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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 99 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2010 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (18 reports, 18.18% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (23 reports, 23.23% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (18 reports, 18.18% of total).
- 07/04/10 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 8.08% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (63 reports, 63.64% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2010
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2010, 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).
Full Report Text:
it was a light pulsating across the sky like a light house on the water gives of a spot light across the sky i lived here for 20 years and never seen this type of light in the sky like a beam of a spot light across the sky it is 7pm and i have been watching it for an hour still goin on.
Full Report Text:
Looking south I seen a formation of amber colored lights of 3-4 in one group. Another group of 4 to the west other lights was not in formation some more was in a triangle shape. Some seemed to almost hover momentarily while others continued on a few more single lights came after.
I lost count around 21. All or most was viewed by my neighbors and my mom who was in another location. No sound was heard.
I estimate altitude of between 10000 and 15000 feet. Possible less. Sky was clear.
The were a few prop driven aircraft in the vicinity and some higher altitude jet traffic.
Full Report Text:
DRIVING ON OLD ROAD 8 EAST OF US HIGHWAY 33 STOPPED AND WATCHED THREE LIGHTS MOVE SLOWLY OVER US (WE WERE AT A COMPLETE STOP) THEN THEY MOVED OFF VERY QUICKLY TO THE WEST AT EXTREMLY FAST SPEED ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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I noticed a bright orange fireball shaped object in the N/NW sky, it was stationary and then disappeared. I was driving home from my robotics practice (I'm a coach) on a road facing North. I then noticed a bright orange object that was at low attitude in the NW sky.
I stopped my vehicle to observe the object, because I have never seen anything like it before. It was staying perfectly still with one slowly pulsating light underneath the craft. The craft then suddenly moved right then left.
Then after the craft took off and all the lights disappeared so I couldn't track it no more. There was other aircraft in the area that kept approaching the light. I have seen this light before and noticed weird movements before, but never thought of reporting it.
The air traffic around the light disappeared after the light disappeared.
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V or triangle shaped object. I am not even sure what to put down, this happened so fast. I was outside work smoking when I thought I saw something very strange.
It went by so fast I didnt even have a chance to get my phone camera out. My first impression was that it was a large bird though there was no wing movement, then I thought it must be a hang glider or an ultralight though I have never seen them around here. We had low cloud cover this morning and it was below the clouds.
I was looking at the clouds when it just appeared in front of me about 2 o'clock and moving to the south, pretty much following I65. There was no noise or exhaust trail and it was moving extemely fast. Within 3 or 4 seconds it was out of sight.
The item was brown and v shaped from what I could tell. If I had to guesstimate a size, about 1 inch at arms length which seems so small but it was not a bird,, no bird I know of can move that fast.
Full Report Text:
White pearl-shaped object seen zooming above Bloomington As I was exiting my vehicle after parking in the Eigenman Residence Hall parking lot, I saw a pearl-shaped, bright, white object zoom across the clear night sky at approximately 9:45 pm on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. The object resembled nothing I had ever seen before (such a plane).
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This was an extremely fast moving, thumbnail size light, emitting no sound. First spotted a fast moving, solid (not blinking) light about 60 degrees above east horizon, and about 60 degrees above north horizon, traveling due east to due west at an extremely high rate of speed. Several days ago I saw a shooting star, and thought this was another one.
The light continued due west at a very high rate of speed, disappearing behind trees on the west horizon. estimated time of sighting - 2 to 3 seconds max. There was no sound heard during this event.
We are on landing pattern for Indianapolis Airport, with traffic headed southwest over our house. We also have heavy air traffic at cruising altitude, heading in various directions. Shortly after this sighting, I timed a commercial flight at cruising altitude, on approximately the same sight lines, which took about 120 seconds.
There were no flights landing at this time. The size of the light was about thumbnail size. If I had to guess the altitude, it would probably be under 15,000 feet.
any higher and this light would have to be huge! This light crossed the sky faster than anything I have ever seen.
