Indiana UFO Sightings in 2022

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Three circular lights lined up in a triangular shape, then rotated clockwise Pulled into the driveway and getting out of the car i pointed out to my girlfriend what I thought were stars in a constellation. She pointed out the lights were way too bright and had a green hue to them. The lights were there for about 2-3 minutes before rotating over clockwise, then disappearing.

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Bright object was seen arriving and silently hovering over neighbor's home before moving behind our house and lighting up a window. On the morning of Thursday, Dec 1, 2022 at 6:18AM EST (taken from door camera) my wife, son (16), and daughter (12) went outside to wait for the school bus. My kids are picked up across the street from our home, and my wife was keeping watch over the kids until the bus arrives.

I was indoors and still in bed, but awake. I heard them walk out and close the door and our Arlo camera recorded the time as 6:17 when my daughter first walked out, 6:18 when my wife accompanied my son out the door. The bus arrived at 6:21 and my wife reentered the house at that point.

It was dark outside. The sun rises at 7:41AM on Dec 1st. While my wife was outside, the window to my bedroom lit up very brightly, as if it was daylight outside.

The whole room lit up despite the shades and curtain being closed. I was lying just 3 or 4 feet from the window and sat up in bed and took notice. This window faces directly West from a walk-out basement.

The street and our front door face East. The closest house to the west is roughly 427 feet away. I thought perhaps a transformer had caught fire or that some kind of space debris was burning up during reentry and lit up the outside, however I do not recall the second window in the room lighting up.

It has a thicker curtain though and doesn't get as bright during the day. I sat up confused for a few seconds, listening for any kind of noise and debating whether to get up and look outside to identify the source of light. Within about 10 to 15 seconds and before I decided what to do, the light dimmed.

I then shrugged it off as unusual since that had never happened before. The window is far enough from other houses and any streets that car headlights do not shine on it, and this was much brighter than car headlights- unless maybe the car was parked right outside the window. Later in the day, I spoke to my wife and without telling her about the odd light coming through the window, I simply asked her if she noticed anything unusual outside that morning while waiting on the bus.

To my astonishment, she said yes and began to describe an object hovering over our neighbor's house to the South of ours. Their house is roughly 45 feet from ours. She described seeing a dimly lit object moving quickly approach from the S-SE at a low altitude and said she thought it to be a plane at first, but then took notice when it stopped over the neighbor's house and began to glow brightly.

She said she stepped off the porch in the front of our house and was looking towards our neighbor's house and back in the South-Southwest direction. She said the object hovered over their house for maybe 20 seconds and then moved towards the rear of our house. She said it was silent, and that she couldn't make out the shape because it was glowing too brightly.

She said she wasn't wearing her glasses and so even if she could see beyond the light she may not have been able to make out the shape in the dark. I asked her if she saw any blinking or colored lights and she said no. She said the light was so bright that had there been blinking lights, they might have been washed out in the glare.

She said her initial reaction was that it must be some kind of police drone. She described the light as white and she said the object looked to her like a glowing orb. She recalls thinking that whatever it is must see her because the light was so bright.

I asked her if she recalls the roof of the neighbors house lighting up or anything else reflecting the light and she said she did not recall that detail. Without disclosing these details, I asked my daughter and son separately, who were across the street slightly to the North-East from our house and our neighbor's house, if they had noticed anything odd. My son indicated he had not noticed anything odd.

However, my daughter said she noticed a large object in the sky in the direction of our neighbor's house. I asked her to draw the object, and she drew it on a napkin. She said it looked futuristic like a spaceship from star trek.

She perceived it to be as large as a commercial airline and thought it was in the sky some distance behind and beyond the neighbor's house. I asked her about any sound and she said she heard no jet noise and no drone noises. I took her to the bus stop location and asked her to point where she saw it.

She pointed to the same location that my wife had from our front side walk. When asked, my daughter indicated that she did not notice any blinking lights and she did not see it glowing brightly. She said she witnessed her mother step off the porch and look at something.

I asked her if she saw any bright light over the house or any sort of spotlight shining back at her mother, and she said no. She insisted that she wasn't paying attention and had only glanced in that direction for a few seconds. I asked her a few times if she saw any means of propulsion like jet engines or propellers and she indicated she did not.

I asked how she was able to see the object if she noticed no lights at all and she couldn't answer. There are street lamps near the bus stop and they may have provided some ambient illumination. She said that she thought it was a very strange looking jet that had 2 sets of wings that were the same width.

She said one set was at what she believed was the rear of the object and the other set were closer to the front. She said they were not like the rear control surfaces on a jet because both sets of wings were the same size. I own a DJI Mavic 2 platinum drone which was touted as an improved version with quieter motors and quieter propellers.

My kids and wife are familiar with how it sounds and looks when it is operating. It is not silent at the altitudes they were suggesting this object hovered. They described the object in question as having no sound and both said they thought it was larger than a drone.

