All Reported UFO Sightings in Highland, Indiana

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My rommate and I saw the obect from our patio move across the sky at a relatively slow rate. Slower than a small single engine plane would. The lights at the back of the object blinked in a strange fashion.

About 5 lights would blink at different intervals and then they would all go black. They would turn off for about 2 seconds and then continue on in the same strange blinking pattern. The lights were rectangular and orientes vertically.

It moved from the west towards the southeast in a straight line. No sound could be heard coming from it. It was difficult to make out the exact shape of it.

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Object with vertical lighted panels. Witness was at home and his roommate called to him to come outside onto the balcony to see something in the night sky at about 10:50 pm central standard time. The sky was clear but it was especially dark because it was a waxing crescent moon with 21% visibility that evening.

They thought it was a plane at first but it was flying relatively low and they were were unable to make out a shape of the object which was strange because there were commercial and small engine airplanes flying this evening at varying altitudes and they could make out the shape of the planes even though it was dark. This thing had about 5 rectangular white lights oriented vertically across the back of it. The lights pulsated and flashed in a staggered order and then they would go completely dark for about one or two seconds and continue flashing again in rapid succession.

They were not able to hear any sound coming from it nor were they able to see any kind of exhaust trail coming from! it. It moved from west to east in a straight line and they observed it facing south. It moved slower than a single engine plane would which made it stand out even more.

They thought it might be a drone but it was unlike any drone they'd ever seen before. They followed its trajectory which was viewed above a tree line for about the next 4 minutes until it was no longer visible behind the tree line. Witness included digital photos / screen grabs from video (a couple are zoomed in and cropped) and video that are relatively bad quality because of how dark it was but it highlights well what they saw.

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Bright light with a arch like U red lights make square in back. I saw a bright light out of the norm south southeast and seemed to be still. Then it started flying north west which is a flight pattern I have not seen a plane fly near my house before.

The front of the craft was like a bright white light that was extremely bright in the very center and the light seemed to tail off to make a arch like shape pretty much like a U pattern but a side ways U which meant the bottom of the U would be to the left or facing North. After the sideways U in front there was another set of white lights in the shape of a cross starting with the front light of the craft and going towards the back of the craft. Besides the U in front and the cross there were also a bunch of extremely fast and random and the blinking lights seemed to be blue in color and then there was 4 or 5 red lights in the back in the shape of a circle or square.

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Fireball seen near Chicago, IL Tonight I was on my deck when I saw a very bright light moving very fast in the sky. It resembled a fireball. I first saw it in the southeast heading northwest.

At first I thought it might have been landing lights on an aircraft being diffused in the clouds. I live close to Chicago so I see aircraft on approach all the time. I object was higher than normal planes on approach.

T he object was also heading directly for Chicago. All the lights on the object went out. I could clearly see the outline of the object.

It was round possibly oval. It began to look as it descending out of the sky. It disappeared as the treeline further blocked its view.

I heard no sound coming from this object. It was at an altitude where I would have heard the engines if it was an airplane.

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bright lights in the sky hovering for over hours. I couldn't sleep so I was looking out the window to c if there were any deer in my yard. I look up at the sky and notcied some green, yellow, and red lights.

I thought I was a plane passing. I looked out and hour later and the craft was still there. I woke my mate up to look and he said it was probly a plane.

I said it's not moving very much. He said give it about 15 min and I'll go outside to see. It was still there, so he went outside and seen lights, he said it was very slow moving but couldn't see what it was.

I kept looking outside I can still see the lights, and it's been over 2 hours so I know it's not a plane, and the lights are going in a circle. I was really scared and just watching it. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to provide no contact information.

PD)) ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a star or planet. Probably not a genuine UFO. PD)).

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unexplained noise flying above house with no associated air traffic At approximately 12:03 Central time. A noise occurred above our house. The house sits above most of the local treeline atop the highest hill in the area.