Full Report Text:
No Sound was emitted from the craft and was at low altitude and was not any conventional craft. The object was very slow moving but faster than a hot air balloon could ever achieve and was red orange glowing and made no sound and was moving north by north east from connersville indiana toward dayton ohio. The other witnesses were without explanation to what it could have been outside of a bright red orange ball floating across the sky.
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unexplained noise flying above house with no associated air traffic At approximately 12:03 Central time. A noise occurred above our house. The house sits above most of the local treeline atop the highest hill in the area.
From the Southwest to the Northeast the sound emanated, shaking the house slightly. The best description I can give is it sounded like a firehouse being sprayed against aluminum siding. Our house is on a flight path for helicopters, planes and even military flights but this sounded completely different.
It also traveled opposite to the normal flight path. We have experienced sonic booms and again different from that noise. Due to the cloud cover and light rainfall we were unable to glimpse any object but the clouds were disturbed in a pattern as if something had skimmed them, similar to if you pulled an edge of paper through paint.
Objects were unknown, only one for certain. Did not see any associated lights.
Full Report Text:
Strobing "Star like" objects in the sky being observed by aircraft Approximately five star like objects hovering and moving at slow speed were observed over downtown Muncie Indiana.These objects were east of Muncie at about 15,000 feet. The objects would constantly "twinkle" like a star and then suddenly emit green strobes for several seconds before switching off.
This cycle would then repeat with red strobing lights. After about 45 minutes the objects completely disappeared one by one. The light that these objects emitted were different from aircraft strobes as they were seemingly had random time intervals and were very bright when compared to other aircraft in the area.
These objects were being observed or chased by what appeared to be delta wing aircraft which turned their landing lights on when approaching the objects. They diverted and left they area when the objects began to diminish.
Full Report Text:
Saucer seen on W. Michigan Street and Porto Alegre I’m a college student in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was around 6:26 P.
M. on 11/7/2010 when I was standing on the sidewalk of W. Michigan Street that lead back to campus apartment housing at IUPUI (my college).
We usually have a lot of airplanes and helicopters around here, and at first I thought it was an airplane until I realized that it was flying way too low, but then I realized that it must have been a helicopter. I couldn’t have been more wrong I realized, as I looked up and saw a circular object flying right up above me, moving straight in the direction I was facing. It was huge, and if a full moon were out, I would have to say that from my perspective, I would have to say that maybe 15-17 full moons would be equal to the size of it.
I’d like to give a better comparison, but I was in a state of shock. I did spend what felt like a long time gazing at it, although in actuality, only about 2 minutes had passed. The sky was clear, but being in the city, it appears as pitch black because of the city lights.
It was either flying really low, or it was extremely huge. I feel stupid for not thinking about getting a picture, but I was in total shock, as I don’t really believe in UFOs, or at least didn’t until now, and even now I’m still skeptical. I did, however, try my best to draw a picture afterwards, even though I’m not good at drawing.
The UFO had red lights on it. If I remember correctly, I’d say about 3 of 4 of them, and I believe that red light was coming from the center as well. Since I was looking up at it, all I could see was what it looked like directly underneath.
It looked like the stereotypical UFO, or flying saucer, in most aspects. Besides being a perfect circle, it looked like what a mushroom looks like from underneath, whereas you can see the edges of what might be a domed top from below, and striations leading towards the center. Most of the red lights were towards th! e exterior, with the exception of the center (where the stem of a mushroom would be).
Here was where more red light emitted. Two things struck me as odd that distinguished this when compared to the stereotypical portrayal. For one thing, the front of the ship had a silver section, which reminded me of a bird shape since the shape had three corners.
Secondly, I think that there may have been a protrusion at the base of it, which logically made me think that maybe somebody was playing a prank and it was actually some type of blimp because of how it glided forward, but it seemed much too big to logically call it this. There was no logical explanation for what happened. I went back to the apartment building and called my grandpa to tell him what I saw because I felt like I needed to tell someone that wouldn’t make fun of me.
I made this call at 6:34P.M., and stepped through the back door of the apartment complex.
I was partway into the conversation when I saw the object again flying over the apartment building, even though I thought it had already passed. At this point a passerby was walking down the sidewalk and saw me looking in shock up at the sky. He then saw the object too and said that it “sure is a wide airplane”.
