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Hobart, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 7 UFO sighting reports in Hobart, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 42.86% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- 1974 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 14.29% of total).
- 07/01/74 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 14.29% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (4 reports, 57.14% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Hobart, Indiana
These Hobart, 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).
Full Report Text:
Absolutely still object, very large, hovering so close over trees above all street lights, silent, 2 massive bright white lights one on each side parallel, absolutely not a plane or jet of any sort never seen anything like it in my 38 years. Small flashing lights noticed on back side , it caught my attention so I stopped and watched and it so quickly took off straight ahead into the night out of sight I turned around my car to follow it and it was gone , it didn’t leave at blazing speed like something from out of space technology it certainly wasn’t normal and went from a dead stop to just taking off and gone within seconds, not a helicopter not like anything I’ve seen absolutely has me stumped to where I had to check to see if there was anything else reported and first time on the site figured I’d put something up there see what the masses says, notice a lot of reports lately in Indiana. I drove around in circles not a trace in the sky, with a plane ! you can notice it for such along time flying overhead this just literally disappeared, clear night clouds not a reason, was so low clouds wouldn’t have mattered anyways .
God bless keep our eyes on the skies there’s something going on out there. Stay with Jesus and pray. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Lights in the sky. My fiancé and I were driving down a back county road on our way home to Hobart. The sighting posted of the Blue Taleh Restaurant; with the three lights exactly sitting the way in the picture was what I seen.
One other sighting of this was about a month or two ago, my fiancé and I seen it again driving down State Road 51 SAME POSITION SAME LIGHTS. We we're driving, so we didn't stop, but the whole time we watched nothing moved, nothing shinned brighter it just stayed. I'm assuming no one would of really noticed because when you look you would mistake it for street lights in a distance, or just stars.
These weren't stars though they were more down to earth; closer to us. Two separate occasions, two separate places. What really made me look into this site and get really over the top and start digging.
Last night 8/14/2016 4am, at my house. I know the meteor shower was supposedly for August 11th, 12th, and 13th. This wasn't a meteor, this wasn't a shooting star.
My eyes we not messing with me, and I know the image that is stuck in my head. It wasn't normal, and I have never really believed so much into ufos or these crazy sightings till last night. It was round, flat, light to it.
like a yellowish tint the moon gets BUT LIGHTER, almost phantom like. It moved so quick in an out of this cloud I mean so unbelievably quick. It looks almost as if it had a light tracer too it.
It happened so quick, you almost thought your eyes where playing tricks. I didn't hear a sound in the sky. Not a plane, not a helicopter.
I can't tell you what it is that I saw, but I seen it.
Full Report Text:
In a perfect formation; then formed a triangle. My family and I where walking and saw 3 bright lights in the sky in a diagonal formation then as we started staring at them they moved out of the formation and one left the other 2 stayed. And this night my mother and I saw one that had 3 lights in the shape of a triangle and was flashing a yellow color.
Then it had changed it shape again to an airplane form almost. We had also seen them one other time above a building paired in 3 lined up. This all was seen in the same week.
We know we sound crazy but we don't know who else to tell. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Orange/red ball of light heading from S to the N the appearing to stop and change course leaving the atmosphere. Me and my fiance were sitting outside when a ball of light appeared from the south at the treeline heading north faster then anything I've ever seen in the sky. During its path, the object changed color from orange to red constantly until it appeared to stop its northern progress and move away from the earth.
It then appeared to start slowly fading in and out until it appeared to leave the atmosphere. No sound was heard by either of us from the object; it was too far away, I'm assuming.
Full Report Text:
There was a fast flying red orb flying through the sky. Three of us were hanging out in my backyard, and my one friend spotted the red circle like object flying through the sky. It did not have a tale in which it couldn't be a meteor.
It was flying faster than most planes.