From the Southwest to the Northeast the sound emanated, shaking the house slightly. The best description I can give is it sounded like a firehouse being sprayed against aluminum siding. Our house is on a flight path for helicopters, planes and even military flights but this sounded completely different.

It also traveled opposite to the normal flight path. We have experienced sonic booms and again different from that noise. Due to the cloud cover and light rainfall we were unable to glimpse any object but the clouds were disturbed in a pattern as if something had skimmed them, similar to if you pulled an edge of paper through paint.

Objects were unknown, only one for certain. Did not see any associated lights.

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Slow moving dark object flying in the sky. To whom this may concern. I am not sure what to say about my experience today.

I guess my first question is, has anyone reported something odd in the sky over the NW Indiana today (4/30/09). I ask this because myself and another person witnessed a strange object moving very slowly beneath the heavy cloud cover. The object was dark color and very large.

I first thought the object was a low flying jet. Then I realized it was moving way to slow. As we watched this thing we kept asking each other what we thought it was.

We vocally passed ideas to each other that it was a helicopter, Balloon, Blimp but the shape was all wrong for any of these aircraft. We couldn’t figure out what it was. The movement was SLOW, very slow.

Had it been a big jetliner it would have fallen out of the sky, it was moving that slow. The shape was sort of round but more elongated or cigar shaped and the color was dark greyish black. There was no sound and we saw no lights of any kind.

It was well below the very heavy cloud cover and it was extremely easy to see as it passed behind the tall leafless trees in the distance. As for the distance from it to where we were was about 400-800 yards. I know this sounds like it was pretty far away but the size of this thing was quite large.

Someone else had to see it. I kept comparing it to the Semi Trucks traveling below it and how much bigger it was and wonder what the hell it was. The object was moving in an easterly to south easterly direction.

After about 3 to 4 mins of watching it, it stopped and looked as if it was turning (North) and we thought is was going to come toward us. But it immediately zipped way at a much faster speed due south and out of our sight. I have no idea of what this object was and it has left me wondering about we saw.

One thing we both kept saying to each other was that the outer shape was obscured or had a fuzzy appearance. What I mean by this, is for some reason we couldn’t make out a clear outline of the object. It was like when you look at the road on a hot day and you see the heat waves coming of the road creating a watery appearance.

You could see it but it was very hard to focus on. Let me know if anyone has seen anything like this or if anyone has reported seeing this strange object over northwest Indiana today on April 30th 2009 at approximately 3:00 Pm or a little afterwards. Thank you for your time.

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4th of July UFO On the evening of July 4, 2008 my daughters went to their friends’ house to see the annual firework show. The show ended and they were just hanging out in the friends’ backyard. It was my two daughters, the friend and the friends’ mom that were in the backyard.

My oldest daughter was sitting on the grass and noticed something in the sky, she first thought it was maybe a firework but it was moving. No later that she saw it her friend said, “is that a UFO or what?” They all were freaking out, looking at this object in the sky. My oldest described it as orange in color, a white light in front of it and green lights around the object.

My oldest described it as a circular, balloon shaped object, orange in color. She could see inside the object and she described the inside was the colors, green and red, she described it like it was like when a disco ball is on, the different colors. My youngest had her digital camera that she just received on her birthday on July 2.

She took it to take pictures of the fireworks but took more than fireworks that night! They both said the object was traveling from North to South. It was a 4th of July they will never forget, much better than just seeing fireworks!.

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Shower of sparks and colors emitted from object My girlfriend and I were driving north on Indianapolis Blvd in Highland heading for Chicago after a weeks trip in Evansville, IN. I looked out the passenger window as my girlfriend was driving and noticed a shower of sparks, a sort of tail of golden sparks. I would estimate the height of the to be approximatly 750 - 1000 feet.

I thought it may be a firework of some sort up until it made a slow turn heading in the oppisite direction. The tail of sparks stoped and I saw what may have been the light of an airplane, although it was just a single small amber light, the size of a star. It continued on for a moment then the sparks started agian.

