Indiana UFO Sightings in 1996

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3 Silent Black Triangles flying in a One Sided Formation with Dim Lights in the shape of a V on the bottom Laying on the pavement at Washington Elementary School around Midnight stargazing watching for shooting stars in the dark shadow on the east side of the school building when directly center above me at a good height, low cloud height maybe 3 Black Triangles flying in a single sided V formation completely silent flying/floating? straight west to east twards town at a slow yet steady pace, it lasted no more than two minutes until their stealth blackness disapeared them into a distant cloud bank. They also apeared to have 2 rows of dim lights in a V shape on the bottom. If I had not been looking at the exact spot in the sky where they appeared I doubt I would have even seen them but they appeared right over the top of the building! It was amazing my only regret is I was alone with no video equipment! ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

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Young girl and male friend were sitting in a car facing south, when they saw two lights in the sky. There were two solid, white lights, one on each side of the object, and a flashing red light in the middle. They had the impression that the light was approaching their position slowly.

As the object drew closer to them, it appeared to move slightly to the viewers' left, then to the right. The viewers felt that the object, at its closest, was perhaps 200 yards "in the air." The young woman rolled down her car window to see if she could hear anything, and detected a high-pitched squeal.

The object was diamond shaped, and it appeared to have some kind of light in back. Also, they could perceive visually that the object was not just "beams" (?) because it appeared to have a solid mass to it. The craft passed directly over their car, and it was heading to the northeast.

When they looked behind themselves approximately 5-10 seconds after it passed overhead, they could no longer see the object. The object appeared to the observers to be as big as a clenched fist at arm's length! She saw a UFO before, probably in 1990. I gave the caller our address.

She has already drawn the object they saw. She is on the internet. I told her about the sighting in Monterey, CA, just 9 hours earlier.

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Sphere shaped craft hovering above field Although it has been some time since the event took place it still remains clearly in my mind, and since I am an artest I have rendererd an illustrated drawing for reference, that is available upon request, should an ##official## concerned party wish to view it. My brother-inlaw and I were returning to our homes (in Tipton) in his truck, from our factory job in Kokomo, IN. We had driven nearly the full 21 mile drive from Kokomo heading south on US 31 to just north of hwy.

28 (appox. 800 yards north). Just across hwy.

28, behind the "Flamingo" motel to the west (about 800 ft. west),and in an open field, an unidentified sphere shaped craft hovered stationary, about 50 foot above the ground. It appeared about the size of a DC-8 or KC-135 jet in size.

The craft was britely lit with small orange/yellow lights enveloping its ball shape. It appeared to be searching the ground below it with several intense motorised search beacons that were scanning the ground from its undercarraige. The object remained illuminated for about 15 seconds and then went "lights out".

We saw a small red light depart the same area and pass in front of us (across US 31 and southeast bound), at instant mach +++ speed. Several other motorists ahead of us saw it as well as they applied their brakes as we did, to take in the sight. My brother-inlaw and I decided to turn off on a side road after we turned east on hwy.

28, to see if we could see more activity. We turned off our headlights and pulled over on the side road. What we saw when we got out of the truck, was no less amazing.

There were 2 huge vapor trails, or what looked more like rocket exhaust plumes, that arced across the sky (about 3 miles in length) from the ground where we first saw the craft hovering. Over the next few minutes we also observed what appeared to be several unlit stealth type flying aircraft, very high up in the thin cirrus clouds. Those craft soon departed, and we got in the truck and went home.

I woke my wife when we got there, to show her the rocket/vapor trails and she saw them as well. There was a low pitched hum from the sky above, but not very loud. We are not crazy, we saw what we saw.

It was a clear/starry evening, and the craft was solid clearly visable. I'm not saying they were aliens, expermental aircraft, maybe???? Who knows. A shame we didn't have a camera, we could have gotten some VERY detailed photos.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Stationary Sphere Viewed Off Tip of Crescent Moon Not Far From Ft. Wayne, Indiana I was returning from visiting my son in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and while driving down Hwy 33 heading towards St Rd 6 traveling NW towards Elkhart, Indiana area, I witnessed what I now believe to be an Orb or Sphere shaped object.

