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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 1986 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "other" (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 06/15/86 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 1986
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 1986, 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:
Strange Object Out of Nowhere This happened when I was 13. On Thursday night I would take the garbage out. Some nights I would just stand around afterwards for a few minutes and look at the stars.
This night I was standing in my driveway when suddenly a craft appeared out of nowhere. It was no more than 125 feet from me. It hovered between 75-100 feet and lit up the ground beneath it very brightly.
I was so scared I ran over to my neighbors and hid under a tree. The craft made a humming noise as it just hovered. I could feel this energy in the air from it.
After about a minute or so the lights dimmed drastically and the craft slowly moved away. It flew directly over my house and I got a great look at it. It was round, with a concave bottom.
There were several lights underneath. It was about 40 feet tall, with a line at the halfway point. The top back of the craft was flat, and had three small lights, red, blue, and green.
It made barely any noise as it moved away. I saw no doors, windows! , propulsion system, or obvious landing gear on the craft. I believe it was a medium shade of brown but at night it was hard to tell.
The craft moved in a southeast direction as it left.
Full Report Text:
white lighted ball shape ufo hovering slowly above tree tops, no sound I was in bed at the time and heard my brother yelling and was excited about something. I got out of bed and thats when he said there were strange lights in the sky. He said he looked out of the kitchen window and saw some triangle shaped object with 2 red lights ascending up towards it.
So we got the binoculars and went outside. There was a farmers field behind our backyard with a bunch of trees on the other side of the field. Thats were we saw this pure white ball of light(roughly the size of two cars stacked on each other) which was moving slowly just above the tree tops.
I tried looking at it through my binoculars but I couldnt keep my hands steady enough to make out any detail. We lost sight of it went behind a bunch of trees. That was all we saw that night.
I dont remember what time of year it was but my guess is late summer. I do vividly remember looking at the clock and seeing 11:55 pm after we came back inside. Also I remember there was a big full moon which lighted the sky a bit.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
A lime green light throughout the whole house and the air stone surged with power throwing water 2 feet in the air. ATTN: Peter Davenport On or about 16 years ago, during the summer, my husband and I had returned home at 11 p.m.
(maybe even a little later). We noticed that our home lit up in this lime green light (like fllod lights were on in the house), in our living room we had a fish tank, and the air stone surged in power and was throwing the water as high as 2 ft. out of the tank.
Then when the light stopped the air stone went back to normal. We had thought the high lines might have been struck, but when we asked the electric company, they said no. I asked different people, line men, supervisors, etc.
and they all said it had nothing to do with the lines. This happened outside Gary Indiana in a single dwelling, inside was my husband and I, my 30 year old daughter who was taking care of a 2 1/2 year old boy, and my 16 year old daughter. My 30 year old daughter can confirm this.
Please keep this confidential, like we talked about (name). Add to your records only! I feel this should be noted that this happened, so if someone else this has happened to knows that they are not alone. ((NUFORC Note: Time and date are approximate.
We have assigned an arbitrary date in June 1986. PD)).
Full Report Text:
I Saw An Alien Face To Face TRUE DARN STORY. In 1986 in Gary ,Indiana i had left my wife and moved in with a buddy at work ,he had the groung floor , i had the basement which was fixed up like an apartment -kitchen-bathroom-bedroom-private entrance- etcetera. After being there a few weeks i began to feel as though i was being wacthed but i kinda shrugged it off.
