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Rockford, IL
Illinois · Winnebago County · Rockford Metro
Rockford is a large city in Illinois with a population of 147,649. Residents earn $53,328 per year, which is 29% below the national average.
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/5.0
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Good
147,649
Population
2,261/sq mi density
$53,328
Median Income
$30,409 per capita
$120,900
Home Value
$172,610 Zillow
$954
Median Rent
31.6% income on rent
52°F
Avg Temperature
271 sunny days/yr
1,174
Violent Crime/100K
3,327 property/100K
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Overall
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Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
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Economy
3.0 / 5.0
$53,328 median income, 5.2% unemployment
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Affordability
5.0 / 5.0
$120,900 home value, $954/mo rent
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Safety
1.0 / 5.0
1,174 violent crimes/100K (209% above avg)
C+
Education
2.9 / 5.0
23.2% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings Near Rockford, IL
107 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Rockford, IL.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rockford, IL | 2013 | Bright red, white, and orange lights hovering in the western sky. |
| Rockford, IL | 2013 | Large object with many bright lights. |
| Rockford, IL | 2013 | Eight globes like if they were full of fire inescapable from the bright globe flew silently over Rockford, IL. |
| Rockford, IL | 2013 | Dark red light over Rock River in Rockford, Il before fireworks... |
| Rockford, IL | 2012 | Triangular craft with amber light spotted by Rockford couple |
| Rockford, IL | 2012 | Burning disc observed over Rockford, IL |
| Rockford, IL | 2012 | Strange Orange Light Balls Over Rockford Illinois |
| Rockford, IL | 2011 | Very large object glides across opening in clouds for a brief view. |
| Rockford, IL | 2011 | White Diskus And Strobing light |
| Rockford, IL | 2011 | Single orange fireball that moved slowly East to West, stopped and slowly disappeared. |
| Rockford, IL | 2011 | Ball of (green) light. |
| Rockford, IL | 2011 | Small, fast, bright, silent UFO streaks across Rockford sky at super speed, disappears into cloud |
| Rockford, IL | 2011 | I was with a few friends outside of a friend's house in their driveway at about 11:00 pm. While socializing, I saw what I thought to be |
| Rockford, IL | 2011 | 3 red lights in rockford NOT planes!!! |
| Rockford, IL | 2011 | Bright orange object seen over Rockford, IL, many witnesses. |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | Three orange glowing lights traveling together in the form of a verticle triangle in the night disappear into the clouds. |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | A keen sighting of many in Rockford Illinois- |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | ((HOAX?)) At 11 O Clock Pm Me And My Friend Saw A Dimond Shped Object That Shot A Bliding Light At Us But No Damage |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | Hovering white light that dims then regains full white light while dropping in altitude slowly and then stopping to hover. |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | Black "shadow"(dim light outlined) triangular craft spotted gliding silently in night sky over Rockford, IL. |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | We were walking at 2:35ish AM and my wife spotted this white no more of a shopping bag color ciruclar round shape in the sky, it was be |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | Circular, barely any light, huge, white-silver tinge, made no sound. |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | There was lights on a hoovering UFO, that only moved side to side and back and forward. |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | Long black tube seen in Rockford IL |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | Black "shadow"(dim light outlined) triangular craft spotted gliding silently in night sky over Rockford, IL. |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | Black "shadow"(dim light outlined) triangular craft spotted gliding silently in night sky over Rockford, IL. |
| Rockford, IL | 2010 | Transparent ship with triangular positioned lights in Rockford, Illinois |
| Rockford, IL | 2008 | An engineer in the aero-engineering field could not identify a strange triangular object over northern Illinois. |
| Rockford, IL | 2008 | triangular shaped crafts in northern illinois |
| Rockford, IL | 2008 | UFO moving in a triangular movement over Rockford, IL. It moved back and forth and up and down. Then slowly dissapeared. |
| Rockford, IL | 2007 | Triangular shaped several white lights within |
| Rockford, IL | 2007 | Bright glowing object exiting earth's atmosphere w/ object ejmitted from glow at very fast speed |
| Rockford, IL | 2005 | ball shaped thing hovering at a low altitude that rose straight up and out of site within a minutes |
| Rockford, IL | 2005 | possible satellite, but no scheduled viewing, and the object flash/glowed brightly for a second or two. |