I was in the country area just about 50 miles NW of Ft. Wayne and I happened to look up at the cresent moon which was to the left of my drivers window. What caught my eye was that just off the tip of the cresent moon, there was an object which reminded me of a drop of water haning off the tip of the moon.

I starred for a while and determined that it was definitely not a star. I could see that it had a circular shape and reflected the sun light as did the moon. I continued to see the object (which never moved from its "hanging off the tip of the moon position".

And eventually the road turned and I stopped paying attention. But when I got home, I was so baffled by what I had seen, that I called the local weather station and asked about possible satelites in the area, but was told there werent any that i could see or anything that would be there like I described. I have recently seen videos and pictures of what I can now saw if very much like what I thought i saw that night.

And due to the fact that these spheres have been documented as moving and being still, i do believe that is what i saw that night. All I know for sure is that it was NOT A STAR! And it was not there later on in the night. Since it was a routine journey, it did not have a camera on hand unfortunately.

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

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Huge Triangle shaped craft seen with lights coming on and off, possible lost time, weird anomaly of not talking about it at the time. Female friend and I were standing on her porch in a very rural area near Austin, IN, (between Austin, IN and Crothersville, IN) around 11:00pm in the fall of 1994 in the fall. We were talking and saying goodbye, and all of a sudden we saw 4-5 white lights come up to the south east.

I originally thought these were helicopters since I saw round white lights shining down and I attempted to make it fit my reference frame, as we have had helicopters looking for pot, etc in that time – the problem was it was night time and there was no way they were really doing that at night. Also, there were no sounds – I’d never seen a helicopter that made no sound – I thought in my head this must be special military aircraft. I then was trying to look closely and finally the lights went out.

Then all of a sudden, lights came on the southeast area and the straight east, shown above the tree line across the road from the house, 5 or more round white lights were shown. I looked closely, again, trying to understand the context of the lights, they began to change color – purple, green, yellow, white, etc. She and I never spoke.

Then, the lights shifted, turned white, and shone up and I was able to see that this was a huge craft. Triangle shape and very large – length and height. As the lights shined up on the craft, it looked like landscape lighting shining up on a very large building and was above trees at a height over 70 feet I assumed 500 feet long.

As I looked closer, I saw this craft was huge as the lights shown up the sides and showed the huge shape – my frame of reference was the tree line. After a short minute, the craft moved forward (south) and I could see the triangle shape of the monstrous building size craft more clearly. Then the lights went out and I could not see the craft any more.

Then small white lights came on and they moved on (about 5-10 of these) and move on south – the triangle craft was gone and only the ligh! ts left – like they quickly shot out of the craft then the cra! ft was g one leaving the lights. Like the craft disappeared or turned into the small lights. The lights then blinked out and then disappeared to the south.

I then regained my senses and looked at my friend. She was still “fixed” on the scene and didn’t respond to me. I looked at my watch and looked for any missing time, but didn’t at that time detect any.

But, I did notice that it seemed like I had a “bad edit” ( I heard that in a later discussion) because I really was lost for a minute. My friend and I then went back to talking like nothing happened. We did not mention it.

I then drove back to my house a few miles away, and checked my watch again looking for any lost time. I didn’t notice any. When I got home, I called her and said “Did you see that?” She then said to me, “Did you see that, too?” It was so odd that we both ignored it at the time although was very profound, but then noticed the importance later.

As I heard the description of sightings or abductions as “ba! d edits”, this fit that description exactly. Although I have had other memories, this is the detail I remember in general. Sorry it took so long to report.

Again, I can’t explain why I haven’t. I did tell my sister about it the day after it happened and she remembered our conversation.

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I was raised and served in the military my first 20 yrs. I was a police officer (Elected Sheriff) for a four year term of office. I was a corporate safety director for five years.

I have lived from europe to asia and fought in the VietNam as a marine for two years. I have flown on several different aicrafts and seen many things, but the phenomena I witnessed that morning on Aug.2,1996 is nothing I have ever expierenced before.

It all began when I received a doctors appointment for my dad at the VA medical center, Indianapolis on Aug.2,1996 12:45AM. I followed their directions on how to get there, as I have not been there for several years.