Given that she was describing the object's appearance differently than my wife and because she said she thought it to be further in the distance, I used the FlightRadar24 website to go back to 11:16UTC and look for local air traffic from then until 11:21UTC when the bus arrived and my wife entered the house. At 11:16UTC (6:16AM EST) a Helicopter from Indiana University Health was traveling from the north-west to the south-east roughly 1.5 miles from us and was out of the area by 11:18 UTC.

A UPS jet was on flightradar at 11:21:43 UTC heading from the Southeast towards the Northwest, roughly along the same coridoor as the Helicopter, but in the opposite direction. It stayed to the South of our location and turned clockwise back to the south, likely on approach to the SDF airport. The Arlo camera video confirms this timing.

My wife can be seen entering our house at 11:21 UTC and afterwards you can hear the jet in the audio before the camera stops recording its 15 second clip. So it is my understanding this jet passed by AFTER the object was sighted hovering and moving behind our house. There was no other nearby air traffic on flightradar during the 11:16UTC to 11:21UTC window.

I did a video screen capture of FlightRadar to save the data since it is no longer available on flightradar with a free account after 7 days. Given that the object was witnessed moving by 2 people, I disregarded any notion that it was a planet, star, or meteorite and as described by my wife and my experience with the bedroom window, it was too bright to be a satellite. I have made no conclusions as to what the object was, except that it was unusual and likely not an aircraft with a transponder.

From rough triangulation of my daughter's vantage point with my wife's vantage point, I have concluded that it was almost certainly not in the distance as my daughter described. My wife's view would have been obscured had it been further away. I believe it was as my wife stated, hovering above the roof of our neighbors house.

She indicated it was perhaps 10 to 20 feet above their house. I did not report the object to the local police because my wife did not want the attention and I didn't personally witness it. She preferred to have privacy.

I urged her to reconsider because if this was a drone, it was a highly unusual configuration and it was sighted around a bus stop at a strange time. I am concerned about anyone surveiling my children at this time of the morning in the dark. If we ever see the object again, I intend to report it to local authorities.

I chose to report this sighting here because of the following attributes: - Seemingly silent operation at low altitude - Intelligently controlled - Intense blindingly bright white light seen (not typical equipment for consumer drones) described as "glowing orb" - No traditional blinking lights as required by the FAA were detected - If a drone, operation was at dark and out of line of sight, which violate FAA rules (without an exception being issued for nighttime operation) - I experienced its light separately from their encounter outside, and It seemed as though it knew I was inside and intentionally lit up the window - My daughter and wife seemed to experience it differently and my daughter noticed no spotlight shining at my wife or any intense glowing that my wife saw - perhaps due to their different vantage points or something on the roof blocking my daughter's view. So in conclusion, if it was a consumer drone, it was a very unusual custom configuration that makes no sound and is equipped with an illegal light. I also don't rule out the possibility of some type of police drone or military drone.

Attached photo description: The attached drawing was made by my daughter to describe the shape see recalled. I added the propellers and dots on the wing-tips in an attempt to ask her if she noticed propulsion or lights, and she said no. So those parts of the drawing were not part of the original drawing.

They were added by me after the fact. She indicated the wings in front/back were the same size and and then added that the rear wings might have been slightly larger than the front wings. She did not witness the object banking and could not describe if it moved sideways.

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LIne of round lights moving south to north in single file (white light with reddish tint) -- definitely "flying" I'm 69 and have never seen anything like this. It was a continuous row of "something" flying one after the other in single file. No engine noise -- large bright roundish white light with reddish tint in each.

They were obviously identical. Plenty of separation between each -- I watched for 10 minutes till they all flew out of view to the north.

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2 seconds light, 5000-ish ft high, traveling east to west. Could not hear engine or nothing, absolute silence. 8:32pm saw a light shoot across the sky.

Came East and headed west. Looked much closer than aircraft would fly (guess 7,000ft. Give it take 2,000).

A light came on for a few seconds, I thought it couldve been a shooting star but when looking at it it was much brighter and closer. It had that yellowish color like a halogen light would have. Only saw one light.

Light was in for a few seconds and turned off. I kept looking to see if it would flash or come back on, but waiting 10 seconds I didn't see any come back on and knew it would have been out of eyesight after that. My first instinct was aircraft when I saw it, but to close to be commercial and two fast to be a private aircraft.

I thought with how close it was I'd hear an engine or something, but it was dead silent. Standing outside for 5 mins for anything else, but did not hear or see anything more.

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It came straight down from the sky. The object was very bright and shiny. It was like the shiniest metal I’ve ever seen.

It was in the shape of a diamond and it just came down quickly like someone was dropping it from the sky (in the distance) and then it just disappeared. It was like it evaporated in thin air or went through some portal.

