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Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 21 UFO sighting reports in Laporte, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (3 reports, 14.29% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 23.81% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 23.81% of total).
- 2011 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 33.33% of total).
- 05/23/11 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 9.52% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the morning, between the hours of 08:00 - 11:59 (5 reports, 23.81% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Laporte, Indiana
These Laporte, 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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Went outside at 10:00 p.m. and my friends over with his girlfriend and I just looked up because I know it's like that feeling you get.
I saw plasma orbs and UFO. I had an experience on election night 20/20 and it took took my breath away it was beautiful it was approximately 18 in away 4 inches off the ground gold and purple dense but translucent barely a whirring sound and it was 18 inches away from me for almost I would say 10 seconds and then as fast as well faster than what we can think of it was going I went to thirds of my property and made it right into the cedars and then I saw my second sighting 4 months later after the second thing I saw it all the time if there's not all clouds in the sky if there's any clearing they're there.
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Caught on security cameras White light that leaves hole in sky. Will attach pictures and video.
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An accidental fall of a cell phone’s camera and a picture being snapped by itself. It was an object that looked diamond shaped, and around the shape were four and a half “smoke rings” surrounding the upper portion, and one “smoke ring” on the lower right side. One half portion appears to be below the craft on the right also, a second “half-smoke ring” can be seen on the left but isn’t visible full.
The image was taken when my cell phone slipped out of my hands, and then fell into the driver’s side of my car. I then picked up my cell phone and the picture was visible to me, but I didn’t erase the image from the memory, About three days later I examined the photo for a quick second. But I did not find anything to be unusual, And then Seven days later I decided to look at the image again.
That is where I saw a small Black “dot” shape in the Cloudy sky. I still did not examine the image entirely until Today, and now I know it looks like a UFO. It could be described as a Helicopter, but the rings are unusual to see.
Because I did not hear or se! e any helicopter’s at the time of the image being shot. It is just a dot in the sky, or could be my window with a spot on it, Unfortunately my window’s were cleaned a few days prior.
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Three circular whitish objects in a Boomarang pattern heading in the north west direction. LaPorte county Indiana Three (3) circular whitish lights in a boomerang pattern. South of the Indiana toll road via Johnson Road.
LaPorte County Indiana. Objects were heading into an Northwest direction. Lights were there approximately 3 to 4 minutes Then vanished in an upward motion.
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8 orange lights in the sky, fairly low, drifting, almost playing, no sound, moving slowly. Non threatening, mesmerizing. Awestruck.
I was running to the store real quick and foolishly didn't bring my phone. I saw a minimum of 8 orange lights over the tree tops as I was walking to my car. I didn't think much of it and pulled out into the road and drove on.
As I neared the top of the bridge on our road I noticed them again, as it's a rural area and it was quite dark. I stopped my car and got out. I was mesmerized by 8 orange glowing, drifting lights.
Slowly moving west in no particular pattern. I was awestruck as it looked like 8 orange glowing Para-sails in the sky. I imagined it was a group of people flying them and just out having fun.
Then I realized it was dark, it was 38 degrees. These were no Para-sails. I literally stood there mesmerized as they drifted west and then disappeared into some heavy cloud cover that was moving in.
This was my first experience with anything like this but it wasn't frightening. It was almost magical. I don't know what they were but I can't imagine anything man-made that would create what I saw.
I would estimate the height to be probably 3000 feet. Very strange. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Rod like with very bright light on each end. Woke up abruptly at 2:10 am, was burning hot so I decided to go outside to see the meteor shower. I shut off all outside lights and reclined on my zero gravity chair in the front yard.
Immediately saw what was either a rod, cigar or rectangle ufo with extremely bright lights on both end appear over me. It moved to southeast and then the lights dimmed down and then went out. I saw the other normal ufos in the next 45 minutes that burst a light and fly like they are zig zag floating in many different directions but the one I am reporting was not a usual sight.
There are always craft here. The frogs, crickets, crows, etc. Were completely silent.
That is also bizarre. Usually the ones that burst light make the dogs on the block bark and that is how I know to check the skies. We are in a very rural area where people have horses, barn animals, etc.
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Witnessed a chevron shaped object fly over my backyard, twice in a matter of five minutes. My husband, brother and myself were sitting outside around a fire in the backyard after dark. Through the trees, I first saw a chevron shaped object that almost blended in with the night sky, but caught my eye because it seemed almost reflective or mimicking the night sky.
It had lights outlining the trangular object which looked like very dim, distant stars at first glance. It only stayed put for what may have been about three seconds. The "craft" seemed to be very large and moved slowly at fist towards the north, then sped up until it blended in with the stars.
I told my husband and brother to look as soon as I realized it was moving, but only my husband saw it and only for a second before it was moving away too fast for him to turn around and see it better. Then a few minutes later as I was trying to describe what I saw, it came again but on the opposite side of our fire this time. We all saw it.
I'm not sure if it was the same one or a s! econd, but it looked the same. However, this time it was accompanied by what sounded like a flock of geese. Coincidence or not, it was almost as if it wanted us to think that's all it was.
