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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 199 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (35 reports, 17.59% of total).
- January is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (24 reports, 12.06% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (36 reports, 18.09% of total).
- 04/26/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 3.02% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (62 reports, 31.16% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2020, 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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MADAR Node 87.
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MADAR Node 119.
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I have reported this once already,it is ongoing.The lights around my home & the Sawmill in Oaktown laminate,drone-like.I can see people,entities,both black & white cloaked figures,alien looking figures.
I don't know what they are but this has been ongoing by my observation at least a year.Im under the assumption that they may have crashed,maybe a cover up since the craft can't be seen by the naked eye.Gusts of wind has showed up numerous times making it feel like I'm in like a tornado & it moves,not staying in one spot.
I have witnessed several black stealth looking objects blending in with the clouds.I have also seen what looks like beams coming down & crowds of people look to be running from.I have several pictures I have taken thru a dvr security system showing most of this.
If it helps,the cordenance to the sawmill is 38.873,-87,437.
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Strange lights over Lagrange Indiana 12/10/2020 I was talking to a friend in my driveway and witnessed strange lights low in sky. The light was very bright white and meandering around slowly. Too slow to be a plane and too bright to be a drone.
After 15 minutes or so the light turned red and occasionally flashed the bright white light. Eventually it faded off heading west best I could tell.
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It was a beautiful sunny day with low cloud cover. I was going home driving eastbound and I looked to the north east and saw bright lights on a sunny day facing westbound. It was the size of a football field at least.
This object was hovering over a barn on 200 North in Greenfield . I then turned to the south and it went invisible in the sky, but I could still see a shadow behind it. After getting home, I went to a trail in town and by this time I was one mile south but directly across from where I saw it before.
So, I looked I. The sky and it came back into view again. This time I saw white and then it looked like it.
Hanged a shape cause then I saw what looked like dark glass windows or mercury but only vertical. It just faded into the sky, went invisible. I couldn’t believe what I saw.
I haven’t told anyone but my family cause I don’t think anyone will believe me. I waited to see if social media would say anything. It’s only been one day but I know what I! saw! (MUFON CMS).
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MADAR Node 87.
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MUFON report: I was taking my trash out before going to bed a few minutes before midnight. I heard a slight hum and looked up to see a huge triangular airplane with a light at the front, one in the middle, and three at the back. It was going North to South, towards Indianapolis.
It was a dark night, but the craft was below the cloud cover and nearly directly overhead, going creepily slow, so I could make out that it was a triangle. The closest to it I had seen before was the stealth fighter jet. The craft had five lights.
The front, middle, and three in the back. The mid one was red, the others white. There was some pattern blinking, but not like any plane I have seen.
When it got out of sight, another showed up, Six in all, maybe others had passed before I came out? They were about a minute apart, maybe a minute and a half. I wondered what the military was up to at midnight, but I didn't know there would be so many, so I didn't go and get my phone camera, darn! Some had 6 white lights, front, two on the sides, and three in back making a perfect triangle. They barely made a sound.
After they left, I saw an airplane going more east to west. It was a red blinking dot in the sky. (MUFON CMS).
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It was the size of a football field at least, hovering over a barn on 200 North It was a beautiful sunny day with low cloud cover. I was going home driving eastbound and I looked to the north east and saw bright lights on a sunny day facing westbound. It was the size of a football field at least.
This object was hovering over a barn on 200 North in Greenfield . I then turned to the south and it went invisible in the sky, but I could still see a shadow behind it. After getting home,I went to a trail in town and by this time I was one mile south but directly across from where I saw it before.
So, I looked in the sky and it came back into view again. This time I saw white and then it looked like it ?? Hanged a shape cause then I saw what looked like dark glass windows or mercury but only vertical. It just faded into the sky, went invisible.
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MADAR Node 119.
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It was a trail of lights in a vertical line.
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13 lights (what looked like stars but a bit bigger) moving at a steady pace, perfectly spaced out (but too close for airplanes) in a straight line disappearing at a certain point in the sky. Could not be picked up by camera.
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Driving 50 MPH East bound when I observed a metallic, stationary/oval shape in South Eastern sky 10 to 15,000 feet in elevation that was reflecting light from Sun for approximately 10 seconds then the object went from a metallic reflective color to an extremely bright white light from the opposing side and vanished.
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3 disks gathered in the midnight sky took dog out back. crisp clear night-early morning. dark few clouds.
flat terrain. approx 1/4 mile in North East noticed rotating lights very close to the ground 300-500 ft rotating lights mostly white-occasional green or red glimmer no idea how long it was there before I came out, it hovered for probably 10 minutes then, rose straight up under cloud level in 2-4 seconds hovered for 2-3 minutes, out of nowhere there were 2 more hovering close by all 3 were there for only seconds, 1 very fast spun off south south west gone in about 5 seconds the second followed just after the first disappeared the primary one continued to hover moved over Elwood and hovered about 3 minutes then moved off in the direction the other 2 left in it was traveling slower and appeared to mimic an airplane in speed had I not seen it lift and hover I might have mistaken it for a plane definitely disks with rotating lights craft at the ground appeared to be very large and dwarfed the outlines of barns in the distance my dog stayed very quiet there was no sound or noise.
