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Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 75 UFO sighting reports in Indiana from 2023 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "orb" (9 reports, 12.00% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (11 reports, 14.67% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 17.33% of total).
- 05/17/23 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 2.67% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (37 reports, 49.33% of total).
Indiana UFO Sighting Reports in 2023
This is a sampling of 20 Indiana UFO reports from 2023, 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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No trails eyes couldn’t track seemingly instant, Appearing in/out in complete opposite initial trajectory Curving around while doing so Clear sky, I was walking my dogs outside my lawn facing 300 see a (1)flash starting around 210 (30 angle going towards the horizon which was my tree line) thought it was a meteor at first but there was no trail. As I walk to the side of my house to get a clearer view of the sky (Orions belt left of the sky)facing 210 (60 angle) now I saw another seemingly instant (2)flash no trail white bright light curving almost like an S but more so elongated. The light disappeared I saw the beginning and the end.
The end was about 75 angle. (3)Then it appeared back into the sky from my view left side of the orions belt starting below his legs curving around it and and up towards 80 angle then dissapearing also seeing the end. No trails for anything no means for propulsion seemingly appearing in one side of the sky out the other.
Quiet night no noise. There was also a plane in the sky heading towards Cincinnati I believe and I heard a helicopter. Before I left to walk my dog I was in a call with my friend on my pc using discord.
When I came back inside my pc was back in the Home Screen page wanting a password and disconnected from the call. And that wouldn’t have happened other than my computer losing power and coming back on. I have no screensaver settings or any previous electrical problems with my PC Could be coincidence but all that happening together seems odd this was an explanation for checked box for electrical/magnetic interferences.
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Horizontal bight light Bright white light traveling faster than any aircraft seen. Travelled horizontally and at very high elevation. Suddenly appeared traveling and within 15 seconds disappeared.
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Fast moving object with glittering trail Approximate Coordinates: 39°13'N 84°51'W Approximate Time: 20:15-20:25 (UTC-5:00) EST Direction of Travel: Northeasterly to Southeasterly Approximate Length of Sighting: 12 seconds Viewers: Myself and my wife once I got her attention towards it Facing the eastern sky from my driveway as we were getting out of our vehicle coming home from dinner when I noticed a fast moving "glittering" trail of red/white/blue moving from Beta Tauri in the Taurus constellation towards the Orion constellation between Alnitak & Mintaka of Orion's belt and down towards the horizon. In front of the moving "glittering" trail was something that was not possible to make out. The trail extended out in the sky about what would be a 9in.
or 22.86cm length if holding a ruler at arm's length towards the sky, and followed whatever object was moving through the sky. This object and trail moved past the horizon.
I wish I had the time to have pulled out my Galaxy S23 Ultra to try and capture pictures/video of this event but it went too fast and I was too excited to see something new in the sky. I could not find any satellite or Starlink trackers that would show any potential sightings at that time as they only provide me with the upcoming sightings. This did not resemble any meteor we have ever seen before but it was beautiful and fascinating.
Anybody able to help determine if what we saw was something prosaic? I would love to know what it might have been and if we can track it to see it again.
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No sound, projected several bright beams of light from round circle of light into woods onto the ground. I'm an old guy. Was watching TV and noticed a stationary round white light to the N-NE out of my east facing family room window.
Didn't really think much about it, thought it was an airplane or helicopter. It disappeared. Seconds later it reappeared and was closer-about 100 yards in the same direction, however it was larger.
That's when the white beams of light came on. It was obviously night-time and the lights were so bright they illuminated the entire woods. They weren't normal search type lights-they moved to fast.
At this time I went outside for a better look, it was gone, it was dead quiet. No helicopter and airplane sounds. This happened in about a 20 seconds.
I guess it might have been an aircraft, but I've never seen anything like this in the past. I believe it was a UFO because there was NO sound at all. I prefer my name not used.
You can contact me if this is a legitimate UFO sighting.
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Unexplained bright shiny light At midnight a witness saw a very bright white light approximately 50 yards from his house. It was so bright he couldn’t look at it long at a time. He took pictures.
It lasted about 3 minutes. It was in a rural area in between 2 houses in a wooded area.
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Two Orbs Stationary, then One Moving Oddly After leaving work from an office building in Downtown Gary to an attached parking garage my colleague had car trouble and needed to jumpstart her battery, while waiting for her self-starting jumper to charge it was during this time we spotted two orbs in the sky that bright stars then one appeared to break away and began to move at both irregular and inconsistent speeds and direction toward the Northwest. We had a perfect vantage point from atop a parking garage looking at the sky facing Eastward with an unobstructed view above the tree line. My colleague believed the orbs were planes but you can see from the video the speed of the acceleration of the orb to the left change and the path traveled wasn't like a normal aircraft.
While the orb to the right remained stationary.
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3 orbs fading in and out I seen these same orbs in August, in Tennesse, same time, same direction. They fade in and out of brightness and will reappear in a different spot and move quickly in any direction. In August they appeared to be playing with each other.
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I saw a silver object flying SE to NE. No Aircraft running lights. I was watching the sky for aircraft as I often do.
I was a TSO for the TSA, and I like to count the number of aircraft I can see at any given Time. I observed a silver oval shaped craft moving quickly from the SE of my position going NE. I am very familiar with the size and shape of most commercial and military Aircraft.
This was not any of them. It was moving after dusk with no running lights or strobes. It was at an altitude of approximately 1000 feet.
As I watched it for several minutes it simply disappeared. The light didn't fad, it was gone. The object looked to be larger than a commercial aircraft.
I judged it to be about a mile or so away and appeared to be the size of a golf ball.
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Triangle black craft I was at work on a break when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked in that direction but only got a split second to see it because it flew behind a tree line. I knew then it was something unusual.
