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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 61 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2006 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (12 reports, 19.67% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 16.39% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (17 reports, 27.87% of total).
- 03/21/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 4.92% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (31 reports, 50.82% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2006
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2006, 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).
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Cluster of large triange lights drops from the sky Returning from Chicago we were on the boarder of Indiana and Michigan. It was a rural area. It was a dark clear night with sveral stars.
I was watching the stars when I saw an uncommonly bright "cluster" of lights in a triangle shape hover and dip quickly. At first I thought it might have been a falling star but they were in a formation and they dropped slower than a shooting star and it dropped straight down. I waited to see if there was a crash on the ground but there was nothing.
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5 suacer like object dalvill i was just comeing home from the fire department i am a firefighter and 2 or my frinds were come with me. and my friend saw i thing in the sky there were 5 of them and they were and saucer like and it took off fast in to the north it lasted for 1 min but 30 sec anfter it took place my truck stoped for 3 min and i got it starded but there was a black place on my hood like it got zapet and my fire radio got a lot of sackt wen the siting habind and for 5 mins after.
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Large Red Orb on Highway I was traveling southbound on I-465 sometime between 9 and 10 o'clock, there was a decent amount of traffic at the time. Suddenly all the vehicles in front of me, most likely about 10 vehicles, came to panic stop as if there was an accident. Then I saw a bright red orb, almost like the red dot from a laser pointer looks, but this orb was maybe a foot in diameter.
The red orb jumped up from in front of the cars ahead of me, then shifted to side of the highway in front of a sign. Everybody that had been stopped by this red orb speed away very quickly and most exited @the first exit which was Harding Ave.
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Ultra-fast fly-by of 2 ufo's with associated light, noise, energy, electrical interference, UV radiation I swear this account is entirely accurate and 100% honest based on my unforgettable recollection and account made immediately after the event. I would testify to this in a court of law before God. Myself, Philip Burke, and Wesley Jinks, all eagle scouts and college students, witnessed strikingly similar events.
I won the poker game and we stepped outside so Phil could smoke a cigarette. Phil was smoking under the porch by the basement sliding door. Wesley was walking back from his car after getting his wallet so he could pay up for his poker loss and was turning the southeast corner of the house when this incident began.
I was completely sober because the antibiotics I’m taking react violently with alcohol. It was between 2:55 and 3:00 AM, December 24th, 2006. I was centered on the east edge of my back patio off the basement.
I was looking almost directly up at the northeast sky at maybe a 75 degree angle, attempting to look for the stars. It was evenly overcast that night with no rain and very little wind, about 40 degrees F and relatively calm outside. Very low level clouds in even formation meant that no stars could be seen.
All three of us encountered two distinct identical waves of energy that streaked the sky with associated noise, light, and perceptible electric and magnetic energy unlike anything we had ever seen, heard or felt in our experience. I consider myself to have a sharp perceptional awareness and to be in touch with my senses. I was once missed by a lightning strike by 10 feet in a rainstorm and felt incredibly jolted, but this experience shocked or jolted me electrically ten times more than this previous lightning incident.
I could tell the pulse was also very magnetic in nature, having had an MRI less than two months ago, and several in the past two years. I was mid sentence and went instantly silent when I was frozen by a sudden blast of energy coming from the sky. The blast originated in the west-northwest sky and moved east-southeast, crossing the entire sky from horizon to horizon in maybe two seconds, no idea as to altitude.
There was initially no light associated with this blast, only pure energy. I could feel this energy. It coursed through my body.
It felt like a concentrated pulse of electric and magnetic energy. This wave of energy that hit my body felt like the rush from jets doing a low altitude fly-by at an air show, only instead of wind, it was a burst of electric and magnetic energy that grew gradually, drastically spiked, then trailed off. As this pulse moved directly over my head it seemed to convey my entire body with it in the direction of its path.
It was strongest at this point. I was frozen still in fear and my upper body wavered east-southeast as if I were getting pushed and pulled at the same time, only nothing physically touched me except energy. I moved my foot to keep myself from being pushed over, otherwise I feel as if I would have been knocked down.
