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Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 17 UFO sighting reports in Goshen, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (6 reports, 35.29% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 23.53% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- 2008 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 11.76% of total).
- 07/04/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 5.88% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (12 reports, 70.59% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Goshen, Indiana
These Goshen, 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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MADAR Node 182.
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Walked out of my house in the country, and seen a ball if light. It was lower than normal for anything which would make sense to see in the sky, and it was far enough away you couldn't see the shape but just the colors of blinking lights which had Green, red, and white lights blinking. It hovered for over couple of hours from what I seen.
And moved slowly left to right up and down. I then looked around and seen another light that wasn't a star toward Northeast which was the front of my house. This light was far away as well.
You could see the colors like the one that was off to the side of my house. Both did the same things they hovered and I watched off and on and tried to take pics and videos with my phone. And that was hard enough to zoom in and focus on them and see the different colors.
You could see the different colors with your eyes, but it was hard with my camera phone.
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Saw 12 to 15 yellowish orange circles flying across the sky. Looked like some of the circular objects were bouncing up/down. Saw 12 to 15 yellowish orange circular objects flying low in the southern sky.
They were moving up and down as well as forward as they moved across the sky. I am 56 years old and an elementary school teacher.
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Multiple large bright objects in western sky At first as we were driving home we noticed a triangular formation of bright orange lights. One was cigar shaped, the other two were circular. One of the circular ones started to alternate between circular and cigar shaped.
It was almost like it was accelerating then decelerating, but it was very difficult to notice the transition as it was happening. After a few more minutes several more lights appeared in the sky with the same orange-ish cast to them. They seemed like really bright stars, but we've ever seen any stars that large before.
They must have been pretty far away, or very high up in the sky because as the earth rotated away from the sun we started to lose sight of the lights as they dipped lower and lower into the horizon. The final lights we saw appear were very distinctly cigar shaped and almost seemed like comets. Not sure if it was simply sunlight reflecting off some phenomena in the atmosphere or what.
Definitely a strange sight to behold. It was hard to tell if they were moving because they were so far away they almost looked stationary. My fiancee took a photo but her camera was not able to distinguish the objects very clearly.
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Multiple blue lights in the sky While watching fireworks, my husband and I had seen what we thought was a satellite with a blue, unblinking light going from the south to the north. We watched it for a moment, then continued to watch more fireworks. Then there was another light, and another, and another, they just kept coming!!!! Then about 30 minutes after the first light appeared, one had appeared going from the north to the south.
The OPPOSITE direction of the others!!!!! It got really bright for about 3 seconds, as if it entered the earth's atmosphere, then went back up and disappeared. All of them were blue, and ALL of them moved very slowly. Much slower than any airplane or satellite I have ever seen.
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2 people saw 12 orange objects in the sky over Goshen Indiana @10:15-11:30 on July 3rd moving north to south my dad and I saw 12 orange lights moving north to south over Goshen Indiana. It was approx. 10:15 pm-11:30pm on July 3rd.
They were not all at the same time although a few were fairly close together. They would come from the north and go south and after a few minutes just disappear. They were NOT airplanes nor fireworks, they moved in a horizontal motion only.
We could not tell what shape they were -it was too dark, but they were bright orange in color. No drugs or drinking was involved. My 80 yr.
old dad and I -I'm 52- both witnessed them. It was the most interesting & bizarre thing I have ever seen.
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Couple sees slow-moving, large, rectangular object in the night sky as it flies directly over them. One clear, rather bright (it was around summer time) night, my girlfriend and I witnessed something neither of us will likely ever forget. It was a typical night for us; we had just gone out to dinner and returned to her house at around 9:00PM.
Getting out of my car, my girlfriend pointed out what she thought was a crop duster in the distance to me. We stood in her driveway just staring at the thing for quite a while as it flew in our direction. As it got a bit closer, we realized something rather important: it wasn't making any sound, and crop dusters are fairly noisy machines (not to mention crop dusters do not typically operate at night).
