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La Porte, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 17 UFO sighting reports in La Porte, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (6 reports, 35.29% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 29.41% of total).
- 05/22/12 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 (7 reports, 41.18% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in La Porte, Indiana
These La Porte, 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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UFOs Spotted 05/2019. Color changed suspended in Air Good Evening All, Just around 21:17 pm four of my sons we outside in front of the house hanging out talking. My oldest, 26, noticed a very bright light in the sky, and out of curiosity, he asked, “Whay is that?”.
they other theee boys. 19, 13, and 8, looked up in the sky to see what he was referring to. Then all of a sudden, the craft changed into a red glow.
Moved swiftly at a 90 degree angel. Made a brief stop next to another shining light which we are guessing it was another craft, then shot straight up in the air. My sons started running into the house, my 8 and 13 year olds were screaming”, MOMMY THERE’S A UFO OUT THERE RIGHT NOW!!!! “ I ran down the stairs and out the door but it had already vanished into the sky.
There were times before we heard strange noises outside in the late nights, and I also seen a huge white owl atop my post one morning when I was watching my son wait for the school bus to come and I yelled out to him to look at he looked up and seen the owl and started runnin! g back up the driveway. Then the owl kinda soared over to a rooftop across the road and he looked at us. I was in such disbelief, I was frozen and scared, I felt like it was not even real.
I had not ever seen any bird that huge and he was Snow White with black eyes. At the same time, he truly was the most beautiful and the most elegant creature I had ever seen in my life. Thank You all for your ability and efforts to educate and discover.
Have a wonderful night.
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Slow moving object with airplanes nearby. I was out bird watching for Cardinals and airplanes are a common occurrence including being nearby our local airport. Since no Cardinals have been coming around for a while and taking pictures of them are challenging at best, I looked up to see what kind of airplane was passing by.
I noticed a plane going by and listening to the roar of its engine. I also noticed a very slow moving object that had to be 100 above treetop level. I had a very good look at this object which appeared to be oval shaped, white on the bottom and mid-tone to dark gray on the top.
The object also appeared to "tilt" like a plane would as it turns but then the object tilted back to its original position. I immediately got my camera out which I always carry with me and took 2 pictures of this thing. I then switched over to video and took 1:10 video of it.
At the end I tried zooming in and also tried getting on the other side of the tree to recapture the object but I was not fast enough. I reviewed the video later and found out it is out of focus after zooming in. The pictures I took are crisp and clear.
In the video and pictures you can clearly see airplanes near the object but also not aware of it being near them.
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Red and White lights possible plane. I was outside viewing the night sky when this set of Red and White flashing lights started cruising by. I watched it for approximately 1 minute.
It was fairly close and low but there was no sound emitting from it. I also noticed that there were no Green lights on it. The Red lights were flashing slower than the white lights.
The White lights resembled strobe lights but no Green lights? Because of the night, I could not see the craft itself.
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White orb West to East. Slow moving white object seen moving West to East. Object appeared to be orb shaped but not certain because of its height in the sky.
Object was very high in the sky. I had to look closely to follow it. Object emitted no lights.
Because of its height in the sky, I could hear no sounds if any.
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Fireball slowly moving across south sky from east to west, slowly descending, until fades out of view. While my son and I were watching fireworks in the area, looking out a window facing south, we saw a fireball that looked almost like an airplane on fire, slowly moving horizontally across the sky in an east to west direction, slowly descending, until it faded out of sight.
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2 bright star like objects near Canis Major My nephew and I left to go out to eat. When we got outside I instantly seen 2 bright white "star" like objects magnitude 1 or brighter near Canis Major. I instantly knew they did not belong in the sky having seen the Orion Constellation many times.
In approximately 30 seconds these 2 objects faded out until they could no longer be seen with the naked eye. There was no movement detected by these objects. They just sat there and faded out.
One object was above the other in a diagonal formation.
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Bright star in western sky My Nephew mention to me "that is a bright star" I grabbed my camera and went to the window and seen the star. I have seen this object many times before so I began taking many pictures of the object. It appears in the early evening and stays "drifting" like the rest of the stars in the night sky.
This object does not appear every night.
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Orange glowing luminous object zizagging no noise flying low Observed glowing orange red circular craft about the height of a small plane. The object made no noise traveled from the west to east. The object appeared in the north west sky and then made a right angel turn zigzagging as it did and came right over our house.
As the object floated over looking up at it, it was glowing almost luminous and the dim and again the same. The object traveled east and could be seen in the sky low for a mile or more. The odd thing was is that it was very cloudy out and windy typical October sky.
The object was well below the clouds and very visible.
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Bright light seen in sky I went outside for a cigarette and noticed that there was a thin layer of clouds in the sky also noticing that the planet Venus was not visible but Jupiter was. I then looked toward the North and almost directly above me and seen a very bright light shining through the clouds and moving very slowly to the East in a direct flight path. While viewing this object it also seemed to elluminate a small portion of the cloud making an aura around it.
This told me that if it was not in the cloud it was very close to the top of the cloud close enough to make the object to appear larger. The approximate time was 5:45 a.m.
because I did not have my watch on or my phone with me and when I came back inside the time was 5:48 on my phone. I had to have viewed this object for a little over 2 minutes until I could no longer see it. This was not an airplane because the light remained visible from viewing the front as it came toward my location and remained bright as it p! assed my location then dimmed out from thickness of the cloud.