| Rockford, IL | 2005 | not sure if it was a millitary aircraft but the craft went across the sky in about 3 min I would say the craft was at least 30ꯠft i |
| Rockford, IL | 2005 | One of the sightings in Rockford I have seen. |
| Rockford, IL | 2004 | When the orb disappeared, It was like turning off a light... It was no longer visible. |
| Rockford, IL | 2004 | A diamond shaped object was found near Rockford Illinois. |
| Rockford, IL | 2003 | Spectral kind of light 20 degrees above the horizon than vanished. |
| Rockford, IL | 2003 | Light hovered for at least an hour with colors of white, green and red. |
| Rockford, IL | 2003 | November, Exact date I'm not sure of except it was early in the month. Sky was clear and I was taking a walk as I usually do. It was ju |
| Rockford, IL | 2002 | there were 4 of them and when the last one connected with the third one they looked just like the leader . |
| Rockford, IL | 2002 | The object looked like a long triangle that was moving through the night sky. |
| Rockford, IL | 2002 | UFO above E. State Street, Feb. 27, 2002, about 19:00 hrs. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Looked up to the Northen sky and saw a set of 9 orange pulsating Balls, as soon as those 9 disappeared a second group of 9 appeared. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | 14 all together, then they separated and the one I remember most followed East State Street in an easterly direction, approx. 2000 ft |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Lights seen in Rockford, Il when coming home at night. Color sort of off pink like street lights. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | same as above |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Ten orange lights in a circular formation non blinking non moving in the east direction. There was a blink then they were gone. When |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | My Wife and I noticed 9 Redish Orange Lights floating west to east |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Bright lights floating East over the city of Rockford, IL. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | We saw a large reddish light in the Southern sky, visible in one spot for about 10 minutes, at 10:20 pm, June 26, 01, in Rockford Ill. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Several orange lights moving about each other across the sky, but as a pack and then disappeared. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates observing a "sphere," but offers no other details. PD)) |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Looking up I observed a formation of 5objects that appeared to be circular & were orange in color moving in a northeasternly direction. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Saw nine yellow lights in groups of three, moving slowly in diagonal formation on my way to work. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | A number of orange/yellow lights appeared and began moving erratically in two groups. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | 13 orange lights moved steadily and at times flew closely and eventually faded away. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | We saw a fast moving green light (with no tail) in the sky above the horizon and just below the moon. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Possible explanation for sighting in Rockford, IL. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Red balls of light that change to green before they disappeared |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | 24 total golden colored, orbed lights in configurations similar to the big dipper moving slowly from NW to East |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Confirming: 8 years later I saw Them lights Two {on 1-11-01} |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | First thought to be an airplane, but its color, shapes, and hovering motion was unexplainable. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Fireball in the sky around 911, being chased by the military! |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Formation of 10 yellowish glowing targets (night sighting) drifted SW to NE at 5-10 MPH, 1500' AGL then extinguished one at at time. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | 9 round objects moving independently. Orange/Yellow in color |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Computer shuts off during light sighting in Rockford |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | CREATING SYMBOLS OF GREETING OR COMMUNICATION |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | It was a formation of 9 lights that were changing position relative to each other (about the size of the big dipper or bigger) |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Eight golden/orange objects hovering above Rockford. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | 9-11 orange-red lights in formation appear twice in 1 hour which can remain perfectly still then travel exceedingly fast. