Indiana UFO Sightings in 1999

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Amber light hovered and visible for seven minutes. I'm a public school teacher and have been interested in ufo's since age twelve. I never had a sighting I was confident was a ufo until this morning.

I was going out to the truck to go to work this morning at 6:30am. I noticed to the west, the sky was completely cloudy, but to the east everything was perfectly clear. As I looked to the east, I noticed an amber light that was brighter and larger than any of the visible stars in the sky.

When I became aware of the stationary nature of the object, I began to talk out loud to it, asking it to come closer. When I said that, the light grew in intensity, but was still a considerable distance from me. At 6:35am, I got in truck and began to drive in the general direction of the light hoping to get more detail.

After driving a half mile to the east, I stopped the truck and rolled down the window. Even though light was still some distance from me, I waved at it. Almost immediately the amber light went off, revealing a constant, smaller red light.

In a matter of two seconds, the red light had moved beyond visible distance toward the east.

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I went out this morning to get the newspaper and walk my dog around and I was looking at the stars and saw a bright red light. It appeared to be moving in a circle or an oval. It swayed back and forth a few times and then it shot across the sky and it was gone.

Later, I called my neighbor and told her about it and she said she had seen a red streak in the sky when she looked out the window after waking up. ((NUFORC Note:.

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family returning from holiday trip witnesses a bright yellowish green fireball falling from the sky near the interstate 74 interchange at greensburg ind. at around 20:30.

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brown fastmoving cigar my brother and i were on our way to work and from my car seen a brown object with a light in the rear speed across the whole sky in a matter of seconds It was traveling west to east and made no noise . It looked like a rocket traveling horizontally we had never seen anything move that fast.

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I was driving due west in downtown Fort Wayne around 8:30 PM and saw a very bright green "fireball" pass overhead. I was amazed of the brightness of the object since I had never seen any meteorite like it before. It was at approxitmatly 45 deg.

when I first noticed it going in a due east direction. The object was a very bright green. It "appeared" to be at 3000 feet altitude so I turned around the block expecting to see it hit the ground.

As I was going in the opposte direction it fragmented into maybe 6 or 7 smaller pieces. It fizzled out behind a 40-story building as I was about 3/4 miles from that building. Fort Wayne doesn't have many tall buildings so I had a clear view of the object until it ended.

I'm not sure if it made a noise or not when it passed. Duration of time visually was between 1-2 min. I'm sure there was others who saw it since I was driving on a 4 lane(one way) street in middle of town.

I work as a Maintenance Technician at a Country Club and see things as they are but this is uexplainable to me.

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I was walking the dog about 7:10 PM when I saw a Vanilla white fireball moving West to East past the intersection of South Keystone Ave. and East National Ave. I was walking the dog at about 7:10 PM when I noticed a Vanilla white fireball right above me traveling from West to East near the intersection of South Keystone Ave.

and East National Ave. I would guess that it was only about 1,000 feet above my head and traveling at around 100 mph or more. It changed colors as it passed from Vanilla White to a sky blue.

It made a slight whistling sound. It continued to travel; didn't fall to the ground. It was already dark here, so the color change was clearly visible.

I have never seen anything like it in my life.

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4 green lights coming from the northeast sky downward at about a 45 degree angle. Lights seemed perfectly spaced and moved at the same rate of speed. At approximately 7:05pm on Tuesday, November 16th, 1999 I was walking northeast from the building were I work, on the southeast side of Indianapolis, to my car in the parking lot for my lunch hour.

I was watching the sky when I noticed 4 bright green lights coming from the northeast moving downward at an approximately 45 degree angle. It was such an unusual sight that I caught my breath and stopped walking to watch. The front light seemed larger, maybe about the size of Venus.

The trailing 3 lights were slightly smaller. All were very bright neon green. They seemed to be perfectly spaced apart and were all moving at the same rate of speed.

