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Marion, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 24 UFO sighting reports in Marion, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (3 reports, 12.50% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 2019 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 8.33% of total).
- 02/09/04 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 4.17% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (13 reports, 54.17% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Marion, Indiana
These Marion, 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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Add on to last report Here are se pictures I found in my messanger but they r blurred. Do u think this was alien sighting or something else. Please email me dunsonheather3@gmail.
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We saw a blue flashing object cross the sky slowly in broad daylight, flying lower than an airplane would. My husband and I were in the swimming pool and saw an object fly over at approximately 5:00pm today, June 17, 2022. It was flashing, very bright blue light around the edges and the main part of the craft was a shimmery/silvery color.
The sun was shining, there were no clouds, and no other objects in the sky. The object was shaped like a rectangle with rounded corners and had a tube-like, cylinder-shaped white object coming down from it. It crossed the sky slowly, in a southbound direction, making no sound, and flying much closer than an airplane would fly.
It flew directly over our home in west Marion, Indiana. Neither of us have ever seen anything like it before and I can’t believe we’re the only people who saw it.
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Triangle shaped ufo over I-69 Marion exit. I saw one earlier in the week prior, going along state road 18 east headed west towards Marion near the I-69 exit. At first I thought it was one of those red blinking towers.
As I approached closer I realized it was not and it was moving very slowly just maybe 100 ft over the trees. There's were 3 lights that I could see: green, red (one on each side), and at the point of the triangular object was a white light, almost like a search light. It made no sound to my knowledge.
I told my brother to look at it and he said it was probably just a helicopter. I've never seen a helicopter move that slow. As I passed it and looked back in my rear view mirror it looked as though it had 3 bright engines on the back.
Two nights ago I witnessed it again over I-69 but this time it was lower and moving south along the interstate. I tried shaking off the first time, but now it's been twice within a week or so. I have no idea how no one else saw this.
I've never been so paranoid and am scared to see it again. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Saw 2 different types of lights in the sky in Marion, IN My boyfriend and I were walking to his parents about a block away. The first lights we saw were on the way there. We live outside of the city so we get an amazing sky view.
First we saw 1 white light that didn't flash at all like the airplanes and looked about twice the size. There was no sound and it changed direction and speed about 3 times before disappearing suddenly. We saw a second one far to the right behaving in the same way but going different directions.
When it went to the far right we could hear dogs begin to bark from the same direction. We get to his parents and we're there for awhile visiting and eating. We leave and just as we head down the road, he says, "I hope we get to see something else," an a bright orange "shooting star" shoots through the sky and appears to explode and disappear as it falls.
Did anyone else see this? Please report it so we know we're not the only ones.
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Bright white light, circle shaped and not moving. Driving North we noticed a huge bright circle hovering in the air, not moving at all. We stared and watched it as we drove towards it (approximately 4 minutes).
We turned and continued to watch it for about 10 seconds, and then it suddenly looked as if it flipped and thinned out into a white line and then it was gone. We could not see it anywhere. It was as if it disappeared in mid air.
It was the brightest thing I've ever seen. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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many crafte giving quite a show for the citizens, police and military for almost 6 hours. Police and sheriff's department plus numerous citizens of the town. Due the length of time event happened there were military helicopters in the air watching the performance of the number of ufo's on the north end and south end of town.
Approximately 6 to 8 craft at each end of town from after 12 mn to 6 am. Also there was electral activity in the sky due to heat or due to them. It was like they were playing with lightening.
Playing with each other, in formation and darting in and around each other. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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It looked like a small fire ball hovering over the outskirts of the ciity and moved very slow. We were sitting out side our house, when we witnessed an orange egg shaped glowing object. We got up and it was hovering over an empty field.
We took a video but it was not bright enough to see in the taping. It hovered for Bout 2 minutes. The it made a ray of light into the clouds.