As it slowly came closer, we continued hypothesising what in the world it could be. At one point, I even said "it looks like a helicopter flying sideways or something", to which my girlfriend replied "yeah, but I don't see any blades, and it isn't loud". She had a good point there, a helicopter would have been rather deafening, but it was still across the street quite a distance from us at that point, so I figured there was still a chance it would be louder when it got closer.
Eventually, the thing flew directly over our heads only roughly 100ft from the ground. Despite being in such a close proximity to us, the craft made only a very low, very quiet humming sound and produced no wind-- it just sort of glided over us at a very constant, very slow speed. Whatever this object was, it was perfectly rectangular in shape, very thin-looking in proportion to its width, and had two equidistant white lights (one on each side of the craft) which faced forward rather than downward almost like circular car headlights.
Sadly, the thought to take a picture or video of this thing did not even cross our minds until after it had disappeared behind her house. I know this sounds crazy, but we honestly did not even think to get any form of evidence of this thing as it was in our sight (plus, it was at night, so any picture or video would probably have looked like a dark blur anyway). I am not claiming that this was uncountably an alien UFO, but whatever it was, we saw it.
We saw what we saw, and nothing can change that. It was amazing, it was breathtaking, and for some reason we were completely unafraid. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.
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Five red/orange orbs fly in formation with no sound At approximately 22:00 hours on 08/25/13, my mother and I saw a formation of five bright red/orange “orbs” fly across the sky. There were four flying in what looked like a “V” or a concave polygon, with the fifth one flying behind the formation. They moved at a steady pace and seemed to be flying low, but there was no sound.
The light on the crafts was large and steady; it did not blink. We watched until trees obstructed our view.
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Orange fireball low in the sky over Goshen IN. was moving from south to north west looked like an orange fireball speeding up and slowing down about as high as a small flying aircraft no sound at all clouds had no effect of the sighting looked like it was about 100 ft in the air.
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it was about 5:45 my sister and i had just gotten out of the movies and she said (look! ) as i looked up we both saw this dark triangle object that looked like it had two horn shaped spikes curving up the back of it .as we watch it , it went straight up at a 90 degree angle and went above the clouds .and then instantly shot straight down into the cloud and it never came out .
what was it.i will never know.also every couple of weeks we hear a strange humming sound go over our house and then all of our cell phones loose signal and power.
someone has to know what this all is.
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8 lights, performing differrent formations, then dissapearing we had just got off work at 10pm, we left the parking lot and headed down pectora drive where we first saw 3 red bold lights in a triangle formation. as we turned onto Chelsie St. we then saw 2 more of the same lights apear out of the sky, then 3 more of the same lights followed, the first 3 lights hovered in one spot and waited for the other 5 lights to catch up, when all 8 lights were together they then formed a curved line.
all the lights seemed to have a redish haze around them. we stop at the stop sign and put our heads out the window to listen for sounds. we heard nothing.
as we turned right on Beck drive, the lights then formed 1 massive "V" formation, then split up into pairs after 3-4 minutes. as they split up into pairs , 2x2 they vanished into the night sky. what struck me the most was that there we plenty of planes around with blinking lighs but none of them could fit the description of the 8 lights.
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Startling white light traveling with incredible speed The light looked 3 to 4 miles away from me as I was looking up into the grey, moonless night sky. The light was very long, and it traveled very fast, approximately 2,000 mph. The white light looked like it made a mile long trail as it descended from the sky, and that never touched the ground.
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Several sequencing lights appeared over a vast part of the southern sky from right outside the Goshen, Indiana area Husband’s statement: On the night of Wednesday, July 24, 2008, at 10:15; My wife and I witnessed a series of red-colored lights appear in the sky from our home, outside the Goshen, Indiana area. From our field of view, the lights first started to appear in the south-south-west area of the sky. I first witnessed two lights that where bigger then the stars around them.
One of the lights were red, the second slightly above the first was white. They disappeared a few seconds after I saw them, then 5 degrees west, another red light appeared stationary like the first two and then faded out remaining in the same position. These first lights looked like they were several miles away and were fairly low in the southern horizon.
I then told my wife, who was standing with me, that I thought there was something odd going on in the sky and motioned her to see. We then witnessed two more red lights appear, and then disappear, in a relative similar position to the first sighting . Less than a minute later ten red lights appeared in a sequence at an exact 45 degree angle.
