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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 2,715 UFO sighting reports in Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (507 reports, 18.67% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (369 reports, 13.59% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (453 reports, 16.69% of total).
- 11/16/99 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (15 reports, 0.55% of total).
- 2020 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (199 reports, 7.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (1,247 reports, 45.93% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Indiana
These Indiana UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Two craft with a triangle light formation on the bottom and a flashing strobe light and zero engine noise flew past when I was outside. I went outside around 11:40 PM EST to let my dogs out in the front yard of my house. Shortly after going outside, I noticed two blinking lights somewhat off in the distance, moving in the sky from north to south.
As the lights got closer, I could start to see a triangle light formation on the bottom of the craft. There was also a blinking white strobe light on both crafts. I could make out the same triangle light formation on both crafts.
Both crafts appeared to be identical. I could not see the craft clearly enough to make out its entire shape. I could mostly just see the triangle light formation and a blinking strobe light.
But there was enough light to tell that these triangle lights were attached or part of the craft and not just floating lights. The two crafts were flying one in front of the other but with a safe enough distance between them. I would estimate the crafts' size to be about equal to a small or medium-sized fighter jet, like an F-16 or F-15, for example.
The crafts made absolutely no sound whatsoever. No engine noises. No visible engine exhaust or afterburner.
I would say these crafts were flying at about the same level you would expect a helicopter to be at if it were flying across a city. They were flying relatively slowly. At this point of viewing the craft for maybe about a minute, I decided to run inside and get my phone as fast as I could to film.
The time it took me to get my phone and start the video is probably about a minute. Unfortunately, I was not able to film when they were close enough to make out the triangle light formation. I filmed the craft continuing to fly north to south over the city of Indianapolis.
By the time you see the craft in the video, I would say they are over downtown Indianapolis or possibly the Indianapolis International Airport. The craft flew in a relatively straight line when I could see them close. By the time they get over more of the city, they seem to be farther apart than when I first saw them.
I wanted to go down to the end of the street to keep filming but decided to take the dogs inside first. By the time I came back outside, I could no longer see either of the crafts. I stayed outside continuing to look at the sky.
3-5 minutes after returning outside from letting the dogs in, I noticed a small white orb high in the sky. It appeared much higher in the sky than the two crafts I had witnessed. I saw the orb moving slowly in the sky for about 5 seconds when it suddenly vanished into thin air.
I continued going in and outside for a few hours to see if any of the crafts returned, but clouds rolled in, and I did not see anything else that night. A few details about the video: During the video, there appear to be three lights in the sky, but the light furthest to the right is a star, I believe. There also appear to be some bugs flying around near the camera at the end of the video.
I did not have my camera’s auto-rotate feature on, and at one point in the video, I turned the camera horizontally, causing the video to be sideways. I do not have any video of the white orb I saw; it was gone before I could turn my camera back on. I would consider myself very knowledgeable about what most military aircraft and helicopters from World War II and newer look and sound like.
I read about military aviation quite frequently and have been to many airshows.
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Formation of 7 UFOs made patterns in the sky before following a pure white Jet. Went to let the dog out, saw it was a nice day, so I stepped outside. Thought I saw geese at first, but then I saw the silver color shining in the light.
Ran in to grab my phone and take a video. The silver objects started making formations. One jet was shiny and one was pure white, it didn't even glisten in the sun.
The formation followed the white jet. Witnessed by a 57 year old white female. Additionally, this is not my first sighting here.
This is the first sighting I saw so many and was able to take video.
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Was driving to a plumbing call when a moving object appeared in the sky. While driving westward on a gravel county road north of Geneva, Indiana, with my trainee in the passenger seat, I observed a peculiar object emerge from the overcast clouds. Initially, it appeared to be a conventional aircraft or a part thereof, resembling the horizontal orientation of an aircraft wing or a white propeller blade from a wind turbine.
Initial Observation: The object presented itself horizontally before it began pitching and spinning, resembling an ungoverned propeller feathering unidirectionally. This motion lasted for approximately four seconds, during which the object exhibited a very slow descent before it abruptly halted its descent and remained stationary. Sudden Movement: After a brief pause, the object accelerated across the sky at an estimated speed of 300-400 km/h, maintaining an altitude of approximately 2000 meters.
It continued to spin horizontally before coming to a stop once again in the sky, where it continued its rotation. Final Observation and Disappearance: The object then proceeded to thin out, diminishing its visibility until it completely vanished from sight. My trainee, initially distracted, only observed the object upon my exclamation.
