Last updated on May 1, 2024

Indiana UFO Sightings in 1991

This page aggregates and analyzes all UFO sighting reports made in Indiana during 1991.

How many Indiana UFO sightings were there in 1991?

  • There were 6 officially reported UFO sightings in Indiana in 1991.
  • In 1991, Indiana ranked #18 on the list of states with the most UFO sightings for that year.
  • Adjusted for population size, Indiana ranks #25 in the list of states with the most reported UFO sightings in 1991, with an average of 0.11 reports per 100,000 residents.

Indiana Cities with the most UFO Sightings in 1991

Rank City Number of Reports
1 Peru, IN 2 UFO Reports
2 Tell City, IN 1 UFO Reports
3 Hammond, IN 1 UFO Reports
4 Jeffersonville, IN 1 UFO Reports

Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis

We analyzed all 6 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 1991 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:

Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 1991

This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 1991, 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).

Tell City, IN

Full Report Text:

bright light lit up the woods 5 am while hunting we were getting ready to bow hunt walking up a big hill 5:30am we had i flashlight. aii of a sudden the entire woods lit up like it was daylight we. We looked up and seen a bright light above us.

there was no noise It moved to the north and went out of sight. It was dark again. Then we heard a big bang,like it broke the sound barrier.

A week later we were talking to a man in the woods and he said he seen it too. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

12/14/91 5:30 AM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: 30 sec.

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, IN

Full Report Text:

2 lights , moving beyond human ability, 3 people, in sky for min's, chase plans visible. In the Fall of 1991 My bother called from his girl friends house, (this is only the beginning of Cell phones and Pagers) So he called the house. Asked my to bring tools over to where he was (Bass Lake, IN) area Close to hwy 10 and hwy 35.

We gathered tools We left North Judson and headed that way , my buddy and I. Only there for a min, to drop off the tools, we exited the driveway turning west on hwy 10 , now headed back home. As soon as we were facing west.

We both said. What the fuck is that… West and slightly North of us. In the area of ToTo, IN ( yes that is a town) were (2) two brass’y colored lights.

4 – 8,000 ft up. (rough guess) So as fast as my mom’s 89 Ford escort could go. (Don’t Laugh) From Bass Lake area to ToTo we went, Running stop signs and about focused on these (2) two lights Once on Toto Road south (somewhere around 399-33 S Toto Rd) we where on the side of the road staring up at the two lights, they were still just slightly north of our location now.

Still 4 to 8,000 ft. up. Another car come flying up.

Slams on his brakes and parks in front of us. He had see the (2) two lights, when he left work in LaPorte IN, about 30 miles away. So now there is 3 of us.

Watching. Moments went by, and for all directions cam chase planes. 5 or 6 coming in from all sides.

We can tell the planes were just that. You could see the blinking lights. as the planes came in closer.

The 2 lights. In a split second were gone over the horizon. with just a streak of light.

( the horizon in the direction of Chicago ) while the planes coming from that direction, turned around. Moments later, the 2 lights where back… to nearly the same location. The plans all turned back around again.

At this point seeing our fighter jets move like a turtle compared to streaks of light. I said to my buddy and the other guy…. "This is a fucking clown show" As in we the USA had nothing that moved even close to what the lights where.

Again, moments later, the 2 light split in different directions, GONE!!! I became a mechanical engineer through Purdue, I have yet to see anything move, as such. still to this day. and i am not 45-46 Years later, at dinner with my then wife , visiting my buddy in TX, I said hey, what about those lights.

He slaps his wifes shoulder, and says….” I told you I wasn’t fucking crazy “ because clearly she did not believe him. But our stories match….

= ) I am blessed to have seen what I saw. Knowing so many spend the life wishing they could catch a glimpse.

10/10/91 8:00 PM

UFO Shape: light

Lasted: 20 minutes

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Peru, IN

Full Report Text:

UFO - 15 feet away and scared to death. Presently, I am a 31 year old female with two college degrees. I was a senior in high school during this encounter.

My boyfriend and I were parked along side of a country road talking. We saw what appeared to be a bright street light, but then it moved. We watched it hover above a farm house and then a tree, radiating a bright white light from the bottom of the craft.

Then it moved towards us slowly. It was about 15 feet from us and we were scared to death. The craft was a gray silver metallic color.

In the middle was a band of lights. The lights turned on and it was like the most profuse pinks, purples, reds, blues, greens. The lights were astounding.

