Indiana UFO Sightings in 2005

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saucer shaped craft hovering in the my farm field about 50 feet in the air, no sound, red and blue light, then flew off to the west ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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3:00am humming and craft for 5 minutes was working on the computer i work midnights so i was awake right around 3:00to3:05 a humming whinding noise came from outside i slide on my shoe's and a coat think it was about 2 degrees that morning from straight above to about the constellation Casseopea short bursts of speed then an almost hover my neighbor from acroos the street came outside said he was awoken by a loud hum and his windows were shaken said his vcr started to rewind and it was off when I pionted out the object we stood there for about 1 minute 30 seconds then it shot the other direction and was gone you could hear the low humming rumble the entire time I noticed 6 different lights one from a different location then what we thought was the craft whiched seemed to follow the pattern of the first one.

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two round lights in NNW sky Three friends and I had just finished having dinner and we were traveling north on hwy. 41 when the driver had noticed lights in the nnw sky. We did not see the first lights but a few minutes later the lights appeared again.

We all noticed the lights this time. They were at about a 45 degree angle from the horizon. They were two lights about the size of street lights.

Although they were not street lights. The lights were to high in the sky and we were between cities. They would come on at the same time but at times they went out together and at times one would dim out first.

The total time they were on was about 4-8 seconds. I could see airplane lights in the sky and they looked like dots compared to the lights. I am not sure what they were.

It was a clear night as we could see the stars in the sky.

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1 Lighted sphere in the sky transformed into 2 lighted sphere orbes. For 20 years now I've been alive and in all my life I've never seen anything unusual in the sky. Last night I was driving home from school and In the distant sky I caught a sight of a lighted sphere which slowly gained opacity and had an orange/yellowish glow.

It was an orbe in the sky which had me thinking "am I really seeing this", because I was driving I took one last look at the road then quickly looked back at this unusual object in the sky. It was dark in the sky so this object was clear as day 2 me. I watched as this one orbe stayed in its spot and trasformed into two orbs about 20 feet away from each other.

It was like the 1 one duplicated itself into 2 orbs of light. After that the 2 orbs faded away in its darkness. This made me want to reverse my car and see if I could see the attraction again but nothing was there.

I don't know what I saw, I know human error is always a factor but this was seen right in front of my own eye's and I still can't believe it. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Witnessed in Muncie,In a bright diamond shaped ufo- moved in all ways, then within a blink of an eye it vanished. Myself and a few friends were leaving this bowling place in Muncie, as we came to a stop light, I looked up and saw this bright diamond shaped object in the air. It was very dark outside and it was easily seen, I told the girl sitting next to me to look at it, and then all of us looked to see if it could've been a plane, but it wasnt; it was moving to fast and in all different directions, and then within a blink of an eye it was gone.

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cone shaped object moving slowly east while strong nnw winds blew On friday 11/24/05 my son and i were duck hunting on lake monroe.we launched our boat at paynetown rec area. About 615 am we seen some bright lights of the east shore of moores creek we thought it was a boat duck hunting and dismissed it as that.

At about 715 to 730 my son said look theres a balloon i looked over at it ad it was stading still there was a 15 to 20 mile an hour n nw wind and it was standing still no noisether was no movment so i know there was no line attached to it and it was cone shaped not like a balloon at about two hundred yards i would estmate it was about 60 foot tall by 20 ft wide and about 150 ft off the ground.It sat there about 20 mins and just moved slowly off to the eastuntil it was out of sight about 930 it didnt float like a balloon it moved as if it was guied or controled to the east. it did not drift as a balloon for it wold have went south east with the way the wind was blowing.

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White light - suddenly gone I was sitting in my hot tub and looked up and saw a single bright light flying over head. I thought it was probably an airliner, but it didn't blink different colorslike they usually do - it was a steady white light. What is really odd is that it suddenly disappeared.

I was following its path, and it should not have been out of sight if it had continued on a direct path. Very odd. Do not know if anyone else is seeing something and then "not seeing something".

It is really only noteworthy due to its sudden disappearance and lack of similarity with other aircraft lighting.

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flashing object in sky Hi.I was eating my lunch in my car when I noticed a flashing light in the sky. I just sat there watching this object flying high in the sky just waiting for it to come closer which I thought it was doing because it was moving in front of a cloud.