Then the egg shaped object moved and made a circle and went back to the same spot where we first seen it. Then we lost sight of the egg shaped object. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate.
PD)).
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Starlike light, orange lights The following events take place between 18:00-19:50 on February 24th, 2013. I was facing the Northern Skies, the moon was full and the sky was clear. My friend and I were trying to kill time before visiting our mutual friend.
We were in the same part of town as her apartment in Marion, IN. We were at a local Dollar General and a Casey’s General Store between sightings. Sighting One: Dollar General, MARION, INDIANA (State Road 15, also known as “the bypass”) I saw a bright star-like object near the moon moving downward and then it had disappeared.
There are many things it could have been such as a satellite or a small space rock falling towards Earth, this I regarded as something ordinary. Sighting Two: Casey’s General Store I was sitting in my friend’s Jeep while he bought gasoline. I was downloading "Sky Maps" from Google Play on my phone because I wanted to identify a bright space object.
The object I was trying to identify was star-like in appearance, yet not uncommon. It was most likely a planet or satellite, but still close to Jupiter. A few seconds later, I saw something otherworldly out of the corner of my eye and I stuck my head out of the window of my friend’s Jeep.
When I observed it fully, I was facing it, Northern Skies, the same part of the sky the moon was in and a bit far away from Jupiter. I saw two orange lights on what seemed like a cigar or disc shape, the object slowly floated to the left of my field of view and had vanished, like it had faded into the sky while still moving slowly in the same direction. Here are the locations where the sightings took place, no names or personal addresses included: http://tinypic.
com/r/30idd0j/6.
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Red, orange and green flicker of lights over G.M. plant observed from directly south by Marion Airport.
Between 11:30pm and 12am I walked out to the front porch to have a smoke and noticed a incredible bright lite directly north of my position over the General Motors plant that seemed to be level with a red lite from a cell phone tower on the north end of Marion IN. From my view point it looked to be no more than 200ft from the ground and stayed at that position for about a minute and a half. The lite was flickering.
kinda what you would see from a candle but was much more intense, and the colors were a bright orange,red and a bluish green. My lady and I often look at the nite sky and from where we live at out in the middle of a corn field we can really enjoy the open skies without anything nearby restricting our view. So after about a minute of watching this I call to her to come outside and take a look.
It had seemed odd that it wasn't changing position at all, that and how very intensely bright they were. It is not often that there is not a b! reeze in this area. the wind is a constant.
My first thoughts were that of one of those oriental sky lanterns but like I said the lights were much to bright to be a flame from one of those and if it were that or of a balloon I believe it would have a steady climb rather than just staying in a fixed position. Shortly after my lady came out to observe this with me the object began to rise, I'd say close to 400 to 500ft the lights quit. It wasn't a dwindle or a slow fade, they ended immediately.
I say they and lights but all 3 colors were coming from one fixed spot. I live very close to the Marion municipal airport and get to see planes coming in and out every day but there really isn't very much traffic at nite. The Marion hospital has a green and white chopper that is often seen coming from the far north east traveling towards a slight west by south west towards Kokomo and its engines are quite recognizable.
What I was seeing could not be heard from my location. If it were! a plane coming in or out I believe it was insanely low and it! seemed to be only 3 to 4 miles north of us. if it were a plane at that distance we would be able to see the wing and tail strobes.
The lights didn't blink or strobe, they were a constant, but had shifted from one color to the next in no pattern that could be identified. As far as I know, flares fired from the ground rise and fall. Flares from a aircraft fall.
Never seen a flare stay in one spot for over a minute and then rise. Very odd indeed. odd enough that here I am writing this!.
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red and green lights over marion indiana Noticed last nite and tonite a set of red and green blinking lights dead northeast of marion at what looked to be 3 to 5 thousand feet. The object is staying stationary and can see planes blying by but not as to paying attention to the object. again from my location the object is northeast at about 1:30 2 to 3 miles north by northeast of marion indiana.
the object does not appear to be moving and have seen it in the sky for the last 2 nites.