Full Report Text:
3 colored lights rotating silently seen in northwest indiana. about 6pm. (just shortly after dark)in the summer (june-sept) between 1973-1975.
i was about 12-14 years old. my mother asked me to go outside to burn our paper garbage, we lived on the end of a dead end street beside a swampy area and regularly separated and burned paper refuse at the edge of a large mowed area we maintained,and the start of the wooded/swampy area about 20 yards from our house. i was watching "the "A" team" on TV at the time(may help time frame) and not wanting to be interrupted, i ran out our backdoor fast dropped the paper sack full of paper trash, flicked several lit matches into it and ran back inside.
when i approached the back door my mother was still standing on the porch holding open the screen door with her back and looking off in the distance.i ran past her into the kitchen and heard her call me and say "what is that?" i turned around and went back beside her and she was looking off in the sky to the southeast. i saw what appeared to be lights flashing and started to dismiss it as a plane so i could return to my TV show.
the lights appeared to move in an odd way and looked too low to be a plane, my response was cut short to "it's just a." and i knew it was not a plane or helicopter. there were 3 lights in the form of a triangle and looked to be spinning and shifting back and forth as the object "wobbled" towards us slowly.
it appeared to be a green,red and blue light but a white light was visible in the mix, however not located on the object in a solid fashion like the other 3 lights. i became enchanted with staring at it and my mother seemed to be in a daze, my mouth was open to say some sort of explanation, however my mind ran thru a list of goodyear blimp(too fast) helicopter(no sound)airplane(too slow). i felt euphoria and a sense of calm overtake me but i could not speak.
i slowly stepped towards it and down off the porch to stand on our driveway and could not take my eyes away from it. it was coming directly towards us and moved like a hoola-hoop and each rotation of the "hoola-hoop" was like a slide forward. i remember thinking of a rotary engine at the time and mazda had commercials about rotary engines on tv.
it got closer and was silent and large and the triangle shape made by the 3 lights seemed to be mounted around a central circle or sphere and rotated or "hoola-hooped" around the central mass. i was now positive it fit no logical explanation or known physics as it would fall from the sky moving so slow but a blimp could never move in that fashion and that was the only explanation i had as to its silence. it hoola-hooped or "slid" toward us and the only thing i could compare it to was 2 magnets opposing each other seemed similar to what held this thing aloft.
it was almost overhead near the mowed area beside our house and i felt in a trance somewhat and began to think "land!.we are friendly, please come meet us, and felt a sort of love and warmth inside as it continued to approach me, then i started to realize i could hit it with a rock it was so low and my mind went to shift to proof and police and shooting it down and calling the media and getting famous. we always kept a loaded 22 rifle behind our back door,my mother shot squirrels with it.
i broke my mind away from the object and ran to get the gun, it was not there. i ran back out and it was now hoola-hooping away from us east northeast as if it read my thoughts and changed its mind, i felt guilty for thinking things that made it go away. it continued slowly east toward willow street and 39th ave just east of I-65 until it was out of sight.
i called state police and they said nobody has reported anything.i felt sure some others had to see it, i looked in the newspapers the next week and saw no mention of it. it was first seen at the intersection of the nickle-plate railroad tracks and interstate 65, low enough all the cars on the interstate surely would have seen it.
it traveled to the south end of 41st and swift street gradually getting lower then east toward 39th and willow street gradually getting higher. my mother seemed in a trance most of the time and afterwards refused to talk about it in any detail. i felt it may have spotted me throwing the lit matches into the trash and the flashes attracted in in the dark, i felt it was reading my mind the entire time and would have landed (if it would fit) beside our house if i did not start thinking bad things.
i am left thinking why if it was from outer space etc would it have ANY lights on it, it would not need to obey any flight regulations or such of earth people. It was not any known technology then or now, that i am aware of.
Full Report Text:
sphere inside a ring In the fall of 1973, October, I was 12 years old, I was watching TV (the six million dollar man) it was a new TV show and the only thing my stepfather watched (until "The A-Team" came out). My mother asked me to take out the paper trash to burn, we lived on a dead end street beside a very large swamp area and separated our paper to burn out back. We had a large mowed field next to our house before the swampy area started, we always burned our paper trash at the edge of it before where the ground got too wet.