The rate of speed seemed slow for a "shooting star". I saw them clearly for maybe 2 or 3 seconds, then trees partially blocked my vision. I walked forward keeping them insight until they disappeared below the horizon.

The total length of the sighting was perhaps 6 or 7 seconds.

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Bright green fireball, long green tail with bright points of light in it, moving w to e from almost horizon to horizon in about 1 minute. On 11/16/99, my 4-year-old son and I were driving north on US 27 from Decatur, IN to Fort Wayne for an amateur radio club meeting. It was about 19:05, and we had crossed over the Adams-Allen county line about 4 miles ago.

I had heard about the meteor shower expected to start that night, so I'm trying to look at the sky frequently. About that time, I noticed a bright green light about 10-15 degrees above the horizon, at about my 10 o'clock position. From the angle that US 27 runs, this would have been about due west of me.

I thought it was too low to be a meteor, but kept glancing at it, thinking it was probably an airplane. After a few seconds, I could start to see a short, green tail below and to the left. This got my interest, so I kept watching it.

It appeared to be moving in our general direction, because it was getting higher in the sky and I could see more of the tail. Thinking this was going to be one spectacular meteor, I slowed down and pulled the car over. By this time, we had been watching the fireball for about 30 seconds, and it was now so high in the sky that I had to lean forward against the steering wheel and look almost straight up to see it.

The tail was bright green, and took up a good 30 degrees of arc. It wasn't nearly as bright as the fireball, which was an intense white-green light, but it was bright enough to be easily seen. The tail was also as wide as the fireball, and had a cluster of about 5 bright greenish-white points of light in it, immediately behind the fireball.

Trailing farther back in the tail were about 3 more lights, not grouped together. All of these were about the same color, and were bright enough to be easily seen in the tail, but the fireball was by far the brightest. I was stunned enough by what I was seeing that I didn't pay as much attention to some of the details as I should have.

For example, the exact number lights in the tail, their motion relative to the fireball and each other, the exact time or duration, or the exact spot I pulled over at. I had n! ever see n anything like this, and kept thinking that it was moving awfully slow for a meteor. We sat and watched, discussing what we were seeing, while it moved farther down the sky toward my 4 o'clock position, or about due east of me.

As it got closer to the horizon, I noticed a gradual color change from the intense green-white to an orange color. Also, the fireball and tail were much dimmer and hard to see now. The trailing lights were all we could see as they became dimmer and darker orange, until I lost sight of them about 10-15 degrees above the horizon.

I wasn't sure if the change in color and intensity were due to the meteor burning out, or if I was simply looking through too much atmosphere to see it well. From start to finish, I estimate the whole event took around a minute, maybe a minute and 15 seconds. My son saw most of this also, and was able to describe it in good detail to my wife later that night.

Some background on myself: I'm 35, a metrology technician for a major telecommunications company, and a ham radio operator.

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November 16, 1999 - Large meteor/fireball sighting in Indiana, folloed by UFO sighting later that evening. I was walking back to my dorm at Indiana State University at around 19:05 when I looked up between the buildings in front of me and saw a very large fireball that was bright green in the center, and had a tail of orange flame that moved relatively slowly across the sky in front of me. It looked to fly directly over our campus, west to east, but it was fairly impossible to tell just how large or how high up it was.

It really freaked me out though. There were about 10 other people within 100 yards of me on campus that noticed it too, and I heard loud yells of astonishment coming out of the windows of the dorms on campus near me (apparently they saw it too.).

Unfourtunatley, I had a limited field of view because of the surrounding buildings, but started to run to try and get a clearer view once it went behind a building, but couldn't get a clear view. I later heard on the radio that the object had been seen around town, and was being explained away by local authorities as "space debris" on the radio. It was a very big, very dramatic fireball, the likes of would never have imagined.

Later that night, I went with a friend to an observatory on top of one of the classroom buildings to try and see some of the Leonid Meteor action that was supposed to be taking place that night. After being there for about a half hour, we were standing next to two older couples who were up there for the same reason. One of the ladies suddenly said loudly, "what is that?!" I looked up and after searching for an instant, I saw to my utter amazement a trianguler shaped object with no lights move silently overhead.

