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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 146 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2013 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (31 reports, 21.23% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (23 reports, 15.75% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (39 reports, 26.71% of total).
- 07/05/13 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 3.42% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (83 reports, 56.85% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2013
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2013, 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:
Seven silent round orange flying objects watched and observed in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Sunday evening at approx. 8:00pm when I was on my back porch, I saw seven round orange "flying objects" off in the distance in a cluster or messy formation.
There were no sounds that the objects made such as engine, or jets. They were silent. I thought it was strange so I called my partner in the house and told her to come out and look.
She came out and after a few seconds the orange round lights scattered in the sky. Some flew to the right and some to the left of me. I ran in the house to get a pair of binoculars and looked at two of the orange lights to my left.
One began to make quick movement up and down almost as though it were scanning my body (I know this sounds weird). I gave the binoculars to my partner so she could watch them. We both stayed on the porch for about 10 minutes watching them make sudden movements and then standing still in the sky.
When I went in the house there was only one remaining that was visible. I don't know where the ! others went. We talked ourselves into believing that it must have been a military exercise until we saw on the news tonight that some people in California also saw it and their description was the same as what we saw.
We decided we better report that we saw it here in Indiana also. The observers of this event are both middle aged and both have a professional backgrounds, no mental illness, and have never seen something like this before and have never made a report about UFOs in the past. The lap top that I am on does not have a word processor installed so I had to type this directly instead of copy and paste.
Sorry :-) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
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While driving a unidentifiable white light flew West and was out of sight as fast as it appeared. I was headed West/North on the 865, right before the 65 interchange, and saw a ball of light fly overhead. Clearly moving too fast to be helicopter and too low to be a plane.
Sky was very clear, could see many constellations. There was several tractor trailers headed East/South that may have seen as well. Emitted no sound and was gone as fast as it appeared.
This was just like another sighting earlier this year but the object headed West this time and not North, same light same duration.
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There were 2 aircraft. One has lights. The other did not.
The one without lights was massive. Both craft were at a high altitude. I seen two space craft.
Or at least what I think what I have seen. One was like a normal aircraft but was to high for a normal airliner and like a weird light pattern. It has rectangle LED style light all under the wings.
At some point those lights turned off to like make it look like a normal aircraft. But it was very high up to where if it was normal lights I wouldn't be able to see it because those lights would of been turned off at that altitude. The other ship I saw looked like a mother ship that you would see off the movies.
It had no lights and I had to look and stare at it to see it. It did not move and it just hovered at a high altitude. It looked black and it was like a cylinder shape with massive size wings.
I was talking to a friend on Skype and I went out there for a second time to turn on my cam. He saw the mother ship style thing. Then that is when I saw the second ship that I talked above above.
The wings of the LED style craft looked to leaned back to be a normal aircraft. The mother ship style thing looked MASSIVE at that high altitude. I would guess it would be at a altitude of around 30 to 50 thousand feet.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Several illuminated spheres moving with the air currents from west to east across the sky. Observed what appeared to be approximately 10 illuminated balloons moving from west to east over the northern sky. Only watched for a few minutes and showed them to two other people.
I expected to read a report in the Indianapolis Star, but there was not mention of this event.
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Was looling at a double rainbow that was out side of my house then saw a strange silver craft hovering by it i kept watching it till it just went away in the sky. It was weird how there was a double rainbow since it did not snow or rain this morning. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Bright star in western sky My Nephew mention to me "that is a bright star" I grabbed my camera and went to the window and seen the star. I have seen this object many times before so I began taking many pictures of the object. It appears in the early evening and stays "drifting" like the rest of the stars in the night sky.
This object does not appear every night.
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Hovering craft with strobe lights about the Indianapolis Airport. I was driving out of the Indianapolis airport tonight and saw what I thought was a plane coming in. The odd thing was that this craft had an unusual configuration of lights.
I kept looking up at it when it appeared to stop and hovered. Then a bunch of lights came on and started to 'strobe' Lights were quickly flashing on and off. This lasted for about 5 seconds then everything went dark and I could no longer see it.
I was alone when this happened. I did notice that the other cars in front of me had put on their brakes and slowed while this was happening. I cannot imagine what kind of craft would do this.
It was all very odd.
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A triangular craft passes over us on County Road 12 and then reappears as we head further down the road. My father and I were driving home from Eby Pine's with our new Christmas Tree. When we were on County Road 12 and approaching an intersection, I noticed a bright star that was above the stoplight.
This so called "star" was much lower then stars normally are. As our car approached the intersection more, two lights came to view beside the so called "star". The light on the right was bright blue and the light on the left was bright red.
As we were almost on the intersection, the lights moved towards us. When we were at the stoplight the lights passed directly above us and when I looked up I noticed they were in a triangular formation and in between the lights that formed the points of the triangle was a dark mass. To me this proved that what I was seeing was a solid ship.
