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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 78 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2009 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (15 reports, 19.23% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (12 reports, 15.38% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (22 reports, 28.21% of total).
- 08/15/09 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 5.13% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (39 reports, 50.00% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2009
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2009, 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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MULTIPLE WHITE LIGHTS ORBITING FULL MOON 12/02/09: WAS OUT ON DECK LETTING CAT OUT AND LOOKED AT THE FULL MOON ABOUT 06:35 THIS AM. I WAS SAYING THE LORDS PRAYER AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I SAW A SMALL WHITE ROUND LIGHT MAKING AN ORBIT AROUND THE LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT OF THE MOON. ONCE IT LEFT MY SIGHT ANOTHER ONE CAME, BUT GOING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, BUT APPEARED TO BE ORBITING A DIFFERENT PATH ALSO.
THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN EITHER THE SAME ONE OR A SECOND ONE. WHEN I SAY ORBIT- I MEAN IT CAME FROM BEHIND THE MOON 1/3 THE WAY IT DIAMETER AND LOOKED AS IF IT WENT ACROSS THE LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT THEN DISAPPEARED. THE SPEED WAS FASTER THAN CONCEIVABLE.
I DO NOT HAVE EYE PROBLEMS. IT HAPPEN AS I WAS SAYING THE LORDS PRAYER. I ALSO GOT THE FEELING I WAS BEING SHOWN SOMETHING ABOUT HOW BIG GOD REALLY WAS.
GETTING NEARER TO CHRIST'S BIRTHDAY, I HAD A FEELING OF "KNOWING THAT HE WAS REALLY SENT HERE FROM THE HEAVENS"- IF YOU GET MY DRIFT. MAKES ME WONDER IF THE NORTHERN STAR WAS REALLY A UFO WATCHING A VIRGIN BIRTH OF THE LORD WHO WAS HERE TO SAVE US ALL. BY THE WAY, I AM A REGISTERED NURSE AND NOT REALLY ALL THAT RELIGIOUS.
THIS MORNING I CAN SAY THAT I FELT THE POWER OF GOD AND SAW IT WITH MY OWN EYES. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Flashes followed by white and red lights I had just stepped outside to walk my dog when I looked north and saw a bright orange boomerang flash in the sky. My first thought was that it was sunlight reflecting off a aircraft.Then it dawned on me that I could not see any aircraft anywhere in the sky.
I then began to walk to the back of the property when I saw one and then a second flash a little to the west of where I saw the first flash. These two flashes where white instead of orange. I watched for a few minutes but saw nothing else and went back to the dog walking thing.
After several minutes I turned around and looked at the spot where I had seen the flashes and saw a large ball of light that I at first thought was a star. Then it became clear this was not a star and was blinking. The blinking reminded me of a old rotating police light.
The light was white and I could see flashes of blue or green in it. There was another smaller blinking light underneath and to the west of the larger light that wa! s moving very slowly as if it were searching for something. I walked back to the house and continued to watch the lights and got my mom to come outside and look.
She agreed that the lights were odd and did not look like any aircraft. We then went back inside and due to the cold and I came back out a few minutes later and the lights were gone. I was never nervous while observing this, just curious as to what the light could be and how odd it was to be there.
((NUFORC NOTE: Witness indicates that date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
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When driving, a moderately large and bright fireball shaped object was seen falling from the sky. When driving back to my apartment at about 0:45 on December 1st, 2009, I saw a large, moderately bright, yellow to orange fireball shaped object falling from the sky towards the earth. I only saw this for a very short time, as I was driving.
It stayed lit and falling until it fell behind the horizon. There was a tail to the object. It was long and consistent throughout the entire fall.
It was larger than any meteor or shooting star I had ever seen. It did not move at a very fast rate.
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wish somone interested with a high powered telescope could see this an I would rather not give my name. It was a shape shifter that changed colors, blue yellow white, its still happen'n rite now, its 10:25. There is to many jets to count flying around it.
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3 Light Blue/Gray Orbs in triangle formation flying at low altitude over Vincennes, Indiana I live in Vincennes, Indiana, a small town in Southwest Indiana with a population of 25,000+/- people. On the early morning of 10/11/2009 at about 12:35am I was let my dogs outside to do their thing and stood outside of my house right outside of my front door. It was a cold, dry and clear night and the stars were more visible than I have seen from here, so I gazed up at them.