I reluctantly pulled myself away from the TV and ran out the back door grabbing the large paper grocery bag full of paper trash and a pack of matches. Planning to get this over with fast, I ran to the edge of the field, dropped the bag and flicked a few lit matches into it,waiting only a half second to make sure one would light the papers inside and ran back to the house eager to return to the new TV show. As i ran in my mother was still standing on the back porch holding open the screen door with her back,once i was in the kitchen but not yet to the living-room, and my TV show, my mother said "greg,what IS that?".
I turned around and she was still standing on the back porch holding open the screen door,I walked to where she was and she stood gazing off into the darkening night sky,it was just after sunset, maybe 6 or 7 p.m. I looked to where she was looking and saw some flashing light in the distance and said "oh thats just a.
" (ready to dismiss whatever and go back to TV). Thats as far as i got, I realized it was not a plane.it was too low, and wobbling ,and the wrong colors and too slow.
It was about a half mile away,at a spot where the nickle plate railroad tracks intersected with interstate 65. There was a viadock there where the highway went over the railroad tracks.From where we stood i could see the headlights from the traffic and this object just above all the cars and trucks.
The viadock was made on 2 hills maybe 80 feet tall with a bridge over them so the train could pass underneath I-65 on its way thru the swamp.I-65 is pretty much north-south and the nickle-plate railroad that went under it was pretty much east-west. The object looked about the same distance above the traffic as the viadock is tall, making its altiutude about 160 feet.
I stared a moment,thinking, before stepping down off the porch onto the driveway to escape the light from the kitchen and see it better,and also to move toward it a bit.let my eyes adjust to the dark,it was not a plane,too slow,too low,a helicopter? no sound, not a blimp, too fast. I realized rather quickly it did not fit any category of flying things I knew of.
I stared at it intently , it had green, red and blue lights rotating around it, the 3 lights forming a triangle, and some whitish light.and they were pulsing not flashing, and it seemed to wobble forward kind of,due to the elliptical rotation of the triangle of lights,from a distance it looked like 2 steps forward one step back, but now it was closer and I could see that's how it moved, the center was sliding forward into the space between the center sphere and the outer rotating ring with the 3 lights mounted on it,as if you were walking while hoola-hooping, and each time the hoola-hoop was touching your back you would take a step forward.but it was a very smooth motion,and silent.
It was headed our way,and as it got closer I felt an overwhelming sense of awe and wonder and inside I knew this was unidentified, and flying. and an object !.my heart was beating but I felt calm.
Hoping it! was true but thinking any minute it would reveal itself to be a helicopter or something else mundane. It didn't, it came directly at me and then this huge craft silently floated directly above me and my yard and my house and was now so low I felt sure it intended on landing in the field next to our house (it wouldn't have fit). Looking straight up at its underside I could see now the center sphere had a larger unattached, or loosly attached, ring around it and the 3 colored lights were mounted on that rotating ring,I think I could see the night sky in the space between the sphere and the ring as it went around.
I was thinking love and peace and I want to meet you, and let me see inside your ship.and it seemed to be in agreement as it approached,I squinted to look for windows in the center sphere, I think I saw some ports or something but they were small and blended with the surface, with all the glare and lights and it being night I could not be sure, but I did feel watched,from there . More than that I felt "telepathy-ed at" or heard.
or understood, or "linked to" whoever was there,inside.i felt in a dreamy state. It was almost as big as a football field,if anyone was really in it they were in the center part,it was about 80 feet up.
It took up 30% of the visible sky.My neck was bent back as far as it would go to look up at it.I felt the same feeling you get when you daydream.
It felt good,euphoric. It was going to land,I just knew it. It hovered there for 5 minutes or so, I felt euphoria and I had to concentrate hard to keep thinking clearly and study it, to remember everything, and not fall under its spell,it took effort,to keep 'snapping myself out of it'.