As this pulse approached, the associated noise quickly turned from a low drone or buzz to a tinny screech that was deafeningly loud for a fraction of a second then returned to a low drone. It was louder than anything I’ve ever heard for that brief fraction of a second when it seemed to pass overhead. I covered my ears but kept my eyes wide open.
As this pulse approached and the drone got louder, the sky filled with an ambiance of alternating green and blue waves that seemed to radiate linearly and at short regular intervals out from the path of travel of this pulse. The waves lit the overcast sky more and more brightly during the pulse’s rapid approach, like they were being projected on the clouds from above the cloud ceiling. The brightness approached the brightness of day but everything around me had an eerie blue-green cast.
An instant after the noise got unbearable, immediately as it began to subside, the entire sky filled with an array of every color in the visible spectrum for a brief instant, brighter than anything I have ever seen in the atmosphere, including the light of day at high noon. At this point I was facing east, looking up at a 45 degree angle. It seemed as if the pulse just passed.
The sky was splotched with every color in the spectrum shining on the clouds in an instant dazzling array, predominately oranges and reds. It seemed as if a 3D electric matrix of visible fine lightning-like electricity filled the sky and approached from the east, went over my head. This matrix of many hundreds of tiny electric bolts, blue green in color, may have entered the lightning rods of my house.
This is unclear because my eyes were still recovering from the brightness of the flash. The previous blue green waves mentioned may have lasted two seconds and grown in intensity, but this rainbow colored flash with the electrical matrix lasted maybe a quarter of a second. The power in the house then went off completely with no associated surge or fade.
It just cut out then came back on about a second later. ! The neig hbor’s floodlight remained on. All was calm and quiet for a second or two and my fear caused me to begin to turn towards the house to seek cover as I still looked at the sky.
I then remembered Wesley was out front and I stayed outside to see if he saw anything. As he was approaching from the southeast corner of the house, maybe 75 feet away, ALL OF WHAT I HAVE RECOLLECTED THUS FAR WAS REPEATED IDENTICALLY, only we were paying closer attention to the sky now, so it seemed more extreme. I’m uncertain whether it was or not.
Both sets of pulses, flashes, buzzes, and power outages occurred in maybe ten or twelve seconds total. During the hour following this incident my ears hurt as if I had been at a rock concert that lasted for a week. My eyes hurt like I just walked out of a pitch black cave and stared at the sun.
The cable TV and internet did not work until the next day. Once I regained my footing after the first blast, I felt like I was in instant shock, not from disbelief but from the actual energy inside me. I felt like I was filled to the brim with free electrons.
My heart rate instantaneously spiked to its maximum and stayed there for quite some time. My body did sort of a hormonal dump, not quite like going into shock, but similar. It felt wonderful and terrible, as I imagine trying crack cocaine for the first time would be.
These feelings gradually normalized over the course of two hours. Immediately after we came inside following the second pulse, we all confirmed something very, very weird just happened. I insisted no one speak of it and we all write separate personal accounts.
Before we started writing, I ventured back outside and gazed at the sky for a couple minutes to find out if I could see anything else. The once thick cloud cover had opened to a strip of clear sky. This strip of clear sky was bordered by parallel lines of cloud cover on each side.
The strip of clear sky appeared exactly where I sensed the two blasts had traveled horizontally through the sky from west northwest to east southeast. It looked as if the strip was opened by parting winds in opposite directions in the atmosphere. It stretched from horizon to horizon.
I noticed Phil had dropped a lit cigarette on the ground. As I gathered paper I felt like I was on a mild dose of ten different drugs at once and my heart rate would not move from its peak. Wesley agreed to write an account, but Phil was ghost white and looked like he was about to have a heart attack.
He noticed the cable TV signal had been lost (it worked fine before this incident) and opted for bed instead. Wesley and I did not speak to each other at all as we wrote, and only when we both finished did the results appear incredibly similar in every detail. While writing, I tried to relax and slow my racing pulse.