Then the lights stopped. We could see the shape of the craft, where the lights came from and on the bottom there seemed to be a golden dome that was transparent in nature. We assumed the bright white light over the farm house and tree came from this transparent dome.

We watched the craft hover with a slight hum, but nothing loud or distinct in nature. Then the craft started moving away from us and it disappeared over a line of trees in the distance. I was to afraid to turn the car back on because I was afraid of it coming back.

I had my face plastered to the windsheild watching this amazing site. I'll never forget the bruises my boyfriend left on my legs begging me to start the car and leave. I wonder if it were just some new aviator craft from the Grissom Air Force Base or was it some governmental project unbeknownst to the public, but what I saw with my friend that night, was nothing that the public would take lightly.

I've never reported my sighting until now. I will never forget my experience. If there really are little grey people, I came too close for my comfort, if you get my drift.

08/15/91 1:00 AM

UFO Shape: egg

Lasted: 15 minutes

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Jeffersonville, IN

Full Report Text:

UFO AERIAL PHENOMENOM SIGHTING IN EARLY 90's; FAST MOVING DISAPPEARING UFO AERIAL PHENOMENOM SIGHTING IN EARLY 90s Daytime sighting of a multi-colored object, Vanishing, reappearing, and shooting through sky in every direction Indiana, (Jeffersonville) Exact date of this sighting is unknown, I was close to the age of Ten years old. So it would have been close to early 90s. During late afternoon, clear blue skies, no storms, no clouds anywhere.

It was a sunny clear day, while playing outside of my grandparents house. I was with my younger brother, he would have been around six years old. We were playing with a large bouncy ball.

I remember watching as the ball rolled down the yard towards the street stopping just before going into the street. My brother walked over picked it up, I will never forget watching him as he stood there with our ball looking up at the sky, he was motionless. As I walked over to my brother starring upwards, he asked me whats that? As I looked his direction of his gaze, there in the sky at about a 45° angle appeared to be a star like object.

The object was the size and shape of our brightest star you can see in our night sky. The star like object was white and motionless, and I remember saying to my brother, "It’s a star." But then I thought its daytime, I've never seen a star during the day.

After about 30 seconds, the object began slowly flashing or changing its color from white, to red, blue, green, yellow, purple, and orange. Each changing color lasted about two seconds, and it almost seemed to pulse these colors, as they appeared to get brighter in between colors. So while watching this object slowly start to flash this vivid spectrum of colors, it began to slowly fade out.

It did not fade out quickly, it took maybe ten seconds or so. Only the very split second this object was not there anymore, something caught my eyes In a different part of the sky. The object was first seen while facing a north east direction, as soon as it faded out I could see it in a Southern direction slowly appearing, just as it slowly faded out, it slowly appeared the same way.

We watched as this object did this vanishing act three more times. Almost losing sight of it, I couldn’t see it anymore my brother said, "there it is". A large tree was obstructing our view of it, and as soon as I looked it was fading out again.

After the last fade out behind the tree, it then returned to its orginal point in the sky where we had first seen this strange object. It then began to start flashing its colors again, only this time the flashing or pulsing of these lights were much, much faster. Flashing different colors at around three colors a second.

Then while watching it violently flash these bright colors, It all the sudden just went crazy is best described. Its hard to convey while writing what this object started doing. It just shot off moving every direction at once, Traveling huge distances in the blink of an eye.

Within just a few seconds it had traveled almost my entire field of view, but not just from left to right, but going left, right, up, down, and every angle in between. This really scared us, when it started zig zagging. I remember my brother turning away from it and running back to the house screaming "mom".

I also remember running back up the driveway scared as well. Only I stopped at the top of the driveway, while my brother ran inside. I stopped and turned back around to this object that was still zig zagging every which direction.

Hearing the front door slam shut behind me, as I continued to watch this weird thing. The last thing I remember seeing, was this object making its crazy impossible maneuvers. and it slamming to a stop, then shooting straight up at a slight angle, and appeared to leave our atmosphere.

Now here comes the weird part, I was around 10 years old, my brother was only six years old. My brother still remembers this very clearly, even though he was at a very young age. Somehow I had forgotten this memory completely, untill about seven years ago, while talking to my brother on the phone one night.

He was at our parents house, and telling me that he was telling our mom about the U.F.O we saw as kids.

I remember laughing and saying U.F.O? Yeah you don’t remember "NO" All he had to say was " you don’t remember playing outside of our grandparents and seeing that star?".