This would accure every few days i'd catch a glimps of something moving in the corner of my eye and look and nothing would be there.(oh well , i must be tripping) i'd say to myself. Now i must describe my room for your benefit of later events.
it was pretty big 27ft by 40ft and i had a king sized water bed with a headboard with shelves in it about 4ft high(you know the one, everyones got it) full with padded rails and all. in the headboard on a shelf was a gold three cylinder bank ,one cycinder for quarters ,one for dimes and one for nickels ,welded together but each cylinder was at different level and the bank stood about a foot tall (example)>>__ ___ __ Well.you get the idea.
anyway .one night i was sleeping and all of a sudden i just woke up.(i was lying on my left side close to the right side of the bed) AND WHEN I WOKE SUDDENLY ,STANDING IN MY VIEW WAS A 3ft TALL CREATURE !!! It's apearance was smooth it's color was white(I MEAN TRUE WHITE!)there was no hair anywhere , it had BIG BLACK BUG EYES !, NO MOUTH(no slit-nothing), A HUMP WHERE A NOSE SHOULD BE ,NO EARS ,it was just standing there at the side of my bed "LOOKING AT THAT DARN BANK" as if it had never seen anything like it (i guess it hadn't) I SAID OUT LOUD "WHAT THE .
? " GRABED MY PILLOW(some weapon huh.*) AND TRIED TO HIT IT OVER THE HEAD WITH ALL MY MIGHT , BUT MY HAND AND PILLOW "WENT RIGHT THRU IT" causing me to hit my hand on the bed , almost breaking my wrist!!! Excuss me if i'm shouting , but ," NOW. AT.
THIS . TIME . IT .
NOTICED . I. WAS.
THERE"!!!! IT TURNED IT'S HEAD VERY SLOWLY TO THE LEFT AND DOWN TAKING IT'S GAZE OFF THE GOLD BANK (It was AMAZED at) TO LOOK AT ME - "DEAD AT ME!!!" (now the next part took about 10seconds to acure) IT WAS NOW LOOKING AT ME ,IT SLOWLY TILTED IT'S HEAD TO THE LEFT AS IN CURIOUSITY AND I HEARD IT SAY (IN MY MIND!) """Why are you trying to hurt me?""" AND THEN WITH HEAD STILL TILTED , IT VERY SLOWLY FADED AWAY AND WAS GONE!!!!!!!!!!WHEW! Now mind you at the time i first saw it i was terrorfied ,but when it look at me and talked to me in my mind ,I HAD A VERY STRONG FEELING OF PEACE AND LOVE ,Then once it was gone i was scared again!! I was 26 then , i am 42 now ,and i've never seen it again , at the time i told the girl i was with about it and when she'd spend the night she'd wake me up fighting something in her sleep(this had never happened before).also.after that i couldn't see it anymore but i could feel when it was in the room with me (I COULD SENSE IT IN MY MIND!) I also told my roomate ((name deleted)) about it and asked him if anyone had ever DIED IN THAT HOUSE and he said his brother died there when he was an infant! BUT!! WHAT I SAW WAS "NO DARN BABY"(not a human one anyway) Anyway i moved not more than a month later because it was always that FEELING in that basement!! I've told everyone that would listen about that ever sense "AND" I STILL FEEL IT AROUND TO THIS DAY (and i now live in NORTH CAROLINA!!) What the hell is that about!!???? Please understand this.
what if the point i awoke was when they were putting me back in bed OR what if something was (for lack of a better word) INSTALLED on me and i'm being TRACKED !! OR what if i had NOT PANICED and would have said "HELLO i am ((name of alleged alien deleted)) , welcome" maybe it would have shared something with me , INSTEAD I TRYED TO KILL IT AND IT WENT AWAY!!! WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK??? This freaks me out just tallkin about it.it gives me the creeps!! AND FOR THE FOOL SCEPTICS AND NONBELIEVERS " I SWEAR THIS HAPPENED TO ME ON MY VERY SOUL AND MIND BODY AND SPIRIT IF IT DIDN'T ACURE MAY I DIE TODAY!!" ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1986 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 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1986 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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June | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1986 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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Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1986 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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06/15/86 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
08/15/86 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
08/21/86 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 1986 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 | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1986
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 1986
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Gary | 2 UFO Reports | Gary UFO Sightings in 1986 |
Decatur | 1 UFO Reports | Decatur UFO Sightings in 1986 |
Georgetown | 1 UFO Reports | Georgetown UFO Sightings in 1986 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.