As I did this, I experienced a euphoric pain free sensation originating in my spine and neck. I felt like I was five years old physically, except my heart ached like I was 80. As I wrote from maybe 3:10 AM to 4:30 AM this euphoric feeling gradually shifted from my spine to my muscles where I experienced major muscle relaxation.
It seemed as if the electricity left me in waves starting at my core that rapidly moved to the surface. Each wave lasted about four seconds, and there must have been hundreds of them. As these hundreds of individual waves of electricity made it to the skin, I would get the strongest goosebumps I’ve ever had and my hair would stand on end, noticeably on my arms.
The feeling of muscle relaxation progressed to the point where I collapsed with my arms and chest on the table for about ten minutes where I could not write. I was motionless, simply enjoying the feeling when I was suddenly overcome by a strange migraine centered immediately behind my right ear near the surface of the skin. It was intense and piercing, and caused me to pick myself up, no longer experiencing any positive feeling symptoms.
This migraine was very short lived and disappeared completely after only a couple of minutes. I have no history of headaches and have been routinely staying awake until 2-4 AM for about a month straight, so I felt no undue fatigue during any of this whole experience. The headache was enough to convince me I should go to bed.
I tried to think about other things and eventually fell asleep. I slept through the night and woke up the next day with a sunburn on my face and hands, with redness and mild pain. My medication makes me very sensitive to UV radiation and I have been avoiding the sun completely.
I ate breakfast, but could not keep it down. The cable TV came back on suddenly at about noon. Let me know what you think.
THIS WAS THE WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD.
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White ball of light, erratic movement, sudden dissapearence. I saw a white ball of light moving up and down erratically just above the treeline while I was riding my bus to school. The object was moving fast and as I watched it, it sped up and dissapeared behind the trees for a interval of around 2 seconds.
It reappeared then vanished. I watched for it to return but it didn't. Many craft of this kind are sen in my area.
It's a phenomenon referred to as the "Corydon Lights". Many teachers at my school, among other adults, have actually talked about seeing them, they are popular enough to even be mentioned in a Topics class at my highschool.
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mysterious flashes of light followed by two loud booms I was listening to my police scanner when a call went out to a county officer. The dispatcher said they had just received a call of two loud booms and gave the officer the address. The caller stated that it was toward the south of his residence but nothing looked out of the ordinary.
Shortly after, another call came in describing two loud booms around the pierceville/deleware area. This time two bright flashes of light were seen in the southern sky and followed by the loud booms. Police checked the railroad tracks for a possible train accident.
Everything checked ok. Yet another call came in to the dispatcher. Reports of two loud booms in the area of (address given)but the caller did not witness anything.
I called my mom and sister who had heard the booms as well but they are about four miles apart. This incident took place within about a ten mile radius. The sky was clear and no rain or storms were in the area.
I contacted the police but they said they do not know what it was. Could it have been a meteroite that had broken up and into two sections (two flashes) and each piece broke the sound barrier (loud booms)? I don't know but I would like some theroies on this (no assanine theroies please).
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Witnessed Diamond Object with Light formations hover then move as it faded or dissappeared I drive Tractor-Trlr OTR. On Wed. Dec 13 2006 at exactly 19:35 Eastern, I was driving South on I-65 at mile-marker 71 near Columbus, IN.
to the West/South-West at approximate 30 degree angle from ground and at what I estimate to be 5 to 7 miles out, I witnessed an object in the night sky. The sky was dark with a slight backlit auburn haze and distant low cloud blanket and even further out clear sky. The Object was diamond shaped with 8 light formations on what I beleive to be the belly of Craft.
The Craft was a vague silloette to my eyes. The Ligh Formations on the Craft were a yellowish-white color and 8 in numbr. each of the eight light formations were composed of two rectangular segments of equal size forming a 45 degree angle pointing towards apparent front of craft.
