Indiana UFO Sightings in 2000

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while driving home from pre christmass dinner, OUr family began to pay attention what we thought was an airplane. However, the object although distant, had multicolor. We decided to follow it.

After trying get close, meaning at 10 miles away, the object was then seen in the opposite direction. We follow it. At home we film it with a digital camera.

The interesting thing about object is that it had a periodic burst of blue light like fireworks. We zoom on the object with a tripod and the object appeared to be moving to right the camera. At about 400x enhancment the documented on film was well defined.

((NUFORC Note: The report seems to us to be not inconsistent with a planet or "twinkling" star. PD)).

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I don't know if I saw something or not! It was coming in my direction in the sky. It startled me when I saw it because is was coming quick. All I saw was a light.

Four points of light actually. They shone out, like on the four corners of a square, and the "square" was lit up too. Then the light veered to the left.

I was scared so I drove off, and I tried to keep an eye on the light, but when it went over my van, I couldn't see it anymore. I didn't want to see it. It was high.

Not low enough to see or hear anything. I'm very afraid of alien abduction. I don't know if I saw and actual ufo, but it scared me nontheless.

There were airplanes I saw later, but why wouldn't I have heard that if that is what I acutally saw?.

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Black boomerang moving north to south at 3000' with very faint amber lights below and made no sound at all. It was a boomerang shape like the one seen above Phoenix. It was as wide as my index finger at arms length.

It had very faint amber colored lights on the bottom of the wings. It went straight over my head at about two to three thousand feet. The moon was about one quarter and as it went by it disappeared into the glow of the moon.

It did not make any noise.

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saw light/western sky/thought it was planet/mars?(red hue on white)/no movement/observed for four five seconds/looked away/back-gone earlier in the evening i pointed out to my son the moon in the south sky, and a light just west of the moon, which i told him was a planet, probably jupiter. We were driving home. this was in the 6pm hour.

just before 7:30, i went to the back door of my house to quiet my dog who was barking a t pedestrians or another dog. When i opened the door, i noticed a round steady light in the west sky. I was surprised at how far the planet (jupiter?) had moved away from the moon, which i could see to the south.

I looked at the 'planet' for a few seconds, and picked up a red hue in it. i thought that it might be mars. i looked away to yell at the dog.

when i looked back up, the light was gone. I never heard a noise, or saw any movement. It's a very clear, cold night here.

I could see planes clearly. I have peered around the garage to see if it had set, i saw nothing. it was there, i looked away for a few seconds, looked back, and it was gone.

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glittering white lights accompany bright orange spheres. Setting was dark and in farm country.Brilliant white (glitter like) flashes in the western sky above the tree lines but not overhead.

These objects were moving around but in no particular pattern, Yet briefly staying in the same area of the sky. I didn't feel comfortable, so I turned my quad around in the field and headed back South towards home, when I felt compelled to turn around again and face Northwest.As I did I seen two of the (glitter like objects) moving off to the South in a arching pattern, and two moving north.

Rate of speed excedes what I have seen from commercial and military aircraft at that elevation.Once they left my periffial vision two very large orange spheres approximatly 2 inches apart from my perspective, and half the size of a moon after 12pm. appeared (explosion like) in the sky in the same location all the previous (glitter) activity took place.

These spheres lasted about 5 to 6 seconds, from appearance to fade. In a seemingly pulsating motion. Then again as many as 6 to 10 various (glitter) activity began again in the same area.

The 4 that left the area returned as well. Being very alarmed by what I seen, I raced to the house and told the husband to come out and see if he could view the same. From the time he got on the quad with me and headed North the time we hit the field 5 minutes might have passed.

We did see the various patterns of (glitter) activity Move from one lacation to another, always staying in that Western area. knowing they were (NOT STARS), His otherwise skeptical nature was lost. we continued North in the field for a block and turned aroun facing South when we stopped and turned out the lights.

Then at that moment, the Nothern most orange sphere showed itself in the very same fashion and location as it had previosly. All the (glitter) activity then consintrated around it. He was thinking they were millitary jets, but the (glitters) were to eratic and in to close of proximity to each other for that to be possible.

We did at that time return to our home uncomfo! rtable a nd baffled. I then took a vidio camera outside, I managed through the static on my camera to get some of the (glitter) on tape. During much of this activity there was a very low dull almost silent roar.

Neither disipating or becoming closer. The sound as well was recorded on tape. After we were back in the house I tried to make several phone calls, but the phones were all a busy signal.

About 20 minutes later, the folks I tried to call became available, none had saind they were on the phone at all.That it had to be our phone.

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Huge star like objects swooped toward earth at a fast pace. They were like huge stars, came in view closely then retreated then came at an alarming rate directly at me at a 45 degree angle and swooped back into the air and disappeared in a matter of seconds.