This ship silently passed over us and kept going behind us. The ship then made a right turn and was currently not clearly visible because of the tree line. Three minutes later when we went further down the same road and I looked to my right and saw the same lights from a side view moving very quickly through the sky.
The lights then disappeared.
Full Report Text:
Round lights in similar patterns fly faster than the space shuttle which I have watched Cloudy outside took phone outside looking at stars through opening it was clouldy. notice multiple fast moving objects moving in formations heading in a south west direction. Watch the sky every night it was not planes or stars or metors called my neighbor to witness what I was seeing he was freaked out.
Called another friend two blocks over she was freaked out seeing the same thing. These objects was neither man made and could have been up to a 1 mile wide with similar light formations that resembled diamond shapes. When there was breaks in cloulds you could see multiple diamonds shapes none resembling Constellation patterns.
Flying 10 times faster than a jet could. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
My husband and I were driving home from a dinner out. I've never seen a UFO or any flying object like this. My husband was the driver who first pointed it out to me.
It was kind of the shape of a cigar so I thought it was a plane until it got closer. It was changing lights from red to yellow and flying in a way no airplane could fly. Then suddenly it was moving so fast I was shocked.
The lights stopped blinking then it continued to remain one flash of light and I saw one behind it!! It was following the first one I saw. I never believed i would see something like this. The location was on the east side of Indianapolis.
After they faded we also saw two of the similar objects by our home doing the same thing. I can't be fore sure if they were the same crafts or not. It was just very bizarre.
I'm in shock if no one else has reported or seen these. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
white light object cigar shaped turned off its lights and spun 360 degrees and headed north. Lafayette sky looking East, craft heading northbound, white light then turned black and spun. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Debunk This. So I clicked "Disk or Saucer," but this looked almost as if there were one plane in front and one following close behind it carrying something in between. It appeared to be linear and have a flashing light on each end.
I can't identify it, therefore I'm reporting it as a U.F.O.
I was on the westside of Evansville, at ALDI, looking east standing parallel to the Lloyd Expressway. I could only follow it for 1-2 minutes and it either was too cloudy or it vanished. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax.
Date is flawed, and contact information is wrong. PD)).
Full Report Text:
10-12 bright orange spherical balls of light, some turning away from others, and one coming in close On November 19th, I was filming sunset with my HTC-one cell phone. After seeing strange, odd crafts flying during sunset I stayed and continued filming after it got dark. I first seen around 4 bright orange/red orbs, perfectly spherical and, not flickering or flashing like lanterns.
They were flying from north east to west. I watched as one of them made a slow right turn away from others and all vanished soon after. I did not have my cell on during the first set, the cell battery was dying and I had to use cigarette lighter to charge.
But then two more came in from same direction, flying next to each other. One of them made the same slow right turn away from me before disappearing. The other stayed straight, then also disappeared.
Moments later I watched one fly in by itself. Then another by itself, but this one was much closer than the others. It came in just as fast as others, but slowed down while in flight.
There were a few more that came by, whole event lasted around 7-8minutes. This was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, I'm glad I had my new cellphone to share this experience. I am not happy how it came out, the video is great with amazing close-up.
But the camera while filming at night has a hard time focusing on light sources. It looks like they are flickering or flashing but they were not. They were steadily lit, they changed in Color slightly from red to orange to yellow.
But they were NOT flashing. In my video I use another video to show examples of light sources at night while filming with cell, and you can see how street lights and other lights look through camera. I have had many experiences since June of this year 2013, all of these experiences have taken place in close proximity to some very very large power lines that run across the Ohio river and through city.
This is just my theory, but I believe it has something to do with these power lines. Maybe they steal or somehow harne! ss energy from lines. I will be following up on this and have! found a PowerStation in close distance to where these orange orbs originated from.
But the weird part about this whole thing is minutes after filming these orange orbs, a large Blackhawk type helicopter was seen flying lower and faster than I have ever seen. I am 32years old and have lived here my entire life, I have seen black helicopters before, but never this low and never this fast. It was flying exactly straight towards where these orange orbs were seen flying from or where they possibly originated from.
Full Report Text:
I've never saw a anything we have that light's up from one end to the other and leave that quik . I was at my telescope looking at the full moon when I took my eye away from the telescope to give my eye's a rest from the moon" I looked to the west and saw three lights moving east slow. I rubed my eyes again and looked again and they where realy there.
(ha ha ) Well, I went in to grab my camera and realized my wifes was closer so I grabed her's. When i got back outside I looked up they where there but they where getting brighter and the space between the light's were getting brighter and brighter and they where changing color from white" to red blue and white. It was triangle but cone too and seem to have a point on the front.
The size was big " about a football field in size. Then in a blink it was gone to the east unreal speed " !!!.
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Me and my daughter seen the most beautiful shiney spaceship. Not a UFO it was real and was watching us all watch them! Me and my daughters seen a huge spaceship and a lot of other people got out of there cars and seen it too. It was so beautiful ans shiney.