He confirmed the sighting, especially noting the object's spinning and subsequent disappearance. Additional Information: No sound was perceived from the object throughout the duration of the sighting. The entire event spanned approximately 15 seconds from the initial sighting to the object's disappearance.
Conclusion: The nature of the object's appearance, its uncharacteristic maneuvers, sudden acceleration, and eventual disappearance does not align with conventional aircraft or known atmospheric phenomena. The object's ability to halt its descent, accelerate to high speeds abruptly, and then vanish is particularly noteworthy, suggesting characteristics not currently attributed to known man-made or natural objects.
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Seen looking south, flew west bound Seen looking south. Object appeared to be out of place. Was not moving.
Bright in color. Orange looking. Unidentified on a star app.
Object then began to fly westbound at a good rate of speed. Object appeared to be oval in shape when moving.
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Fuzzy/hazy yellow light in the shape of an orb with a smaller light behind it. Almost looked like the light had a halo look to it. My father, daughter, and I were standing outside the house to see our dog barking in the dark.
My father was the one to spot a weird fuzzy/hazy halo orb with a smaller light behind it almost like a fish with a tail. The fuzzy yellow light would gradually get bigger and dim back to it's original size, moving throughout the sky. We knew it wasn't an airplane since there were two airplanes flying in the sky with their green and red lights.
The fuzzy/hazy yellow orb was a lot big and slower moving than the airplanes going by at the time. Once it reached over the town of Milton, Indiana, it completely faded out, with no trace of it in the sky.
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Two UFOs seen My husband and I witnessed two UFOs over the woods behind our farm. It became so bright we couldn't look at it at all.
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2 UFOs I saw one object in the sky. When I started recording another one popped up out of no where. I ran inside to get my husband then started recording the second video.
The first object had disappeared and then the second object got so bright it literally hurt our eyes and it did some crazy light show thing.
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Craft flew over apartment at very low altitude and I took a photograph using my cell phone within 30 seconds of sighting I was laying in bed and noticed bright lights in my window coming right towards me as if something was going to crash into my building or go right over these apartments so I grabbed my cell phone and ran to window and took a picture as it flew right over the neighbors building and at first I thought it was a plane until I looked at the photograph which didn't look like any plane I have ever seen and it had lots of lights all over it and it looked triangular or rectangle shaped but this incident lasted maybe 30 seconds and I called 911 and reported it to police and had two officers come over to look at the photograph and they could not identify this object either and then they left after they verified that I had seen something and showed them photograph!.
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No trails eyes couldn’t track seemingly instant, Appearing in/out in complete opposite initial trajectory Curving around while doing so Clear sky, I was walking my dogs outside my lawn facing 300 see a (1)flash starting around 210 (30 angle going towards the horizon which was my tree line) thought it was a meteor at first but there was no trail. As I walk to the side of my house to get a clearer view of the sky (Orions belt left of the sky)facing 210 (60 angle) now I saw another seemingly instant (2)flash no trail white bright light curving almost like an S but more so elongated. The light disappeared I saw the beginning and the end.
The end was about 75 angle. (3)Then it appeared back into the sky from my view left side of the orions belt starting below his legs curving around it and and up towards 80 angle then dissapearing also seeing the end. No trails for anything no means for propulsion seemingly appearing in one side of the sky out the other.
Quiet night no noise. There was also a plane in the sky heading towards Cincinnati I believe and I heard a helicopter. Before I left to walk my dog I was in a call with my friend on my pc using discord.
When I came back inside my pc was back in the Home Screen page wanting a password and disconnected from the call. And that wouldn’t have happened other than my computer losing power and coming back on. I have no screensaver settings or any previous electrical problems with my PC Could be coincidence but all that happening together seems odd this was an explanation for checked box for electrical/magnetic interferences.
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Horizontal bight light Bright white light traveling faster than any aircraft seen. Travelled horizontally and at very high elevation. Suddenly appeared traveling and within 15 seconds disappeared.
