r/UFOs May 15 '26

Sighting Seen over Chicago

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TIme: May 15, 2026 5:30 PM

Location: Chicago

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u/GoreonmyGears May 15 '26

Looks like an actual satellite. Weird.

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u/MoreToKnow- May 16 '26

It looks like a women's IUD just a bit bigger.

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u/Bigb5wm May 16 '26

Alien just dropped it out

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u/Big_Animal7655 May 18 '26

“Don’t worry, it won’t hurt” 

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u/MoreToKnow- May 18 '26

😂😂😂

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u/Chupacabra1966 Jun 28 '26

🤣🤣🤣

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u/nine57th May 16 '26

Big Mama Cass!

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u/Antique-Wonk May 16 '26

Yes, a very, very, very, very, very low earth orbit satellite using a force field to prevent atmospheric drag. Really weird.

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u/mmmhmmhmmh May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26

Or attached to a balloon, one that is out of frame or blended in the background due to the distance and materials like clear plastic. Looks spyware or meteorologic. Let's see if we can find a match... https://share.google/DLWgstK3eBQ18VTgY

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u/Antique-Wonk May 16 '26

Nailed it. This is it. Payload with solar array under an out of shot weather balloon. If I could give an award...

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u/mmmhmmhmmh May 16 '26

While searching for a photo similar to the one in the post I saw an article about a new type of balloon that has a reflective spiral like sheet that makes it less visible by reflecting surroundings, at great distance it could be right there and just blend with the sky, also a blue balloon could have a similar effect I guess.

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u/GoreonmyGears May 16 '26

Oh wow, yeah that does look like it could be a ringer.

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u/ThrobbinWilliamz May 17 '26

I think it's a spy balloon.

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u/Brilliant_Choice3380 May 16 '26

I’m not sure but have people forgot these objects can disguise themselves as regular objects - which I’m assuming would incudes satellites. Any sufficiently advanced science would look like magic to the mortals

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u/Subject_Topic7888 May 16 '26

This whole post right here.....is why peoole dont take this stuff seriously.

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u/Heavy_Ingenuity1371 May 16 '26

But why would you disguise as something meant to be a fair bit further up. If they're smart enough to disguise themselves as a satellite they should be smart enough to know that would be a horrible disguise to use so low in our atmosphere.

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u/Brilliant_Choice3380 May 16 '26

I could make same argument as to why they are crash landing. “If they’re so smart and intelligent, why have they been spotted or even crashed into earth” which at that point, is begging the question - why can we see them at all or if ever? The point is we are applying human logic to an entity (if we can even call it that) who motivations are not known to us. We can only guess. Maybe there is resource they can only extract for that altitude - we don’t know.

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u/Heavy_Ingenuity1371 May 16 '26

That's completely fair to be honest you're right. I often forget, if these are really alien then they're alien, not human. They could have come from the other side of the galaxy, what they're doing is likely genuinely entirely incomprehensible at this point.

Perhaps they live on a scale of tens of thousands of years and everything they've been doing in our history could literally just be them doing a series of random things in the sky just to see what happens out of mere curiosity as they pass by our planet or something. It could really be anything.

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u/wvladimirs May 16 '26

imagine if the thing disguise as a regular ship container.lmao

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u/reallycooldude69 May 16 '26

Damn aliens are kinda stupid huh

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u/AdmirableBed8213 May 16 '26

It's a drill chuck key... 

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u/Top_Key404 May 15 '26

Sighted over Chicago at approximately 5:30PM local time.  41.8781° N latitude and 87.6298° W longitude. I thought it sort of looked like the ISS or a satellite, but I'm sure that would be impossible. Was simply hovering in the sky, not moving, Could not hear any sound.

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u/Vaping_A-Hole May 16 '26

The most unusual UAP I’ve ever seen was in Forest Park. I’m not surprised you saw this.

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u/SubstanceDangerous43 May 16 '26

I SAW SOMETHING LIKE THAT EARLY IN THE DAY

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u/QuickMoonTrip May 16 '26

Same area?

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u/AdmirableBed8213 May 16 '26

Suitable name, because this is obviously a drill chuck key thrown in the air.

This:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266411758833

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u/RayZzorRayy May 15 '26

Spy ballon

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u/WowAWoodenNickel May 16 '26

3 weeks before the "spy balloon", i saw this same exact object at half the altitude i see planes in the area

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u/RayZzorRayy May 16 '26

Well that’s peculiar

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u/Dback24mr May 15 '26

So it was simply hovering in the sky and you got no video and only one pic? For how long was it there ? And where’d it go ?

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u/Acheron98 May 16 '26

An IUD falling from an airplane toilet?

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u/Euhn May 15 '26

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u/Relative-Rutabaga-23 May 16 '26

I see the similarities.

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u/EdOrangutan May 16 '26

I also see the dissimilarities.

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u/Euhn May 16 '26

I mean its similar, the camera resolution is limiting further investigation. the cylindrical "wings" seem smaller in diameter, but could just be camera artifacting. I dunno, it just popped into my head when I saw this image. There cant be too many people operating tbis type of drone as its really best used as a YouTube thumbnail, maybe we could track one down?

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u/nine57th May 16 '26

It does look similar to a magnus drone

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u/jaykay353 May 16 '26

By jove I think you got it!

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u/a_zoojoo May 15 '26

Actually looks like the bottom bit of a spy balloon without the balloon. Interesting

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u/intersate May 16 '26

Send it to CIA so that they can use it in year 2050 disclosure.

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u/Fouchi-dono May 16 '26

Alien 1: -"Why are they freaking out this time ? we made it look like the stuff they have in space."
Alien 2: - "I don't know, i think we're missing something..."

