Not in the Midwest, I'm over in Whitby UK, but the 3am thing is genuinely doing my head in because we had something similar here last November - three figures just standing at the edge of the car park behind my flat, completely still, no movement at all for about 40 minutes before I noticed they were just gone.
No footage unfortunately because my phone decided that was the perfect moment to die, classic.
What I find interesting is the 3am connection across completely different locations and time zones, that cant be coincidence surely. Were yours tall? The ones here looked wrong proportionally, like the legs were slightly too long for the torso. Shadow people usually move differently but these had weight to them if that makes any sense.
Anyone else tracking whether these sightings cluster around specific lunar phases? Im building a little log of UK incidents and the overlap with new moon periods is starting to look pretty consistent.