherical object approx the size of a large motor vehicle hovering motionless and noiseless in sky east of Hwy 49 in McHenry, MS on 10/09/18 at approx 18:13. Saw it when I was headed southbound on Hwy 49 coming up on the Dollar General. Object was still for several seconds about 500 to 1000 ft from the ground then began making quick, lateral and vertical movements such that it covered great expanses of ground instantaneously with no chem trails or noise. Next it began to climb vertically into a cumulus cloud located directly overhead and completely disappeared. It didn’t appear to exit the cloud. Seconds later, 3 black helicopters came from the west flying in the direction of where the object had been. Once they crossed Hwy 49 they fanned out and ultimately headed in a SE direction until they were out of sight.

Posted 2020-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 114209
Occurred: 2014-10-04 20:01 Local
Reported: 2014-10-04 18:40 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

5 red orange lights on horizon emerged together traveling at different speeds

5 reddish orange lights emerged across lake over treetops simultaneously and traveled northeast at varying speeds. Separated as they moved.

Scale of light remained consistent.

College graduate observers.

Posted 2014-10-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 104899
Occurred: 2013-11-28 20:00 Local
Reported: 2013-11-29 07:07 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object

4 fireballs moving together in a single line.

At 8:00pm there was aline of 4 orange/red fireballs moving from the northwest to the southeast. They stayed in a single file line and i followed them to the point that I had to go to the back of the house from the front. I never did see them from the front.

It was cloudy but they were below the clouds. Moving slowly, maybe with the speed of a heliocopter. Slower than a plane. Each of the fireballs seemed to move slightly back and forth with no regularity. For the most part strait and steady. No sound from them either.

Posted 2013-12-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101134
Occurred: 2013-08-13 02:30 Local
Reported: 2013-08-13 01:13 Pacific
Duration: ~1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Pulses of steady white light, 10 seconds apart, 10-15 degrees covered in 1 minute.

Light: As I was looking toward Perseus for some comet debris action, I noticed a pulse of light near Capella. The pulses of white light continued steadily, occuring every 10 seconds. They weren't quick, like the flashes of light on any aircraft I've before seen. They gradually gained luminance and dissipated at the same rate, spanning about one second. After 6 pulses, I saw no more flashes. The last two were not as bright as the first four.

Movement: The object moved in (presumably, because I could see nothing besides the light pulses) a straight path due East. It started at about level with Capella, just a few degrees to the left of it. Its path went a few degrees under the star, and 5-10 degrees to the right and 3-5 degrees below it, the pulses faded.

I heard no sound. It seemed very, very far up...but I'll leave the speculation up to you.

Apologies for approximations in measurements. I only have my hands to measure for the time being.

Thanks for your time!

Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 93246
Occurred: 2012-09-30 21:45 Local
Reported: 2012-10-02 00:02 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 7

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

multiple bright fireball orbs hovering over mchenry,il meijers.vanishing as jet approached them

It looked to be around twenty very bright, fireball like orbs floating in the sky around six hundred feet(my best estimate).they moved in tandem with each other, they were almost a constellation like formation,they hovered there for about ten minutes until a jet moving at a fast speed started to approach them. they then vanished one by one.

Posted 2012-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 89473
Occurred: 2012-05-01 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-06-09 04:55 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Colo

While I was sitting down next to my goat barn I noticed a star like object that was changing colors.. The light was going through the light color spectrum..roygbiv..repeating these colors.. The object was traveling west to east but in a non-linear fashion. What was truley strange the object would stop by a cloud then move on to the next cloud then stop again. Then continue until out of site..moments later one more identical object appeared then did the same thing…. It looked like they were searching for something.. My opinion: These were living creatures…

Posted 2012-06-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 88380
Occurred: 2012-04-12 20:05 Local
Reported: 2012-04-12 21:38 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutess
No of observers: 0

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Orb


Brilliant white light, moving from south to north over McHenry Illinois.

Observed one slow moving bright white light. Object did not appear to be a fixed wing aircraft, but appeared to be at high altitude, though not high enough to be in orbit. The sun was setting to the west which may have illuminated the object. It was moving from south to north in straight balistic motion and did not deviate off its path. It made no sounds.




NUFORC Note:

Sighting of International Space Station. PD


Posted 2012-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 77759
Occurred: 2010-05-03 16:00 Local
Reported: 2010-09-11 04:07 Pacific
Duration: 30 sec.
No of observers: 0

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape:


I saw living creatures swooping in and out of a cloud

This was no hoax..I thought at first they were birds because they were flying like birds..I realized later The cloud I observed them in was about 4 to 5 miles away..I contacted the waukeegan airport for cloud data.8500 feet + or- 100 feet. 3/8 cloud cover. Wind steady 10 mph..The cloud the objects were in was at 25 or 30 degrees above the horizon.. This, mathmatically,calculates to be at least 4 miles away.. The objects traveled the cloud formation in 1 1/2 seconds. They would reflect the sun leaving the shaded side of the cloud.. These objects reacted to the sun.. Soon as the sun shined on them they would swoop back into the cloud.. This means to me… They are living creatures..Not only did they fly like living creatures,they reacted like living creatures..

Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75741
Occurred: 2010-05-03 15:45 Local
Reported: 2010-06-10 19:41 Pacific
Duration: 30 secs.


Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Disk


I thought they were birds but the way they were flying didn't make sense

I now realize after many years of research to come to the conclusion that space is filled with life. People are stuck on life can not live in space because of the lack of atmosphere and exstreme cold temperatures. Drop this theory and it all makes sense. There are creatures that come and go in our atmosphere. I say this because iv'e seen them. These were not your everyday earth inhabiting animal. Flying in and out of a cloud. My math is right on. These were swooping at speeds excessing 500 mph. These were living things and not aircraft. Nor were they alien aircraft. These were living creatures flying in our SKIES........And yes I would like to talk with one of you. I don't think this sighting should go un-noticed.




NUFORC Note:

We do not know whether this is a serious-minded report, or whether it may be a hoax. PD


Posted 2010-06-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75363
Occurred: 2010-05-03 15:30 Local
Reported: 2010-05-10 04:47 Pacific
Duration: 0ne minute
No of observers: 0

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

I saw giant birds flying at very fast speeds in and out of a cloud on may 3rd 2010

I was watching the sparce cloud cover we had that day.just looking at the different shapes they had. I noticed movement flying about in front of one cloud. They appeared to be birds. But they were flying in and out of this cloud. The sun was lighting up the left side of the cloud. The under side was gray. These large birds were reflecting light once they would swoop away from the underside of the cloud into the sun light. Then would fly back into the cloud and disappear. Picture 5 or 6 birds swooping in circles in and out of a cloud. I need to find out what the cloud elavation was this day. I know it was about one mile away. and by guessing the elavation to be 3 or 4 thousand feet. And by judging the birds size.I compared them to a jetliner at thirty five thousand feet.I did the math. I have a degree in eloctronics. These birds were between 20 and 25 feet in large. What was strange was that they were moving too fast for the size. The bigger an animal gets the more slow it moves. These birds would swoop and turn on a dime and fly,soar like back into the cloud. It seemed to me they were living in this cloud.

Posted 2010-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68935
Occurred: 2009-02-19 20:00 Local
Reported: 2009-02-24 19:03 Pacific
Duration: AROUND 10 MIN


Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

BLACK TRIANGLE SPOTTED MCHENRY IL

TRIANGLE CRAFT SILENT MOVING ALONG FOX RIVER .. NO LIGHTS.. BUT LIKE A ORB WITH A RING ON BOTTTOM OF TRIANGLE FUZZY LIGHT EMITTING .. MOVED FROM AREA VERY FAST.. VERY LOW FLYING. MAYBE 500 FT? I WATCHED UNTIL IT WAS GONE.. COLOR DARK OR BLACK. A SHORT TIME LATER ( 1-2 MINUTES) SOME PLANES (2) FLEW BY VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER GOING REALLY FAST.. STAYED OUT ALL NIGHT ON DOCK HOPING IT WOULD COME BACK.. DID NOT NOTIFY AUTHORITIES.



Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63504
Occurred: 2008-05-21 22:30 Local
Reported: 2008-05-23 18:56 Pacific
Duration: 2 Minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

Ball of light moving to the east slow and silent around 2 miles high.

My husband and I were out back looking at the sky, because it was such a clear beautiful night. My husband pointed out a satellite in the sky and just then I said oh my gosh look right above your head, when we looked up we saw a ball of bright light, lighter than anything we have ever seen in the sky.

I had the camera outside since my last sighting and I took pictures as it moved away from us to the east. It was probably around 2 miles up and it moved very slow and silent. I snapped 6 or 7 pictures which I am sending as well.

They did not turn out clear and look like lines in the sky. We used 800 speed film, no flash, on a Canon Rebel SLR 35 MM Camera. In picture one, if you blow it up you can actually see two separate lights and almost a shape, on picture two you can see a dark triangle shape. The light was very bright but did not give out light. It is very strange to explain.

We are both believe in life on other planets as we have had sightings in the past. I believe we know the difference between satellites, stars, planes, helicopters, and unknown objects. We work full time, have no kids, and lead a very normal life.

I reported a different sighting on April 16th so this is not my first time reporting. If someone wants to call us regarding this they are welcome too, but if you feel there is no need then it's ok too.



Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63728
Occurred: 2008-04-23 20:30 Local
Reported: 2008-06-06 18:43 Pacific
Duration: 1 Minute
No of observers: 1

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

I saw some lights in the back yard and grabbed my camera to take pictures. The pictures just looked black after I took them so I never really looked at them closer. I was clearing my camera tonight, and I started zooming into the black pictures and when I did, I found out that I actually did catch the lights I saw.

I am sending 4 pictures that just look black, but if you zoom in you can see on strange reddish, white lights.... I took the pictures on a Kodak EzShare Z760 Digital Camera, I was looking east when I took the pictures.

There was no noise and it seemed to move a little erratic.

I don't remember much else, because it was so long ago.

Thank you.

Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 63403
Occurred: 2008-04-15 23:35 Local
Reported: 2008-05-20 12:19 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 Minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Triangle shaped craft with bright white lights over Mchenry, IL at approx. 20:35.

Last night, I walked outside my backdoor to have a cigarette before bed. It was very bright because the moon was out. I shut the door turned around bent over to light my cigarette up, when I looked up I noticed about 150 feet from me in the sky right above the horizon a triangle shaped craft. It looked like it had light bars on each of the sides and each of the three corners had very bright lights on it. It seemed to pulsate a bit and was completely silent. I stared at it for 15-20 seconds.

When I finally realized what I was seeing, I ran back inside to grab my phone to take a picture because my camera was on the second floor. I was gone for approximately 20 seconds, when I came back I noticed it was gone. I scanned the sky for it I looked farther into the distance and could see it had moved very far away and much higher. I tried to take a picture buy my phone camera could not pick the object up. I tried to move into the moonlight but it still did not help. The pictures on my phone just seem to be black skies.

I watched it for about another 2-3 minutes as it moved left and right and up and down. I then noticed another object (a plane I assume because I could see flashing lights on it) underneath the object. When, in an instant, it disappeared completely from sight to the south. It seemed to start moving and then it was just gone.

We have been living in the same house for almost 6 years now. I am married for 9 years. I work full time and attend school part time. We have no kids, but we do have 4 dogs and 4 cats. I was at home and my mother was asleep upstairs. My husband was at work last night working the graveyard shift. We are a very normal couple. We do believe in other life on other planets because we have seen crafts in the past.

One night a very long time ago a triangle shaped craft flew above our house without a sound. My husband and I both witnessed it. When my Dad was alive he witnessed another craft that seemed to come in with a storm and disappear instantly. My husband noticed a craft above our home one night moving erratically in the sky that took off to the north at speeds beyond anything he has ever seen. In the 6 years we have been in our current home we have witnessed at least 4 incidents like this. This one was so close and unbelievable I had to report it!

Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 62617
Occurred: 2008-04-14 12:10 Local
Reported: 2008-04-18 18:39 Pacific
Duration: One Min.
No of observers: 1

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Orange object moving slowly while oscilating wildly is seen approaching, then changes to a point of light.

04-14-2008, @12:10:17 pm. (Derived from the exif data of the first picture.) Approximate location was the City of McHenry, Illinois, the intersection of Routes 31 and Bull Valley road, and traveling South from there, approximately one quarter mile.

As I was walking down my driveway to check my mailbox, I saw what seemed to be a kite or windblown scarf, brilliant orange and darker orange in color, it was slowly moving toward me traveling from North to South very slowly, its size at the time appeared to be no more than maybe four feet in any direction. I did not observe it intensely because it had a motion as though moving up and down as if tethered by a string from the ground, the speed of the oscillations were approximately three or four cycles per second, the range of motion restrained to about twice it’s physical size.

The odd motion had me ready to grab for my pocket Sony camera that I keep with me, but still not enough to trigger a reaction to take an image, "no need to waste memory card space," I thought.