OH MY GOD, STILL TO THIS DAY I HAVE NEVER HAD SOMETHING COME OVER ME THAT STRONG AND INTENSE. After hearing him ask me about the star, It felt like a lightning bolt hit the top of my head, and slowly went through my entire body all the way to my feet. I stopped my brother in mid sentence of asking about the star and I remembered it all.

Every detail recalling way more than he could remember. This memory is so strong and vivid, how could I have forgotten this amazing aerial phenomenom. I am Thirty four now, so from age ten, age I witnessed this up until my brother tells me over the phone, I was twenty seven.

Seventeen years passed and I had somehow had forgotten all of this. It doesn’t make sense to me because I can clearly remember this event, every little detail. So after recalling this amazing experience, and researching, studying, filming, I am left with more questions than answers.

I think about that object every day, because it was so extra ordinary, and have come to this conclusion. I know what I saw that day, but I do not know what it was. This was NOT a plane, a star, a comet, or weather phenomenom.

I have lived here my entire life, normal upbringing, planes have always flown day and night because of U.P.S in Louisville KY.

So im aware of planes and what they look and sound like. Stars don’t behave in this fashion, comets don’t make sudden stops and disappear and reappear in different points in the sky and they do not zig zag every direction in a split second. Weather phenomenom like ball lighting, is only seen while a storm is in close proximity.

These are facts. So I am left asking myself what did I see that day as a young child? Could it be military? I guess, but what kind of pilot could survive the intense G forces that this object was making during its "crazy" maneuvers. So I am left to ask what else could this have been? I am a very normal hard working family man.

I don’t like jumping to conclusions on anything, I am very rational thinking, and always assume the most obvious in different solutions. I have to look at what this object was Not, then rule them out. Aliens, I don’t know, I never seen aliens.

I have heard a lot about project blue beam fake alien invasions, and this is a possibility, I cannot rule it out because this could explain the crazy maneuvers. I am left with either military, aliens, or the military using projections of u.f.

os. I understand this is my experience, and for others only a story but, WOW. This thing witnessed is the holy grail of experiences that people go out and look for and probably will never see.

If I were able to go outside right now, and see this again. Get a camera and record on film the details I have shared with you, people would watch and probably immediately think that’s fake or a hoax. Because of how odd this thing acted and the light speed that this object was able to make.

So let me tell you while watching videos on the internet, I am still trying to find a similar sighting like my own. And when I see these crazy videos that look fake I always keep an open mind. Because people would not believe what I have seen.

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

06/25/91 2:00 PM

UFO Shape: circle

Lasted: Few minutes

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Peru, IN

Full Report Text:

Saucer lights up farmhouse, tree, and puts on a light show for two unsuspected teenagers. I was approximately 18 years old at the time. (I am now 33 years old) My male companion and I were driving down an old country road, where we stopped off for a little car talk session, as we were having fun that night.

I turned of the car lights, but left the radio on. Then the radio station started messing up and completely stopped. I looked over at my friend, who at the time was approxiamately 17.

I looked in front of the car and there was, what appeared to be a very bright street light about 100 feet in front of us. I asked my friend if they had a new street light installed because it was bright. He said no.

Then, I looked again, and the light had moved positions. It was now hoving over a rural farm house that we had stopped by. I asked him if the light had moved positions, and he laughed at me.

We both looked again, and it moved a third time. This time it was hovering over a tree. The house and tree looked bright as day.

The light was so bright that it was like putting a spot light right on them. Only in a big way. We both continued to watch the object as there was absolutely no sound, yet it moved.

I'm not sure that whoever was flying the craft realized that we were in the car watching, but we didn't move. We watched the object come closer and we started getting very scared. It came very close and we got a very detailed description.

The object was a grey-metallic color, it was saucer shaped. It had what appeared to be tiny windows in the middle of the saucer, going all the way around it. The object just hovered there and then it happened.

They turned on the lights. Oh what amazing lights. They were almost irridescent in color.

Red, Yellow, green, blue. I could almost see like a fuschia pink/purple color in there. Like a christmas tree with flashing lights.

Only they flashed the lights so fast that I couldn't keep up with the color changes. My friend was punching me in my leg and screaming to drive, but all I could do was put my face in the windsheild and! say, "L ook at all the pretty colors." Then I saw what seemed to be an almost transparent dome on the bottom of the saucer.