I just thought maybe it was a plane as there is a local small airport near by. Well the object stopped and hovered there for a moment then proceeded to fly the other way. This object flashed from a bright shiny texture to a dark one at a slightly fast speed.

It did not look like a plane or a helicopter… After about 5 minutes it flew away out of view to the east.

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Mysterious lights over a field in southern IN First, as I was leaving town, I saw two bright lights through the trees just north of town (an area that is all corn and grain fields). The lights seemed to be straight across from each other, maybe a hundred feet apart or so. They may have been about 4 stories up.

This is a very small town in southern Indiana and I have never seen lights this bright and this low. My first instinct was that an airplane was about to crash into our little town. But after I got past the houses and trees, I didn't see anything anymore.

Then as I drove a little further down the highway I saw a very bright orange light. It was at about a 45 degree angle from my car about 2 or 3 times higher than a light or cell tower. It seemed to come on for about 4 seconds then it disappeared and I didn't see anything after that.

The distance between the two occurences was about 1.5 miles. I had just left my house and was heading to a business meeting in the next town.

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Uniform formation flew overhead with blinking red and white lights. Loud whooshing sound followed afterward.

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I noticed two airplanes following pretty close to one another in a straight line heading south/southeast at around 1:00pm on October 30th during a bright sunny day. Both planes were leaving smoke trails through the sky as they moved. I grabbed a pair of binoculars to get a closer view since I never see two planes traveling so close together.

As I was veiwing the planes I noticed this object moving perpindicular in a downward motion away from the planes. At first I thought maybe they dropped something or that maybe I'm seeing a satelite moving in space? The object was a silver cylinder with a bright flourescent blue round top. It reminded me of a wand or staff.

It was kind of moving back a forth as it appeared to move down away from the planes. I've never seen anything like it before. I'm thinking it may of been a satellite, but it was to big in comparison to the planes I think to be a satelite, plus I don't know if I would be able to see a satelite that well being that they are higher up outside the atmosphere.

It was definately weird.!! Possibly a UFO?.

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Several contrails that appeared to be in formation, VERY high in altitude -- no visible airplanes -- contrails dissapated quickly. I was in my car at approximately 4:30pm. The sky was blue and mostly cloudless, only a few cirrus clouds here and there.

I was driving due north in a rural area. I looked up through my window and noticed several airliners at normal altitude. We are in "flyover country," so it is not unusual to see airliners traversing the sky and leaving contrails.

While watching the "normal" airplanes, I noticed approximately 5 or 6 contrails very close together, to the northwest of me (about 10 o'clock high from my perspective driving north). The closely-bunched contrails were forming parallel to each other. They appeared to be on a southeasterly heading.

I could not see the airplanes leaving the contrails, which led me to believe that they were at extremely high altitude. The contrails were clearly moving (growing in length). As I continued to watch, several more contrails began to form to the sides and behind the original few.

All told there were probably around 10. They appeared to be very close together, which led me to believe that they were high flying military jets in formation. The odd thing was that the contrails faded very quickly.

I grabbed my cell phone and called a friend to have her go outside and take a look. I asked her "Do you want to see something unusual? Go outside and look up to the northwest. There is a bunch of contrails very close together.

" By the time I got those words out, the contrails had faded, so I told her to forget it. My overwhelming impression is that they were military jets in formation, VERY high in altitude. Once again the odd thing was how the contrails faded.

It was as though they just "turned off." Very odd. ((NUFORC Note: We agree with the witness that the objects almost certainly were contrails.

Probably not UFO-related. PD)).

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On friday Oct. 28, 2005, a co-worker and I (of 7 years) were sitting outside our plant near the loading dock around 2:00pm. Our company allows us to sit down after our work is completed for the day.

On this day we decided to go outside and sit. It was a mostly clear with a little wind blowing to the west. Our plant is near the railroad tracks so we watch the trains and the jet airplanes as they pass by (there were several that day as always).

When I first noticed the objects (at least 3 maybe more) they were northwest of our location. My first thought was that they were gulls (birds) because they appeared to be white in color. They were circling each other when I said to my co-worker "look at that".

At that point one shot off in a southeast direction at a high rate of speed (much faster than any jet we have ever seen). When I looked back to where they were the rest were gone. My next thought was maybe this was a mylar balloon.

That is when I noticed which way the wind was blowing (the other direction). As the object moved across the sky it sort of changed colors. As I said, it first appeared white but as it moved it would look metallic or silver in color.