The clear night was disturbed by only a few very wispy and insignificant clouds at what looked to be about 2,000 plus feet, and the object just happened to catch my eye because of its movement, but my friend, and the other three older people couldn't spot it. It was relatively the same shade as the night sky, and again, had no lights on it. Well I felt like Iw as frozen, I was so surprised by the whole e! xperienc e.

I watched the object for a good 15 seconds before it disappeared above some of the low-level clouds that I mentioned, and was heading from north to nearly due south. It the single most shocking-awe inspiring thing I have ever witnessed in my life. To describe the craft in more detail, again, it was triangular in shape, and moving point-forward.

It had molding or cross-beams underneath that met in the center, and extended straight out to each of the three triangle points. I am extremely familiar with military and civilian aircraft, and wasn't anything I've ever seen or even heard of. It was completely foreign.

And, again, possibly the wierdest and most disturbing thing was the fact that it had no lights, and flew SILENTLY directly overheadat what appeared to be no more than 4,000-5,000 feet i'd estimate. I know this sounds nuts, but I swear that it's absolutely true. TO the say the least, it was one interesting evening.

First, the unbelievable fireball object, and then the UFO that I saw at the observatory. And the fact that I wasn't even the first one to see the UFO helps me to be able to assure myself that, yeah, this really happened. I will remember it for the rest of my life.

((NUFORC Note: We have amended the date shown above to November 16, 1999. Please see many other sightings for the same time and date. Mid-November is the time when the Leonid Meteor shower occurs.

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Driving N on old hw62 at jct 400N & hw62. object alt 100ft dist. 150ft travel W to E 65 to 70 deg.

compass. sparks yellow & white. vapor trail I was traveling north on old HW 62 at about 7:05 pm when an object passed in front of me.

It as sparkling somewhat like a sparkler except the colors were only yellow and white. I was turning east so when it passed my line of sight followed. The object appeared to be a little larger than a basket ball, althuogh I could not see the back portion.

I noted that it appeared to pass through the tops of two maple tree in the neighbors yard and I stoped in front of them and could see a smoke or vapor trail into the trees at the end of the feild behind the yard. I'm an aviation nut and have spent some time watching planes landing and feel that I can estimate the speed to have been under 200mph. I beleive that the object would have come to ground in less than a mile.

The elevation at the point I saw the object is 850 ft and there are some ridges beyond that point that are 850 ft +. I've been trying to get better cordinates in order to limit the search area and intend to look for it. Within 15 minuets helicopters searched the area.

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saw a long object like a pencil with alternating red and green lights moving across sky in a east to west direction for about 30 seconds same as above.

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I seen a bright fireball-shaped object in the sky traveling east, northeast. It was moving at an increadible speed and at a high altitude. The object we observed on November 16, 1999, at 19:04, was that of a huge fireball-shaped object traveling east, northeast at an amazing rate of travel.

Only 1 (one) object was observed at the date and time noted above. It was golden in color with bright green and orange showing up at one point during the observation. I have seen a similar object like the one described above in the late winter of 1995 while standing at a bus stop.

However, the second observer, my mother, has most likely observed a UFO in the late fall of 1978 along with my sister. Their observation of the craft they seen that night sounds increadible.

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Five Police Officers on a stake out in Noble county in Indiana at county roads 250 & 600, saw a fireball streak from south west to north east, from horizan to horizan. Five Police officers on a stake out saw a fire ball come from the south west horizen and travel north east to the horizen. Three of the officers are currently full time.

The other two are retired. The object was yellow and green and made no sound. The officers at first thought a flare had been fired because of the brightness of the object.

The object passed directly overhead of the three full time officers. The retired officers were approximately a 1/2 mile away from the group of three.