(examp. >). The 8 formations of lights were arranged in perfect geometry to the shape of the Craft.
example: ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ The individual light formations seemed to intensify while object was stationary and as light intensified, The Object began to move upwards at a 45 degree angle to the Left of It's position. The Object suddenly faded from sight as it accelerated.The Object appeared to be the size of, or larger than; a Lockheed C-5A transport plane.
In my estimation, the lights did not appear to be flaming or fuel burning outlets or exhaust ports however, My gut feeling was that they had some sort of propulsion function. The Object never reappeared to my view. Now, the other part of this event was; at the moment I assumed the object had "disappeared":I witnessed directly South and Approx.
30 to 35 thousand feet up at a distance from Me of est. 5-8 miles out, Two Fighter Planes rapidly pursuing a path towards the tradjectory of the craft's distant path. My reasoning that the 2 aircraft "in pursuit" were Fighter Jets was 1.
) their speed and altitude 2.) the marker beacons on each aircraft.(one strobing white and blue marker light on each jet.
) Looking at a Road Atlas later on, I noted an Airport exactly West of my position at 20 miles.(Bloomington, IN). I also know of Louisville,KY's airport/A.
N.G. base to South.
I have lived near Air Force Bases and am certain that no aircraft built in U.S. have been made public knowledge, of this nature.
I can accept that this craft could be Man-made or of Extraterrestrial nature. I also theorize that It could be visable by some while not visable to other Humans. P.
S. I had an identicle sighting to the detail in the Mojave Dessert approx. 2 years ago.
(Did not report It,then.).
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Two yellow disks adjacent with a silver white probe/extension from lead disk High altitude UFO over central Indiana Date: 12/10/2006 Time: 1:35 PM Sky conditions: Blue sky with isolated cirrus clouds I was in my backyard and looked up. WNW at approximately 80 degrees elevation, I saw a slow moving light (or sunlight reflection). With 7x50 binocs, you could see two yellow disks tangent to each other.
A silver white probe extended out from the lead disk in the direction of motion (toward the NE). The probe like extension was about the length of the two disks diameters. There was also another shorter extension parallel to the silver white one.
The objects were in view for approximately 2 to 3 minutes until they were hidden by cirrus clouds in the NE. During the sighting, a commercial jet airliner flew over from East to West. The UFO appeared to be much higher than the jet.
Because the UFO was above the cirrus cloud when it “disappeared”, and because of the resolution in the binocs, it’s my opinion this was a huge object or objects at very high altitude (60,000 to 70,000 feet). It is possible that the two disks could have been spheres, but they looked like disks to me.
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Witnessed 15-18 lights in a V formation move from northeast to southwest across the north side of Indianapolis. Lights moved about 90 degrees across the sky in less then 30 second. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Unknown object floating across a city airspace Last night shortly after 9PM EST, I was standing by the kitchen window. And as always I look out to check the sky condition. The window has a csoutherly view and I can easily see the zodiak and I like to check the sky condition and watch the planets traverse across my view.
The sky last night was a broken layer of this stratocumulus ans, as usual, the city haize cast an eirie glow on the clouds. Then I seen what I thought was an aircraft loosing aititude in preparation for the final landing approach to the city's larger passenger airport or so I thought. But the aircraft did not look normal, first of all the city haise illuminated the object as it slowly moved acrost my view.
It had a, sort of, saucer appearance, a scetch will be sent in conjunction to this report. The object appeared a grey color similiar to how the clouds looked. I seen what looked like three round windows on the "side.
" I will estimate the angular height of about two and a half clemched fists, at arms length, and the widest portion of the object was from a half to one full thumbs width. Next I seen no navigation lights or landing lights which I normally see on aircraft of any size at night. I watch the object for a few minutes and resumed my business as I pordered what I saw.
It was then that I decided that what I seen was no airplane but instead it was an artifact that was made here on earth or somewhere else in the cosmos by an intelligence that we cnnot comprehend althought we try. I have been an amateur astronomer for about sixty years now and I typically see lights in the sky that I cannot explain using out technology so I basically ignore them but this time I got a physical outline to study. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness via telephone, and he sounded very sincere, and sober-minded, to us.
We suspect that he is an excellent witness. PD)).