It even started moving south at a speed that geese would fly for a few seconds and then shot off. For weeks after this event, my brother terrified us all with strange behavior and rants about aliens and religion. We even took him to the emergency room to make sure he wasn't on drugs.
He wasn't. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
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every month for the past4 months we have seen the same object in the same part of the sky.The main light is a bright white light hovering up to 30 minutes at a time.it never moves and is always stationary approximately from our vantage point about 25 degrees off the horizon.
sometimes if planes fly close enough it winks out but returns.it is sometimes accompanied by a a smaller red flickering object. It also is always stationary.
the last time was we saw it was on the 27 of November. this time we got video of it.In the zoom of the video vibrant colors of red,green and blue are seen.
Normal sight it is just a white light. it is seen after dark before midnight,and the lat time we saw it was at 500 in the morning. The first time we saw it it was below a cloud deck,the other times it was clear and few stars.
Temperatures range from 75 degrees to 30 degrees. One time there were four objects in the sky, the two previously mentioned ones and two more, these two were lower in the sky and were moving eastward vary slowly. they were white and just a little bit bigger than the first one we have been seeing.
We live in a flight path from Chicago for jets and sometimes we see aircraft in conjunction with these sightings.
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UFO's buzz farm tractor and cars saw these streaking the sky very fast, hard to see with the eye, caught in a frantic snapshot. ((NUFORC Note: No photos submitted to NUFORC. PD)).
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bright circle shaped object near the sun looking south While outside having a cigarette I randomly taken a picture of the sun and captured a bright object near the sun. 100_2637.jpg ((NUFORC Note: This is the first of seven reports we have received from this source.
He has been very generous in sharing 23 e-messages, with 32 attached photographs of objects he has captured with a camera. Most of the objects he did not witness, at the time the photos were taken, but rather later, as he inspected the photos. NUFORC has looked at all of the photos, and although we cannot identify all of the anomalous objects captured photographically, but most of the objects we believe are birds.
In most of those cases, we are even able to determine the type of bird involved, and its position in flight. We believe that none of the photos is of a genuine UFO. We, nevertheless, express our gratitude to the source for his having shared the information with our Center, who has had to use a computer at a public library, in order to submit the information to NUFORC! PD)).
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Cigar shaped craft in the west This picture was taken randomly of an object looking almost straight west and appears to be a cigar shaped craft on 5/23/11 at 08:34 hours. when taking the picture I was not aware of the object being in the sky at the time. ((NUFORC Note: This is the first of seven reports we have received from this source.
He has been very generous in sharing 23 e-messages, with 32 attached photographs of objects he has captured with a camera. Most of the objects he did not witness, at the time the photos were taken, but rather later, as he inspected the photos. NUFORC has looked at all of the photos, and although we cannot identify all of the anomalous objects captured photographically, but most of the objects we believe are birds.
In most of those cases, we are even able to determine the type of bird involved, and its position in flight. We believe that none of the photos is of a genuine UFO. We, nevertheless, express our gratitude to the source for his having shared the information with our Center, who has had to use a computer at a public library, in order to submit the information to NUFORC! PD)).
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While outside having a cigarette I was randomly taking photos of the sky as this is the way I usually capture pictures of what I call ufo's. This is a cigar shaped craft looking directly to the south and almost straight up. Object was not seen with the naked eye and emitted no sound.
100_2465.jpg ((NUFORC Note: This is the first of seven reports we have received from this source. He has been very generous in sharing 23 e-messages, with 32 attached photographs of objects he has captured with a camera.
Most of the objects he did not witness, at the time the photos were taken, but rather later, as he inspected the photos. NUFORC has looked at all of the photos, and although we cannot identify all of the anomalous objects captured photographically, but most of the objects we believe are birds. In most of those cases, we are even able to determine the type of bird involved, and its position in flight.
We believe that none of the photos is of a genuine UFO. We, nevertheless, express our gratitude to the source for his having shared the information with our Center, who has had to use a computer at a public library, in order to submit the information to NUFORC! PD)).
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bright oval object emerging from tree While outside having a cigarette I randomly took a picture facing south. What showed up is a bright oval object seemingly coming from behind a tree. 100_2111.
I was not aware of the object at the time. ((NUFORC Note: This is the first of seven reports we have received from this source. He has been very generous in sharing 23 e-messages, with 32 attached photographs of objects he has captured with a camera.
Most of the objects he did not witness, at the time the photos were taken, but rather later, as he inspected the photos. NUFORC has looked at all of the photos, and although we cannot identify all of the anomalous objects captured photographically, but most of the objects we believe are birds. In most of those cases, we are even able to determine the type of bird involved, and its position in flight.
We believe that none of the photos is of a genuine UFO. We, nevertheless, express our gratitude to the source for his having shared the information with our Center, who has had to use a computer at a public library, in order to submit the information to NUFORC! PD)).