They was watching us watch them. She. Was getting nervous and wanted to go where the other people were.
I said no honey I don't want to take my eyes off it. Right then I turned my head and it was gone. It was so beautiful and shiney.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with the witness, principally to confirm the date and time, which were November 11, 2013, at 18:45 hrs. We have corrected the time and date above. The witness indicates that the object looked like a disc, and he has offered to submit an illustration to our Center.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
I WAS TRAVELING EAST ON HIGHWAY 24, COMING BACK FROM PERU INDIANA, WHEN I SAW A FIREBALL OVERHEAD TO THE EAST. IT LASTED ABOUT 10 SECONDS, AND THEN BURNED OUT CLOSE TO THE GROUND. IT WAS BRIGHT WHITE, WITH NO DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS.
I HAVE RARELY SEEN A FALLING FIREBALL IN THE SKY.
Full Report Text:
Orange lights over geist Bright orange lights moving west to east. No blinking aircraft lights. No jet afterburner.
Completely silent. Shot a video on my phone. Once they were east of my house they just disappeared.
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Large slow moving craft with yellow lights over Hazel Dell Road. My son (19 years old) was on his way home and saw a craft over Hazel Dell Road as he was heading north. It was large and had multiple yellow lights that were flashing.
It made no sound and moved very slowly. It had a triangle like shape with wings that extended down and a flat top. The back was lined with yellow lights.
He drew a picture of what he saw the moment he arrived home. He stopped in the road as there was no traffic and watched it for a minute or two. As it moved out of his sight, traffic began to appear again.
He called me on his cell phone as soon as it was gone and told me about it. He had left the house at 11:20 PM and now it was 11:53. His trip should have taken no more than fifteen minutes.
Full Report Text:
Huge white rectangular object hovering in the sky. My wife and I saw it as we were were driving on I-64 heading to I-65. As we were driving by New Albany we noticed a white rectangular object in the distance above the tree-line.
It went out of view as the nearer trees blocked the view. Once a clearing was available again, about a minute of driving later, the object was back in view for perhaps 20 seconds before the view became obstructed again. The view continue to be obstructed the rest of the way.
We thought that the object was a banner. But to us it seemed that the size was too big as this object appeared to be miles away - perhaps 5+ miles. We did not see a plane pulling it.
It woul be worthwhile to determine is a banner was being pupped by a plane. I'm hoping this can be found quickly. This object only appeared to be two dimensional.
White in color and very symmetrical.
Full Report Text:
Orange glowing luminous object zizagging no noise flying low Observed glowing orange red circular craft about the height of a small plane. The object made no noise traveled from the west to east. The object appeared in the north west sky and then made a right angel turn zigzagging as it did and came right over our house.
As the object floated over looking up at it, it was glowing almost luminous and the dim and again the same. The object traveled east and could be seen in the sky low for a mile or more. The odd thing was is that it was very cloudy out and windy typical October sky.
The object was well below the clouds and very visible.
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 31 reported sightings | 21.23% of all reports |
Circle | 18 reported sightings | 12.33% of all reports |
Fireball | 18 reported sightings | 12.33% of all reports |
Sphere | 12 reported sightings | 8.22% of all reports |
Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 7.53% of all reports |
Unknown | 9 reported sightings | 6.16% of all reports |
Disk | 9 reported sightings | 6.16% of all reports |
Oval | 6 reported sightings | 4.11% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
Formation | 5 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
Rectangle | 4 reported sightings | 2.74% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 2.74% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 2.05% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 2.05% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 0.68% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.68% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.68% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 15.75% of all reports |
June | 22 reported sightings | 15.07% of all reports |
October | 19 reported sightings | 13.01% of all reports |
September | 18 reported sightings | 12.33% of all reports |
August | 16 reported sightings | 10.96% of all reports |
December | 10 reported sightings | 6.85% of all reports |
April | 10 reported sightings | 6.85% of all reports |
November | 9 reported sightings | 6.16% of all reports |
May | 8 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 2.74% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 39 reported sightings | 26.71% of all reports |
Thursday | 24 reported sightings | 16.44% of all reports |
Wednesday | 21 reported sightings | 14.38% of all reports |
Sunday | 20 reported sightings | 13.70% of all reports |
Monday | 17 reported sightings | 11.64% of all reports |
Friday | 17 reported sightings | 11.64% of all reports |
Tuesday | 8 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2013 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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07/05/13 | 5 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
07/04/13 | 5 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
10/16/13 | 3 reported sightings | 2.05% of all reports |
10/09/13 | 3 reported sightings | 2.05% of all reports |
06/22/13 | 3 reported sightings | 2.05% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 83 reported sightings | 56.85% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 24 reported sightings | 16.44% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 23 reported sightings | 15.75% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 8 reported sightings | 5.48% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 7 reported sightings | 4.79% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 0.68% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2013
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 2013
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.