I am telling you it was the strangest thing. It was manuvering in the air and I could have mistaken it for a firework if it had not been manuvering and turning on and off. The strangest thing is it started to drop small sparkes which exploded and appeared to be just like a 4th of july arial firework.

I don't know whether aircraft preform these types of fireworks shows or what, but whatever it was was under control and definatly manuvering in such a way there was a craft behind the whole thing. I have never seen an airplane fly over and drop a comet like tail of sparks and fireworks. My girlfriend was witness to all this too and I got a terrible video of it on the digital camera.

Thanks.

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Possible shperical object in northern sky. Colors were green over yellow over red. Disappeard, then reappeared west of original location.

Flashing at some points. First sighting was at 20:30 central time. Object was located in north eastern sky line.

Description of object: Possible shpere shaped; top section first appeared green, center is yellow, lower section glowed red. After watching the object with binoculars, it had "drifted" to the east. Then it seemed to have disappeared.

Reappeared (possibly even another craft, unlikely) west of the original position. Approximately 30 minutes later the object rotated clockwise. The red glowing section pointed northwest, while the green section seemed to have vanished.

The majority of the object seemed to be yellow at this point. The yellow pointed south east towards the ground. Eventually it rotated back.

It then seemd to have "drifted" back to its original sighting position. Rotated a 90 degree angle clockwise, then went straight up higher into the atmosphere. It went back to the original colors green on yellow on red (rotated back).

Watching it longer, I noticed something was "dropped" suddenly from it. I saw it fall for not even a second and then it disappeared. The object has sat in that one position for several hours now.

It is currently 03:31 on 10/12/98.

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Spherical. Red, yellow, and green lights. Below clouds, yet very high up.

The craft appears spherical in shape seen through binoculars. In the northern sky high, yet below the clouds. Green on top mostly down to the middle, glowing red on the bottom, and seems a bit of yellow in the center.

Stayed in one place the whole time. Is still there currently. Now it is 23:57.

Lights appeared to be flashing at one point. It is not any known air craft, helicoptor, or tower of any sort. It is too high, remembering that it is below the clouds.

The could cover is thin yet quite high in the atmosphere.

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Fishing in a pond, I believe was call Optimus Lake that has long since been covered over, in Highland, Indiana, just off of Indianapolis BLVD is where I had seen it. The saucer looked of seamless gold/bronze and had portholes a third the way up its structure. It was at an angle leaning towards me nestled in between 3 to 4 tree tops as cover to hide from the main road.

I did not see the bottom. My family ventured off to fish further down and I felt a need to look up and over my shoulder when I had seen it. I do not know if it was fear or embarrassment, because I had just finished peeing in the lake in my youth, but I looked away as if it was just another object in my life as if to say so what.

I have never shared this story but I cannot seem to get the image out of my mind. I did look back up eventually but it was gone and I never heard a thing to cause me to look up. It was as if I somehow knew it was there.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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I looked out my window to see a disc shaped object hovering about less than 100 ft. over my house. This happened when I was only 7 but I can picture it like it was yesterday.

On hot nights when I couldn't sleep I would put my face up against the window that was right next to my top bunk because the window was always cooler. One night I did this and opened my eyes to see a disc shaped object hovering less than 100 ft. over my house.

It was all lit up in different colors and the lights kept flashing in a pattern. My parents were sitting on the couch in the next room talking and I called out to them asking them what that thing in the sky with all the lights was. My mom didn't even look out but called back that it was an advertisement and that someone was having a sale or grand opening.

At the time, being only 7 this made perfect sense to me, but later I realized that from my discription she thought that I was talking about a strobe light. It was at this time that I realized that that thing that I had seen was not anything the average citizen was familiar with. As I watched this object it slowly and silently started to "drift" in a slightly NW direction towards the Ridge Road viaduct just East of Wicker Park, until it was out of sight from my window.

Years later I was talking with a friend who had lived a few doors away at the time and she described for me the exact same thing even though we had never discussed it before. She had seen it too.