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | There were seven of them. Five were bunched up and 2 were spread out. They kept moving at high speeds. They were round and shining l |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | More lights over Rockford's East Side |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Over a hill we had seen 4 or 5 lights in a semi-circle. They were flashing in unison from yellow to white. After about 2 minutes they |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | At about 21:30 this evening, I observed six orange lights in the eastern sky over Rockford, IL. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Directly above the Boylan High school, there were a series of 9+ lights. The first 3 were in a triangle formation , then a tail, and th |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | For about three minutes, we watched a formation of orangish lights all taking turns twinkling, then fading out. |
| Rockford, IL | 2001 | Nine objects moving North to South at various speeds and direction.Emitting an orange glow. |
| Rockford (southern skies of), IL | 2000 | On Wed. Feb.16񫺐 I had just come out of the logli's grocery store on State st. in Rockford, IL. I placed my groceries in the van and |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | small orange light suddenly changed shape and disappeared! |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | Orange lights, flying low. Fire balls shooting out of one. Another flew off into space. |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | There were 5 orangeish fireballs , 3 of the objects were in a triangular flight pattern. The other 2 were lower and to the left, almost |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | Came out of a meeting on E. State street and looked up along with several people to see several fireballs forming formations in the Eas |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | Saw 5 orange lights in the sky viewed them for awhile they formed the big dipper then dimmed out |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | 8 orange lights in 2 clusters of 3 and 1 moving very slowly west to east then disappearing |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | well thare wer eight balls of light almost like fire thay wher vary brite like a star. thay wher redish orang in coler & shine'd vary b |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | AT 930 PM TO 950PM 5 ROUND ORANGE BALLS CAME FROM THE WEST AND STOPPING OVERHEAD MOVING INTO VARIOUS FORMATIONS. THEN FADING OUT AS THE |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | While out for a family night we observed five orange glowing objects three times larger than visible stars flying in formation and doin |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | Seen glowing lights that changed shapes,and rotated around each other. |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | my wife and I saw a bright orange ball decending out of the east then leveling off then going about half a block then turning to the no |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | Orange fireballs, upon closer observation appeared as delta shaped crafts. Moving in formation of a triangle with remaining crafts in a |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | MY SONS WERE GETTING READY FOR BED WHEN THEY CALLED ME INTO THEIR ROOM AND ASKED ME WHAT THIS THING WAS IN THE SKY.THE OBJECT WAS STATI |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | 5 objects in formation, disappeared, 4 more appeared in different formation |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | driving down road looked out window and saw bright orange light,? looked like the back lights to a car did not blink or no noise. |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | 5 kite shaped(larger than stars)orangelights in western sky Stationary 15 mins faded gold->white, then 3 more rose slowly from N-> SW |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | This was something we all have NEVER seen before. There has been no investigation that we know of, except it was reported on the news. |
| Rockford, IL | 2000 | Pulled in driveway looked north northeast saw a long light N pULLED IN DRIVEWAY LOOKED NORTH NORTHEAST SAW SOME LIGHTS HANGING IN THE |
| Rockford, IL | 1999 | 3 orange lights hovering in the sky east of Rockford, IL, on the outskirts of town toward Belvidere, IL. |
| Rockford, IL | 1998 | saw 2 very bright objects in western sky, one disappearing from view somehow (not sure where it went) the other object was huge, triang |
| Rockford, IL | 1996 | Black Triangle about 75 feet width. |
| Rockford, IL | 1987 | It about five after ten on a clear wind calm night. A friend and I were in a natural area on the property of a local hospital listening |
| Rockford, IL | 1987 | Huge Orange Shaped sphere hovering about the ground about 3 feet. |
| Rockford, IL | 1979 | Several round objects in a straight line formation |
| Rockford, IL | 1974 | Bright white light, very fast, no sound or sonic boom, impossible maneuvers, too fast for aircraft |
| Rockford, IL | 1969 | Seen an object in the sky that appeared to be an old World War II plane, buy wasn't! |
| Rockford, IL | 1966 | Close encounter experience. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes |