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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 3 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 1985 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- 10/15/85 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 1985
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 1985, 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:
Triangle crafts over Blackford Co. My daughter,a friend and I were out trying to use a telescope I had recently bought, and were on a country road where there was no city lights to obstruct our view. Needless to say, we never got to use the telescope.
My daughter was laying in the back of my station wagon,and started telling me that a car was coming and that I should pull off the road a little more to avoid being in the way. I glanced back at the headlights coming behind us, and even though something told me that there was somthing wierd about the lights, I started to get in the car to pull over more. Suddenly, my daughter started to yell that it was not a car, and for my friend and I to look behind us.
The lights that had been behind us, were now lifting up and over the car! My daughter wouldn't get out to see it right away, because she was afraid, but my friend and I were transfixed on the craft. It, was definetly triangular, it made NO sound,the lights were very muted on the bottom of the craft. It's size was VERY large.
I would say, (I know ther are better terms) the size of an acre or a little more of land. It was crusing very slowly, about 25 to 30 miles an hr. heading in a southern direction toward Muncie, In.
My friend and I were watching this craft going off into the distance, and questioning each other to what we had just seen, when my daughter started yelling again,that there was another one coming up behind us! My friend and I looked back, and there was another craft, exactly like the first, heading in the same direction as the previous one! We all watched this one follow the same course as the first, noting again that there was no sound, and although there were lights, they were very muted. The outsides of the crafts were very dark,and appeared to be one with the blackness of the sky. After that unforgettable sighting, we raced back to town and called the Muncie airport to see if they had heard any reports or seen anything on their screens, but they hadn't.
My friend has since died, but my daughter and I will never forget what we witnessed.
Full Report Text:
Me and my freind ((name deleted)) drove a car and went to a deep area path beyond Griffith Park to a vast area of weeds and trees, as we went down a path way, (we got out of the car) as strange constant lit red hovering objects were coming towards us. At first we thought we were being attacked by teenagers running towards us with lit cigarettes (or lighting bugs coming through the woods and grass) until more and more of these lights appeared (over thirty moving were now all over the place) and were now moving in a floating manner right torwards us (forty feet away). This was not human, this what we seen, is humanly unabe to really describe.
These lit probes moved together yet each constant lit tiny light moved as if separate, and knowing we were there, it was coming after us because we were there. We hardly ever talk about it, except now that we are older, I have begun to wonder more strongly what encountered us, we tried to rule out anything alien, because I do not believe life exist in space. Maybe something scientific and unexplainabe is taking place.
((NUFORC Note: Date of sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Harlan, Indiana mayhurst drive disc shaped craft with multi-flashing colors of light going around counter-clockwise on side of craft. UFO sighting back year between mid 80's early 90's This sighting had to have been mid 80's early 90's I dont know the exact date but I was a young boy at the time living in harlan, IN. on Mayhurst Dr.
street very end of street on left side was the house I lived in with my family my childhood first home until we moved not far to a double story house on st. joe center rd. you can see on a google map the road and the cementry circle satellite view on map street is mayhurst rd.
at end of street left house. Harlan Indiana look for post office use map zoom in you'll see a mayhurst rd. with circle that was were we lived at cementry next to it which was a little spooky.
but this I know without a doubt happened for real. I know because the behind our back yard 2 neighbors were standing in the driveway looking straight up at this thing. it must of done something to our physci or memory because we all saw it including my mother she remeber's but only slight trace's of the memory the best I can recall and remeber is seeing this thing floated or hovered silently about 38 feet above the ground at about house level it come across the corn field and stopped directly in plain view out of our back yard just above backyard's neighbor's house or gravel drivewayop level it made no noise was a classic circular on sideview all around the disc shaped craft was perfect circle lights going around counter clockwise in a timed unison every circle that light up was a different color like red green orange blue white It seemed these counter clockwise flashing of lights which was flashing half a second or so probably had to do something with its propulsion of the craft it was clearly not of this planet I tell you like an anti gravity craft something I never have seen.
While staring at this craft with awe I remeber I looked back at the sliding glass door from back porch and my mom was looking at it too, I then looked and 2 of my neighbors from the house's driveway it was hovering above with these flashing lights going around and the 2 neighbors were standing directly below it pointing and marveling at the bottom of the craft. The ufo was a brownish color like metal. this ufo had to of done something to our memory because the only thing we could remeber next was it fading away in the distance hovering at an unknown rate.
I drew a picture of it to my mom's friend but we were all like in a state of denial or something but it really happened! This thing was for real I know what i saw but god i wish i had had my mother take a snapshot with the poloraid camera we had back then you know the instant flash and picture. It was so weird but happened and I guess its one of those things when you see something like that you dont think of anything else rational or think of getting the camera because all you can do is stare at this thing that is really there but you cannot believe it. messes with your physci because your brain can't register what you are seeing as normal or rational but it's there.
I'll probably never ever see another ufo in person again because it is so rare but I know this was real and happened maybe if I had hypnotic recogoniction or something I could unlock the rest of what I saw but can't remeber it happened id bet my mother's life on it that this was for real.
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1985 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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Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1985 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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October | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1985 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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Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1985 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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10/15/85 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
07/16/85 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
06/30/85 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1985 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 | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1985
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 1985
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Hartford city | 1 UFO Reports | Hartford city UFO Sightings in 1985 |
Griffith | 1 UFO Reports | Griffith UFO Sightings in 1985 |
Harlan | 1 UFO Reports | Harlan UFO Sightings in 1985 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.