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A formation of aprrox. 15 objects were observed for 10 minues in broad daylight in a cloudless clear sky. Sunday Nov.

5th at 16:45 at Rockhill park in Fort Wayne,IN, I and my 3 granddaughters ages 8,6,3 observed what we first thought were hot air ballons, but as they moved closer toward the park it was obvious they wern't balloons. There were three triangular shaped, silverish-white objects with black bottoms. Each triangle was accompanied by serveral silver spheres.

They bobbed slowly and noiselessly descending toward the park, but only close enough to make out the shapes and colors of the objects. We watched as two of the trianles flanked by several of the silver spheres moved to the left of us while the third triangle and its spheres moved around to the right of us. We watched them for approx.

10 minutes before they just disappeared without a trace. They made no noise or smoke. It was a clear day no clouds in the sky about 2 hours before sunset.

It was awesome. I contacted the Fort Wayne Police Department,they had not received any other reports. I'm a 46 year old married female,with over 20 yrs.

of experience in electronics assembly and repair in the defense industry.I'm a high school graduate with some college course work. ((NUFORC Note: We talked to this witness at length, and we found her to be quite credible and convincing.

Her written report and illustration are quite interesting. We will attempt to post her illustration. PD)).

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A vary fast moving Jupiter size light, looking north in central Indiana going east to west for about 6-10 seconds. While my neighbor and I were walking the kids trick or treating, I looked north and saw what seemed to be at a far distance looking to be the size of Jupiter. This light was traveling at a very high rate of speed going east to west.

As I looked up and seen this object, I had to focus and realize what I was seeing, I then pointed it out to my neighbor who then saw it for several seconds. This was absolutely not a plane. Plus, there was no meteor tail at all to be seen.

I spend a many nights outside looking up for any thing that moves, and have never seen anything move at that rate besides a meteor moving a bit faster. But the length of the movement was much longer than any meteor I've seen.

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MASSIVE CRAFT WITH COLORFUL LIGHTS APPEAR INSTANTLY ON HIGHWAY 16 WEST OF U.S.31 IN INDIANA I was driving with my daughter on our way home from a visit in Lucerne, Indiana when i noticed something very large in size appear out of my drivers side window very close to the ground for any aircraft traveling at a slow rate of speed as if flying to the moon (which i think was full or for the most part).

It seemed to be directly in the middle of the moon. Now this craft was very large in size and was lit up all over and just appeared out of nowhere. I mean literally that it was if someone just turned on a bunch of colorful lights.

We were traveling eastbound on highway 16 towards U.S. 31and approximately 12-15 miles from GRISSOM AFB.

When it appeared i kinda shook my head to make sure i was seeing correctly and turned to the back to look at my daughter, who had fallen off to sleep. I look to my left and it was still there traveling slowly heading in a eastern direction. I then look to the south where GAFB is located and notice in the southern, southern east and straight east sky a numerous amount of aircraft.

At this time the large craft ,what i would describe now was in a triangular or a diamond shape that seemed to be picking up speed and gaining altitude. At the first moment i spotted this craft out of my drivers side window (which would be the north) i instantly was like WHOA!! But now that it had been gaining speed i tried to keep up at a rate of about 80mph but thought that it was not wise to jeopardize my daughters life traveling at a high rate of speed to try to catch something that is impossible to catch. Anyway, this craft from what i could see was now very far from me to the point that i had lost sight of it all together, but the planes were still in the air.

i myself had a hard time putting this altogether because i have been really inerested in ufo's but when this sighting happened i thought no way someone like me that is on the look out for them could actually encounter one. I firmly believe that this was the real deal and can't really tell anyone for they would call me crazy. I ! have rep orted another encounter to you most recently on large yellow lights in sky hovering.

I have no idea what triggered me to recount this, but it is not the only ones i have witnessed. I have also seen one yellow hovering light that has changed location and on another account of a huge red fire ball with blue and yellow tint of what seemed to be a meteorite kind of decending at an angle. Again, this fire ball just appeared out of nowhere and rather instantly.

I hope all this and my other report will be taken under consideration for investigation for all of them have been in the same vicinity of GRISSOM AFB. I don't understand it all but wonder what the significants is with me seeing these objects all around the same area. Once again this craft was intensly bright a huge and have all been around the same time except for the fireball of some sort which occured around 11:30p.

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Dark gray colored object with two big circles on the side I was out fishing with my two younger brother-in-laws when they were looking up in the sky and saw a jet liner fly overhead and asked me what the trails were coming out from behind it were and I told them that they were from the water in the jet fuel turning to vapor and reacting with the cold air like cars do in winter. They said it wasnt cold out so why were they showing up? I told them the higher you go the colder it gets. That is ho you can tell if a jet is real high or if it is low.