I was travling south on I-69 approaching the Fishers exit when I observed a dark grayish object about 1/4 mi. to the west. I backed off the cruise to about 60 mph and I thought it was a blimp, like ones that are used when a new business opens.

I thought perhaps the wind might blow it to its side so I could read what it might say. That's when I noticed that it wasn't tethered at either end and it was lumpy and seemed to wobble. I then realized what it was doing.

It was doing,it was raising itself up verticle from a fixed horizontal position in the sky, (Like raising a dirty dime up on a table with a magnet,and leaving it balanced on top. Once it was on top it immediately began to glow white inside, (Like a dim light bulb becoming brighter for a fraction of a second and then dimmed again or pulsed). When it did this I could see inside and there was a dark grayish matter at the bottom, (It was offset to the right of center).

As soon as the whitenss was its brightess it moved to the left (South) in a perfectly straight line about a 1000 ft.I thought it was going into the cloud to hide, but it didnt,it went in front of the cloud. Thats !! when I could better judge its size and distance.

It was approximately 250 in diameter,it was about 50 ft. above cloud ceiling, and approximately 1-1/2 to 2 miles west of my position. When it was moving in front of the cloud I immediately noticed the left side of this perfectly circular object was disappearing (There was a slit an opening in the sky in front of the cloud)it continued into the opening until it completely disappeared.

While I observe this event I felt time slow way down, almost to a point that it stopped. It felt like driving into molasses and being hit with novacaine. I know this happened because I began to worry, (I have not worried like that since the last firefight I fought on football island in VietNam in 1969).

I began to worry because I could not turn my head, but I still nad my peripheral vision and the Fishers overpass was there and we were going to hit its coluums underneath.Thats when the object completly entered the opening and disappeared and time resumed to normal and I had control again.I said outloud "Hell lets do that again" and it didnt even wake my dad who slept through the whole 8 to 10 seconds of the event.

I turned the radio on to hear the news,but nothing was reported, not even later on the t.v. evening news.

The next day Aug.3,1996 I read a article in the Indianapolis Star Newspaper that the National Weather Services Doppler Radar Station at Indianapolis had detected unusal rings on their screens the previous day and reported they reported to the news media that they didnt know what would cause such a phenomena, but they did received two reports of birds taking flight all at the same time together.On Aug.

5,1996 I called the NWS station at Indy and reported to two meterologist what I had witnessed that morning.I answered their questions and we decided to meet and view the rings on the radar screen.When saw the rings I said " Thats not birds", and the meterologist stated " No thier not, we know that now".

I went home and never discussed the event again, except with a meterologist at the North Webster Station. This station was constructed about a year later about 23 mi. from my home.

Its called NEXRAD for next generation doppler radar because it is linked with all other dopplers to one main office in one location. The reason I choose to speak about it is because I spoke with a gentleman who is a pilot and he told me about an event when he flew into an opening some 30 yrs. ago.

We both believe that our events are directly related and we are only seeking scientific explanations.The one thing I do know is that it left its calling card! and the next time this pattern of rings first begins to develope we have about 3-1/2 hrs. before the softspot opens and it arrives and departs through the opening.

I believe N.O.A.

A. knows this and thats why hundreds of doppler radars are viewed at the same time at one main location. ((NUFORC Note: We assume the date is correct.

The source of the report elects to remain semi-anonymous. PD)) ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS, DATED MAY 5TH, 2006)) ufo object lifts up on its own axsis stops on top pulses white inside moves into slit/opening hole in the sky "Addendum" to my reported sighting that you have already posted on your site. 1.

) I have sketches that you may post to your website and you have my permission to use them there only. ( I'm sending the sketches, radar images and newspaper article by e-mail today ) 2.) I do not wish to remain anonymous and you have permission to use my name and my contact e-mail address: ((e-address deleted)).

3.) Please change " Summary Description " to = " Large hovering circular ufo object lifts up on it's own axsis stops on top pulses white inside moves into slit opening hole in the sky and disappears " Do you want to link to my website ((deleted)) ? ((NUFORC Note: We apparently did not receive the original report. We have requested that it be resubmitted.