(He didn’t see it until it was going off into the distance.) I said that “was definitely no airplane.” This second encounter lasted until 6:37P.
M., so it was three minutes long. This second encounter took place on Porto Alegre Street, and again the object continued moving in the same direction until it got past the river, where it ascended up and disappeared into the sky.
A girl walking a ways behind me during the first incident didn’t bother looking up because she thought it was a helicopter and was busy texting, and was shocked when I told her what I saw. I was kind of angry that she hadn’t looked up and I was the only one that saw this the first time, but I extremely glad that someone else saw it the second time to prove that I wasn’t the only person that saw it. By the way, the IUPUI campus apartments are near the Ronald McDonald House, which is not far from the hospital.
This area is extremely easy to find on Google Maps, however, for some reason it doesn’t show Porto Alegre, but the street that the UFO went across to get to the river is White River Pkwy E. Dr.
Full Report Text:
silver cylinder object in sky 3ft L x 2Ft H white circle moved to cover whole object then disappeared I would like to report a UFO that I saw Nov. 2nd 2010. it was in Indianapolis Indiana.
I was at the corner of Southeastern Ave and Arlington Ave. it was in the SW sky. It looked to be about 3ft long and about 2ft high.
It was silver in color and it only stayed for less than a minute. The silver was the shade of a trashcan. As I was watching this object it looked like a white circle rose from the bottom left and moved to the top right.
Once it finished it disappeared. There were no blimps in the vicinity. It just hung in the air and then the circle of white moved to encompass the object.
It appeared to be only one. The sky was clear with some white clouds higher up than the object. The address was ((deleted)) Southeastern Ave.
Full Report Text:
Numerous sightings day after day right over my house. I live just about one mile west of Crawfordsville,Indiana. Starting about a week and a half ago I started seeing these craft over our house.
They are extremely hard to see and seem to have the ability to make theirselves look like the background behind them. Occasionaly I can see a faint small blue-green light on them. I can see a vapor coming off of them and sonmetimes when they move I can see very faint white lights.
The military obviously knows they are up there, because they are constantly flying right through the area where they are. If your organization has any connections with investigators they need to come out here and see this for themselves.
Full Report Text:
Fast moving light.no sound. disappeared right before our eyes.
It was a completely clear sky. I live in a remote prairie area so it is easy to see a large sky with no light from town.etc.
My mother and I were pulling into the driveway when I saw what at the time I thought was just another airplane as we live only about 20 miles from Grissom AirForce Base and there are alot of them. I was joking with her to quickly park so we could get out to see a "ufo". After we both got out of the car and looked up into the sky it was a light about the size of a pencil eraser at arms length moving toward us from the west and almost straight overhead of us.
I told her that I believed that all aircraft by faa regs had to have a blinking light. this had NONE. It was also moving faster than an airplane would but not fast enough to be completely unusuall.
Just my best guess it would seem to be around 300 feet hight?? At this point I still believed it to be a jet, however it was making NO sound. Ive lived out here all my life so ! I know the sound a plane makes. After about 2-3 minutes of watching it.
It completely DISAPEARED before our eyes. I told her it must have went behind a cloud.and she reminded me that there were absolutely not even a single cloud in the sky last night.
As it disappeared it got "fainter" until completely gone. I believe that what I first thought was a cloud but actually the Milky Way where it disappeared into. We think that the reason it got fainter was because it ascended at a high speed Upward into the milk way region.
I have never seen ANYTHING like this happen before. Only a minute or two after it was gone.two planes came toward us from the east.
opposite of its traveled direction and traveling a little lower than what the light was. I have always been a skeptic of these things and never have reported anything like this until now. I truly believe that theres no way a plane would be completely silent and completely disappear like that thing did.
