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Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 19 UFO sighting reports in Carmel, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (3 reports, 15.79% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 26.32% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 26.32% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 10.53% of total).
- 08/27/11 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 5.26% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (10 reports, 52.63% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Carmel, Indiana
These Carmel, Indiana UFO reports are 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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I was driving west when I saw a massive craft with lights on its wingtips fly extremely fast in the same direction directly overhead. I was driving west near the intersection of W 116th St. and Ditch Rd.
in Carmel, IN when I saw a massive craft directly overhead that was flying extremely fast. It was also traveling west like I was, so it came from behind me in the east. It was just after 1 AM so it was difficult to make out the exact color of the craft, but it appeared to either be black or dark gray.
The shape was clearly that of a chevron and it was the size of at least several football fields. The wingtips each had several lights that interchangeably swapped between red and green at a very fast pace, about several times a second or so. It was only visible for several seconds before it disappeared into the distance; at first it was just traveling very fast, likely faster than the speed of sound.
However, it became increasingly faster the longer it was in sight. Ultimately, it was so fast that it looked as if it left an after-image and just otherwise vanished.
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It was a light that was slowly fading into the dark and when I used my Phone and recorded when I zoomed in it just disappeared and when I zoomed back out it was there again! My House made weird noises as it was leaving!.
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There were 2 lights that were going really fast and were parallel to each other. There were 2 lights in the sky going really fast and were parallel to each other.
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Cigar-shaped object at 200' While walking the dog on a perfectly clear evening at 955pm, I observed a orange glowing object traveling in a straight line in a NE to SE direction. At first I thought it was fireworks since it was July 2. Then I thought it was a drone.
But the object did not fizzle out like fireworks and there was no sound like a drone or erratic flight. The object was cigar shaped. No flashing lights but gave off a bright orange glow.
I followed the flight of the object for several hundred feet before I lost sight of it over some trees. I captured a poor image of the object due to the time of day. It was getting dark and the object was moving at a pretty good speed before I was able to take the picture.
I walk the dog at this spot at least 3 times a day and have not observed a similar incident. As an avid sky watcher, I can honestly say this was not anything normal such as drone or fireworks.
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The ufo was shaped similar to a disk and was accompanied by two side by side lights and a haze around it.
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Five orange lights over Carmel Indiana It was the end of a long work day, when a co-worker and I were walking out to the parking lot, joking about how he was going to be picked up by a helicopter. As I looked to the Eastern sky I saw a large orange light hovering about 800 feet, or so, above the ground. I pointed at it and my co-worker, laughed, and said, "There it is now" As I watched the object for a few seconds, I saw another orange light fade into view near the original, so I start walking in their direction.
While I'm walking, I see another appear the very same way the second did, then another, then another (5 in total). At this point, I've passed up my car and started jogging down 129th Street from Gray Road, towards Hazel Dell Road, where the lights seemed to be hovering. Just as I moved past the tree line and into a clearing, I saw the bright orange lights very clear as they all started to move east in unison as if they were many parts of a whole.
They stayed on that course for another 10! seconds or so when they faded back into the dark night sky.
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V shaped silent object with 5-6 lights on each arm. Boyfriend and I were outside at 12:10am walking dog. Looked up to see Orion and saw a chevron/v shape object with 5-6 lights on each side.
Silent and appeared to be at same height birds would fly. Lasted approximately 20 seconds until it became out of sight. Smooth straight movement.
Lights were soft yellow ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD)).
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At 10:10 p/m My wife and I just finished dinner,went on a small walk and seen over 25 ufo's enter the air space and proceed to set up some kind of pattern life our comon air craft do.
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Unidentified flying object - tracked for approximately one minute and was a spherical pulsating Orange-Red color. At approximately 21:15 on August 27th, 2011, I and one other witness saw a spherical unidentified flying object for a duration of approximately one minute. This craft was a pulsating Orange-Red spherical object, and it made its way across the sky in the North to South direction.
Its speed was approximately that of a commercial airliner. The UFO disappeared from sight after its lights were seen dimming for approximately 10 seconds.
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Orange light moving E to W at high altitude, red beacon visible after passing overhead 9-08-2009 21:31 EDT 39.9624°N, 86.1194°W I observed an object pass overhead at the referenced coordinates, orange, and about the same apparent size (perhaps 20% larger), magnitude, and color of Antares.
