Indiana UFO Sightings in 1982

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In June, I witnessed a bight object on a clear night moving east to west, then vanish out of sight in 3 seconds In June, 1982, my fiancé and I witnessed a bright object traveling slowly from east to west. The night was very clear and the stars could be seen for miles. I got out of the car and for some unknown reason decided to look up in the sky.

As I was looking into the eastern sky, I noticed a lighted object moving very slowly. I asked my fiancé to come and look at this object. She asked what it was in a very excited voice.

I said, “I think it is a UFO! All of the sudden the object stopped in front of us about 10 yards away at tree top level! We were both getting a little concerned. The object or occupants in the object were looking at us maybe, but it was too far away to tell. The lighted object hovered in the same position for about 30 seconds.

I was getting goose bumps and starting to perspire as was my fiancé. Then all of a sudden the object moved to the west again slowly for a few seconds and then moved out of sight in about 3 seconds! It was just like in documentaries I have seen in recent years Now the sighting was about a mile and a half away from an airport and air guard base. However, the object made no noise at all! I know enough about planes to know that they make some kind of noise and that they do not hover like this object did and then all of a sudden move out of sight in about three seconds.

I have been around aircraft since I was young and my dad was a flight engineer on a B-24 bomber in WW2. I wanted to call the air guard base, but I was afraid the airmen at the base would just laugh. However, many years ago, an F-94 from the base chased an unknown object, but gave up the chase after being outrun.

I spoke to a UFO expert about my sighting and he told me he believed that the occupants knew we were watching them and that is why the object hovered for about 30 seconds. I have gone over this sighting in my head for the past 25 years and wondered what the object was. I have come to the conclusion that it was either Air Force test vehicle or reverse-engineered object flown by our pilots OR, an alien aircraft.

It was state of the art regardless of what the object was. The object in my opinion was saucer shape and very well lighted. My fiancé and I were married for about 9 years and then divorced and we had one son, now 19.

He told me his mother showed him where we saw the object. I will say that I feel fortunate to have seen a UFO. I feel like a veteran and feel that it has changed my view on life differently.

I believe there was a Jesus and he did walk on water, but I wonder if there was a scientific reason he was able to walk on water. Maybe we were seeded here on earth! I would also like to convey to you about an incident that happened to my uncle at about the same time as my experience. My uncle was a farmer in Illinois.

He told me at my wedding that he was riding on his tractor one day in his field. He told me he was driving slowly and this gold metal object came up to him and his tractor engine stopped on his tractor! He said he was very frightened. The object moved around him.

He tried to start his tractor to get away from the object but it still would not start. The gold metal object finally moved away and moved out of sight in a few seconds. His tractor started up again, just like other people have experience with there cars when they saw UFOs.

I believe my uncle was being studied by a probe. He told me he prayed the entire time the object was studying him and that he was very frightened. I just think that it is very coincidental that my uncle and I saw these objects about the same time.

It may not be. I decided to write you because I saw SEEING IS BELIEVING, UFOS with Peter Jennings last night and saw the interview with the gentleman with National UFO Reporting Center and also this is the 60th anniversary of Roswell. I hope this helps by reporting what I saw 25 years ago and I have wanted to report this for many years.

Thanks You ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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Spherical on one side, diamond on the other with the axis of rotation along the flat diamond side. Mother of two, ages 8 and 4?, was leaving for piano lessons on this Tuesday morning. All three of them witnessed it (this is a friend posting this for the mother).

The object was metallic and silvery, and on one side it was spherical, and the back(?) side was flat and in the shape of a diamond. The object was rotating on an axis that went through the center of the diamond side. The rate of rotation was estimated at 1 revolution per 45 to 60 seconds.

Initially the object was moving away from their vehicle. It went a distance away, and then the direction of its rotation changed, and began to move back towards them. Soon there- after, the son (age 4) became very upset by its coming to them, and then the object just disappeared.

no sound or anything. On the flat diamond side of the object there was a black (amorphous) pattern around its center. In the center of this side was a steady blue light.

The total viewing time was about 5 minutes. After the object was gone, all three individuals went back inside the house and in separate rooms drew what they thought they saw. The drawings agreed with each other.

The father was disbelieving, and disheartedly, the mother ended up throwing the sketches away. The 8 yr. old daughter still remembers seeing the object, but doesn't think much about it.

The mother still thinks often about it. There area at the time used to have a lot of air traffic, but there was none at the time. Size of the object was estimated to be about the size of the 'bubble' of a small helicopter.

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1980's circular UFO seen while driving. This happened back in the early 80's. (81-82ish) My grandfather, uncle and I were driving back to Lima, Ohio from a stamp and coin show in Indianapolis, Indiana.

It was already dark out (not sure of the season, but I don't recall it being winter). We were on the highway (I believe it's highway 70) and I was sleeping in the back seat of the car. I was awakened by the sound of my grandfather and uncle trying taking about something they were looking at.

I leaned forward over the front seat and saw a large circular object in the sky, it had white lights on the bottom and red lights on it's sides (it might have been red on bottom and white on the sides, it was long ago). You could tell by the movement of the lights that the object was spinning. My grandfather tried to tell me it was a small plane pulling a lit up banner, but even at 11-12 yrs old I knew what we were seeing.

I had a chance to talk to my uncle about this even earlier this year at a reunion and he said, "I don't know what that was, but it was not a plane pulling a banner, we told you that so you wouldn't be frightened." ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)).