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Fast moving object with glittering trail Approximate Coordinates: 39°13'N 84°51'W Approximate Time: 20:15-20:25 (UTC-5:00) EST Direction of Travel: Northeasterly to Southeasterly Approximate Length of Sighting: 12 seconds Viewers: Myself and my wife once I got her attention towards it Facing the eastern sky from my driveway as we were getting out of our vehicle coming home from dinner when I noticed a fast moving "glittering" trail of red/white/blue moving from Beta Tauri in the Taurus constellation towards the Orion constellation between Alnitak & Mintaka of Orion's belt and down towards the horizon. In front of the moving "glittering" trail was something that was not possible to make out. The trail extended out in the sky about what would be a 9in.
or 22.86cm length if holding a ruler at arm's length towards the sky, and followed whatever object was moving through the sky. This object and trail moved past the horizon.
I wish I had the time to have pulled out my Galaxy S23 Ultra to try and capture pictures/video of this event but it went too fast and I was too excited to see something new in the sky. I could not find any satellite or Starlink trackers that would show any potential sightings at that time as they only provide me with the upcoming sightings. This did not resemble any meteor we have ever seen before but it was beautiful and fascinating.
Anybody able to help determine if what we saw was something prosaic? I would love to know what it might have been and if we can track it to see it again.
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No sound, projected several bright beams of light from round circle of light into woods onto the ground. I'm an old guy. Was watching TV and noticed a stationary round white light to the N-NE out of my east facing family room window.
Didn't really think much about it, thought it was an airplane or helicopter. It disappeared. Seconds later it reappeared and was closer-about 100 yards in the same direction, however it was larger.
That's when the white beams of light came on. It was obviously night-time and the lights were so bright they illuminated the entire woods. They weren't normal search type lights-they moved to fast.
At this time I went outside for a better look, it was gone, it was dead quiet. No helicopter and airplane sounds. This happened in about a 20 seconds.
I guess it might have been an aircraft, but I've never seen anything like this in the past. I believe it was a UFO because there was NO sound at all. I prefer my name not used.
You can contact me if this is a legitimate UFO sighting.
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Unexplained bright shiny light At midnight a witness saw a very bright white light approximately 50 yards from his house. It was so bright he couldn’t look at it long at a time. He took pictures.
It lasted about 3 minutes. It was in a rural area in between 2 houses in a wooded area.
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Two Orbs Stationary, then One Moving Oddly After leaving work from an office building in Downtown Gary to an attached parking garage my colleague had car trouble and needed to jumpstart her battery, while waiting for her self-starting jumper to charge it was during this time we spotted two orbs in the sky that bright stars then one appeared to break away and began to move at both irregular and inconsistent speeds and direction toward the Northwest. We had a perfect vantage point from atop a parking garage looking at the sky facing Eastward with an unobstructed view above the tree line. My colleague believed the orbs were planes but you can see from the video the speed of the acceleration of the orb to the left change and the path traveled wasn't like a normal aircraft.
While the orb to the right remained stationary.
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3 orbs fading in and out I seen these same orbs in August, in Tennesse, same time, same direction. They fade in and out of brightness and will reappear in a different spot and move quickly in any direction. In August they appeared to be playing with each other.
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I saw a silver object flying SE to NE. No Aircraft running lights. I was watching the sky for aircraft as I often do.
I was a TSO for the TSA, and I like to count the number of aircraft I can see at any given Time. I observed a silver oval shaped craft moving quickly from the SE of my position going NE. I am very familiar with the size and shape of most commercial and military Aircraft.
This was not any of them. It was moving after dusk with no running lights or strobes. It was at an altitude of approximately 1000 feet.
As I watched it for several minutes it simply disappeared. The light didn't fad, it was gone. The object looked to be larger than a commercial aircraft.
I judged it to be about a mile or so away and appeared to be the size of a golf ball.
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Triangle black craft I was at work on a break when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked in that direction but only got a split second to see it because it flew behind a tree line. I knew then it was something unusual.
I assumed it was a farmer's plane and kept looking to see it come out from the other end of the tree line. Instead, the object came out at a 90-degree angle. When I got my closest look at it, it was about 50 yards away from me.
This is what I saw: it was flat, maybe 20 feet in width, possibly smaller, and about 10 feet in height, maybe shorter. It started to rotate in an unnatural way, and when it did, I saw that it was in the shape of a triangle, but in the middle of the triangle, there was another triangle inside that was see-through. The color of it, the best I could describe, is black as black marble and shinier than marble.
It looked like all the material was one piece, like no rivets, no seams, just like the craft was made by one piece of whatever material it was. The sun reflected off of it. It made no noise, there were no propellers, no propulsion; it was just floating and rotating perfectly with no disturbance, almost gracefully perfect in its rotation.
