All Reported UFO Sightings in Elkhart, Indiana

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I was watching out the window for daughter to come home from her date and seen a large, bright streak of light flash in the sky. It was brighter and larger than any star. At first I thought it was a meteor but I kept watching in the area which it appeared.

We are between airports and see planes all day and all night. It was a very clear night and we see so many stars at our location on our mini farm. It flashed five times about thirty seconds to two minutes apart at different locations but in a tight pattern.

The light flashes like it’s spinning from left to right and moving very slowly. There was an absence for about fifteen to twenty minutes. During the absence, two planes had crossed in the sky and a bright flash of light like an explosion had appeared with flaming debris falling from that spot but the planes kept moving in their own directions without pause.

My daughter arrives home with her boyfriend and I explained to them what I saw. They started to watch the sky with me and saw that it had moved North West of us. They were witness to the last two flashes in the other location.

This was all taking place in a forty-five minute span.

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I saw a line of lights going across the sky in single file heading in the same direction. once they got to a certain spot they would disappear and more would come from behind. There was no sound and it was hard to tell how high they were but I would guess a few thousand feet off the ground.

There were no clouds in the sky so I don't know why the lights would disappear and they got to a certain point in the sky. I'm just wondering if anyone else in the area seeing the same thing.

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Red lights in 2 different groups.first 4.then 3 more.

raising up from low altitude in east Elkhart.heading north from prox sr20 @credit 17 area. Red lights.

These disappeared quickly as well. We were viewing from boat on the St. Joseparate River.

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UFO observing 4th of July activity. Orange-red pulsating object. Hovering in the sky.

Although no one seemed to notice. I went out on my balcony and observed. The object slowly drifted off.

Then with a flash. It disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: We have amended the time above, to reflect an evening sighting.

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In the back yard of a buddy's, house throwing horse shoes (by myself while waiting for my friend to finish cutting 2 other friends' hair), when I looked up (felt compelled) and saw a completely silent white cigar shaped craft, flying very low and at a fairly low velocity. I stood there examining the craft for several seconds. Then realizing what I saw was a ufo, I tried to bring it to another buddy's attention, but by the time they looked, it was almost out of sight.

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object was bright red , and looked like a ball fire. Then slowly got lighter and looked like a start then completely vanished ((NUFORC Note: We have corrected the date above, to reflect a sighting on Friday morning. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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7 fireballs in a row in the southern skyes at 1:30 am THIS WAS ABOUT MY 7TH SIGHTING IN 3 YEARS I WAS SITTING OUTSIDe ON MT DECK ENJOYING A WARM BEAUTIFUL NIGHT. I LOOKED TO THE SOUTH AND IN THE TREE LINE HIGH IN THE SKY I WITNESSED A ORANGE FIREBALL , THEN 7 MORE FOLLOWED. THE FIRE BALLS WERE ALL EVENLY SPACED APART.

TRAVELING FRON EAST TO WEST. I wasnt schocked as this has been my 7th sighting. all the others have been over the last 3 years and in different parts of the sky.

Last years sightings, I was able to telephone my neighbors and they witnessed the sightings, that time they came out of the north going sought bound. I dont drink and have never done drugs.

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it was the night of sept 9 between 9 and 10 pm we were all outside talking and visiting and my mom was on the phone with my cousin and my mom kinda hollard and said what the hell was that in the sky and we all looked up and saw a round object with lights all around it and it was moving slowly across the sky like it was searching or looking for something.id say it was prolly thousand feet up so it was very low and it was almost directly over our houses then all of a sudden it changed its course and headed toward goshen indiana and the strange thing is once it changed direction it really slowed down to a creep like i said it looked like it was searching for something but then it spead up and got out of our sight and not 5 min later an air plane was on it following it and then it shot up and dissappeared ive never seen anything move so fast in my life an that plane couldnt keep up it didnt have a chance.is there anyone else that had seen it to that night? ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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Bright orange spinning sphere with smaller sphere circling it that sped off into the moon After leaving the store my companion and I noticed a round bright orange object in the sky above us in a slightly south east position, it had a smaller round object orbiting it but they both were spinning. We pulled into a fast-food restaurant to watch it and it zoomed away toward the moon and appeared to enter into it. The object appeared very close at the time of the sighting.

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Seven sphereshaped objects on fire Elkhart Indiana 3/19/2011 Last night I heard of your website on the Coast to Coast broadcast. I was so happy to get information of where I could report an incident that occurred to my family a year ago to day, March 19, 2011. My family consist of my wife my self and our 7 year old son.

The date of the incident is easy to recall as it was our anniversary. We had just returned home from my wife’s brother’s home who lives in Flint Michigan. We live in Elkhart Indiana.

It was 9:30 p.m. and my wife and son were in the back yard walking our dogs as we had been gone the entire day visiting her brother.

They called out to me to come quickly there was something in the sky. When I approached them they were pointing to the east towards a little town called Bristol. In the sky there was a sphere shaped object about 50 yards long and 30 feet wide completely engulfed in flames at a height I would estimate to be one half mile.

It was traveling very slowly and gaining altitude as it traveled. We were then surprised of the appearance of a second object with the same exact description as the first. As we watched the two crafts five more eventually appeared and all were spaced the same distance apart, about a half mile.