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5 pieces in formation of the nike symble 5 balls of white light maybe 6. in the formation of a fish hook or the nike symbl.seem to move west to east slowly,then the one in front started to drop, the others followed then they sort of fizzeled out.

they seem to be burning like a childs sparkler.seem to me from where i was they fell into lake mich.thats it pretty much ((name deleted)).

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I was traveling home from work on I164 from Evansville, IN to Oakland City, IN. As I was approaching the I64 crossover, I saw a bright green fireball with a long greenish tail. My first thought was that it was a plane crashing but then realized it was green, not red like fire.

I slowed my car and pulled over onto the shoulder. I was in a panic when the next thought was this was a meteor which had not burned up. The size if it was huge, approximately the size of a doppler radar globe.

I was trying to remember how large of an explosion would be generated by one this size when it began to slow down. As it slowed, the tail was breaking up into sparkles and it sounded like static as a television shuts down-crackling. It was moving West to East.

It passed over a gas station toward fields. I sat there a moment in shock but too afraid to investigate in the dark. The next morning, I left for work early and drove down the country road it had "gone down" in.

There were no broken trees or holes or scorched fields. I have no idea what I saw but it was not a plane, nor a meteor. It was about tree top level and speed was observable, meaning it was not in the far reaches of space.

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Driving down highway in dark and noticed dull flash from above, leaned forward and saw something dropping from sky, Object was dropping in verticle position with various small and larger lights. Lights were a blue color and the brightest was like a flare. After verticle drop, object seemed to go more horizontal and headed toward horizon, eventually disapearing from view.

Driving down highway in dark headed East. Dull flash in sky above was noticed so I leaned forward to look and something was dropping from night sky. Object was coming down in more verticle direction, but a slight angle.

Object had various sizes of blue lights staggered in verticle arrangement. Brightest light was like a blue flare. After dropping downward, the object seemed to take a more horizontal course and start moving toward the East horizon.

It continued toward horizon until it disappeared from view. Distance from sighted position to disappeared location may be 40 - 60 miles. Highway is Indiana State Road #8.

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Object came from west to east at about 200-300 m.p.h.

,object was on fire with black smoke trail behind it. Object did not appear to be losing attitude. Visible for about 30 sec.

I was traveling on highway 46 east behind sister brother-inlaw up very large hill towards Brown count state park. Could not miss this site! Never will forget this! I heard that this was seen over lots of northern parts of Indiana. My guess is possible old satilite reentering atmosphere.

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I was driving back on Interstate 65 northbound and looked toward the sky and saw a craft shaped liked a rectangle flying along side of my car in sky. I was driving along Interstate 65 northbound where there is a lot of open space, farmland, acres and acres of land. I noticed how black the sky was and a few stars and saw something shaped like a rectangle, like the size of the windows on this form that we use to fill out information.

I was traveling about 70 MPH and saw this shaped traveling in the sky along side of the car. I thought it was a shooting star, but it didn't have a tail and it was airborne too long. It never disappeared in the sky!!!! As I slowed down, the object got closer and I was able to see it much clearer.

This object had several windows that were seperated by some kind of bar and very bright lights. I was stunned by what I saw and pulled off the road to get a better look, but The craft disappeared. My husband said there were several shooting stars and meteors sighted that night and airplanes were chasing the stars, but these were not stars and this was not an airplane.

!!!! It was some kind of craft!!!!!.

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In the early morning, I saw very bright lights shinning into my window. The flashes of light were so bright that I thought something big had to be happening. There were 2 distinct instances of the bright light.

The first one flashed about 3 times, then there was a period of about 30 seconds went by and then another eposide came again. I got up and looked out my window and there was noting to look at. The light shined through my south window.

I just happened to find this UFO sight. I entered bright shinning light into the search engine and there was a sight telling about the light that I saw too. Just to let you know.

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Triange, green, no lights, all edges very sharp and clear. Flightpath from NE to SW, I would estimate the distance at 5 miles and altitude of 5,000 ft. No sound.

I have heard of no other reports on this sighting.