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Indianapolis, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 271 UFO sighting reports in Indianapolis, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (44 reports, 16.24% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (41 reports, 15.13% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (46 reports, 16.97% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (27 reports, 9.96% of total).
- 12/24/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 0.74% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (115 reports, 42.44% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Indianapolis, Indiana
These Indianapolis, 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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Two craft with a triangle light formation on the bottom and a flashing strobe light and zero engine noise flew past when I was outside. I went outside around 11:40 PM EST to let my dogs out in the front yard of my house. Shortly after going outside, I noticed two blinking lights somewhat off in the distance, moving in the sky from north to south.
As the lights got closer, I could start to see a triangle light formation on the bottom of the craft. There was also a blinking white strobe light on both crafts. I could make out the same triangle light formation on both crafts.
Both crafts appeared to be identical. I could not see the craft clearly enough to make out its entire shape. I could mostly just see the triangle light formation and a blinking strobe light.
But there was enough light to tell that these triangle lights were attached or part of the craft and not just floating lights. The two crafts were flying one in front of the other but with a safe enough distance between them. I would estimate the crafts' size to be about equal to a small or medium-sized fighter jet, like an F-16 or F-15, for example.
The crafts made absolutely no sound whatsoever. No engine noises. No visible engine exhaust or afterburner.
I would say these crafts were flying at about the same level you would expect a helicopter to be at if it were flying across a city. They were flying relatively slowly. At this point of viewing the craft for maybe about a minute, I decided to run inside and get my phone as fast as I could to film.
The time it took me to get my phone and start the video is probably about a minute. Unfortunately, I was not able to film when they were close enough to make out the triangle light formation. I filmed the craft continuing to fly north to south over the city of Indianapolis.
By the time you see the craft in the video, I would say they are over downtown Indianapolis or possibly the Indianapolis International Airport. The craft flew in a relatively straight line when I could see them close. By the time they get over more of the city, they seem to be farther apart than when I first saw them.
I wanted to go down to the end of the street to keep filming but decided to take the dogs inside first. By the time I came back outside, I could no longer see either of the crafts. I stayed outside continuing to look at the sky.
3-5 minutes after returning outside from letting the dogs in, I noticed a small white orb high in the sky. It appeared much higher in the sky than the two crafts I had witnessed. I saw the orb moving slowly in the sky for about 5 seconds when it suddenly vanished into thin air.
I continued going in and outside for a few hours to see if any of the crafts returned, but clouds rolled in, and I did not see anything else that night. A few details about the video: During the video, there appear to be three lights in the sky, but the light furthest to the right is a star, I believe. There also appear to be some bugs flying around near the camera at the end of the video.
I did not have my camera’s auto-rotate feature on, and at one point in the video, I turned the camera horizontally, causing the video to be sideways. I do not have any video of the white orb I saw; it was gone before I could turn my camera back on. I would consider myself very knowledgeable about what most military aircraft and helicopters from World War II and newer look and sound like.
I read about military aviation quite frequently and have been to many airshows.
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They looked to be 40 or 50 and flew like drones and they had black or dark sides and light or bright sides. On Sunday November 5th of 2023 at 2:45pm at 86th and Zionsville Rd in Indianapolis, I was looking up into the sky when I observed a circular whirlwind and about 40 or more unidentified chevron winged aircraft in the sky. The aircraft was very high up and was visible for about 5 minutes.
I only caught 52 seconds of it in video and I took 1 snapshot picture. Most of the aircraft had disappeared or fallen out of my view by the time I made the video and took a photo.
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Lights behind clouds in 2 separate circular forms . Slowly rotating in the sky behind clouds Will attach video of exact sighting.
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I got it on video it’s was lights moving and gliding like sprites It was brilliant color detail sprite like orbs dancing in the sky.
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At first I saw a black drone. Then I realized it was comprised of multiple black orbs. The black orbs would space out and then come back together.
While flying through the sky. I have never seen anything like this in my life!.
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I have video of a bright light that was dancing around in the sky and appeared to come closer at times and had a swirl in it I was looking at the sky and asked my roommate to come look at the bright light in the sky above my neighbors house. At first I thought it was a drone but it was too big. The moon was south of this, the object was east.
I took a picture but it was moving, so we took 2 videos of it. It almost danced in the sky. I held my phone still and the object appeared to come closer and had a swirl shape and it would drop out of the camera and then come right back up.
It was bright white and had a yellowish bottom edge. We watched this for approximately 15 minutes until it disappeared. We went to bed and I had forgotten about it until later that afternoon.
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I’ve got more pictures July 21 2023 3:30am, My dog was watching something so I looked out the door and saw this orb flying around darting back and forth then it flew up and was gone, July 22 3:36am dog was acting the same, instead of the risk of scaring it off again I watched this object on my surveillance camera from my phone sure enough it was back, I started taking pictures, you can not see through this object and when blown up you can see a slight glow around it.
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Could not see with naked eye, only thru phone camera. Objects lowered & got larger with each picture. Then they pulled away & disappear Was taking pictures of moon & noticed while taking pictures these 3 star looking objects lowered & got larger & started developing into odd objects that I can't explain.
They almost looked like entities as they got lower. When I looked without the camera I couldn't see them at all. A star to the left of then then got larger & looked like a spacecraft of some kind & disappeared.
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Alien face human like Last week I left a message about seeing the craft at Behavioral Health Hospital. The face that visible is slightly confusing for me to describe. How much it looked human except their hair was wildly different.
Hair like characters in Avatar movie. Shoulder length. Face tone and skin tone is a secret.