They were all traveling west and slowly climbed. This all occurred over a time period of about 20 minutes.

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Seven balls of fire spaced perfectly all vanished at a certain point There were 7 objects spaced 1/2 mile perfectly traveling in a western direction climbing at a 30dgree level.Traveling at about 200 miles per hour estimate. Looked like fireballs untill they reached a certain point then fire was gone and could see a cylinder craft for just a short time then it would vanish.

All 7 did this same thing in a parade like manner.

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A ship came down hovered there flew over head then zipped straight up. It is the third of july but at the time not many fireworks were going off, and me and my friend were going to my house and I saw red lights coming down, and at first I believed them to be fireworks. Then they stopped in mid-air and changed direction heading towards us.

Eventually it passed overhead and I saw the craft indefinitely. I saw everything from it spinning to the shape to the grooves and what appeared to be pikes on four sides. It was extremely close and me and my friend stared in amazemrnt for about a minute and like a shooting star it disappeared straight up.

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A red red sphere folllowing a blinking diamond shaped thing. I was closing my drapes at night, and I like to just look out at the sky. The drape I was closing was to the south.

Off to my left- which is east, I seen a diamond shaped thing going across the sky. It had one very white bright light that stayed on and it blinked very white bright lights. Right close behind it in perfect unison was a red sphere following.

I watched for about 5-10 minutes as it went along the southern sky from east to west, until it disappeared in the distance and through the trees. There were also planes flying in the vicinity who just kept righ on flying. It was not a plane, for planes do not follow that close together and planes also have blinking lights besides one being stationary.

I also submitted a report to MUFON. I do not remember the exact day. Though it has been since the beginning of this year.

This has been the second time I have sighted a UFO. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).

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Craft with a steady orange light moved to the SSE before disappearing I was traveling west bound on U.S. 20 (bypass) from County Road 17.

As I approached the County Road 13 overpass I saw a orange light in the sky. I pulled over and the object which was slighly north east of my position and began to travel to the south east. It appeared as if the craft was moving on another axis as it moved forward.

Soon after its movement to the south south east it disappearred. The orange light was similar to a calcium street light, same coloration. It appeard that there was either a haze or something every so often moving over the light that caused it to dim.

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decending ball of bright yellowish light that suddenly disappeared just above the horizon on a clear night On an extremely clear night with unlimited visability, we just saw a very bright yellowish round light falling from the Western sky. It left no tail and seemed to emit a steady luminesence. It descended straight down at a moderate speed and then disappeared just above the horizon.

No evidence of ground strike could be seen. This could have been a meteor.

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Random lights at low altitude taking shape of triangle. I work a part time security position at a local grocery store. Shortly after 8:00 pm, I stepped outside to have a cigarette.

At the time, it was a clear evening. There had been clouds and snow earlier and later in the evening. I was looking up at the stars when I noticed a formation of what appeared to be a flock of geese at first.

The formation was approximately 300 feet off the ground and was passing over a local business that had bright lights illuminating the business. This formation appeared to be in the form of about 6 to 8 individual lights, however after looking more carefully at it, it seemed to be individual reflections coming from the lights of the business reflecting off the object(s). As it moved in a southeasterly direction and away from the business lights, the individual reflections diminished in their intensity and the lights (reflections) took the shape of a triangle with two lights centered in the rear.

As it moved away, the light reflection diminished to the point I could no longer make out the object. There was no noise associated with this object as you would have expected with a small aircraft. There were also no blinking lights of any kind which again would indicate an aircraft.

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From latitude 41.682 longitude -85.977 looking SSE ~63° stationary object moved very slowly NNE.

Could not make out shape using binoculars. Too light to use telescope. Silver colored.

WAS NOT A PLANE. Did not move more than 30° in ½ hour.

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Silver Cigar-Shaped Object, Elkhart, IN, This craft(?) was viewed from an Amtrak train headed West to Chicago. It was in a nearly cloudless sky gliding over a group of trees in the distance. At first, I mistook it for a passenger jet, ready to crash.

It had no rudder and was moving far too slowly for a conventional plane. As soon as I saw it had no markings or features, the front end lifted to a 45-degree angle. It then turned slowly away and faced away from me.

While it made this maneuver, the sun shone brilliantly from its polished-chrome(?) surface. No wings or engines were visible and no sound could be heard above the train's noise. It then shot out of sight faster than anything I'd ever seen.

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I saw 6 spherical objects, silver or chrome in color. They were circling around eachother very close and at a high rate of speed. I looked up in the sky at around 4:00pm, and towards the west, I observed 6 or 7 spherical objects moving north in a tight cluster.

They looked very small, though it was hard to tell because I'm not sure how far away they were. They were circling or"dancing" around eachother in a very tight formation, and at a very high rate of speed. It appeared to be some kind of figure 8 pattern they were making around eachother.

Then, they just kind of disappeared, one at a time. It was a clear blue sky in broad daylight. That was the background.

My girlfriend also witnessed the event. I called to her to come & look, because at first I thought it was a smudge on my sunglasses, or my contact lense. Then I realized that smudges don't move and pulsate like that.

We tried to think of anything we could that would identify what we saw, but, we knew it was something that could not be identified. Anything man has made would've crashed doing what they were doing. I'm surprised they DIDN'T crash!.