We then saw a smaller crat (UFO) that appeared to be higher than the jet. The jet was flying west and the smaller craft was heading north and it crossed behind the jet. I thought it was kind of weird for a small plane to be that high and continued to watch it.

I was steering the boat we were on and turned to make sure we werent going to hit anything and turned around and looked to continue to watch it and didnt see it anywhere. The craft wasn't flying mach 1 or anything like that so it couldn't have flown out of sight. The jet was still visible but yet the other object had seemed to just disappear.

The object was dark gray in color, cigar shaped, and it looked like it had two big circles on the side. There was no contrail behind it.

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Object meandered like a leaf in a stream. Object 1st noticed between Pole star & 3-star triangle S.E.

of Pole star. At 1st thought it to be a planet but realized it to be too far off the plane of the ecliptic. Object had a constant yellow-orange appearance.

No whirling or color changes. I next thought it to be a stationary star till I realized it was moving too fast for an aircraft relative to other stars. Two observations: 1.

It was moving in a South-east direction from the point of 1st notice. 2. It seemed to meander like a leaf floating along in a small stream that is affected by eddys.

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Followed by three craft on return trip to Columbus from Chicago. I and a friend ((name deleted)) were returning from a trip to Chicago where we went for guidance at the SGI-USA Chicago Culture Center, a Buddhist organization which we are both members of. I was the primary driver as Debbie has MS and can't drive all that well.

We had stopped at a truckstop inside the Indiana line to allow me to get a few hours sleep. At one point ((deleted)) started the car and drove to the next stop as I slept. When I awoke it was almost midnight and I took over the driving from then on.

I am concious of being an abductee and am part of ((deleted)) study group. I have only been able to have memories of the very beginning and or the very end of eppisodes. I have felt someone standing on my bed or seen bodies next to me as I lie in bed, but I haven't been able to remember anything in between.

As this trip was coming up I essentially invited anyone who wanted to to "come and play" as I put it. As I drove on toward Indianapolis after a while ((deleted)) asked if stars moved. I said well they shimmer due to the atmosphere is that what you mean? She said no I'm seeing one oh no there are two no wait there are three lights moving with us as we are driving.

I couldn't see anything as I was paying attention to the road. At one point during this period I openly called to the craft and ((deleted)) screamed "Oh my god!" when I asked her what happened she said that as I was talking to the craft what she at first thought was a very bright light in the fields next to the highway flew almost instantly toward the car and was next to the passenger side window for about 5 seconds as we were going 65 mph. When that was happening I had the feeling like something was happening in my mind, I can only discribe it as a fuzzy vibration that was supperimposed and lasted till the ball of light sped away.

After she saw the light speed off she reportedthat the craft were having a light show of blinking on and off as if the ships were communicating with each other. I was by this time anxious to see this all for my se! lf and a t the next turnoff went to one of the corn fields to stop and get out of the car. I saw two of the three craft going away toward Illinois and one coming toward us.

((name deleted)) freaked out at this point, she said it was because this was klan country and a white guy and Black woman were in danger here. So I got back on the Highway and was told the craft was still following us. In my mind I was saying "if you want to have me talk to you you're going to have to get ((name deleted)) to sleep, she won't let me stop.

" After a while she did fall asleep. I waited till I was sure that she wouldn't wake up and took the first exit I could find. When I stopped the car in the corn field this time I got out of the car and saw a lowhanging cloud in front of me with the craft hidden just at the bottom edge of the clouds.

There were two sets of lights on the craft a set of blue lights on the top and a set of red on the bottom. There were 4 or 5 lights visable above and below and they were going in sequence in opposite directions I never saw the body of the craft itself only the running lights. I said that I was going inside the car now and if you want to come and get me you can.

I have no memory of what happened. But I was informed by friends of mine that they came to do a "memory retrieval" from me. The entire evening there were no clouds in the sky except when I stopped to let them visit me.

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Saw triangular craft in early Fall 9-12 years ago that was either jet black or transparent with three lights in Northern Indiana. I believe this event took place in the early Fall of the year 2000 or 2003 (sorry about the gap) at approximately 10:00 pm. My best friend and I had just finished clearing trails in his woods and we were making our way back to his house, crossing a grassy field to get there.

Headed towards us we saw what we thought was an airplane at first, especially considering that there is an airport somewhat nearby. This craft had three solid white lights on it, arranged in a wide triangle shape. The lights were not blinking and the craft was completely silent.

It seemed to be flying very low, enough so that we certainly would have heard this thing if it was just another passenger airplane. Besides the fact that this craft was completely silent, a couple of things really grabbed our attention. First, we realized that this thing was either jet black or totally transparent between the lights.

Realizing that detail was very unsettling. The second thing that really grabbed ! our attention, and the thing that caused us to run towards his house (this whole time we were just standing there watching this thing), was when it changed direction. Up to this point the craft was moving very slowly, as far as we could tell, in a straight line directly toward and over us.