My phone is currently not active this month but available through email.
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strobing light Going outside for a cigarette I imediately noticed an object west of my location which resembled a strobe light I instantly got my camera out and began making a video of it. Eventhough there was fireworks in the area (where I don't know because I could only hear them) Almost as soon as I started making a video of it, something came out the bottom of the object. The object resembled our fire emitting friend that I and others have seen many times over the last year.
Whatever came out the bottom very quickly faded away and the original object disappeared into the clouds. No sounds or disruption of electricity happend and there was no aircraft near it.
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orange fire balls seen turning in sky Sitting outside having a cigarette I noticed a bright orange ball which seemed to be on fire emerge from treetop levell. I then grabbed my digital camera which started acting up to try and capture an image of this object. I then went to the east side of the apartment to find my neighbor coming outside to tell me that this is his 2nd time seeing an object very similar to this one 2 nights before.
After this object had emerged from the tree/road line, it quickly made a turn to the east and continued on an east, northeast path. Its speed was quite rapid because in just under 2 minutes, it was out of visual sight. When the object emerged from the tree line, the object had to be approximately 1 city block away from us.
My neighbor told me that when he seen this type of object before, there were 2 of them. Both of the objects were orange with yellow bottoms to them and they were just over treetop level. At no time did I hear any sound coming from the obj! ect eventhough there were fireworks present.
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I noticed movement above me and took some pictures While sitting on the porch having a cigarette I noticed some movement above me and snapped a picture, this object appeared in the picture, I took some more pictures with the same results. Picture 010.jpg I wish I could upload the picture attached to this report instead of doing it separately.
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Brite lights moving in sequence in triangular formation various size with no lighting other than being very bright One fast moving white light in clear sky no clouds. No flashing lights and no colors. 5 minutes later, 4 more in rectangular formation heading same direction but one very small and traveling faster until reaching one of the others then traveling at same speed as others.
Kind of eratic flying not staying in perfectly straight line but moving fast and high with no trails or sound.
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Fire emitting sphere seen for the 4th time while on porch having a cigarette While having a cigarette on the porch this object came into view from the west at 10:14 p.m. I could not see see the craft at this time but I have seen this object on 3 other occasions.
The craft is a sphere shape and emits fire at the bottom. It traveled from the west to the east at approximately 5 miles per hour with the flame flickering. I tried to capture pictures of it using my digital camera but could only get the flame of the object (picture 100_5372.
jpg - 100_5375.jpg) The object made no sound and was approximately 50 feet above treetop level.
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While sitting on the porch smoking a cigarette taking random pictures of the sun. This picture 100_4286.jpg shows 2 objects next to the sun.
At the bottom of the sun and slightly to the right. ((NUFORC Note: We see a tiny speck in the photo, about the size of a single pixel. We have no reason to believe that the anomalous object is a UFO.
We have received many, many photos from the individual who submitted this report, but none appears to us to be a genuine UFO. PD)).
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I saw a fireball shaped object in the sky that moved to the right, the left, went straight south, and disappeared into the horizon. While standing on my back porch I witnessed an extremely bright object in the sky. At first I believed it was the sun, but I was mistaken.
The object was orange-ish and appeared to be related to a fireball. The object went straight up, moved to the right, moved to the left, then went straight south, and disappeared into the horizon. Once the object hit the tree lines in the southern horiszon I was no longer able to see the object, that I believe is a UFO.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Bright nocturnal lights I woke up around midnight and saw my bedroom window illuminated like a car was pulling up the driveway and didn't think much about it. Happened about one hour later, now I thought it was lightning related a severe weather was predicted, checked local rader but no imminent weather was near. Around 2AM the lights were back but much brighter, looked outside and noticed what lloked light multiple moving bright lights through the dense trees.
They seem to be on top of a small hill or even the top of the trees. Gusty winds make the trees move and made it hard to have a clear shot at the event, they seem to brighten and dim and have little color (red) in them. At first I thought it was a forestfire with severe weather daily prior to this.
I quickly dismissed this as a fire does not produce flashlight like beams to reach my window several hundred feet away. ext I though hunters setting up in the trees but this is all private propertie with no hunting activity in years. I woke up my wife and went outside on the deck to take a better look but moving trees prevented this again.
The light disappeared about 15 minutes later and occurred again about 30 min later for no more than 2 minutes.
La Porte, 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 | 6 reported sightings | 35.29% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
La Porte, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
La Porte, 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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Tuesday | 5 reported sightings | 29.41% of all reports |
Wednesday | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
La Porte, 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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05/22/12 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
07/03/12 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
10/26/13 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
02/21/14 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
10/04/06 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
La Porte, 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 | 7 reported sightings | 41.18% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in La Porte, Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in La Porte, Indiana.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2019 | 1 UFO Reports | La Porte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2014 | 5 UFO Reports | La Porte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 2 UFO Reports | La Porte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 5 UFO Reports | La Porte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 2 UFO Reports | La Porte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | La Porte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2006 | 1 UFO Reports | La Porte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2006 |
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