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Looking south I seen a formation of amber colored lights of 3-4 in one group. Another group of 4 to the west other lights was not in formation some more was in a triangle shape. Some seemed to almost hover momentarily while others continued on a few more single lights came after.
I lost count around 21. All or most was viewed by my neighbors and my mom who was in another location. No sound was heard.
I estimate altitude of between 10000 and 15000 feet. Possible less. Sky was clear.
The were a few prop driven aircraft in the vicinity and some higher altitude jet traffic.
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Multiple Orange Lights We were driving home on a back country road last night around 9:15pm, I looked up at the sky through the front windshield and saw two orange colored lights that were close together, and one other light that was about a ½ a mile way from the other two. We were going about 35mph at the time. I pointed them out to my husband and he saw them also.
We passed a clump of trees and we looked for the lights but they had disappeared. We got to our apartment complex about 10 minutes later, which was about a mile away from the sighting; we parked our vehicle and stood outside talking. My husband and I both glanced up at the same time towards the southwest end of our complex and saw three brightly colored orange lights very close together about 20 feet apart from each other.
They blinked on one at a time and stayed lit for about 10 seconds and then completely blinked off. Then we saw further to the right of where those lights where three more lights come on one at a time stay lit for 10 seconds and then turn off. They were separated about ½ mile from each other and were about 100 feet from the ground.
There was absolutely no sound. We decided we were going to see where they were heading to so we got into the van and chased these lights. We headed south down the back country roads chasing them.
One lit up to the left of our vehicle, only three lights this time and in the same sequence as before. It stayed three quarters of a mile ahead at this point. We continued to follow and saw it light up again this time on the right side of the vehicle and it seemed to be going about 45mph.
It stayed just barely in front of us as we followed it. Once again only one and the same sequence of action. The last time we saw it light up there were the set of three lights, but there were additional lights this time, about two more and they were a bit ahead of the three we were use to seeing.
To us it seemed as if there was more then one. If asked I can not exactly say, they were in to many different positions they all stayed about 100 feet off the ground. We came to a dead end and could not follow them anymore so we turned around and went back home.
The whole chase lasted about an hour and we ended up about 10 miles from our apartment complex. Tonight we decided we would check to see if we could see these lights again. I had seen on websites that others had also seen these lights in/around the same area.
So we went near the area we first saw the lights and parked by a field. This was around again 9:15pm, we waited for about 25 minutes and saw nothing but just when we were getting ready to leave, My Husband, Step-Son, and I, saw these lights come on just south of our location. There were 12 to 13 lights on and the same orange color as before.
Behind these lights we saw what looked like sparks shooting from behind it. We watched as it looked to be coming in from an angle and it started to turn more lights on. I’m not sure how far it was from the ground but it seemed pretty close.
I tried getting a photo of it but it disappeared completely from there and never reappeared.
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A bright light, traveling at high speeds, disappeared after 5 seconds. On September 1, 2005, I was outide facing toward the North when a ball of light came from the South. It was traveling at a high speed across the sky.
Once it passed my house heading North. About five seconds after it came over the house, it flickered and then disappeared into the darkness.
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2-4 pale orange spheres appeared hovering 30 degrees above the western horizon and vanished instantly While driving north on Indiana State Road 37 about 3 miles south of Rigdon a light to the west caught my eye.Initially I thought it was Mercury or Venus.Then I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and I turned to look again.
Now there were 2lights about 30 degrees off the horizon. I told my wife who was in the car with me to look at what I was seeing. We were meeting a car so she admonished me for not watching the road.
I turned to face the oncoming car to make sure I was in control of the car. I again turned my head to look at the lights. This time I saw 4 lights in a row parallel to the horizon.
Again I checked for traffic saftey by looking ahead. I again turned to face the lights. This time there were 2.
