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Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 33 UFO sighting reports in Greenwood, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 15.15% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 27.27% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 21.21% of total).
- 2020 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 12.12% of total).
- 03/31/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 6.06% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (17 reports, 51.52% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Greenwood, Indiana
These Greenwood, 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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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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I took my dogs out just before 5am this morning and saw a flashing light to the west. The object was not moving and high in the sky. I spent 20-30 minutes watching this thing this morning.
It caught my eye because it was high up, but not moving across the sky like a plane. In fact, I saw a few other planes in the sky and it confirmed that this was nothing like those. Flashing lights, but it didn't move.
I've included a video and have more, if you are interested. I took a screenshot of the image, which I included. Definitely checking back tomorrow morning.
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2 Sightings - Greenwood, IN Two equally sized UFO approximately 2 miles apart. Stationary for several minutes as though communicating. Pulsating lights with colors.
Movement was then rapid with vertical and horizontal changes. A third smaller craft then appeared and moved to one of the objects. All then disappeared.
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Car-sized object moves vertical through clouds, animal reactions (dogs) The lady said that she and her eight-year-old daughter had left home to take her to school. They were heading south on Madison Ave entering the round-a-bout at Smith Valley. There is a Rural King southwest of there about 200 yards away.
Above and behind the Rural King, higher than the tree, was a black solid oval object roughly the size of a car (in comparison to the vehicles below). The object moved upward and west through the cloud about "as fast as you could blink". Behind the object was a very light blue "tail" appearance, see-through.
She called her mother who lives behind the rural King, and mentioned what had happened, and her mother asked if this had occurred just after 7:30. She said yes and asked why. She said her dog was outside looking up frantically barking and shaking.
She added that she went out to get her dog and the dog ran inside and went under the bed.
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Dark Pill Shape with High sounds I heard a very loud sound, I thought a plane was coming in low at first. then the sound changed. it was high and low almost interwaving.
I looked out the window only to see this weird pill shaped object hovering while maneuvering in these odd circle patterns. It was darker than everything around it but that made it almost more noticable. it was extremely low and shaking/vibrating.
Out of no where it zoomed out so fast i couldnt really tell which way it went.
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Changing Light I remember seeing a flashing light in the sky, then instantly took 8 burst photos.
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stationary to slow moving ball of light, 3 nights in a row. In July of 2018, my daughter noticed a light in the sky, maybe a mile from our house. It was stationary for about 10 minutes then slowly moved off to the north.
We couldn't see where it went because of the trees. The next night, I was on the back porch, letting my dog out, and noticed another light moving at a very slow pace. I called my daughter and her friend and my grandaughter and they wittnessed them also.
There was no blinking lights and no noise. They were just bright. The following night i went out the front porch and witnessed the same thing.
This time they were further north, over the south end of Indianapolis.
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Two Orange lights in formation over Greenwood, Indiana. While driving southbound on SR 135 between Stones Crossing and Olive Branch, all 4 occupants in my car observed 2 orange lights flying from SE to NE. When we first saw the lights, they were east of SR 135.
We decided to pull over into Dyes Walk Golf Club to observe the lights. We got out of the car, and observed the following. Both lights/craft appeared to be traveling between 2000-3000 feet and a speed of around 200 knots.
We could hear no noise from the lights/craft. The trailing light when above us, moved up next to the other light and maintained side by side formation. That light then suddenly disappeared.
The other light continued moving NW for another 30 seconds or so, getting dimmer, then brighter, then accelerated at a high rate of speed and completely disappeared. Both my self and my wife (who was also one of the observers in the car) are both career pilots. I know how airplanes move and what the exterior lighting should look like.
No aircraft uses orange lights, and I’ve never in my long career have witnessed anything like this. It was truly astounding. I made a phone call to the Indianapolis Airport control tower/TRACON apx 30 min later and described the event to the supervisor.
He stated they did not observe anything of that nature on radar or from the tower.
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MADAR Site 121.