Then two more lights appeared at a 45 degree angle away from the previous angle still in sequence with the other angle. For 15 more minutes I had numerous red lights appear in the sky from south-south-west positions to south-west-west positions of the sky. The lights appeared to be many miles away.
Wife’s statement: We saw an amazing, unexplainable, display of lights. Lights were appearing and disappearing all over the sky. We even saw weird light patterns.
All this transpired about 15 minutes or so.
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A few orange flying ovals appear for four minutes after a fireworks show. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes A large group of people attended an afternoon picnic at a golf course to celebrate the fourth of July. It was Sunday.
Later that night, a fireworks show was presented. About a minute after the finale we saw a couple of fireballs. We thought they were part of the fireworks, but they lasted for about four minutes.
Other witnesses jokingly exclaimed that they were UFO's, but no one really cared. I only noticed one but three more appeared, one after another. They were orange colored and it seemed to "twinkle" as well.
Their shapes were simple ovals. They seemed to move slowly towards us, but they didn't get any bigger. Near the fourth minute, they turned to the left (west) until they faded.
I only noticed 4 of the ovals, but there could have been more due to trees in the way. My guess on their location when they first appeared would be about five miles east from dunlap and disappeared in the Dunlap area.
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I don't know what it was, but we watched for 2 hrs! I can't wait to see if it happens again tonight! last night i glanced out the window and thought i saw a star blinking slowly, then i looked closer and realized it wasn't a star. i called my husband into the room to have a look too, we though oh, it must be a plane, but it didn't look like a plane, then i said maybe it's a helicopter, we went outside, but there was no sound, we shoulve have heard something if it were a helicopter. i called a friend who lives down the road and told her to look out the window.
she did and saw the same thing. it looked like it was coming closer, then started flashing different colors, but always staying a bright white as well. we watched it for an hour and an half, then it started moving away.
it took 30 mins more before the light just disappeared. during the time we watched it, it didn't move much, just stayed in the same place. we both wanted to report it, but didn't know who to call, we didn't want to sound crazy, i'm convinced that we saw something.
what can stay in the same place for that long. it didn't flash all the time, only part of the time and sometimes looked like it was spinning. we compared it to other planes that we say in the sky, this was way brighter and didn't blink like the plane lights.
we also know that it was too low to be a star and they don't flash like disco balls. i am convinced that we saw something. something that i will never forget.
i just want to know what it was!!! the only my friend and i could keep saying was i wish the cameras were working.why don't we have telescopes, and i'm out of tape for the camcorder! how great is that! the strangest thing we've ever seen in our lives and have nothing to back it up with. aggghhhh, not fair! i'm going to watch all night, maybe it will come back, why would something stay here for so long? i live in the country, field behind my house, but still.
so many questions and no answers!.
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A light that approximated a full moon in appearance above the tops of tress that are approximately 200-300 yards from observation point. Watched light for estimated 10 minutes when it got dimmer and faded away. As reported to me by my mother.
She looked out her back window (east) around 23:30 on 2-26-00, and saw a milky-white light low on the horizon that approximated a full moon. It appeared to be just above the tops of trees that are about 200-300 yards from her observation point. Thinking that it was a reflection, she moved to another window for a different angle of sight, but found the light was still apparent from her new vantage point.
She continued to watch the light; it gradually became dimmer and eventually completely faded away. She approximates that the sighting lasted for 10 minutes. She reported a haze around the light, and a milky-white color.
Goshen, 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 | 6 reported sightings | 35.29% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Goshen, 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 | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
September | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Goshen, 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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Friday | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
Thursday | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Goshen, 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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07/04/14 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
02/26/00 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
07/03/14 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
05/06/08 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
09/16/15 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Goshen, 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 | 12 reported sightings | 70.59% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Goshen, Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Goshen, Indiana.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2021 | 1 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2021 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2014 | 2 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 2 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 2 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 2 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2008 | 2 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2006 | 1 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2006 |
2000 | 1 UFO Reports | Goshen, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2000 |
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