Indiana UFO Sightings in 1989

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Small brightly defined light, changing colors, zig-zagging across sky for 5 mins, then disappearing. This observations happened when I was about 9 or 10 years old (give or take), and I'm now 23, so the details are fuzzy - but the memory is not! I was out with my dad at one of his friends house, located up in "the knobs" outside of New Albany/Clarksville, Indiana. Those from this area will know what I mean.

The Knobs are very hilly geographical features that overlook the Louisville metropolitan area. they are where the glaciers stopped advancing in the last ice age. so basically we were up on these hills (rural area) with a great view of the flat, sprawling metropolis below (could see for miles).

Anyway, I remember becoming bored and going out to sit on the picnic table and enjoy the view. just to see what I could see from the vantage point. Only, when I went out, something caught my eye.

it looked like an airplane or something at first. But I knew it wasn't a plane when it started behaving very strange. The object appeared to be just a bright, defined speck of light, that was contantly changing colors very rapidy.

The entire object changed colors at once, so that it was one one color at one moment, and another the next. Mind you, this just describes the color of the light. The object was too small (and too far away) to determine a shape.

I would estimate it to have been about 2-5 miles out, and about 1,000 to 3,000 feet in altitude. All I remember was looking "out" at it, rather than "up" at it. What was bizarre about the object was how it moved.

it would basically just zig-zag back and forth at pretty good speeds. Sometimes it would go slow, sometimes fast, but always in a back and forth, up and down, to and fro motion. I remember calling my dad and his friend outside to see it, and they at first seemed annoyed at my insistence, but once they saw it, they changed their tune.

Too bad, it disappeared right after they caught a glimpse of it. It literally looked like it simply just "shut-off". it didn't fly away or anything like that.

Of note, what persuaded me to submit my memory was my reading another entry on this site. It was such a close description, and they mentioned wanting to know about others who have had a similar experience. That post was made on 3/21/2003, by an Evansville couple.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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SAW light outside window went to look saw saucer shape blinding light next memory on bed five feet away from window pain in side scar there now wrote down detailes had strange object in leg for 5 years AT a sleep over me and a friend of mine saw a light coming in from my window at 22:00. WE went to check the windowand saw a strange Object floating above our pond. IT was DISK shaped with a dome on top and bottem A blueish tone of light shown off of it.

lights and TV in room went out then there was a blinding light. WOKE up on bed FIVE feet away from window with pain in my side. AND my underware was on backwards.

I immediatly got sick on the floor. Checked side and found a brite red mark on my side that had not been there before it was very painfull. THEN wrote down experience.

I then checked the time it was 3:55 almost 5 hours since sighting. OBJECT was no where to be found. SINCE then have had a strange fear of small ponds at one time so bad would not go near one.

Have strange dreams of EYES FOLLOWING me. THIs has frightened me and I have been too scared to tell any one about this before. I don't want to be laughed at.

AND I may have just been dreaming. BUT I want to know if I was. BEFOR this incedent me and my friend were both firm non-believers in UFO's.

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Just a few weeks before I graduated high school in the early months of 1989, I was on my way to pick up a friend at his apartment complex, his name is ((male name deleted)). ((male name deleted)) lived in an apartment at the bottom of a hill overlooking a river via a steep embankment. On the other side of the river was an old abandoned cornfield that had not been used in years.

The old cornfield is surrounded by large oak and maple trees that probably top out at 60-100’ tall. As I was driving down the hill, I noticed several huge very bright lights hovering over the treetops across the river above the cornfield. At the time I was 18 and about to graduate high school, so I was pretty naive and did not really understand as to why the lights were there.

My first thought was maybe a stadium was being built because the lights resembled the large lights that sit on top of towers above football fields. There must have been well over a half dozen of these large bright lights. I went inside ((male name deleted)) apartment and an I asked ((male name deleted)) what was being built over in the cornfield, he said nothing and kind of laughed it off saying there is nothing back there expect dirt and mud.

Within a few minutes of arriving, we left ((male name deleted)) apartment and drove back up the hill. The lights were no longer over the treetops: however, we did see high up in the sky a separation of clouds, and an enormous red halo, which looked like something passed through. Just below this separation and the halo were several aircraft that seemed to be circling the area or investigating what was once there.

The cloud separation and red halo disappeared as we drove up the hill. One weird thing about this sighing was that there was no reason for any lights to be in the cornfield and there was no real way to get anything back into the cornfield easily and there were airplanes flying around but the airplanes were considerably smaller than the red lights I saw. This sighting led me to believe in UFO’s for most of my adult life, but today I do not believe in them: however, I can not explain what I saw that night, and it baffles me to some 28 years later.

((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).