Southland Under Siege

Just for (my own) peace of mind, I wish that somebody would be able to credibly explain just what it is that people are seeing in the skies over the south suburbs. From the Daily Southtown article:

A trio of steady red lights seemed to swim across the western night sky starting about 11 p.m. Friday night and reappearing after midnight. The three dots at times formed a triangular shape, but they then seemed to straighten into a line, much like sightings in the same area late last summer and on Halloween, witnesses told the Daily Southtown. (emphasis added)

You often hear about these types of stories and then there's never any follow-up. Therefore, I demand to know what the heck is going on over there.

As an added incentive to ending my quest for knowledge of extraterrestial life, I will give a prize (of my choosing, probably something I have laying around) to the person whose post gives me the biggest chuckle.