PD)) ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS, DATED May 18, 2006)) Stationary circurlar object tilts up on it's axis,pulses white inside,disappears into slit opening hole in the sky Addendum : You only changed the time and town from last addendum ?? You must have forgot to change the summary part. Please change my summary to read as follows : Stationary circular object tilts up on it's axis, pulses white inside & slowly moves and disappears into a slit opening hole in the sky. (or, if there is'nt enough room!! SEE BELOW) I will re- enter my ( original )report and correct it into paragraphs so it will be easier for you and others to peruse later.

THANK YOU Thank You !!.

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Stationary circurlar object tilts up on it's axis,pulses white inside,disappears into slit opening hole in the sky Addendum : You only changed the time and town from last addendum ?? You must have forgot to change the summary part. Please change my summary to read as follows : Stationary circular object tilts up on it's axis, pulses white inside & slowly moves and disappears into a slit opening hole in the sky. (or, if there is'nt enough room!! SEE BELOW) I will re- enter my ( original )report and correct it into paragraphs so it will be easier for you and others to peruse later.

THANK YOU Thank You !!.

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a black shaped object almost triangular shaped but slightly diamond shaped hovering above a tree by a park. I was driving north on hart st. heading towards a park which is approximately a mile south of the intersection of hart st.

and U.S. 30.

As I was approaching the park, the road does a very slight left turn and has a slight decline which allows you to see the tree line, I saw a black object which looked triangle shaped at first but as I got closer I could see that it was more diamond shaped. IT was a very sunny day out and I was wearing my prescription sunglasses and I was driving a work car back to the office. I saw this object litterally staring at me or so it seemed.

It was looking right at me and I just stared at it the entire time. I think it noticed that I was able to see it and it started to slowly drift towards its left (my right). It was hovering above the tree line and just turned into the trees where I lost sight of it because i was then underneath it and lost sight because of the roof of the vehicle.

The very split second I lost sight of that, something told me to make a quick scan at the park to see if anyone saw this. Not a single person saw this object, they were all playing soccer and tennis. I was just in total shock when I saw this.

I should have stopped and got out of the car but you never know how one would react in a certain situation. I saw this object very close and upfront. It was a solid black metallic object.

Whatever this thing was, it simply defied any law of gravity. It hovered about the tree line and didnt rustle a single leaf. It made no noise whatsoever.

There was no exhaust coming out of it like you see with any vehicle and was apparently invisible to everyone except me. After this happened, I was in total shock. I didnt even tell anyone until the next day and of course nobody believed me.

I tried to examine and research for any possible explanation and came up with nothing. I was scared to death to really even talk about this to anyone aside from my closest friends and then once i told them, I never mentioned it again until many years later. I KNOW WHAT I SAW IS REAL.

I came up with only one logical solution and its far fetched at that. The only reason i saw this object on that sunny day in june is because I wear prescription sunglasses and I believe that these sunglasses were able to bend the rays of light and allow me to see this object. I know this is far fetched but my sunglasses have this reddish tint in them that makes certain colors look different.

The sun looks reddish in these sunglasses especially around sunset.

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We saw a transparent U My husband and I was in our hot tub looking at the night sky when I saw something odd flying low over the power lines. It was very hard to see because it was transparent for only the lights you could see in the windows of the vessel. My husband told me to turn off the hot tub.

There wasn't any sound. From where we were sitting it looked like it was rectangle but it was very low and we could only see one side. It was flying directly over power lines coming from the south and going north.

My husband had gotten in the hot tub 5 minutes before me. When I came out my husband said that I had just missed the neatest meteo. It was about 45 minutes later that we both saw the UFO.

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He and a friend were driving near Evansville, when they sighted two bright, orange lights suddenly appear in the northern sky. Their impression was that the lights were not very far away, and perhaps at an altitude of 2,000 to 3,000 feet. They appeared to be low.

After several seconds, the objects disappeared from sight, then reappeared shortly soon after. The second object suddenly shot off. About 3-4 minutes later, they saw them in the northwest sky.

Initially, it was one bright, orange, large light, which then split into approximately 5 objects. They formed a formation for about 5-10 seconds, which then simply disappeared.