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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 3 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 1984 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "other" (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- 07/25/84 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the early morning, between the hours of 04:00 - 07:59 (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 1984
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 1984, 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).
Full Report Text:
Glowing Arrowhead Shape Craft with Glowing white Trail I worked until 2 a.m. at my job, outside city limits.
We also lived outside the city limits at this time. Getting home, I turned on the TV for relaxing. Around 4 a.
m., I felt I could finally go to sleep. My cat wasn't in the house and fearing the roaming dogs, I went ouside to look for it.
I went out the back door, which faces east, walked around to the front, which faces west, looing down at the ground, under shrubs, etc. for the cat. The cat was out front under a bush and as I bent down to pick it up, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a bright white light light in the sky, which my mind said was the crack of dawn.
Then as I fondled the cat in my arms, I realized that dawn would appear out in back, or the eastern sky, and this was west. I looked up at the southwest sky. There was a thick bright white trail, solid without separation waves, that a jet might leave.
We have 3 big 'cedar type' trees in the front yard so I shifted my looking past the 2nd. tree, saw more of the trail, then past the 3rd. tree, saw more of the trail but followed it with my eyes to the north west sky.
I was dumbstruck, startled to see an arrow head shaped object, glowing a brilliant white as with an enormous amount of heat, at the head of the trail. It was moving slowly, as if encountering a force. It went on beyond my sight.
The trail was still in tact and visible when I finally went inside. The object might have been heading towards Chicago. or beyond.
It was huge, even from the distance. I'm sure it was as high as the commercial jet planes that fly over our house. A few years later, I read the front page of a 'scandal rag' type newspaper while waiting in line at a supermarket.
It had an interview from a physcic who told about this object and another incident I'd seen, a storm where a huge black storm cloud hung over a power plant and lightening produced a constant stream of what looked like Hebrew letters. I too, saw that, from my workplace window. This physcic said a young man in the midwest had video taped that cloud w! ith hebr ew writing in it.
So, guess I'm not the only one who saw both things. I was working at this business place from 1976 to 1986. By 1985, the cat in this note had disappeared and I had acquired other cats.
I have vet. papers for all my cats but have never looked up ones for the cat of note to pinpoint date closer. I know it was July 25th for sure because I noted it was my sister's birthday.
Lastly, the object was not chevron shape nor triangle so I said other because it looked exactely like an arrow head, with the notch in bottom center. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Huge Triangle,state road 40, Indiana Hello.This event occurred way back in July 1984 but left a lasting impression on me to this day and I feel it would be a worthy report,maybe some else in Indiana seen this same object at around the same time or anytime since then. I was driving home from my second shift job in Rush county and drove through Knightstown on state road 40.
I was halfway between Knightstown and Dunreith,in Henry County,driving east.No other traffic was in the vicinity as far as I could tell/remember.It was a clear,warm starry night and as I looked off to the northeast,there was a huge black 'hole' in the sky in a triangular shape, probrably a quarter mile ahead of me.
I thought I was seeing things so I sped up and rolled my window down to get a better look until I was almost partly underneath a third of it.It made absolutely no sound and as I slowed to about 5mph,I realized how huge this thing was.Paint a triangle in at least 2 football fields,side by side to get somewhat an idea.
It seemed to be rotating very slowly but was stationary.I saw very faint colored lights on the tips.I could'nt make out any 'structure'or 'protrusions'on it.
Just blackness. I did'nt feel threatened by it,but the size of it overwhelmed me and I drove off quickly for about another 1/4 mile and and again slowed down.As I looked back,it was still just sitting there,hovering.
I was just very anxious(and scared) to get home in New Castle at this point to tell my folks what I had seen.I reported it the the H.C.
sheriffs office,they took my name,phone# and was told they would check it out.I never heard back from them.I always rode home with a co-worker after that,I never witnessed it again.
I've always wondered what would have happened if I had stopped and got out of my car.I sometimes think I missed out on a once in a lifetime chance of being part of something 'special'.In any case,I've never seen or experienced anything remotely like it since.
((NUFORC Note: Date and time are approximate.
Full Report Text:
Orange/Red lights in sky Round ball of light , redish like a flare but it took off in an instant ,coververing a distance of a mile in aboutr 2 seconds ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1984 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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Other | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1984 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 | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1984 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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Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1984 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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07/25/84 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
06/01/84 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
07/18/84 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1984 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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Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1984
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 1984
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Terre Haute | 1 UFO Reports | Terre Haute UFO Sightings in 1984 |
Parker City | 1 UFO Reports | Parker City UFO Sightings in 1984 |
Knightstown | 1 UFO Reports | Knightstown UFO Sightings in 1984 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.