Full Report Text:
UFO HOVERING OVER I-64 EASTBOUND REST STOP NEAR DALE INDIANA Ufo was seen hovering near rest stop on I-64 East bound it was in the foreground with the moon in the background. The object did not move the entire time while being passed on the highway it started out as 3 lights in a triangle pattern 2 of which were red while one being blue the blue light extinguished and the red lights stayed glowing brightly there was no audible noise coming from the craft and no flashing lights what-so-ever as would be from a commercial aircraft or helicopter. There was also a airplane in the background that could be seen emitting exhaust from the moonlight.
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Triangle shaped object seen at a low angle and moving slowly. 3 lights gave the shape of the triangle, object's noise was "strange". Moved over sight within 15-20 seconds.
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I was driving south on I-65 between Franklin, IN and Edinburgh, IN. I saw along both sides of the interstate 3 triangle shaped objects with 2 bright lights in the middle on the bottom of them. I opened the windows and the sunroof and could hear no engines or other sound.
I drove directly beneath one of the objects and could see the outline of the triangle against the sky. In the rear view mirror I could see that one of the objects changed to red and started sending out red lights. I was scared and didn’t stay to watch, I headed home and ran in the house.
Full Report Text:
I saw a blinking light in the sky moving around unlike anything that I have ever seen. It was a dot in the sky at first I thought it was a satellite. But it stopped in its tracks and went back the other way.
It went up and down and back and forth. That was on the 3rd of October In the west sky early in the morning. Then a week later on the 10th of October I seen it again but this time it was a 9:30 or 10:00 pm.
This time it was in the north sky and it was doing the same thing. Going up and down and back and forth. their looks to be a blinking or rotating light on it.
Today is October 14th and I have seen it again this morning it started at 530am and is 630am right now and is still out their. It is back in the west sky this morning. The 1st time I seen it I called the police and reported it but did not leave my name and number but this is the 3rd time I have seen it and don't know who to tell anymore I just want to know if anyone else has seen it as well in the western Sky's over southern Indiana!.
Full Report Text:
Large blue flashes of light in the sky. On 9/30/2010 at approx. 02:25 hrs.
, I was driving Southbound on IN State Road 29. I was about 8 miles Northeast of Frankfort, IN. In the Southern sky, I saw a large blue flash of light.
About 30 seconds later, I saw another large blue flash of light in the same Southern direction. The sky was clear, and there were no storms in the area. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Ligt streak during a video on Sunday night football. On tonight's NFL Sunday Night game at approximately 8:40pm eastern, there was a streak of light during a live shot of downtown Indianapolis. There was an ad box in the middle of the screen.
They had just switched from southwest airlines to Hyundai. The streak started on the top dead center of the screen and moved towards the right in a curve towards a building with 2 blue light stripes on it. It disappeared momentarily and reappeared for an instant moving horizontally.
I did happen to DVR the event and reviewed it. it's just a light with no discernable features but didn't look natural. I'm sure you could get the video image from NBC.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD)).
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2010 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 | 18 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Fireball | 15 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Triangle | 12 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 8.08% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 7.07% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 7.07% of all reports |
Disk | 6 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 4.04% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 4.04% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 2.02% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 2.02% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2010 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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July | 23 reported sightings | 23.23% of all reports |
June | 18 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
August | 14 reported sightings | 14.14% of all reports |
November | 9 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
September | 8 reported sightings | 8.08% of all reports |
April | 8 reported sightings | 8.08% of all reports |
March | 6 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
October | 5 reported sightings | 5.05% of all reports |
December | 4 reported sightings | 4.04% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 2.02% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 2.02% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2010 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 | 18 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Wednesday | 17 reported sightings | 17.17% of all reports |
Sunday | 16 reported sightings | 16.16% of all reports |
Tuesday | 13 reported sightings | 13.13% of all reports |
Thursday | 12 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Monday | 12 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Friday | 11 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2010 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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07/04/10 | 8 reported sightings | 8.08% of all reports |
07/03/10 | 5 reported sightings | 5.05% of all reports |
08/28/10 | 3 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
06/26/10 | 3 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
07/13/10 | 2 reported sightings | 2.02% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2010 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 | 63 reported sightings | 63.64% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 11 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 9 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 7.07% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.05% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 4 reported sightings | 4.04% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2010
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 2010
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.