I continued on to check the mail, it had not come yet, when I looked to see where "the Kite" was located, all my internal alarms went off. The object was now abreast of me, it’s path seemed to be about 200 feet West of me, but I had no reference to gauge it's actual size, and it was never directly over me, it was clear to me that something strange was happening, the “thing” was rising up while still traveling due South, now directly West of my position, and abreast of me, any sense of its size was now lost, it may have been much larger than my initial estimate. It is worth noting that the bizarre appearance and motion of the Orange object matched nothing in my mental catalog of known objects, it is almost impossible to even describe it accurately because it looked so strange, it had sharp angles and curves and as it was rising in front of me, it's motions were so fast as to cause it to be a blur as it was close to my position. The motion at this angle were now a horizontal back ! and fort h, as it was rising, same frequency of cycles per second as noted before, about three of four times per second, and still rapidly rising. I did grab my camera, got it turned on, as I lifted it up, the LCD screen was almost completely washed out by the brilliant sunlit sky, I had to approximate the correct direction, the camera is set in bracket mode, it will take a series of three frames, each with a different exposure, one overexposed, one optimized, and one underexposed, usually at least one will be usable, and you can make an HDR image by combining all three together. As I depressed the shutter button, the multi hued Orange “thing”, abruptly faded out within one second, an extremely brilliant strangely hued point source of light popped into view slightly to the south of the orange colored object at the same instant, as the first orange colored one dissolved, the bright light appeared. The distance between the two objects locations was about the size of my fist held at arm’s length. Upon examining the camera images I saw that I did capture the light points but they are quite underwhelming compared to the impact of the actual event. The Sony cameras lens was set to minimum zoom which is 38mm, the average 35mm cameras lens would be 50mm, this means my camera (a Sony DSC T9), was set to a fish eye setting as opposed to a zoomed in setting, this makes the light I saw too small and far away looking to provide images with high detail. The light had an odd purplish blue cast to it a little bit like a welders arc, but strangely different, to my amazement, this small yet powerfully bright light began immediately moving up and away now traveling Southwest an unknown distance, in just a second, it paused in its apparent movement and ascension, but then engaged in a series of severe and rapid saw tooth type oscillations, occurring within a second, while staying within an imaginary box, the size of which I could not guess due to a lack of references pertaining to size and distance. The small bright light seemed to! have an abundance of energy to burn judging by its erratic and speedy movements. I was taking pictures all the time, the three images are taken in quick succession probably almost occurring within a second, there is a delay of several seconds as the three shots are written to the memory card and then it will take another series of three. The point source light then either dimmed or moved away at an incredibly fast rate, leaving again in a steep vertical climb, with a slight Southwest direction of travel. My initial reaction as it disappeared from sight was that the thing I had just witnessed was very unusual and most likely not caused by any natural phenomenon I am familiar with, the rapid oscillations were so fast that I saw a streaking or elongating effect that happens with fast moving very luminous objects viewed with my naked eye. I would say the after image (The streaking effect.), behind the light source was very noticeable, like rapidly waving a glowing stick of incense in the dark. My impression of what it was is mixed, the first manifestation looked like something solid, but it moved erratically, it seemed to have a physical presence. When the point source of light appeared, it is hard to imagine anything moving so erratically could be moving under intelligent control, the motions were just so extreme. Why would such radical motions be part of its operation or function, it does not make sense. I took pictures, but they are only of use to someone with some computer graphics background, I think someone with some Photoshop skills could overlay some of the pictures and show the trajectory that the object took as it moved away. There are foreground objects (Trees and power lines), in enough of the frames that they could be overlaid to show the differing locations of the light as time elapsed. The digital images do not show any streaking caused by the rapid motion, perhaps because of the bright conditions, the automatic settings most likely would have selected a very fast shutter speed on the camera, or it c! ould be that the object happened to be moving at a slower speed at the moment the frames were taken. The pictures have no value to the casual observer, as far as the wow factor goes. But the testimony I give is honest and true.

As for myself, I have a limited educational background, but have always been a scientifically minded person and was an Ultra light aircraft pilot, with a good understanding of weather and other natural phenomena. I enjoy watching YouTube videos and am very skeptical of 99% of the UFO videos and images seen there and elsewhere. I enjoy reading and contributing to the Above Top secret forums, especially those topics concerning alleged UFO activities. The Chad Drone incident was covered there extensively with hundreds of contributors joining together to analyze the data, eventually a consensus was reached that it was a hoax. In short, this object flew over the wrong person, if it was attempting to be stealthy! I feel that I am very qualified to make an impartial, detailed report detailing the behavior and visual characteristics of this event.

My Flickr account has the images here. http://flickr.com/photos/ring0/sets/72157604542071914/ there are 21 images in all. I hereby release them to the public domain, free to use for nonprofit purposes. They are of very low usefulness for the casual viewer, no craft are seen, only a hard to see point of light in most of them, the last few images show none, but I included all the frames that I took that day. The few people I have shown them to have said that they do not show anything of an interesting nature, and I cannot blame them, but there is enough there to satisfy myself that I was not imagining the incident.

Posted 2008-06-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 16725
Occurred: 1998-06-15 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-03-05 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 00:04:00
No of observers: 1

Location: McHenry, IL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

light in sky chased away by two jets.

i was sitting on my back porch looking at the stars on a very clear night and noticed that the big dipper looked different. after about one minute one of the big dippers stars did a sort of spiral in a direction moving away outwards from the earth. then about 10 or 15 seconds later, a very loud and fast moving jet past by coming from near west to east. as soon as it past by , another identical sounding jet came from near north to south....neither jets had any lights on whatsoever.it was like the "star was avoiding the jets. the sky was very clear that night with no clouds.i have never heard that kind of jet before. it sounded more like a rocket or something. i never thought it would be a good idea to come forward with this but it seems that it could be of importance since there seems to be more and more sightings .also about 1 or 2 months later i saw something early after sunrise ( in daylight ) it is kind of hard to discribe.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2001-03-06