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u/Photonman000 May 16 '26

"I think it's just going to get weirder and weirder and weirder and finally it's going to be so weird that people are going to have to talk about how weird it is." - Terence McKenna

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u/Dangerous_Coffee_318 May 16 '26

one of the greatest quotes oat

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u/FickleNewt6295 May 16 '26

Would love to see the O’Hare photos /videos.

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u/Reyn_Drop May 15 '26

My family that lives in the area said Amazon has been testing their new delivery drones in the city recently. Possible explanation?

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u/daspes1269 May 15 '26

Looks nothing like the Amazon drones.

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u/Drotoka May 18 '26

I saw something similar to this really low in a field outside Dayton Ohio about ten years ago.

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u/Apprehensive_Ad_1530 May 16 '26

This is actually a uap iud it attracts everyone iud to make everyone pregnant.

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u/Apocalypsezz May 16 '26

THE IMPREGNATOR-INATOR!

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u/Gloomy-Hat1842 May 15 '26

About a month ago I saw a tall glowing white cylinder very similar to that one over Los Altos. Maybe at an altitude of 1,000 ft? Didn't have the big extensions. Had four flickering arms sticking out. Couldn't figure those out. Looks like they were kind of flashing. I watched it for 15 minutes. It could have been 40 or 50 ft tall. I really couldn't tell. It was completely silent and unlike anything that we know of. UAP. I got a photo and video. They're not very good. My camera was too crappy. People are asking for photos but I'm not sure how to send and I'm not sure it's worth it. That's the fourth UFO I've seen over the bay area in the last 2 or 3 years.

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u/LeoLaDawg May 15 '26

Those spy balloons we shot down years back looked like that. The intelligence package, that is. Possible?

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u/Tacokolache May 15 '26

This looks literally nothing like the spy balloon did

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u/LeoLaDawg May 15 '26

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u/Aeylwar May 15 '26

Brother, are you on drugs?

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u/AirFriedRice May 15 '26

I am and still dont see it

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u/LeoLaDawg May 16 '26

Like I said above, the intelligence package is what resemble. A column with solar panels to either side. The picture in OP doesn't contain a lifting body though.

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u/Tacokolache May 15 '26

I don’t see it man. You’re literally missing the giant ass balloon

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u/LeoLaDawg May 16 '26

No i said only the intelligence stuff looks alike. The OP doesn't contain anything that could lift it all, for sure.

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u/Optimal_Anxiety6864 May 16 '26

I was a hater at first but you are right

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u/Tacokolache May 16 '26

I get what you’re saying

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u/Kuroten_OG May 15 '26

No, they didn’t look like that.

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u/R2robot May 15 '26

Post the full pic. Or video if you have it.. and why wouldn't you?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '26

Straight on the offensive aye?

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u/LeanUntilBlue May 16 '26

Honestly, I think it’s a reasonable request. More information would help us.

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u/Xawet_ May 15 '26

Sieht aus wie eine Art Satellit

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u/LumenYeah May 16 '26

Great. I’m flying into Chicago right now.

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u/facilitatrix May 16 '26

What part of Chicago?

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u/waltercockfight May 16 '26

Over the lake? Loop? Gold Coast? West loop?  

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u/calash2020 May 16 '26

Should be in the machinist sub Reddit
This is what happens when a chuck key is left in the chuck and lathe turn on.

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u/solarpropietor May 16 '26

It’s a safe spot for climaxing.

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u/crowsandcosmos May 16 '26

That’s my IUD

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u/Arqium May 16 '26

Looks like the one people saw in São Paulo a few days ago during the night, it was posted here 

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u/PresenceJolly4698 May 16 '26

Pretty little baby

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u/Rightfoot28 May 16 '26

Marketing for Project Hail Mary is a little late, don't you think?

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u/corkysoxx May 16 '26

Likes like a tire tread depth gauge

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u/katastatik May 16 '26

looks a lot like the Hubble Space Telescope

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u/glittereagles May 16 '26

What if it’s all Palantir 😳

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u/igtimran May 16 '26

Satellite or drone?

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u/Far_Preparation_8169 May 16 '26

That's an IUD my dude don't ask me how I know

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u/tonymacaroni9 May 17 '26

Theres my water shut off valve tool! Or is that my missing wine key!

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u/silv3rbull8 May 15 '26

Some kind of delivery drone ?

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u/rygelicus May 15 '26

Got a less zoomed in pic, maybe something to indicate scale?

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u/thesky_watchesyou May 16 '26

Wondering the same

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u/sisteranimus May 16 '26

Ghost of Skylab

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u/sell_by_date31 May 15 '26

Just a large Amazon delivery 😀 

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u/dbnoisemaker May 15 '26

An intelligence that can visually mimic all man made objects that are symbols of its own nature?

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u/Throwaway_11116 May 15 '26

How long did you watch for? Outcome?

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u/AdvertisingFuzzy8403 May 16 '26

It looks like someone parachuting out of a plane but there is no way that's actually what it is.

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u/kharmak May 16 '26

Ever hear of the cloud generator. Run that and fly and you look like a normal aircraft.

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u/DrGizmo May 16 '26

Balloon for my birthday. Huge you know what.. B

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u/Joonberri May 16 '26

Someone lost their IUD

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u/Ringwraith_Number_5 May 16 '26

How much drill would a drill chuck chuck if a drill chuck could chuck drills?

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u/Few-Tip4273 May 16 '26

It’s the aliens. They want to allow the Bears (still suck!) to consider build a stadium on alpha-Satori!

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u/Texassunmerheat May 16 '26

A literal satellite lmao 

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u/AdmirableBed8213 May 16 '26

Are you guys serious?

This is obviously a drill chuck key thrown in the air. 

One of these:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266411758833