It was like a golden amber color. I thought that maybe the bright lights were coming from that. I mean the bright white light over the house and tree.

The dome wasn't very big at all. Matter of fact, I would have never noticed it unless the thing was so close. It was approximately 1 acre away, just hovering.

It was as close to me as my neighbors house is today. I was completely mesmerized. Then, approximately 5 minutes after the last move and light show, it just stopped all lights and moved to the south as fast as it could.

It was gone in a flash, and I was shaken. Of course, it was a very big ordeal and I told my parents about it immediately. I stayed home from school for a while that week, as I was a senior in high school, and was very confused about the situation.

My friend had gone to school and when I went back, he had told people at school what we had seen. I was embarrassed about it because I didn't want people knowing what we had seen. I didn't want people to make fun of us about it or ask any questions.

Now that I'm older, I've learned to deal with this situation much better. If anyone at the center has seen anything remotely close to what I've encountered, please let me know. Curious.

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

05/10/91 2:00 AM

UFO Shape: disk

Lasted: 10 minutes

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Hammond, IN

Full Report Text:

UFO over Hammond. I was walking to a night class at the Hammond career center when saw A large object behing the hammond civic center. I approached the object which was 300feet in the air.

it had three light that looked white on each point of the triangle. The object was not point on the ends but rounded off. it floated there not making a sound.

It didn't move for a few minutes but as I started to walk away from the object, it seemed to follow me. I ran into the building and never told anyone. Aftee class was over, I took the same route home but not found no object.

I thought it could have been light fixtures around the building but it followed me. I was a 16 year old black kid living in a rough neighborhood. I didn't report anything because I thought only white people saw things like that.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

04/11/91 1:00 PM

UFO Shape: triangle

Lasted: 4 minutes

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Indiana UFO Sightings From 1991 By Shape

This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.

Shape / Appearance Sightings % Of Total
Circle 2 reported sightings 33.33% of all reports
Egg 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Disk 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Triangle 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Light 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports

Indiana UFO Sightings From 1991 By Month

This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.

Month Sightings % Of Total
April 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
August 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
June 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
May 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
October 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
December 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports

Indiana UFO Sightings From 1991 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
Thursday 3 reported sightings 50.00% of all reports
Tuesday 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Friday 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Saturday 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports

Indiana UFO Sightings From 1991 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
08/15/91 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
05/10/91 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
12/14/91 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
04/11/91 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
06/25/91 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports

Indiana UFO Sightings From 1991 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
Late night 00:00 - 03:59 2 reported sightings 33.33% of all reports
Afternoon 12:00 - 15:59 2 reported sightings 33.33% of all reports
Night 20:00 - 23:59 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports
Early morning 04:00 - 07:59 1 reported sightings 16.67% of all reports

All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1991

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 1991

City Number of Reports View Reports
Peru 2 UFO Reports Peru UFO Sightings in 1991
Tell City 1 UFO Reports Tell City UFO Sightings in 1991
Hammond 1 UFO Reports Hammond UFO Sightings in 1991
Jeffersonville 1 UFO Reports Jeffersonville UFO Sightings in 1991

Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana

These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.

Year Number of Reports View Reports
2024 8 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2024
2023 75 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2023
2022 90 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2022
2021 93 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2021
2020 199 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2020
2019 184 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2019
2018 94 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2018
2017 57 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2017
2016 87 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2016
2015 82 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2015
2014 157 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2014
2013 146 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2013
2012 147 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2012
2011 97 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2011
2010 99 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2010
2009 78 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2009
2008 125 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2008
2007 82 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2007
2006 61 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2006
2005 85 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2005
2004 105 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2004
2003 82 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2003
2002 47 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2002
2001 39 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2001
2000 39 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 2000
1999 53 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1999
1998 31 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1998
1997 21 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1997
1996 10 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1996
1995 16 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1995
1994 10 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1994
1993 11 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1993
1992 1 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1992
1991 6 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1991
1990 8 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1990
1989 3 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1989
1988 3 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1988
1987 5 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1987
1986 4 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1986
1985 3 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1985
1984 3 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1984
1983 8 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1983
1982 3 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1982
1981 2 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1981
1980 5 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1980
1979 7 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1979
1978 8 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1978
1977 18 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1977
1976 6 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1976
1975 11 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1975
1974 11 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1974
1973 16 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1973
1972 5 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1972
1971 5 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1971
1970 7 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1970
1969 3 UFO Reports Indiana UFO Sightings in 1969