Mysterious Cross-Shaped Object Spotted Over Illinois Night Sky

When you think of what a UFO looks like, you probably imagine some type of spherical object. There's a new report out of Illinois that is something else entirely. Someone a few days ago saw what looked like a cross-shaped light moving quickly across the night sky before disappearing.

The National UFO Reporting Center says this Illinois encounter happened near Northbrook the night of October 26, 2025

Here are the exact words from the eyewitness report just shared on the NUFORC site:

"Silver sphere with white rectangular wings moved quickly away then vanished...looked stationary at first but then began to move very quickly towards the north...Object accelerated more then fully vanished in plain sight. It looked like a silver sphere center with white rectangular wings."

They went on to describe the shape of the object as "a cross" moving at a 65 degree angle approximately 200 feet away from where they were driving.  The report said it was silvery-white in appearance and that they "thought it was a small aircraft at first but definitely was not."

Since Northbrook, Illinois is only about 20 minutes due south of O'Hare International Airport, you have to consider that any weird night sky object could be a conventional plane, but what type of aircraft moves in the way that this person described? At the very least it's odd for a regular aircraft to change directions that quickly. By definition, they definitely can claim they saw a UFO as it's not easily identified.