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I saw an orange dotted triangle with the orange dots on each side that changed its formed. I was out with my family and I had just gotten back from the store. Well I kept hearing my mom and sister say, "what the f.
" and I looked up and there were 3 orange dots making a triangle, and 2 other dots on each other. My sister rushed in and got my dad and when I went to take a picture of the triangle my phone started to glitch really bad. When my dad got outside the triangle had started to change and I don't know how to explain the shape it was in.
I recorded it though. That same night my friend sent me a picture of a triangle with 3 white lights from his bedroom window. While all this was going on my cat was acting really weird and attacked my sister and he never does that.
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Cherry red light, hovering in NW over Fireworks display, then turning 90 degrees and shooting SE at a rapid speed! While watching a local fireworks display originating from a nearby church over the lake behind my house, I observed an object with a flashing, cherry red light, at a very high altitude in the north western area of the sky. It was hovering in one place, as if observing the fireworks below. The red light flashing object remained hovering in one place for 3 or 4 minutes, then it made a 90 degree turn and quickly streaked to the southeastern area of the sky and disappeared in a southerly direction as if following the inter-state highway south, in the direction of northern Kentucky.
I looked on the Internet to find out what kind of aircraft would have a cherry red, flashing light, but I did not find any helpful information. There were no other colors of light being emitted from the object, I watched until it was out of sight looking for the usual colored lights, but none were ever visible, just the one flashing red light. I have never seen an aircraft move with such speed or with such abrupt 90 degree turns as this object presented.
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It was early evening. My husband who was driving and I were heading home, when we both noticed ahead of us in the sky to the east. We were traveling north was a v-shaped object, low in the sky.
It was black, v shaped with a red light in the tip of the "v," and one white light on the tip of each wing. We were traveling at approximately 40 mph, and it was almost hovering. Going very slow.
It was tilting back and forth, back and forth. I saw it clearly if even for a few seconds. We drove past it and out of sight.
I called it in to 911 and reported it .
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Greenwood Indiana blinking lights seen during Lunar Eclipse 21:45 9/27 While watching the lunar eclipse through my binoculars I noticed 2 red blinking flights move in a strait line downward. Always maintaining same distance apart. The blinking red lights moved downward behind my neighbors house.
I moved position and saw the same lights change direction approx 45 degrees upward always maintaining same distance which led me believe it must be a craft. It then smoothly moved strait upward and out of sight. The moon was 90% eclipsed at that point.
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We saw 2 huge balls of fire traveling across the sky; both went in separate directions and turned black before going down. My husband and I were sitting on the patio at 11:00 pm. I saw a huge ball of fire coming from the southeast, across the sky, getting bigger as it came towards us.
It looked like a balloon with a giant fire inside it. It was very high in the sky. This fire ball was not a plane, it zig-zagged a little as it came forward.
It flew just under the clouds and we had a clear view. It then veered to the left and disappeared for a few minutes, then the huge oval shape turned black when the fire disappeared. At that point it looked like a dark rectangular parachute against the slightly lit night sky.
It went down to the northeast, the "parachute" seeming to land behind the trees to the northeast of us. We were stunned when we looked back where it had come from and saw another ball of fire coming from the same direction. This one followed a straighter path from southeast to northwest.
This fireball also disappeared, changing into a black spot in the sky, and seemed to go down behind the trees in the distance to the northwest. These both started as oval balls of fire and changed to black rectangular "parachute" shapes after they lost their light. We did take pictures and videos.
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15-20 UFOs flying at different altitudes and multiple angles changing paths quickly. Saw 15-20 UFOs flying at different altitudes moving all directions with flickering yellow lights every 4-5 seconds.
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Observed by two witnesses. Fast moving silent orange light, moving very quickly from southeast to northwest. Altitude not too high or low.
Object abruptly disappeared.
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Plane-like except much smaller, shorter, and slower. My mother and I were driving down the road late this evening when we noticed what appeared to be an airplane. We thought it was odd seeing an airplane so low to the ground.