First observed about 60°elevation E. of zenith, as an orange light. After it passed directly overhead, a red flashing beacon was occasionally visible, but no strobes and no navigation lights.
It traversed my entire 100° field of view in under 1 minute. At the time of the observation, there were 2 commercial airliners passing to the south, one going East, the other, West. The aircraft was much higher and faster than either.
I could not hear any engine noise after it passed overhead. (Generally, I can hear engine noise a few seconds after airliners pass overhead due to the speed of sound (1,100’/min.), and can guess their distance accordingly.
) I heard the engines of the airliners after they’d passed. We are near the Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZID). This did not resemble any airliner I’ve seen passing at night.
I suspect that the orange "light" was due to sunlight reflecting off the fuselage, but sunset was at 20:05. 1. How high did this aircraft have to be, to be able to reflect sunlight 1.
5 hours after sunset? 2. What type of aircraft was this? (I suspect military, am unsure of size or type.) (The ISS, Cosmos 1844 and Resurs 1-4 objects were visible within a few minutes of this, but on different tracks and of different magnitudes.
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Low flying, horizontally flashing strobe lights. (Reminescent of CE3K) 9/18/2008, Carmel, Indiana (39.978 N, 86.
118 W). Clear, dark sky. Walking my dog, I glanced westward and noticed a set of lights well below normal flight path for area airports.
We are approx. 12 miles from Indianapolis Int’l, and 5 miles from Indianapolis Executive airports. We are on no flight path for either, but can observe final approach from our location.
4 to 6 brilliant white strobe lights, flashing in random horizontal pattern, no top or bottom red lights, no navigation lights, were moving rapidly, approaching from west. First observed 20:55. Looked again after crossing street and they were much closer and at same relative altitude (neither ascending nor descending).
We walked around a 2-story building, looked west in a 50-foot gap between buildings and the lights were much closer still. We returned to our original position, and the lights were gone. No engine noise was ever heard.
No lateral motion; it moved in a straight line directly toward us from due West. Call to Executive Airport established no arrivals in the appropriate time frame.
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round,small no bigger than a van, red lights surrounding it, seen in dark sky,seemed to be falling at first. Saw an object in the sky over some trees, object appeared to be falling rapidly maybe crashing, then object slowly glided down into some fields. This was observed in a dark sky between 8:30-9:15pm.
The object was very small not much bigger than a van and had red lights surrounding it, it appeared to be round. Once object was on the ground lights were no longer visible. Object was flying in a residential area, no airports etc.
around. only homes and corn fields. No sounds were heard although I was driving at the time when observing it.
Last year between October and December I observed what I thought was a meteor falling in the same area over the trees where I first observed this object in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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he ciggarete that changed a mans life I was walking outside to smoke a ciggarete when i saw a light flash ,very dim but still much of a flash and then and disc lik object appeared and flew directly over my house when it slowly faded, i walked out to my street when it had hidden itself from my vision as i was walking it flew close then started some what landing then i tried to run back to my house when it felt as a massive brush of wind hit me from behind and i felll then in pain i got up and as i saw tyhe craft i swear started to open and when i turned around my house was gone no traces it was just gone and as i turned around i felt light then when i looked down i was flying toward the craft and i went inside and then evrything since then was blank and when i woke up i was in my front dtep and my hand was scared with this vey odd symbol wich quickly faded i still hav no memory of when i was inside the craft but i truly hope that who i right this to can help me figure out what happened that night ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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My wife and I were at the pool, when I noticed a black bug-like shaped craft, with no lights. At first we thought it was a spider shaped balloon, but it was not floating. Instead it was like hovering pretty fast.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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BIG FIREBALL. I saw giant Fireball, It Looked As If Someone Put Mars in Sky. I've Drawn Pic Of Location & Object I Was At.
I tried Taking Pic With Phone, But Phone Wouldn'T Load Camera. However I Used Phone Call Another Guy Who Was Up Road About 2 Miles to Tell Him. He Said He Was Looking At Same Object.
IF You Have Any Questions Please Feel Free To Email Me. Thanks For Your time. Not Sure Why ThIs Is Capitalizing Every Word.
This Was Not Moon Or Sun, It Was In North Sky Lower Than Planes. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD)).
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Bright pinkish orange oval radiating light at 19:35 close to the horizon and about 15-29 degrees east of due north. A oval star-like very bright "thing" quite close to the horizon. It was similar to the pinkish orange of Mars and much larger even at Mars closest point.
It radiated a kind of glow. I watched it for about 4 or so minutes and it never moved (I had it between 2 wires for placement). All of a sudden it went up like the opposite of a shooting star! Now this was a very clear night.
I could see tons of stars and planes (there was a lot of air traffic). I am very familiar with the flight path as I am out back every night I am in town. This object was low to the ground and about 15 -20 degrees east of due north.
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Carmel, Indiana on US 31. On several occasions have noticed a bright light to the south west. Thought it was venus, however, this evening there were no other stars visible.
In addition, I did see a jet approaching Indianapolis from the east and it was clearly moving. The bright light (or lights) I saw disappeared after about an hour although another set of lights, directly above but much higher, were still visible. I'm not sure what the object(s) were because 1) they did not move; 2) the one set of lights disappeared; and 3) no other lights (e.
g., stars, planets, etc.) were visible in the night sky other than the jet that I saw.
((NUFORC Note: Venus currently is quite prominent in the southwest sky at the time indicated. PD)).
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Family sees triangular shaped ufo First I should say that this event occured a long time ago, but my memory of the event is quite specific however. I had always been a huge UFO fan before I witnessed the object, and after I had to report it. (I may have reported this to your site before) We (my brother, myself, and the driver: my dad) were all driving down a road to get home after we had been out at my family's.
This is a particularly 'country' type road and I always see lights in the sky that I "hope are real" UFO's on road's like these but quickly dismiss them as airplanes or other aircraft. THIS WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS. I think it was about 11:30 p.
m. when we first spotted the object. Only my brother and I were witnesses to the triangular shaped craft, my father had no interest in our "whoa look at this!" and other mentions of the unusual thing.
He had to keep his eye's on the road, and I was bending my neck backwards just to get a look at it. What's original about my sighting was that the object seemed particularly interested in us and the car we were in. I felt it could sense our fascination of the object and the feeling seemed that it was "curious" of our reaction, when most might be horrified.
It hovered around thirty feet OR LESS directly above our car and wavered slightly from side to side to give me a few good looks at it. It was definitely triangular without a doubt, with a red, white, and possibly blue lights on the tips (oddly). I thought I saw a light on the top which would make it a pyramid, but my brother saw no such thing.
There were no odd car reactions (i.e. car suddenly stopping) and the object simply left when we got to a more populated area.
I think a saw a car far behind us in the incident so we may not of been the only witnesses. Threw the whole ordeal the object emitted no sound. Which makes it extremely unlikely that it was some kind of experimental government craft, note that there were (laughs) NO GOVERNMENT BASES OR TEST SITES IN THE AREA.
After a careful analysis of what I saw I concluded it was a UFO which could not be identified by any terrestrial craft or natural events. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate; witness elects to remain totally anonymous. We would like to know the precise date of the event, if possible, and we would very much like to receive reports from the other witnesses.
However, we have no way of contacting the witness. PD)).
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I went outside to pick up the trash cans and i saw 10-15 jets heading in the same direction towards two fireballs. I remember thinking it was an Iraqi bomber being chased by USA. IT was a fireball that left a trail and although i don't think it was fire it appeared as so.
Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings 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 | 3 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings 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 | 5 reported sightings | 26.32% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings 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 | 5 reported sightings | 26.32% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 21.05% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings 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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08/27/11 | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
07/02/18 | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
11/22/12 | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
12/15/98 | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
06/09/12 | 1 reported sightings | 5.26% of all reports |
Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings 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 | 10 reported sightings | 52.63% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 21.05% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 15.79% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 10.53% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Carmel, Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Carmel, Indiana.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2020 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2018 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2014 | 2 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2012 | 2 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2009 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2008 | 2 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2007 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2007 |
2006 | 2 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2006 |
2004 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2004 |
2001 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2001 |
1999 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 1999 |
1998 | 1 UFO Reports | Carmel, Indiana UFO Sightings in 1998 |
All Indiana Cities with UFO Sightings
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