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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 157 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2014 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (34 reports, 21.66% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (32 reports, 20.38% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (36 reports, 22.93% of total).
- 07/04/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (14 reports, 8.92% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (84 reports, 53.50% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2014
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2014, 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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The bright lights in a diagonal formation. Moved at medium speed and went out of view at the horizon. I saw three extremely bright lights arranged in a diagonal formation over Greenfield, IN.
(like this \ ). It was around 19:00. I watched them for a couple of minutes as they traveled at medium speed and disappeared below the horizon.
It was raining and very cloudy.
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A group of lights moved across the sky. Working in a rail yard, I looked up to the horizon and saw what I thought was a group of stars. I then saw that the mass of lights moved from the west to the east until it went behind a treeline.
The lights were moving at a rapid speed for about 2-3 minutes. My coworker also saw the group of lights. We grabbed our phones to video it, but the lights would not show up on screen.
A helicopter then came into the area and appeared to be following it.
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Large bright reddish orange light moves straight across sky below the clouds without making a noise A very big bright reddish orange sort of flickering light came from the South East and went straight across the sky diectly over-head. It was an unusually big light, unlike any type of light on an airplane or helicopter. It had only that one big light which stayed the same intensity and shape far in to the distant North West sky.
It was below the clouds and made no noise. I am a 60 year old artist with 2 college degrees.
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Cigar shaped craft with pulsating red & green chevron lights hovering over treeline in Belleville, Indiana. I had just left Greencastle, Indiana, when I had just entered the Hendricks County line. Approximately 3 minutes away from Belleville, Indiana, I was driving my car on U.
S. Highway 40. I looked up to see a bright star in the right of my windshield, and to the right, I saw a red/green light.
At first glance it looked like a radio tower, so I thought nothing of it. As I tried to focus in on the object (while also trying to maintain position on the road), I realized that there was no radio tower in that area, nor would a radio tower reach a couple hundred feet above the treeline. I began to slow down my car so I could focus in on the object more.
Considering I was the only one on the road for a little ways, I slowed down to around 20 mph. When I looked into my upper left hand side, I saw what seemed to be a blackened cigar shaped craft, with pulsing chevron red & green lights. It looked like the lights were on a conveyor belt, basically rotating around the cra! ft.
As I began to speed back up, the craft disappeared. I tried to rule out, though I am not denying the fact that it is a possibility that this craft was in fact a helicopter, plane, or other perfectly normal object. However, there were no "blinking" lights like a plan, nor would a plane hover in the same spot for a few minutes.
A helicopter could hover, however I would have assumed I would have heard some bit of noise. Not here, it was silent.
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Looked as if something was traveling across the sky on fire bright orange flame-like and moved in a jagged motion continued across the sky in southwest angle. Never changed until it was behind the cloud and we could no longer see it.
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Looked as if something was traveling across the sky on fire bright orange flamelike and moved in a jagged motion continued across the sky in southwest angle. Never changed until it was behind the cloud and we could no longer see it.
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Driving, saw a small dot in the sky. brighter than anything else. was sort of an orangish color, about 45 seconds later, disappeared.
I was driving, And I saw a dot in the sky, it was 5 o'clock, so I am sure it wasn't a phone tower's light. Its shape was like a BB, It was glowing orange, and about thirty seconds later, I had driven under a tree, and that blocked the view for a few seconds. But after I passed the tree, it was gone.
I didn't see any aircraft or anything else near it. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Bright strobing multi colored star like object. A single bright small object stroking multi colors very fast, object never moved. I took photos with 35mms digital camera and got video footage.
The zoomed in photo looks like two bowls inverted over each other.
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Red fireball changing direction in sky Leaving to grocery store we noticed a red fireball in the sky. It was heading down at first then turned to the right and left a trail of smoke behind it. After about 9 min it started going up again until it vanished.
We live north east Fort Wayne, IN. We both have never seen anything like this. Our dogs were going crazy barking!!.
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Bright light hovers then shoots upwards. My sister and I were in our car at a stop sign at our local Walmart. In the sky before us was a bright light that seemed to be staying still or maybe hovering.
My sister asked, bewildered, "Is that a light or a very bright star?" The sky was very dark and there were no visible stars at the time. Then, the light started going upwards at a slow speed and we turned, heading home. We were staring at it, turning our heads and craning our necks, just as it shot up into the air and the light was gone.
We were thinking it was a UFO.
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Three large bright lights slowly moved south. I could not see the craft itself. The lights slowed and stayed in one spot low in the sky then slowly moved south again where a fourth light became visible.
Then it was gone. Definitely not an airplane.
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Green fireball with an orange tail flashed over Hwy 65 in Indiana. Mile marker 250-ish. Saw a green fireball with an orange tail off highway 65 in Indiana going south at about mile marker 250.
It was much bigger than a shooting star (like a baseball). It lasted for one second, flashed, disappeared, reappeared and then it was instantly gone. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor? The annual Leonid Meteor Shower begins on this date.
PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Small white flying object flying faster than a normal aircraft. Looking a pair of hawks flying over head when I saw a small fast moving white object flying over head at a high alt. I could not make out what kind of aircraft it was nor it was leaving a white smoke trail as other aircraft does.
I did not have time to get my camera to take a picture.