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Triangular UFO over South Bend, IN moving southeast on 11-23-06 at 20:25. Triangular shape and moving across the night sky to the southeast. There was enough time for me to mention it to 2nd person and for them to see the same thing.
The sky was clear and we were looking toward the star cluster Pleiades. We listened for ANY sounds that might indicate a jet, but there was no sound at all. The rate of speed, if a jet would have made this object low enough to make quite profound engine noise.
If higher in the sky, then this object would clearly be quite large. The shape identified by us was by seeing an outline of dimly lit lights or light reflection along its front two edges only. The light was about the same color as what we usually see reflecting from the clouds near the sulfur halogen lights of the nearby interstate.
The trajectory was straight and we were able to see it until it disappeared behind a row of trees.
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I live in Northwest Indiana minutes from U.S.A'S busiest Airport.
I live south east of Midway,O'hare and just due south of the Gary,Indiana Griffith and Lansing ports and just to my east about 20 miles Porter County airport. I see planes all the time such as commercial,cargo,small single engine and we have air shows so I also see all types of Airforce Jets past and present on a STEADY basis. What I had observed near the old Broadmoor Golf course, Pine Island wooded area sout west of the Erie Lackwanna Bike trail in the woods was utterly fantastic ON 11-07-2006.
While I was heading due south on the bike trail I had began to smell static electricity ozone. As I got off my bike I began to wipe myself off and it was as if I had been charged or something but it was the smell that got me, it was just like the smell you get when you pull off a fuzzy sweater over a cotton shirt but it was so strong and popping all over my body even by my ears and hair as the fillings in my mouth felt charged or something ,it was so uncomfortable. As clear as day during my flailing around I glanced over the tree line to my west about 120 yard away and begin to view a flat circle sitting in the air ! as I am gazing at this thing I'am going through my mind trying to figure out what it is im looking at.
I compare it to looking in a cave in the sky with warm colors swirling in a spiral like pattern , this thing sat still as I back tracked north on the trail to get another perspective on this thing as I saw it go down below the tree line then back up a lil higher than it was when I first saw it.Next then for like 5 seconds it looked like it was leaking molten liquid magma or something(wierd) its perimeter turned really bright like it was being eclipsed than blinked up leaving a streak in the sky . what it was I will never ever know.
but this thing was no airplane or bright planet Like Jupiter,Mars or a star . This object had multiple colors , that emitted something and could move like the light when you wave aroun! d a fla shlight in the dark. This is my only unexplainable sighting of a phenomena or aerial vehicle.
thank you ((name deleted)).
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i work as a security guard at the calume t city airport. i have grave yard shift fom 11:pm to 7 am. i was doing my round checking the pramiters of the buildings where i notice a light by the woods.
i turnes my head lights off to see if it is a thief. i was within 20 feet of the subject. i was not a car or an airplane.
i took picures with my camera and tried to call 911, but the calls would not go though. the subject was hoovering over the field next to electric generators. it was maybe 5 feet off the gound.
blue lights all over it changing spontinouesly. within seconds the subect turned colors to yellow orange and red dlinding bright color, then it was gone within seconds. i am still scared and shaking.
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I was casually observing stars in the clear night sky, when a somewhat brilliant white light high up in the northwestern sky caught my attention. (It probably caught my attention because I had been outside about an hour earlier, it still being night, and I couldn’t recall seeing the light in that general part of the sky then.) The light was about as bright as Jupiter, about 70 degrees above the horizon, and perfectly stationary in the constellation Cassiopeia.
The light was stationary for about 20 seconds, almost appearing as part of Cassiopeia. Then, for a period of 2-3 seconds, it appeared to steadily ascend upwards into the sky across a very short distance (about 2 arc degrees), moving in a southerly direction, until diminishing in brightness and no longer visible. I did not observe any lights, sounds, or movements from the light that would be commonly associated with common types of terrestrial aircraft.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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stationary -bright- sparkling/twinkling object in mid northwestern sky. 9:05 - 9:25pm est Flashing/sparkling/twinkling light in shades of reds, whites and blues. A little larger than what Venus used to look like with the naked eye.
