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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 94 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2018 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (15 reports, 15.96% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 20.21% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 20.21% of total).
- 06/04/18 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 2.13% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (30 reports, 31.91% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2018
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2018, 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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While taking pics of the Moon, I saw a bright oval-ish shape moving sparatically from ground level to horizon level in front of my sightline of the Moon. It moved very quickly, could NOT have been a conventional aircraft.
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MADAR Node 07.
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Intensive bright oval/cigar light over Cicero Indiana hovered in the before moving disappearing to a pinpoint in seconds. While driving on St. Rd 19 in Cicero, Indiana, I noticed an extremely bright oval shape in the sky.
It was just hovering from the time I noticed it for about a minute. It then moved to the west before rapidly becoming a pinpoint and disappeared. The brightness never changed, just the size of the object until I couldn't see it.
From the time the object moved until I couldn't see it anymore was a couple of seconds.
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Very bright light in SouthEastern sky. The light moved erratically and was changing colors from red/purple. The light looks as if it split into 2 lights at times and then immediatley recombined.
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Could not see what was infrount of the trail of what look like a dust trail of somthing. It at night about 1am took the dogs out I was looking up at the stars and I seen something fly by. all I seen was a trail behind what ever it was.
It looked like dust I don't know what it was about 500-600 feet I'am not sure.
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MADAR Node 06.
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MADAR Node 06.
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Triangular/diamond shaped craft with orange lights hovered above street lights for several minutes over traffic. My grandmother and I were on our way home from my doctor's appointment, we started driving down exit 7 off of 70 when we could see a large object hovering above the street lights. I asked her "Is that a helicopter? What is that?" And she said "It's probably a helicopter.
" As we got closer we could definitely tell it was not a helicopter. It was black, a triangle shape but also kind of diamond shaped, like it had a belly/rounded bottom and top (sorry it's hard to explain the shape it was so unusual), with orange lights around the edges. My mind kept repeatedly telling me it was just a helicopter even though I knew it wasn't, and I just kinda froze in place as I stared at it.
My grandma kept saying "get your camera, take a picture!" And I just couldn't move I was so shocked at what I was seeing. We drove through the intersection with the other cars, and made our way back home. Then we just kind of forgot about it up until recently.
There's no way the other cars didn't see it. I said there were only 2 witnesses, my grandma and I, but there were at least 4-5 other cars with us, and idk how many more before us/after us that had to of seen it.
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MADAR Node 07.
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MADAR Node 07.
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MADAR Node 07.
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MADAR Node 07.
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MADAR Node 07.
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8 orange lights in the sky, fairly low, drifting, almost playing, no sound, moving slowly. Non threatening, mesmerizing. Awestruck.
I was running to the store real quick and foolishly didn't bring my phone. I saw a minimum of 8 orange lights over the tree tops as I was walking to my car. I didn't think much of it and pulled out into the road and drove on.
As I neared the top of the bridge on our road I noticed them again, as it's a rural area and it was quite dark. I stopped my car and got out. I was mesmerized by 8 orange glowing, drifting lights.
Slowly moving west in no particular pattern. I was awestruck as it looked like 8 orange glowing Para-sails in the sky. I imagined it was a group of people flying them and just out having fun.
Then I realized it was dark, it was 38 degrees. These were no Para-sails. I literally stood there mesmerized as they drifted west and then disappeared into some heavy cloud cover that was moving in.
This was my first experience with anything like this but it wasn't frightening. It was almost magical. I don't know what they were but I can't imagine anything man-made that would create what I saw.
I would estimate the height to be probably 3000 feet. Very strange. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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MADAR Node 127.
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MADAR Node 07.
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MADAR Node 02.
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Object just disappears, multiple colored lights no sound This is the second time I have seen it in the last two years. My dogs always wake me up around 4 a.m.
to go out. Both sighting have been the same. They are circular lights that have multiple colors.
The object appears to barely move and I am unsure of the distance. Object was north of Newburgh but I am not sure how far. Just like the last time, I was observing it an it did not fly away it just disappeared.
They were airplanes in the sky, they had to have seen it.
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2 Very fast Lights Chasing each other from East to West right above cloud line. This morning at 7:17am, when going to warm up my car, I saw 2 UFO'S chasing each other! They were white lights. They caught my eye because at first, I thought they were shooting stars; but they were way too big and low.
They were flying right above the cloud line and going faster than any aircraft I've EVER seen. I live by the airport so I'm used to seeing aircrafts all night and day long. This lasted 10 seconds.
They were "playing" over my house and reminded me of kids chasing each other. They flew in snake like formation not a straight line. They went from the west sky until they went so far east they disappeared from my range of sight.
They appeared to be their own light source.
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MADAR Node 07.
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 15.96% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 5.32% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
Circle | 3 reported sightings | 3.19% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 19 reported sightings | 20.21% of all reports |
September | 11 reported sightings | 11.70% of all reports |
October | 10 reported sightings | 10.64% of all reports |
May | 9 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
April | 9 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
November | 9 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
February | 6 reported sightings | 6.38% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 5.32% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 5.32% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
January | 4 reported sightings | 4.26% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 3.19% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 19 reported sightings | 20.21% of all reports |
Tuesday | 16 reported sightings | 17.02% of all reports |
Sunday | 14 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
Friday | 13 reported sightings | 13.83% of all reports |
Thursday | 12 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Monday | 12 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Wednesday | 8 reported sightings | 8.51% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2018 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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06/04/18 | 2 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
03/20/18 | 2 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
07/06/18 | 2 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
10/28/18 | 2 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
07/07/18 | 2 reported sightings | 2.13% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 30 reported sightings | 31.91% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 22 reported sightings | 23.40% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 14 reported sightings | 14.89% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 12 reported sightings | 12.77% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 7.45% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2018
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 2018
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.