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Low flying, quiet, but deep & muffled Triangle. Hovering capabilities. My friend and I were walking our nightly speed walks.
It was windy and very dark. We were talking and this object kept getting lower. It seemed very large, but we couldn’t make out exact details.
It was not a plane. It had three main lights. One was blinking.
We have very unclear video of it. The UFO hovered for a few seconds then moved. It moved rather slowly, but it was very low.
It was quiet and nothing like we had ever heard. The best way to describe it is picture a slow boat like a pontoon. If the boat was turned on out of the water underneath an awning.
But it was muffled and very deep in sound, but very quiet. It was not the wind. You cannot hear the sound in our video.
I believe it had almost like a tubular rocket “nose, part,” but the shape was kind of a triangle. My friend and I paused our conversation. I said “I’m sorry, but what is that? I thought it was a plane, but.
” she cut me off to agree and said “I have been wondering the same thing. Why is it hovering? Why is it so low? Why does it sound like that?” These were all questions I had so I knew I wasn’t imagining things. I apologize for not having more details.
My friend and I didn’t know what to do. Our phones didn’t capture what we were seeing. We were so shocked we didn’t know what to do.
We should have written our thoughts down at the moment.
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A descending disc above the road. It was on its side and reflective and luminous. There was the disc and around it was a pulsating energy.
My husband and I saw it while coming back from my sisters house on Maples Road facing East as it crossed above us in the air and looked like it was getting ready to land. The disc was flying across the road in a South direction. We only saw it for a few seconds.
It was definitely not a falling star. The object appeared to be the size of a large house.
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Delta shaped slow moving something. Walking my dog, looked up. Saw faint white mist like glow.
Removed my phone, set to take picture. Zoomed to focus and delta shape was visible. Movement was slow and in a eastern direction.
No sound was heard. Only slow movement. Finally was to far away to see due to tree line.
I could not tell size.
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MADAR Node 84.
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MADAR Node 114.
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Hundreds of flying orbs across indianapolis sky I looked up in the sky around 19:25 and noticed dozens of lights moving. Thought they might be airplanes but they are so close and now there might be hundreds and that has to be dangerous for planes. I recorded video on my phone but quality and night looks like a ton of orbs flying around.
Possibly star link satellites, but not sure. Never seen this many things flying at once, looks like an invasion.
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MADAR Node 142.
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 35 reported sightings | 17.59% of all reports |
Circle | 15 reported sightings | 7.54% of all reports |
Unknown | 8 reported sightings | 4.02% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 4.02% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 3.52% of all reports |
Triangle | 7 reported sightings | 3.52% of all reports |
Disk | 5 reported sightings | 2.51% of all reports |
Formation | 4 reported sightings | 2.01% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 2.01% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 2.01% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 1.51% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.51% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 1.51% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.01% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.50% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2020 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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January | 24 reported sightings | 12.06% of all reports |
March | 21 reported sightings | 10.55% of all reports |
May | 20 reported sightings | 10.05% of all reports |
April | 19 reported sightings | 9.55% of all reports |
July | 18 reported sightings | 9.05% of all reports |
June | 17 reported sightings | 8.54% of all reports |
February | 16 reported sightings | 8.04% of all reports |
August | 15 reported sightings | 7.54% of all reports |
September | 13 reported sightings | 6.53% of all reports |
October | 12 reported sightings | 6.03% of all reports |
November | 12 reported sightings | 6.03% of all reports |
December | 12 reported sightings | 6.03% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2020 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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Tuesday | 36 reported sightings | 18.09% of all reports |
Wednesday | 35 reported sightings | 17.59% of all reports |
Monday | 31 reported sightings | 15.58% of all reports |
Saturday | 29 reported sightings | 14.57% of all reports |
Sunday | 28 reported sightings | 14.07% of all reports |
Thursday | 23 reported sightings | 11.56% of all reports |
Friday | 17 reported sightings | 8.54% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2020 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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04/26/20 | 6 reported sightings | 3.02% of all reports |
07/07/20 | 4 reported sightings | 2.01% of all reports |
03/29/20 | 4 reported sightings | 2.01% of all reports |
01/07/20 | 3 reported sightings | 1.51% of all reports |
07/04/20 | 3 reported sightings | 1.51% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 62 reported sightings | 31.16% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 47 reported sightings | 23.62% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 31 reported sightings | 15.58% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 26 reported sightings | 13.07% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 20 reported sightings | 10.05% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 13 reported sightings | 6.53% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.