After about 10 – 15 seconds I happened to look straight up above me when it came into view. What I saw were 3 light blue, gray balls of light. Not bright lights, more soft.
It was 300 – 500 feet in the air, and flying in a triangular formation at a very slow, but still “cruising” speed. It was completely silent and headed Southeast. About 2 seconds past and the made a spin move around eachother one time, then went exactly back into the triangle formation.
Then the light blue/gray orbs turned into just light gray and immediately, but very slowly, faded out. I could no longer see the orbs. I let my dogs in and I then had a very strange/ eerie feeling as if someone were watching me, or having a sense of someone in the room.
Like the feeling you get when you turn on your TV with the sound off. I was pretty startled and jumped back inside and slammed the door shut and locked it while my arm shook furiously (I was that freaked out). When I sat down to immediately start researching what I had just saw, I still had the strong sense of a presense behind me to the point I feared even turning around.
I am glad I have seen one of these ufos, and after much research I have discovered a nearby “ufo hot spot” where people have reported seeing triangular ufos about 12 miles from where I live in a town called Lucky Point. I have also discovered reports of the same ufos 1 week ago 3 hours west of here. For a glimpse of what I saw, please google “STS 115 objects” to see the live NASA TV video of the same triangular orbs.
Also google “St. Petersburg Russia triangle ufo” to see a cell phone video of the same orbs and many other people witnessed. Both occurred within the last 2 weeks before my sighting.
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Five fireball objects which were being escorted by military helicopters. The picture I took showed five disc shaped objects 5 fireball shapes glowing like stars. There were also several military helicopters that seem to be escorting them.
I took two pictures before they got too fatr and one of the pictures definitly shows five disc shaped objects. I took the picture on 61st avenue and Broadway in Merrillville Indiana ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).
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Large disc appearing and disappearing while hovering with no change in direction. A large metallic disc appeared and disappeared in a very gradual manner above some woods a couple miles off the highway. It hovered very steadily and had no direct course of flight.
I made absolutely sure that this was not identifiable. Disappeared without any trace after a couple appearances.
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orange "flaming" light rising, then abruptly changing directions and slowly disappearing in the horizon. I was sitting outside my front door when an orange light, flickering as if it were a ball of fire, seemingly rose out of the north. My initial reaction, since it's Halloween night, was that it was a roman candle, It stopped rising then appeared stationary, it slowly moved south then turned abruptly to the east and went at a slow but steady pace, and also started to rise.
It continued in the same direction and same rate of rising until it eventually disappeared in the horizon. It had just gotten dark but the moon was shining brightly. There were very few clouds.
The next door neighbor was sitting on her porch and I asked her if she could see it, she looked up and said 'yes'. We didn't discuss it further. Right after it rose and stopped, I opened the door and asked my wife to come and see it, she watched for the duration.
Oddly enough, we had seen (and reported) the exact same thing in the summer of 2008, which as it turned out, had been seen and reported by p! eople throughout Indiana and Michigan.
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Bright orange ball moving slowly I don't know the exact time but I was driving east in chesterton Indiana. It was around 6 to 7 at night. It was still light out.
I saw a orange ball above the tree line. I have lived in town for over twenty years. The orange ball was large and looked like a perfect circle.
It looked like the light was above 80/94 highway. The light was stationary then started moving below the tree line. It wasn't the sun or any advertising signs.
I have never seen anything like it before. It saw it for less than a minute. This is twice in one year I have seen lights I can't explain.
I placed a report in August of this year. I wanted to let you know I looked every night for a week after sighting and it was not there again. So I know it wasn't a star or planet.
This object I observed with my binoculars changed in sequence to four different colors in a pattern. This was the August sighting. I didn't want to report the orange ball because I was afraid no one woul! d believe me since I had posted a different sighting in August.
Then I saw that someone in Indy and Chicago saw a simular thing. Many people had to have seen this orange ball. It was right over a very major highway in and out of Chicago.
Thanks.
