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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 93 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (8 reports, 8.60% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 17.20% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 17.20% of total).
- 05/06/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 3.23% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (29 reports, 31.18% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2021, 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 21 .
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Accidental capture of disc-shaped UFO in photo A neighbor and I were chatting at the edge of my property not long after sunset when he decided to take a photo of the Christmas decorations on my next-door neighbors’ house. As he did, I noticed a very bright star in the sky above and to the right of the moon. I said “Wow, that must be Venus,” and he said “Maybe.
” After he took the photo, he showed it to me. I thought it was a beautiful scene and asked him to text it to me. He did, and several minutes later I looked at it.
Right away, I noticed that the “very bright star” looked a bit odd, so I zoomed in on it. When I enlarged the photo to the max, I could see that it was actually a lighted disc encircled with a gray rim. I asked him to zoom in on the photo too and he saw the same thing.
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I was leaving Krogers grocery and putting bags in my truck. I looked up and saw 8 spheres or circles in a somewhat triangle formation. I was leaving Krogers grocery and putting bags in my car.
I looked up in front of me and there were 8 circles kind of hovering around, about a I really think 2 miles up. I could be mistaken, but they were close. So they were lit up and would disappear and light up again in a kind of different formation.
Mainly straight line to almost a triangular position. They would light up and one orb would go out shooting off in a downward angular position and light dimming and go out as it shot away, a few of them did that then. Then they would all go out.
Then the lights would come back on in a formation. At this time and very old friend of mine was walking into kroger. I yelled his name and told him "hey im serious come here bro"! He kind of jogged to me, I said look up.
As he looked the lights had just went out. After 20 secs he looked at me like huh? I said no They been doing that, just watch. After I say 45 secs they came back on in the same part of the sky, and started shooting away in motions I couldn't describe, very aerodynamic.
He just looked at me in surprise, I said them were UFOs and he said Yeah I agree. I stared another few mins and left home kind of just staring into the sky as I drove home. I never saw them again.
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MADAR Node 142 .
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MADAR Node 142 .
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MADAR Node 153 .
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MADAR Node 22 .
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MADAR Node 142 .
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MADAR Node 87 .
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MADAR Node 142 .
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MADAR Node 119 .
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MADAR Node 178 .
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Small cloud traveling faster than other clouds in the area sky. Suddenly drpping out of the cloud and speeding east. This is my second sighting with the triangle.
The first sighting was exacting one year prior, again in Nov of 2020. I did not have a picture but was able to sketch both sightings. The 2020 sighting had a cockpit with a visible pilot.
I wanted to report these sightings because of National Security.
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MADAR Node 79 .
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Star bright light in broad daylight cigar shaped Started as a light, I thought it was a star or a planet at first, but it was broad daylight in the morning. Not a cloud in the sky. Also there were 3 commercial jets flying in the sky in different directions at the same time for me to use for reference.
Object only moved vertically. Light dimmed like a dimmer switch in a house and and then all you could see was the cigar shape, then the center of the shape faded and all you could see was the outline, then the outline disappeared. All this happened while it was stationary disappeared and reappeared 3 times.
Mile marker 51 Interstate 64 east between Stendal and Birdseye.
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Orange colored orbs flying in formation over Greenfield Indiana Moving at level flight from the south east heading north west approx. 3-5 thousand feet. orange spheres traveling in twos very fast.
started off very bright and slowly dimming. At first sighting I saw eight orbs. They headed north slowing to a stop.
then fading out. Then another two, then another, and they kept coming in twos. In my binoculars I could see a light that seemed to slowly circling the orb.
I'm an amature astronomer and familiar with aircrafts, I was not confused on what I saw. My wife used her camera phone but we have yet to download to computer.
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MADAR Node 178 .
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MADAR Node 21 .
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Seen a roughly 10x10 V shaped object flying across me. It was roughly 300 to 500 feet off the ground. It lasted about 4 seconds.
Each side had 4 elonaged ovals that were translucent. I was trying to process what I was looking at in those 4 seconds. It happened so fast.
I lost it once it went on the other side of the house. It was a reflection, a pack of duck, lighting or drones. It was something I've never seen before.
The translucent part had me losing my mind.
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Cigar shaped object colored purple to pink to orange caught on blink camera Front door light turned on so I brought up our blink camera to see of it was a cat or deer. Instead it showed a cigar shaped object colored purple, pink to orange. The object appeared to right of our well in our yard.
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 8 reported sightings | 8.60% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 7.53% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 4.30% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 1.08% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.08% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 1.08% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.08% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 1.08% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 1.08% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 1.08% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2021 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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May | 16 reported sightings | 17.20% of all reports |
November | 13 reported sightings | 13.98% of all reports |
September | 11 reported sightings | 11.83% of all reports |
April | 11 reported sightings | 11.83% of all reports |
August | 9 reported sightings | 9.68% of all reports |
October | 8 reported sightings | 8.60% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 6.45% of all reports |
July | 5 reported sightings | 5.38% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 5.38% of all reports |
December | 4 reported sightings | 4.30% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 4.30% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 1.08% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 16 reported sightings | 17.20% of all reports |
Thursday | 15 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Sunday | 15 reported sightings | 16.13% of all reports |
Wednesday | 12 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Friday | 12 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Monday | 12 reported sightings | 12.90% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 11.83% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2021 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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05/06/21 | 3 reported sightings | 3.23% of all reports |
06/20/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
08/20/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
05/22/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
05/13/21 | 2 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 29 reported sightings | 31.18% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 20 reported sightings | 21.51% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 13 reported sightings | 13.98% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 11 reported sightings | 11.83% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 10 reported sightings | 10.75% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 10 reported sightings | 10.75% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Indiana, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Indiana.