The bottom seemed to be mirroring the night sky above it,like it tried to be invisible. I realized it was so close I could hit it with a rock!. or my BB gun.
or the 22 rifle behind our back door and make it crash here!.and call channel 7 eyewitness news and be famous!.and the very next rotation of that glorious ring rotated to the east, away from me.
it was leaving!.they heard my thoughts! I was already regretting letting my thoughts go from 'peace,land,come here,i want to meet you' to 'get proof and be on TV'. I ran in the house and the gun was not behind the door where it ALWAYS is.
I ran to the living room and yelled for my stepfather to come look, but he wasn't interested i ran past my mom and back outside. My mom was still frozen at the back door looking up with her mouth hanging open, I knew even then the euphoria had gotten to her,she was mesmerized. Back outside it was really leaving.
it slowly did its rotate slide, rotate slide to the east, away from me and my chance to meet them, I blew it. It slowly hoola-hooped due east and back over I-65 again, about mile north of where It first crossed west over the interstate, and disappeared into the distance. I felt sad as i watched it another 15 minutes floating away.
I didn't know what to do,I called state police,they said nobody has reported anything,that left me with not much to say,I tried calling a small local airport but nobody answered.It was so low,going over I-65 and all the neighborhoods,willow street,old ridge road,surely someone else saw it,all west Hobart should have seen that thing,surely anyone outdoors between ridgeview elementary school and I-65. For the next week I watched the news and read the post tribune looking for anything, nothing.
I was never the same after that,maybe there really is a God, I didnt know everything or have a logical explanation for everything anymore. After all these years I have come to some conclusions. It was held aloft the same way a magnet is when held over another magnet with matching poles facing each other- I could "feel it".
it was not anti-gravity,it was suspended inside the earths magnetic field somehow, it was manipulating the magnetic fields around itself,silent,smooth, efficient. But it had lights even tho it seemed to try to broadcast the night sky on its' underside., why cloak itself but have bright pulsing lights.
why would aliens need or care to follow FAA regulations or any earth laws.why have lights at all if you want to sneak? Was it trying to look like our air traffic? Why come out of your way to look at me and hang out here and let me see you if you are trying to cloak yourself? Did it see the flashes from me throwing matches in the garbage, it surely went out of its way to come over here and look at me. It did not want some normal plane or something to crash into it,thats why the lights.
thats the only thing that makes sense, or maybe it was just taken for granted when building it that of course anything flying, at night especially, needs lights.right? .by humans this logic holds.
I was amazed at the technology of that thing, hundreds of years ahead of mankind if not more!.but i think the lights were man-made,and the more i think about it the more i think it was a ufo for sure, but not from distant space,it was too "mechanical". I doubt that thing could make it from one star system to another no matter how amazing it was compared to a jet or helicopter.
Maybe the original idea or some tech inside it was from outer space, but we were the ones who had it now, reverse engineered. We were the ones "hundreds of years ahead of man kind". now after seeing the tic tacs with the pacific fleet, in comparison my old 1973 ufo seems like an old fashioned clunky version, almost a laughable funny flying machine, like how we now look at old black and white movies of early attempts at flight.
Maybe the telepathy thing was just my emotional state. Maybe.
Hobart, 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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Circle | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Hobart, 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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May | 3 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Hobart, 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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Monday | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Friday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Hobart, 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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07/01/74 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
10/15/73 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
05/02/13 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
06/14/14 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
11/07/15 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Hobart, 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 | 4 reported sightings | 57.14% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Hobart, Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Hobart, Indiana.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Hobart, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | Hobart, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | Hobart, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2014 | 1 UFO Reports | Hobart, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Hobart, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2013 |
1974 | 1 UFO Reports | Hobart, Indiana UFO Sightings in 1974 |
1973 | 1 UFO Reports | Hobart, Indiana UFO Sightings in 1973 |
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