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triangle craft over South Bend My husband and I along with our two sons were in the hottub looking at the stars when my husband notice a object appear out of the NE sky moving very fast. It appeared to be triangle shaped craft that had three pulstating lights changing colors from yellow, blue and red. The craft flew very fast from the NE to SW but not in a straight pattern it was out of sight within 7 seconds.
There were no sounds made by the craft as it flew overhead. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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8 bright red tear shaped objects at low altitude seen at close range a little bigger than a small plane sister in law called hystercal seeing objects in the sky. went outside and saw object that was solid red in color with yellow fringe, teardrop shaped in sky moving south to north. Object was bigger than small plane but no noise was heard.
sky was clear. object went out of sight obstructed from view by roof of my house. when looking for object to reappear in my view noticed four other objects further north same color.
objects were moving together but not equal distances between them. objects appeared to be moving at same rate but slower than a small plane. objects were pretty in the night sky, solid bright red with yellow around the edge.
I don't know what they were, have not seen anything this size,color,shape to compare it to. sister in law states she saw eight objects and lives approx eight blocks away. I only observed for approx five minutes and went back into the house.
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balls of light discharged from another ball of light in the night sky There was a ball of light that discharged five or so other balls in a beam that made it look like a cell phone tower with a ball of white light at top and five or so other balls moving up and down the vertical beam. Then the top light broke off and flew out of sight. The remaining balls then fell to the grounds as a firework would do each ball swaying from side to side as they fell in a group.
Only one light ball fizzled out. The remaining ones hovered over the ground swaying and moving around together up and down side to side. Then we proceeded to drive out of sight.
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Two Hovering Aircraft Spotted Around a Strange Haze Driving East on US Hwy 40 from Reelsville to Putnamville in West Central Indiana at approximately 7:50 pm my husband and I noticed a strange pinkish colored streak vertically through the sky. We commented on how it looked like a rainbow, smoke or a cloud. The streak didn’t move like smoke, didn’t have the same form as the few other clouds in the sky, and couldn’t be a rainbow for a number of reasons.
We then joked about how it could be from a UFO. Within a few minutes of the conversation, my husband noticed two aircraft heading toward the odd streak. He asked if I thought they were fighter planes doing drills together.
We watched the aircraft and noticed they could not be planes as they weren’t moving across the sky, but hovering around the streak. There were distinctly two separate craft, but we could not tell how many lights were on them, just that they had pulsing lights that seemed to have a strobe effect and the lights moved together with the same rhythm and timing. We continued to watch the lights on the craft for approximately 9 minutes until they disappeared behind the trees in the distance.
We tried to take a picture with our cell phone camera but the quality was poor and just looked like two small lights in a dark sky. The haze did not appear at all.
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black object that seemed to impode into a sphere and vanish, only to reappear in the same shape and move location Looking across Lake Michigan on the beach towards the light pollution of Chicago, almost complete cloudless sky was observed. A small area of black was observed approximately halfway between Chicago and the beach across the lake. Further observation showed that the object was denser than what was immediately thought to be a small black cloud in the otherwise cloudless night sky.
The object was slanted about 30 degress from bottom right to upper left. The bottom of the craft was flat with sharper edges on the two bottom corners and the top was flat but a little more curving. The object was completely black with a small change of color going towards dark grey from top to bottom.
The object was motionless and after several minutes of observation began to turn in on itself, implode into a small sphere and then vanished into nothing. The object then appeared to quickly return to its original shape. This happened again, and the second time it disappeared competely.
About 5-10 minutes later, the object appeared again, although this time was above the shoreline towards the pier down the left side of the beach, a distance of about 50 miles from where it was originally seen. The object exhibited the exact same shape, no movement, although this time it was slightly closer to my viewpoint. It again imploded on its self, first forming a small black sphere and then vanishing, only to "pop" back out and reappear in its original shape.
This happened several times before disappearing completely again. The object then returned again several minutes later, although this time much closer, and appearing larger. It retained the same shape, angle of the bottom, color etc.
Around this time we decieded to leave to get a telescope to see it clearer as it began to faintly disappear again after several minutes of observation. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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A group of lights with strange and independent movement were hovering over the southern shores of Lake Michigan I looked out over Lake Michigan towards the north. I saw a dozen or so lights some moving some still. Some were blinking and some were solid.
a few were red in color and they varied in intensity. I was on the southern shore of Lake Michigan looking north.