In the middle of the northwestern sky. It looked like what a close airplane might look like if it were hovering and flashing the lights rapidly. It wasn't necessarily low or close.
but very noticeable in the middle of a clear sky. It flashed/twinkled/sparkled for about 10 mins before I got my daughter. She saw the same thing.
We watched it for another 10-15 minutes before some low clouds of a nearing front covered up the view. I spend a lot of time outside at this time of the evening, am very knowledgable about astronomy and weather and I've never seen anything like this before. I don't really believe in UFOs persay.
but this was weird.weird enough for me to document it, and research it for a logical answer.
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Bright nocturnal lights I woke up around midnight and saw my bedroom window illuminated like a car was pulling up the driveway and didn't think much about it. Happened about one hour later, now I thought it was lightning related a severe weather was predicted, checked local rader but no imminent weather was near. Around 2AM the lights were back but much brighter, looked outside and noticed what lloked light multiple moving bright lights through the dense trees.
They seem to be on top of a small hill or even the top of the trees. Gusty winds make the trees move and made it hard to have a clear shot at the event, they seem to brighten and dim and have little color (red) in them. At first I thought it was a forestfire with severe weather daily prior to this.
I quickly dismissed this as a fire does not produce flashlight like beams to reach my window several hundred feet away. ext I though hunters setting up in the trees but this is all private propertie with no hunting activity in years. I woke up my wife and went outside on the deck to take a better look but moving trees prevented this again.
The light disappeared about 15 minutes later and occurred again about 30 min later for no more than 2 minutes.
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Large orange ball of light hovering 200-300 feet from our home. Large orange ball of light seen above field behind our home. Appeared to be hovering approx.
20 ft. above the ground, illuminating field below it. Appeared to be approx.
200-300 feet from house. Our cat and dog were reacting wildly at back windows. When I turned on porch light, the object shot straight up and simultaneously stopped glowing.
No sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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UFO by Mt. Comfort 2006 Air Show During the month of Sept. 06, I attended the Mt.
Comfort air show located at the Mt. Comfort airport by Indianapolis IN. An A-10 was performing manuvers and I snapped a couple of photos with my digital camera.
I do not have a view finder only a 1" display screen. The reflective sun prohibited me from seeing it clearly so I just pointed it in the area of the A-10 fly by and took the photo. When downloading the photo the next week, I captured a photo of a UFO in the same photo.
No other planes were flying at the time the A-10 was in the air. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. Object appears to be a soaring bird.
PD)).
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its real . Lights blue yellow and green You coule hear a voom and a whistle 30 foot above my car my friend works at nasa they are lying The object floated in still mode , then it slowley took off . It sped up then slowed down .
The object had lights on it , Blue , yellow and green . It hovered about 30 feet over my car . You could hear a whistle and a vooom with it .
I know they are real my friend use to work at nasa , they are lying to us the have recovered ufo's and aliens . Thank You this is true!.
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Floating lights in a rooftop formation While returning home from town after picking up pizza, we forgot to drop off a movie. I began to turn around in a vacant golf course. When I turned North into the lot, there was a bright series of lights directly in front of us and just over our heads.
The sky was light blue with thin whisps of clouds. Our windows were down and I was talking on the phone to a friend. My daughter and I were amazed at what was in front of us and I expressed this to my caller and daughter by saying , oh my god, what is in front of us.
I said are those planes, they can't be planes, what is in front of us. I leaned my head towards the open window for any sound. My daughter was already amazed by what she saw.
We both were excited and stunned by what we thought was a UFO. My daughter actually yelled it's a UFO. I think it's going to land.
My other daughter in the back seat said she couldn't see anything and was frightened telling us she wanted to get out of here quick. I told my caller that she needed to step outside and look north, there are some kind of lights in the sky, but it was already fading away while I was speaking to her. What my daughter and I viewed was a multiple light formation containing six individual lights that were very bright in the center and grayish on the outside.