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Lights in the eastern sky hovered for an hour before moving off in the distance. As my wife and I sat in our garage just after midnight we noticed one particularly bright light in the sky at about 60 degrees in the sky from our vantage point. We didn't think much of it until it had been there for well into 20 minutes.
We began watching it and comparing it to its location above the neighbors house to the east for matter of reference. During the time we watched this light we saw it zig back and forth in the sky. While it did not move around a tremendous amount, the movement was still noticeable.
Also, at times the light would pulsate slowly, rarely changing from a white light to red then back to white. After watching this light move for nearly an hour we looked southeast and discovered another light in the shy that also was moving erratically in the sky. The first light we saw moved toward in the sky to nearly 80 degrees and became noticing dimmer as time went on.
We live in a flight path for one of the busiest airports in the US and are very accustomed to airplanes flying over. This hovered in the same general area for over an hour, moving in multiple directions during that time. We couldn't stand to be out in the cold any longer and decided to come inside before either light went out of view or disappeared.
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It was a saucer moving faster than anything I have ever seen, for a few moments and then it went straight up in the air and vanished I was looking upward, out my window to see what the weather was like. All of a sudden a saucer shaped object went by at a very fast and low in the sky. I have never seen anything fly that fast.
And i could see the shape of it very clearly. It had two lights on it very bright. They were on the side I was seeing, they were in the middle of the side, a little ways apart.
In a seconds time, the saucer went straight up in the air at a high rate of speed. It was heading south, before it went straight up and vanished.
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UFO seen traveling east on I-265, while driving home from work. Very triangular shaped object. Blue and green in color.
Passed my line of vision in less than a second. Stopped and tilted upward then shot upward and disappeared. The whole sighting was less than 3 seconds.
No sound at all.
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Very loud boom heard all over the city. Woke a lot of people up. Describe as very loud boom and noise shook the structure they were standing in.
Sounded like a sonic boom.
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multiple crafts illuminated with white and gray light There was a slightly illuminated craft that appeared at 1:12 am. This craft was flashing black, white, and gray. Soon thereafter, approximately 8 more crafts appeared in a V formation.
It appeared to be flying by flapping mechanisms with occasional high pitched wails.
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A fast round bright light I observed with a family member a bright object in the sky. We were sitting by our front living room window waiting for trick or treaters when we both saw a bright light fly by. It was in the form of a sparkling round light with the color of orange and white.
It was considerably low in the sky just above the tree line, much lower than any commercial airline. It also moved considerably fast, too fast for any airplane. It flew by in a matter of 3 seconds or less.
No sound was made nor were there any vibrations to our home. We have seen several "falling stars" before but this was so low in altitude during a cloudy/snowy night we determined it had to be something else. It did not seem to burn out but continue on its path, making a small change in direction.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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I went outside on my mother third floor balcony to smoke a cigarette about two to three minutes later I see something come from the right side of the apartment building it looked like something was on fire in the sky there is a mall and a movie theater across the street the object appear over the parking lot between the two buildings it then travel north toward Gary as it was traveling north I could see commercial airplanes in the distance but this was not a plane I never seen any thing like that before it looked like fire flying in the sky moving slowly at first then with great speed.
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 34 reported sightings | 21.66% of all reports |
Circle | 26 reported sightings | 16.56% of all reports |
Triangle | 20 reported sightings | 12.74% of all reports |
Fireball | 12 reported sightings | 7.64% of all reports |
Sphere | 10 reported sightings | 6.37% of all reports |
Formation | 9 reported sightings | 5.73% of all reports |
Unknown | 8 reported sightings | 5.10% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 4.46% of all reports |
Disk | 7 reported sightings | 4.46% of all reports |
Cylinder | 5 reported sightings | 3.18% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 1.91% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.27% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 1.27% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 1.27% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 1.27% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.27% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 0.64% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.64% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 32 reported sightings | 20.38% of all reports |
October | 18 reported sightings | 11.46% of all reports |
February | 16 reported sightings | 10.19% of all reports |
June | 15 reported sightings | 9.55% of all reports |
September | 13 reported sightings | 8.28% of all reports |
April | 11 reported sightings | 7.01% of all reports |
May | 10 reported sightings | 6.37% of all reports |
December | 10 reported sightings | 6.37% of all reports |
January | 9 reported sightings | 5.73% of all reports |
March | 8 reported sightings | 5.10% of all reports |
November | 8 reported sightings | 5.10% of all reports |
August | 7 reported sightings | 4.46% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2014 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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Friday | 36 reported sightings | 22.93% of all reports |
Saturday | 33 reported sightings | 21.02% of all reports |
Tuesday | 22 reported sightings | 14.01% of all reports |
Sunday | 21 reported sightings | 13.38% of all reports |
Thursday | 17 reported sightings | 10.83% of all reports |
Wednesday | 17 reported sightings | 10.83% of all reports |
Monday | 11 reported sightings | 7.01% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2014 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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07/04/14 | 14 reported sightings | 8.92% of all reports |
07/05/14 | 5 reported sightings | 3.18% of all reports |
12/20/14 | 4 reported sightings | 2.55% of all reports |
04/11/14 | 3 reported sightings | 1.91% of all reports |
09/16/14 | 3 reported sightings | 1.91% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 84 reported sightings | 53.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 28 reported sightings | 17.83% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 22 reported sightings | 14.01% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 11 reported sightings | 7.01% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 8 reported sightings | 5.10% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 2.55% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2014
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 2014
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.