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Craft watches meteor shower in the nothern skies I walked out on my porch that evening/morning to take a leak as I live i rural area and was facing north. As I looked up I saw what I thought was the light of a airplane moving across the night sky. I noticed it because it was a very clear night, I did not see a single cloud in the sky, The light was moving toward me and looked like a star, I could tell it was very far away, I watched it for about 45 seconds and during that time it moved from north to south and I saw it zig-zag a few times during it' s trip, Then it stopped and I thought, There is a UFO or a satalite or something so I watched it for a few minutes maybe 15 or 20 and during that time I saw 3 shooting stars.
I have no doubt it was a craft of some kind positioning it's self to watch the meteors. Man or other it was a UFO to me. If anyone else sen it report it.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).
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UFO in Shoals IN. I was driving home from a friends at about 1:30 in the morning when i saw a flashing light. i thought it was my cell phone or something in my car but checked, and it wasnt.
i looked out the drivers side window and saw a triangular shaped image with lots of lights and the middle lights were flashing.I couldnt look at it good enough because i was swerving all over the road so i stopped in the middle of the road and looked again. The lights were really bright.
All i could really see was the shape the lights were in. The actual craft was hidden. I then just drove off real fast.
I was so scared. It was very close to me, just above the trees. I have never seen anything like that in my entire life.
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Craft sighting in Fort Wayne, Indiana. My son and his two friends were outside and saw a disk shaped object come over the horizon of the trees about 50 feet up. The craft was moving slow then made a 90 degree turn and went straight then tilted on its side.
The saw red and yellow lights blinking slowly. Then it disappeared.
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Orange light moving E to W at high altitude, red beacon visible after passing overhead 9-08-2009 21:31 EDT 39.9624°N, 86.1194°W I observed an object pass overhead at the referenced coordinates, orange, and about the same apparent size (perhaps 20% larger), magnitude, and color of Antares.
First observed about 60°elevation E. of zenith, as an orange light. After it passed directly overhead, a red flashing beacon was occasionally visible, but no strobes and no navigation lights.
It traversed my entire 100° field of view in under 1 minute. At the time of the observation, there were 2 commercial airliners passing to the south, one going East, the other, West. The aircraft was much higher and faster than either.
I could not hear any engine noise after it passed overhead. (Generally, I can hear engine noise a few seconds after airliners pass overhead due to the speed of sound (1,100’/min.), and can guess their distance accordingly.
) I heard the engines of the airliners after they’d passed. We are near the Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZID). This did not resemble any airliner I’ve seen passing at night.
I suspect that the orange "light" was due to sunlight reflecting off the fuselage, but sunset was at 20:05. 1. How high did this aircraft have to be, to be able to reflect sunlight 1.
5 hours after sunset? 2. What type of aircraft was this? (I suspect military, am unsure of size or type.) (The ISS, Cosmos 1844 and Resurs 1-4 objects were visible within a few minutes of this, but on different tracks and of different magnitudes.
).
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2 bright non blinking, moving stars My husband and I were sitting by the fire looking at the stars. It was a very clear night and the stars were very visible. I noticed two bright "stars" in the western sky diagonal from one another that began to move very slowly at first and then faster, keeping perfect distance.
No blinking lights and no noise they moved from the west to the NE in sync for about 45 seconds until they disappeared like the lights had just been turned off. A few moments later several planes appeared to be surrounding they area where the "stars" had been, coming from all directions. ((NUFORC Note: ISS and Space Shuttle in formation.
PD)).
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2009 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 | 15 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Triangle | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Other | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Circle | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Sphere | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2009 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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August | 12 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
July | 11 reported sightings | 14.10% of all reports |
October | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
September | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
March | 6 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
April | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
May | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2009 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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Saturday | 22 reported sightings | 28.21% of all reports |
Tuesday | 13 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Wednesday | 12 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Sunday | 10 reported sightings | 12.82% of all reports |
Thursday | 9 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Monday | 7 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2009 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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08/15/09 | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
09/08/09 | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
09/02/09 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
06/23/09 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
12/01/09 | 2 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2009 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 | 39 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 14 reported sightings | 17.95% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 13 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 6.41% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2009
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 2009
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.