My daughter (age 15) said that she could see a thin gray outline like it was a craft. I did not view that myself, but I was also looking over at her and glancing back to my other daughter while talking on the phone. It happened very quickly.
Five of these lights were in the formation of a rooftop with one light at the peak and two lights on each side. The sixth light was centered a short distance below the peak. They all stayed in this formation and seemed to float moving only slightly up and down as if they were suspended in air.
We had the impression that whatever we were seeing was attempting to land in the field or empty parking lot. We thought it was a formation of jets but they were way too close to each other. With the windows down, there was no sound of planes either.
And there was a plane flying below them iin a slanted east to west direction which my daughter pointed out when I asked if they were planes. No, she said, that's a plane below them, this is a UFO! It was obvious these sets of lights were significantly different than a plane light. Then all of the lights seemed to close at once as if they each had a sliding door that closed from our right to our left.
Each light left a very small sliver of light like a piece of moon. The formation then seemed to move slightly up and west. It had no shape of an object, like the side of a plane would have or anything of that nature as it turned.
It was just those slivers of light that moved as one. They didn't move out of our sight, they disappeared out of our sight. It was as if they were the same backgound of the sky but with slivers of light.
I guess you would say whatever it was now seemed to be transparent. My daughter was asking me if I could see the thin gray outline of it too because she could and she knew it was an UFO! I had glanced away and found it difficult to see it again, but she watched for a second or two more but she said it was gone.and just disappeared.
VERY VERY WEIRD and VERY VERY COOL. Now, let me tell you. There is an air show scheduled this weekend in Chicago.
My family did view a jet flying over. My husband could hear the jet when it went over. I was in the car alone earlier and saw a jet overhead too.
I recognized it as a jet because jets are obvious with there beak style nose and slim body. I thought that maybe there was an air show somewhere this weekend and that was why a jet was in our area. And that is also why my first thoughts at seeing this formation was that it has to be jets in formation.
However, when we were viewing this ten seconds of lights there were no sounds of planes/jets, no visuals of a plane/jet either while it was facing us or when it turned/moved or whatever it did to leave. And I don't think jets just disappear. This was truly the coolest thing we have ever seen and I was glad that I saw it with someone else.
Excitedly I called a family member and my other daughter called a friend. I thought about calling someone somewhere and reporting it, but who? You don't want people to think you are some kind of kook or something. I also hoped that maybe someone else had seen it and it would be on the news or in the paper.
I don't know if this is an official site to report UFO's or if it does any good to report it at all. But it was definitely awesome to see something that unknown and interesting!.
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2006 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 12 reported sightings | 19.67% of all reports |
Fireball | 7 reported sightings | 11.48% of all reports |
Triangle | 7 reported sightings | 11.48% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 11.48% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 8.20% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 8.20% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 6.56% of all reports |
Circle | 4 reported sightings | 6.56% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 4.92% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.64% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.64% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2006 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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December | 10 reported sightings | 16.39% of all reports |
March | 9 reported sightings | 14.75% of all reports |
August | 8 reported sightings | 13.11% of all reports |
April | 7 reported sightings | 11.48% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 8.20% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 8.20% of all reports |
May | 5 reported sightings | 8.20% of all reports |
June | 4 reported sightings | 6.56% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2006 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 |
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Wednesday | 17 reported sightings | 27.87% of all reports |
Thursday | 9 reported sightings | 14.75% of all reports |
Tuesday | 9 reported sightings | 14.75% of all reports |
Monday | 8 reported sightings | 13.11% of all reports |
Friday | 8 reported sightings | 13.11% of all reports |
Sunday | 7 reported sightings | 11.48% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 4.92% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2006 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 |
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03/21/06 | 3 reported sightings | 4.92% of all reports |
10/04/06 | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
03/31/06 | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
08/17/06 | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
12/24/06 | 2 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2006 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 |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 31 reported sightings | 50.82% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 17 reported sightings | 27.87% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 8.20% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 6.56% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 4.92% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 1.64% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2006
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 2006
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.