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random picture taking outside our apartment Almost everyday I am outside taking pictures at random because this is the way that I usually capture pictures of what I call "ufo's" Every time that I do this the object is never seen with the naked eye. This picture is taken looking northeast pointed toward the corner of the roof of our apartment while standing on the sidewalk. ((NUFORC Note: This is the first of seven reports we have received from this source.
He has been very generous in sharing 23 e-messages, with 32 attached photographs of objects he has captured with a camera. Most of the objects he did not witness, at the time the photos were taken, but rather later, as he inspected the photos. NUFORC has looked at all of the photos, and although we cannot identify all of the anomalous objects captured photographically, but most of the objects we believe are birds.
In most of those cases, we are even able to determine the type of bird involved, and its position in flight. We believe that none of the photos is of a genuine UFO. We, nevertheless, express our gratitude to the source for his having shared the information with our Center, who has had to use a computer at a public library, in order to submit the information to NUFORC! PD)).
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2 objects seen outside the La Porte County Public Library with pictures While having a cigarette and taking pictures of the sky (because of many previous u.f.o.
sightings) outside the LaPorte County Public Library I was watching a jet travel from the southeast to a northwest direction when a white cigar shaped object buzzed right past the jet going in the opposite direction. I started taking pictures of the object as fast as I could using my Kodak easy share m530 camera. I then noticed another object of the same shape, color, and velocity going from the northwest to the southeast direction.
Both objects were traveling faster than the jet. ((NUFORC Note: This is the first of seven reports we have received from this source. He has been very generous in sharing 23 e-messages, with 32 attached photographs of objects he has captured with a camera.
Most of the objects he did not witness, at the time the photos were taken, but rather later, as he inspected the photos. NUFORC has looked at all of the photos, and although we cannot identify all of the anomalous objects captured photographically, but most of the objects we believe are birds. In most of those cases, we are even able to determine the type of bird involved, and its position in flight.
We believe that none of the photos is of a genuine UFO. We, nevertheless, express our gratitude to the source for his having shared the information with our Center, who has had to use a computer at a public library, in order to submit the information to NUFORC! PD)).
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Standing on the porch taking pictures of a jet going overhead I have been seeing many u.f.o's and taking pictures of them for a long time now.
This picture shows many what I call "U.F.O's because I don't know what they are.
I was standing on my porch of the apartment that I live in when taking a picture of a jet going overhead. This is picture 1 of 2 taken. ((NUFORC Note: This is the first of seven reports we have received from this source.
He has been very generous in sharing 23 e-messages, with 32 attached photographs of objects he has captured with a camera. Most of the objects he did not witness, at the time the photos were taken, but rather later, as he inspected the photos. NUFORC has looked at all of the photos, and although we cannot identify all of the anomalous objects captured photographically, but most of the objects we believe are birds.
In most of those cases, we are even able to determine the type of bird involved, and its position in flight. We believe that none of the photos is of a genuine UFO. We, nevertheless, express our gratitude to the source for his having shared the information with our Center, who has had to use a computer at a public library, in order to submit the information to NUFORC! PD)).
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balls of light discharged from another ball of light in the night sky There was a ball of light that discharged five or so other balls in a beam that made it look like a cell phone tower with a ball of white light at top and five or so other balls moving up and down the vertical beam. Then the top light broke off and flew out of sight. The remaining balls then fell to the grounds as a firework would do each ball swaying from side to side as they fell in a group.
Only one light ball fizzled out. The remaining ones hovered over the ground swaying and moving around together up and down side to side. Then we proceeded to drive out of sight.
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2 triangular shaped crafts hovering low with bright lights. 2 crafts that appeared to be triangular in shape, it was dark, so no color was observed. The 2 crafts hivered together for a few minutes before one took off to the west very quickly.
Both crafts had very bright lights and appeared to be hovering low.
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Uniform formation flew overhead with blinking red and white lights. Loud whooshing sound followed afterward.
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low , motionless,soundless ,flying object over a field. I was driving home and as I got past the intersection of 6oo N. and 250 E.
(?)something at the right side caught my attention, as I continued to drive. It looked like something hanging in the sky. It was over a field.
It was low, and motionless and without noise. I drove to a driveway pulled in to look better, to be able to describe it, but it was gone. It reminded me of a goodyear blimp hanging in the sky, which I've seen before many times.
It was NO blimp, the shape was diffferent. As fast as it disappeared it was NO blimp. And in NO WAY was it a plane.
so what was it ? ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Laporte, 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 | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Circle | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Laporte, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 23.81% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
November | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Laporte, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 23.81% of all reports |
Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Friday | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Laporte, 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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05/23/11 | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
05/06/01 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
11/22/12 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
01/15/02 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
06/12/12 | 1 reported sightings | 4.76% of all reports |
Laporte, 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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Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 23.81% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 4 reported sightings | 19.05% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 9.52% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Laporte, Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Laporte, Indiana.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2022 | 2 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2019 | 2 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2018 | 2 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2012 | 2 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 7 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2009 | 1 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2007 | 1 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2007 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2002 | 1 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2002 |
2001 | 1 UFO Reports | Laporte, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2001 |
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