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Took a photo of city skyline and noticed it after I took the photos. I took a picture of the skyline because it was beautiful tonight. We live in a highrise and I do this a lot.

After looking at the photos I noticed it in the top right corner.

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Lights moving in curcle Registered Nurse at facility noted 2 lights moving in circle above clouds. Seen by 3 other people. Lights almost looked they were coming from a lighthouse but there was no source.

Then lights began moving in same circle but closer together. Went from 8 second intervals to 4.

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Bright lights 5 to 6 feet off the ground Small circles of light moving about 5 to 7 feet off the ground moving left and right and up and down. We saw them 2 weeks ago and again tonight. 2 were fairly close to each other and one to the left about 200 yards from the other 2.

They move quickly when they move left or right or up and down. Neighbors outside dogs barking. My dogs are barking for no reason.

You can tell there is not a person holding a flashlight because u can see the light that is coming from them lighting up the woods around them 360 degrees.

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Looked like fire in the sky. Objects moving too slow to meteor or comment. Kept disappearing and reappearing every 5 or so minutes.

My roommate and I were driving down 65 south toward the shelbyville exit 91. When my roommate said “Look, the sky is on fire.”.

We kept driving and got off the highway and turned left on state road 43 toward Shelbyville IN. The objects disappeared once we were off the Highway but then returned. This went on for about 20 minutes of them appearing and disappearing coming back with larger proportions and often splitting from one object to two.

We pulled over in a corn field to study the sky and then the object after appearing for the 4th time disappeared and never came back.

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Very shiny silver looking circle My boyfriend and I were leaving the shopping center on a nice sunny day, when I looked up to check my rear view mirror I seen a really shiny (reflective) silver/metallic circle up in the sky. I said something to my boyfriend and we both decided that it WAS NOT something of “normalcy” and tried to take pictures with our phones but every time we would go to aim our phones at the object it would be gone only to appear again as soon as we put our phones down, then it moved across the sky very rapidly and just disappeared.

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Erratically strobed by unknown aerial vehicle Over the last 15 years as a long haul trucker I have been followed by the same unknown aerial vehcle from state to state. This week it was Daleville,In.It strobes from far away then it comes in close and strobes in a threatining bee-like manner for several minutes.

There is always a faint second ufo close by the strober but it observes only.I thought I saw it take off from the moline quad city airport a few years ago,as it strobed me while in its take off as I drove by at close proximity.A strange marking on my back was noticed 2 days later.

it is mainly annoying.

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I was digging and I found an reptilian creature in the place I was digging there was a big tank out in the middle of the woods The pipes was leading under ground I didn’t mess with it cause it was making noises it was about 25-30 ft tank by 12 foot wide, so I seen a light come down at the time there was 3 of us so I have 2 more witnesses in this I told them to stay still cuz it came close then took of and we went back to digging. And if your interested Ik where all my dig sites are! Under my finger is on the eye and my pinky is by the nose and my pointing finger is on the jaw, half of his face is missing.

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Every where I go They follow me because I know how to stop them but I’m scared I even think my bf is Robot.

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Loud noise hovering over my home with blinking lights I was asleep and awoke to a loud noise of an aircraft almost on top of my house. I saw the blinking lights on my blinds. It did not sound like a helicopter.

It was an intense sound and then was quickly gone.

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Blue light hovering, then darted left and right in rapid movements Looking west from outdoor swing, son reported seeing blue cross shaped light hover than zig zag multiple directions rapidly. Then disappear.

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We both noticed the light and then it shrunk in size until it disappeared. My daughter and I noticed the light. I asked her what it was.

The sky was still blue so the bright white light was very noticeable. As we drove closer it just hovered shrunk in size and disappeared. This all happened in around 90 seconds.

We found out from my son that his buddy had recorded this same light on his snap chat account asking everyone frantically what it was. We live just down the road from this location and have had a few other sightings/experiences over the last several years but have never reported any of them as we didn’t want to be labeled “crazy”.

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Got video It had to be at least 8-12 feet in diameter.

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Possible UFO aircraft appeared suddenly and kept moving up the sky. My son and I were gazing the sky while suddenly plain sight a large circle that is glowing like a sunset sun just appeared in front of us and was heading north then it started climbing up and up, it was huge at 1st then it got smaller and smaller as it kept climbing in a steady speed. I wish I had my phone at 1st but when I grabbed it it was smaller and further up in the sky.

Beautiful sighting overall.

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I saw a straight line of lights, they started moving counter clockwise slowly rotating and slowly started disappearing Looking west saw a straight line of lights, slight green tint. Perfect line, then started rotating counter clockwise, slowly. With every turn it disappeared more and more then right in front of the big dipper it disappeared.

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MADAR site 29 shows slight variation in magnetometer, with variation of at least 3 degrees in onboard compass.