This thing seemed to suddenly and completely stop, do a 180 degree turn, and head back in the direction that it came from. There was never a shift in speed, from what I could tell. After that 180 degree turn we were both startled enough to run to the house and pretty much pretend that none of that happened.

All of this happened about 9-12 years ago and I've told very few people about the event, probably because I'm afraid of what they'd think of me. I'm no expert on aircraft but I was in the U.S.

Army and I saw my fair share of passenger, fighter, transport/cargo, and unmanned aircraft during my service and never once did I see anything like that. I heard about you last night on Coast to Coast (I work midnights and have nothing to do on my break so, typically, I listen to Coast to Coast) and so I figured I'd file the report. Thank you for your time ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.

PD)).

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It was a long formation of lights. I came home from a sunday school party and as I was going inside when I looked out over the feild I saw a light formation in the sky. There was no sound.

I ran inside to get a pair of binoculars to get a better look but when I returned it was gone.

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I can't remember the exact date, but at about 20:30 I was driving through my neighborhood on the way home from work when I noticed something unusual. I happened to look up when an apparently large object seemed to hover overhead. It looked like a strobe light on an airplane in much larger proportion.

It only lasted about 2 to 3 seconds.

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These things were definitly in our area that particular week hovering very low just above the tree lines and houses. I was on my way home from my Thurs. night Bible study,and I was pulling into my driveway, when I saw a siting, that I was able to show a witness, my mom, "to come outside quick", ( I had actually seen another one on the 30th of July while driving home with my mom around 11:30-12:00 p.

m., but she didn't see it because she was driving, and it was above the next house down from ours on a country stretch, before we pulled in our drive that night), We were able to see one of them with great visability and another one further in the distance. They were hovering for a long period of time, they had lights, to me ,it seemed like it looked like a tophat or some upright cylinder also at the same time I saw a pulsating star in another direction and also a very strange light in the middle of the woods beside our house.

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UFO seen over Argos, IN Myself and two friends were standing, grilling outdoors when I looked up and I saw what appeared to be a moving star that made some unusual flight patterns before dissapearing. It had the same color and intensity of a star. We saw it descend from the edge of the atmosphere looking towards the northeast.

It moved downward for almost a minute before it turned at about 90 degrees and headed back out of the sky accelerating as it left. It looked like a ball of white light but it seemed to move in a coordinated manner. We stood ther and watched in amazement not sure of what it was that we were seeing.

I am still unsure. I think that if a being or person were inside it, as it was a solid object, they would have been killed by the rapid change of direction it made. It seemed to defy gravity and to have the limitaions of flight that 'known' manmade objects possess.

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Looking for the comet Linear through 7X50 binoculars, I observed an object barely bright enough to be visible passing from the star known as 45 UMA to the star known as 30 UMA in an unbroken straight line in approximately 10 seconds. Further viewing was obscured by the headlamps of automobiles passing my location at the intersection of SR 8 and SR 39. An commercial passenger aircraft had passed through my field of view just moments before; the faint object was far too high and fast to be an airplane of any conventional kind.

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At first appeared in the western sky and was mistaken as a star. Until I saw movement. Moving from west to east at varied speeds.

From complete stops, to short bursts at high speed. Becoming larger and brighter as it moved closer. While watching and trying to determine what it was.

A military jet was approaching from the east. The jet then passed at a lower altitude, and moved to the west of the object.The jet then made a left turn and gaining altitude, established a direct course toward the object.

The jet was closing in on the object at a high rate of speed. Then the object accelerated away form the jet at about 4 to 5 times the speed of the jet. Then it appeared as though the object stopped.

But it actually changed direction and started moving out to space until it was no longer visable. The jet proceeded in an easterly direction. There were no lights whatsoever on the object.

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Triangular UFO, with protruding windows, over a field in Indiana One thing I use to love doing was taking drives at night. One evening back in 2000, I decided to go for a drive; it was about 3:00 am. Everything was fine.

It was a nice night out and I had the windows down on my car. I decided it was time to head home so I turned down 25th Street, just off of German Church Road. I passed over a small bridge when I saw a triangular-shaped object hovering over a small field.

From the car I could tell there were three dome-shaped windows on two sides of the object and another one off the bottom of the craft. Lights were on inside. There was a small farm house between me and the UFO so I decided to go just past the house to get a better look.

When I got to where I should have been able to see it better, it was gone. I didn't see it leave. I didn't see it disappear; it was just gone.

I spent the next minute or two looking around for it, but it was nowhere to be found. A few days, maybe weeks, later as I was watching TV, there was a show (Unsolved Mysteries) that was doing an episode on UFOs. During this telecast I saw, for the first time, mention of the same craft as I had seen just days before.

It was then that I knew it was real. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).