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I walked out of the school and was watching a plane and noticed something smaller fly past it heading the opposite direction. I had just walked out of the School when I saw an airplane and stopped to view it. Then I noticed a smaller object fly past it, heading the opposite direction.
I could see the wings/fins of the plane but not the other object so I took a picture and second picture on accident. I was trying to record but wasn't able to in time as it flew past and my school building blocked it. I reviewed the photos and zoomed in on them further only to see it was a disk without any kind of wings or fins.
it seemed Grey and it was over a clear blue sky. Even stranger is that in the second picture I took I noted it seem the width had decreased and wasn't as slim? Could be the angle. I'm not sure.
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I saw a strange light that seemed to stretch in length before disappearing While driving this morning I noticed a strange, pastel yellow light in the sky; I noticed it because it was a shade of yellow that was distinct from everything in the skyline. As I saw this, I was going westbound on 465 in Indianapolis on the north side just before the north split to meridian/us 31. The light appeared to elongate or stretch out away from the point of origin before snapping to the new point and collapsing back to its original size.
It then disappeared. There was only one source of light, it moved in a linear fashion, and it stayed the same color (did not appear to change color or have an aura-like appearance).
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Circular black object with two protrusions floating just under the cloud line While fishing with my 5 year old son at our house, my son pointed out an object just above us, “floating” just under the cloud line. It was all black, somewhat circular, with two protussions coming out of the front. It was clearly not an airplane, air balloon, or any typical object seen in the sky.
I attempted to capture it with my phone and oddly my camera app would not load, and then it disappeared.
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MADAR Node 21 .
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Heard a high pitched ringing and turned around to see a shiny, silver space craft. Was out for a walk after a long day. Started hearing an extremely high pitched and continuous sound.
Thought it might be from my migraine, but it wouldn't go away, and seemed like it was coming from above/behind me. I finally turned around after 4/5 minutes and saw a silver spacecraft, big enough to recognise as a spaceship of some sort, but still far away. It had this strange silvery haze around it as well, that was almost beautiful.
I was frozen there for a few minutes, and unfortunately didn't think to get video evidence. I was still confused and kind of scared, so decided to just go home and get some sleep. Sorry if it seems like a stupid thing to do, but I was very tired and wasn't 100% that I was seeing what I thought I was.
(Though now I am sure of what I saw.) About to turn in early for the night, but wanted to get this off my chest first. Thank you for listening.
If I see the spacecraft again, I will submit another report.
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Traveling east to west, approximately half mile apart. Traveling east to west, two tic tac shaped UFOs approximately half mile apart. Moving at a fast speed, but on direct line.
Noticed two large lights or lite motors from my vantage point on first vehicle. Noticing many aircraft military traveling all directions for last few months. Reported in 2020, a large conglomerate of ships traveling north to south, approximately sixty craft.
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MADAR Node 21 .
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Video on Ring security camera that activates lights and camera with motion See attached video. No sound except when it bumped above camera.
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MADAR Node 21 .
Indianapolis, 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 | 44 reported sightings | 16.24% of all reports |
Circle | 31 reported sightings | 11.44% of all reports |
Triangle | 22 reported sightings | 8.12% of all reports |
Disk | 22 reported sightings | 8.12% of all reports |
Unknown | 19 reported sightings | 7.01% of all reports |
Fireball | 18 reported sightings | 6.64% of all reports |
Other | 12 reported sightings | 4.43% of all reports |
Sphere | 12 reported sightings | 4.43% of all reports |
Flash | 11 reported sightings | 4.06% of all reports |
Formation | 10 reported sightings | 3.69% of all reports |
Oval | 8 reported sightings | 2.95% of all reports |
Cylinder | 7 reported sightings | 2.58% of all reports |
Changing | 7 reported sightings | 2.58% of all reports |
Rectangle | 6 reported sightings | 2.21% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.11% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.37% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.37% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.37% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.37% of all reports |
Indianapolis, 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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October | 41 reported sightings | 15.13% of all reports |
July | 35 reported sightings | 12.92% of all reports |
June | 31 reported sightings | 11.44% of all reports |
November | 30 reported sightings | 11.07% of all reports |
September | 27 reported sightings | 9.96% of all reports |
August | 21 reported sightings | 7.75% of all reports |
April | 19 reported sightings | 7.01% of all reports |
December | 18 reported sightings | 6.64% of all reports |
May | 16 reported sightings | 5.90% of all reports |
February | 13 reported sightings | 4.80% of all reports |
January | 7 reported sightings | 2.58% of all reports |
March | 6 reported sightings | 2.21% of all reports |
Indianapolis, 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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Saturday | 46 reported sightings | 16.97% of all reports |
Tuesday | 43 reported sightings | 15.87% of all reports |
Sunday | 43 reported sightings | 15.87% of all reports |
Friday | 40 reported sightings | 14.76% of all reports |
Wednesday | 37 reported sightings | 13.65% of all reports |
Thursday | 29 reported sightings | 10.70% of all reports |
Monday | 26 reported sightings | 9.59% of all reports |
Indianapolis, 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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12/24/06 | 2 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
07/04/16 | 2 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
11/16/99 | 2 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
10/15/23 | 2 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
11/10/16 | 2 reported sightings | 0.74% of all reports |
Indianapolis, 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 | 115 reported sightings | 42.44% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 53 reported sightings | 19.56% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 38 reported sightings | 14.02% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 23 reported sightings | 8.49% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 22 reported sightings | 8.12% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 13 reported sightings | 4.80% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Indianapolis, Indiana
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