As we drove close I realized that, while the craft was shaped like a plane, it contained more to its shape than a plane. It had an extra barrel and it was shorter than a normal plane. It was just the one craft.
However, unlike a normal plane, it was much lower to the ground, had a darker paint job, was very thin, flew very very slowly, and had lights in a triangle formation on the bottom of it. It made no noise and left no trail in the sky. Once I saw the craft, I pointed out to my mother that it was much different than a normal airplane.
She suggested that we turn around and take a closer look. We drove down the road maybe 100 feet before making a U-Turn. When we returned to the spot where we had seen the craft, the return was less than a minute, we saw no sign of the craft.
It was there one minute and gone the next. We even drove further down the road in hopes of seeing it again or maybe even a sign that it was still there. However there was no sign of the craft we had seen.
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3 strange cross shaped objects flying at an extremely high altitude and very fast I was flying a kite with my 3yr old and a low flying commercial jet caught our eye as it was descending into Indy airport (flying from the SE toward the airport NE.) as the jet crossed above our kite and passed, I noticed movement much higher (thousands of feet?) behind our kite. Shielding my eyes I could see 3 distinct objects cruising at a speed in a "V" or triangle position and they seemed to be moving incredibly fast for how high they were.
They were moving from SW to the NE, and were cross shaped, leading with the long ends. My first thought was they reminded me of the large sand bill cranes that migrate over our area this time of year, but those are usually in large flocks, you can visibly see them flapping, fly in circular motions, fly MUCH slower, and you can often hear them. Whatever these were were much higher than I would expect a bird to be and again, cruising at quite a fast speed.
They may have been fighter jets, possibly F-16'! s, but they made no sound and there was no contrail.
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15+ Fireballs seen in formation in Greenwood Indiana; Bright Red glow changing to an orange than a white flash before returning to red. Upon leaving my subdivision located off of Fry Road heading north I noticed a line of fireball (red in color; changing to an orange glow that would flash white and then go back to red) in the western sky. I could count 15 distinct fireballs with a trail of many more beyond that.
They were in a line formation hovering (or moving slowly east) about the distance of a small plane above the tree line. I headed east and went to my destination; upon returning 5-10 minutes later to my neighborhood. I noticed the same fireballs (fewer) in a V formation a little north of my first sightings.
I had called my husband upon the first sighting and told him to look in our backyard. He saw two that disappeared quickly upon his gaze. I went home and picked him up.
We saw 2 in the western sky over a neighborhood directly west of us. One was lower while the second was further up. We stopped our car almost directly below it and my husband took out his phone to take a pi! cture.
I gave him mine with a telephoto lens and while taking the picture it disappeared faster than our eyes could focus. Upon returning home his picture was just the black sky no fireball and my phone was a white as a piece of paper. No orbs or lights were seen in either picture.
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i saw some lights in the sky. They were in round shape and were moving. when i went to get my camera they were gone but when my brother came home he said he saw them too.
and he kind of recorded them to and after all this there were like 6 helicopters in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Greenwood, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Fireball | 5 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Triangle | 4 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Circle | 3 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Cross | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Greenwood, 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 | 9 reported sightings | 27.27% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Greenwood, 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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Sunday | 7 reported sightings | 21.21% of all reports |
Thursday | 5 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Tuesday | 5 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Saturday | 5 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 12.12% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Greenwood, 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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03/31/06 | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
05/20/20 | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
07/05/07 | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
08/31/14 | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
07/18/18 | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Greenwood, 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 | 17 reported sightings | 51.52% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 8 reported sightings | 24.24% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 3.03% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Greenwood, Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Greenwood, Indiana.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2022 | 2 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2020 | 4 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2018 | 3 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2017 | 2 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2015 | 3 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2014 | 4 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 1 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 2 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2009 | 2 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2008 | 4 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2007 | 1 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2007 |
2006 | 2 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2006 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2005 |
1999 | 1 UFO Reports | Greenwood, Indiana UFO Sightings in 1999 |
All Indiana Cities with UFO Sightings
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