I assumed it was a farmer's plane and kept looking to see it come out from the other end of the tree line. Instead, the object came out at a 90-degree angle. When I got my closest look at it, it was about 50 yards away from me.
This is what I saw: it was flat, maybe 20 feet in width, possibly smaller, and about 10 feet in height, maybe shorter. It started to rotate in an unnatural way, and when it did, I saw that it was in the shape of a triangle, but in the middle of the triangle, there was another triangle inside that was see-through. The color of it, the best I could describe, is black as black marble and shinier than marble.
It looked like all the material was one piece, like no rivets, no seams, just like the craft was made by one piece of whatever material it was. The sun reflected off of it. It made no noise, there were no propellers, no propulsion; it was just floating and rotating perfectly with no disturbance, almost gracefully perfect in its rotation.
Then it continued to do that as it slowly flew away until I could not see it anymore, rotating gracefully the whole time. There were two other employees with me; they only witnessed the end part of it but could still see it rotating because I called them out to come look at this. I wanted to take a picture of it but I didn't want to take my eyes off of it and miss something.
It started off to the right of me then took of slowly into the air directly in front of me then flew away.
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Three orbs of blue light flying in a rotating triangle pattern moving from north to south. Moving fast estimated 300mph, or faster than commercial jet.
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They looked to be 40 or 50 and flew like drones and they had black or dark sides and light or bright sides. On Sunday November 5th of 2023 at 2:45pm at 86th and Zionsville Rd in Indianapolis, I was looking up into the sky when I observed a circular whirlwind and about 40 or more unidentified chevron winged aircraft in the sky. The aircraft was very high up and was visible for about 5 minutes.
I only caught 52 seconds of it in video and I took 1 snapshot picture. Most of the aircraft had disappeared or fallen out of my view by the time I made the video and took a photo.
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saw a object coming toward our house; Just thought it was a bird until I relized it had no flapping wings.and sun sparkled off it My husband and I were outside. I noticed a object which I thought was a large bird but when it didn't flap its wings and the sun reflected off it I brought it to attention of my husband, He is prior military, It was moving quite fast no sound at all and gong in the direction of Crane Military depot.
We both was concerned they make ammunition and bombs ext. for the military. didn't know if we should follow it or not.
It was picking up altitude and speed. My husband grabbed some paper and drew what he saw. It was oblong kind of tilted and shiny.
the sun reflected off of it .
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Have 4 pictures that appear to see a craft enter our atmosphere at a tremendous speed, stop just above the horizon and fly north The object was not seen by the naked eye. It was no lens flare, and have the photos to prove that a cross shaped object makes a rapid decent and gets closer goes over our heads and keeps flying north. It was the middle of the early evening.
Still plenty bright out. The photos capture the crafts path over the course of a few minutes. Again, neither of us saw anything in person.
But then looked at our photos later and really dug deep into it.
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Lights behind clouds in 2 separate circular forms . Slowly rotating in the sky behind clouds Will attach video of exact sighting.
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I got it on video it’s was lights moving and gliding like sprites It was brilliant color detail sprite like orbs dancing in the sky.
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At first I saw a black drone. Then I realized it was comprised of multiple black orbs. The black orbs would space out and then come back together.
While flying through the sky. I have never seen anything like this in my life!.
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I saw a shiny metallic disc. It traveled away from me. I was traveling South on LIma Rd and I saw a shiny disc shaped craft that was traveling in the same direction as I was.
The sun was hitting it, so that is why it was shiny. I was watching it, and all of a sudden it made a sharp right turn, almost like it was going into a cloud. I continued to watch it, but it never came out the other side.
I would say it was the size of a bus and was about 500 yards away.
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Flying a little slower Rounded with white flashing lights all the way around and two larger white lights underneath it. About the size of a bus.
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It was long with 1 green and 1 red light solid in the center with slow flashing white lights at each end. I was driving and noticed the huge thing hovering over some ball diamonds. I was staring trying to see if it was a tower (which there isn’t) or a plane (but was stationary).
After I passed it maybe 5 minutes later my sister text me and said she thinks she saw a ufo. I called her and she was traveling the same path going the other direction and seen the same object. I will upload a picture of what I could find on the internet of something very similar.
* it is not an actual photo from that morning *.
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Taking picture of fog over filed. Captured image by accident Was walking my dogs. Probably 48 degrees F.
Not a sound except crickets. Out in the country near massive solar fields. Held my arm up to capture top of cornfield with fog and took the picture.
Got home and noticed a black ‘dot’ on photo from I-phone. The image was a ‘live’ image so I touched the screen to see if I could tell what the black dot was and surprised to see how fast it moved across the screen. Super,super fast.
No sound.
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2023 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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Orb | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Light | 8 reported sightings | 10.67% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Disk | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
Star | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 1.33% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 11 reported sightings | 14.67% of all reports |
July | 11 reported sightings | 14.67% of all reports |
October | 8 reported sightings | 10.67% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
September | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
August | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
March | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 5.33% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 4.00% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 13 reported sightings | 17.33% of all reports |
Wednesday | 13 reported sightings | 17.33% of all reports |
Tuesday | 13 reported sightings | 17.33% of all reports |
Sunday | 13 reported sightings | 17.33% of all reports |
Thursday | 10 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Friday | 7 reported sightings | 9.33% of all reports |
Monday | 6 reported sightings | 8.00% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2023 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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05/17/23 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
04/11/23 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
12/14/23 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
08/11/23 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
07/22/23 | 2 reported sightings | 2.67% of all reports |
Indiana UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 37 reported sightings | 49.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 10 reported sightings | 13.33% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 12.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 6.67% of all reports |
All Indiana Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2023
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Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indiana
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