Then it continued to do that as it slowly flew away until I could not see it anymore, rotating gracefully the whole time. There were two other employees with me; they only witnessed the end part of it but could still see it rotating because I called them out to come look at this. I wanted to take a picture of it but I didn't want to take my eyes off of it and miss something.
It started off to the right of me then took of slowly into the air directly in front of me then flew away.
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Three orbs of blue light flying in a rotating triangle pattern moving from north to south. Moving fast estimated 300mph, or faster than commercial jet.
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They looked to be 40 or 50 and flew like drones and they had black or dark sides and light or bright sides. On Sunday November 5th of 2023 at 2:45pm at 86th and Zionsville Rd in Indianapolis, I was looking up into the sky when I observed a circular whirlwind and about 40 or more unidentified chevron winged aircraft in the sky. The aircraft was very high up and was visible for about 5 minutes.
I only caught 52 seconds of it in video and I took 1 snapshot picture. Most of the aircraft had disappeared or fallen out of my view by the time I made the video and took a photo.
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saw a object coming toward our house; Just thought it was a bird until I relized it had no flapping wings.and sun sparkled off it My husband and I were outside. I noticed a object which I thought was a large bird but when it didn't flap its wings and the sun reflected off it I brought it to attention of my husband, He is prior military, It was moving quite fast no sound at all and gong in the direction of Crane Military depot.
We both was concerned they make ammunition and bombs ext. for the military. didn't know if we should follow it or not.
It was picking up altitude and speed. My husband grabbed some paper and drew what he saw. It was oblong kind of tilted and shiny.
the sun reflected off of it .
Indiana UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 507 reported sightings | 18.67% of all reports |
Circle | 268 reported sightings | 9.87% of all reports |
Triangle | 244 reported sightings | 8.99% of all reports |
Unknown | 173 reported sightings | 6.37% of all reports |
Other | 169 reported sightings | 6.22% of all reports |
Disk | 168 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Fireball | 160 reported sightings | 5.89% of all reports |
Sphere | 153 reported sightings | 5.64% of all reports |
Oval | 101 reported sightings | 3.72% of all reports |
Formation | 81 reported sightings | 2.98% of all reports |
Cigar | 59 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
Changing | 49 reported sightings | 1.80% of all reports |
Flash | 47 reported sightings | 1.73% of all reports |
Cylinder | 46 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Rectangle | 39 reported sightings | 1.44% of all reports |
Diamond | 30 reported sightings | 1.10% of all reports |
Teardrop | 18 reported sightings | 0.66% of all reports |
Chevron | 17 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Orb | 12 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Egg | 12 reported sightings | 0.44% of all reports |
Cone | 8 reported sightings | 0.29% of all reports |
Cross | 7 reported sightings | 0.26% of all reports |
Star | 2 reported sightings | 0.07% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 369 reported sightings | 13.59% of all reports |
June | 299 reported sightings | 11.01% of all reports |
October | 264 reported sightings | 9.72% of all reports |
September | 258 reported sightings | 9.50% of all reports |
August | 239 reported sightings | 8.80% of all reports |
April | 219 reported sightings | 8.07% of all reports |
November | 205 reported sightings | 7.55% of all reports |
December | 185 reported sightings | 6.81% of all reports |
May | 181 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
March | 176 reported sightings | 6.48% of all reports |
February | 141 reported sightings | 5.19% of all reports |
January | 125 reported sightings | 4.60% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 453 reported sightings | 16.69% of all reports |
Tuesday | 399 reported sightings | 14.70% of all reports |
Sunday | 387 reported sightings | 14.25% of all reports |
Friday | 385 reported sightings | 14.18% of all reports |
Wednesday | 375 reported sightings | 13.81% of all reports |
Thursday | 360 reported sightings | 13.26% of all reports |
Monday | 302 reported sightings | 11.12% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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11/16/99 | 15 reported sightings | 0.55% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 14 reported sightings | 0.52% of all reports |
04/16/08 | 14 reported sightings | 0.52% of all reports |
07/04/10 | 8 reported sightings | 0.29% of all reports |
03/21/05 | 7 reported sightings | 0.26% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1,247 reported sightings | 45.93% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 451 reported sightings | 16.61% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 372 reported sightings | 13.70% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 228 reported sightings | 8.40% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 192 reported sightings | 7.07% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 171 reported sightings | 6.30% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
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Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Indiana