This might be because the object appeared to be banking or rocking back and forth. When it had left our sight (because it went over our building), my co-worker said "what was that?". I ask him if he had seen the other ones, to which he replied that he had only seen the one moving to the southeast.

He also stated that he had never seen anything like that before (me either). There was no sound or if there were it was covered up by work being done on the railroad. After discusing what we had just seen, we ruled out a jet (moved much faster, at least twice as fast), a gull (they don't look like metal), a mylar balloon (it was going against the wind), we decided we didn't know what it was, except a UFO.

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red object formed out of a yellow one, then they joined again The first craft hovered for a while. It was yellow. Then a small, red and yelllow craft, came out of it.

It looked around for a while while the larger craft moved a little. The little craft flew back to the big craft, and the larger craft sped off. ((NUFORC Note: Student report.

Possible hoax. PD)).

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We were sitting around a fire when three lights lit up in a horizontal fashion in the western sky. We were at a party and a friend of mine and myself saw 3 lights in the sky! The lights went out in a unique way, one went out on the right or left side, then the one on the complete other side and then the center light went out. Then about 5-10 minutes later they lit up again.

Execpt they lit up from left to right. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. We are uncertain as to whether this is intended as a serious-minded report.

PD)).

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yellow light moving in wierd patterns and disappeared over noblesville, indiana. it was around dusk and i was driving to texas roadhouse with my family. we saw a light that we thought was a small plane in the sky.

it started to go in odd patterns. i was looking at it for about 10 seconds when it disappeared. it took a few seconds for me to register what had happened but when i looked up my family had seen it also.

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Bright, pulsating light in night sky The object appeared as a bright light, almost like a star. It moved rarely but sometimes pulsated. It stayed in the same general region then disappeared 10 minutes later.

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two yellow objects sitting over the corn field in Franklin, Indiana We was on my way back from picking up my dad, and all of a sudden, these weird lights was sitting over the corn field about a mile away. I asked my mom what it was and she said she wasn"t sure what it was. we got closer and as soon as we got closer to it it dissappered.

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

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orange triangular shape that turned on and off two times Object first spotted 5 miles north of Winnamac, south by southeast of us on US 35. Ten minutes later it was observed 8 miles east of Winnamac, south by southeast of of Indiana Hwy 14. Ist time it was up 75 degrees, 2nd sighting it was 30 degrees from horizon.

1st sighting the object was triangular in shape, yellow orange in color. Same for second sighting. Object turned on for about 5 seconds and then disappeared, then about 10 seconds later it reappeared for another 5 seconds and then disappeared.

It was a cloudless evening, stars visible clearly. It was not an aircraft as there were no strobes of any time. It was not a hot air balloon as it did not light up the balloon and no object was visible against the stars.

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Brilliant white light, very high, swaying left, right, up, down, slowly but continuously moving up and right. While camping at Spring Mill State park on Friday, Sept. 30, 2005, my 2 children (ages 14 and 22) saw what appeared to be an extremely bright star in the night sky (around 10 PM).

Our point of orientation was just above and just to the right of a large spruce tree. Because it was so bright, we were observing it and trying to determine if it was a star or a planet. As we watched, it moved slowly up, then left, then right, and back down - but not as low as it had been.

We were all amazed and watched intently for several minutes. It moved almost continuously, but not very much at one time. The pattern was never exact but always up and down, back and forth.

It reminded me of a balloon, with some type of brilliant light attached, tethered to the ground and swaying in the breeze. However, in general, it continued to gain altitude and move to the right. We watched it for nearly an hour and finally gave up trying to figure out what it was.

I did not think too much more about it until the following night (Saturday) around 8 PM. I thought about it as we sat around the camp fire and asked my children if they had seen yet that night. As we all looked in the direction we had seen it the previous night, sure enough, there it was again.

Some differences this time. It appeared to be farther away than the previous night and much lower on the horizon. It was much further to the left of the same spruce tree than the previous night.

Also, instead of a brilliant white light, it had more of an orange cast to it. The movement was excactly as the previous night. It looked as though it was swaying in the breeze but steadily moved higher and to the right.

This may have been some man made object that I am not familiar with and there may be a perfectly logically explanation; but I sure can't come up with anything. ((NUFORC Note: Star or planet? PD).