While I was watching them they individually vanished one at time, just like as if someone turned of a light switch. The lights were perfect spheres sharply outlined with the light coming through a surface much like a frosted light bulb. The color was a pale orange glow.
Their size was similar to a round automobile headlight when viewed from 20-30 feet away. My wife felt they were considerably bigger. We turned down the first road to the west to investigate the general area and drove 2 miles.
There was no sound associated with this experience and no further sighting took place. I am a pilot and I have never experienced anything like this before or since. The weather was perfectly clear.
They were not landing lights or navigation lights on an aircraft. Their glow did not change except to vanish instantly.
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Sets of repeating, grouped lights that reoccurred on two separate days, at approximately the same time in same area of sky. First Sighting – Traveling west on the country road (Kim Road) out of Marion, IN heading toward Sweetser, IN. Proceeded beyond the stop at Toby Pike heading west and looked up in the sky at the angles reported above.
The sighting appeared spontaneously - a bright glittering light to the right side of the road came on. It was a type of blinking effervescence – bright white and blinking gold – a similar set of lights – looking to be about 2 inches apart from my location - come on just to the right of it, horizontally – shinning in the same pattern. Then the second set of lights shut off – does dim quickly – and the original light dims in the same way and then disappear – total duration 5 seconds or so.
Somewhat disbelieving my eyes I scan the sky I see the exact same pattern occur to the left of the road this time and parallel to the first sighting – same pattern and same duration. I slowed down and clearly saw other types of stars, clear sky, and bright planet, jet lights but all paled by light brightness and size comparisons. I saw it again after a 10 second interval, the same set of lights appear a third time on the right side of the road again in what appeared to be in the same spot as the first sighting.
Not knowing what I was seeing I turned left and headed south toward State Rd 18 and looked at my watch that read 7:40 PM. That means that all had transpired in 5 to 10 minutes. I turned west onto State Rd 18 traveling towards Sweetser – I picked up my cell phone to call my husband and was unable to complete the call due to severe static that was atypical to the usual connections in this area.
At this time of year the sky at this time would be dark and star filled and I had no more sighting that evening. The sighting was unusual enough that I discussed it with my family and searched the web for similar experiences. I did not report to local law enforcement at that time.
Two days later at approximately the same time, 7:44 PM my husband and I were in separate cars following each other heading west on State Rd 22 just west of State Rd 37 south of Marion, IN. The same pattern of appearing and disappearing lights reoccurred three times, both of us saw the sightings from the different cars. I tried to call my husband’s cell phone to see if he was seeing the same sight but my cell phone would not ring through even though the display showed it was ringing.
He later stated that the his cell phone never rang. We checked his phone later – it was on and in reception mode and showed no recent call from me. Later both phones were working fine as we reached home.
The pattern of the lights this time occurred to the left of the road then moved to the right of the road and back to the left of the road at about the same height from the horizon and off the road to the same angle as the first sighing. This appeared to almost be a reversal of the first sighting on Feb 9 that was right then left then right. The only difference was that the lights did not appear to glitter as much as the first time.
Then as I turned of State Road 13 heading north toward Swayzee, IN my eye caught movement of a low flying plane over Swayzee and noticed, in the western sky, 90 degrees to my left, the pattern of lights appearing once again and the companion set of lights with all disappearing in the same way. After getting home we checked the web for other sightings and noticed similar occurrences have been documented on –1/14/2003 by a person located in Peru, IN traveling West toward Kokomo which was the same direction we had been traveling each time. Another report was 11/15/2000 – Kokomo at 8:00 PM.
A third report was found on 10/15/1998 – location Dublin, IN (south of).
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It started to blink and then disappeared. May 5, 2003 I was scanning the sky for any sign of a UFO when I noticed this star in the sky. I had a pair of binoculars and I used them when observing this star.
I noticed that it was blinking or rotating. There were red, blue, yellow, and orange. After about 20 minutes the object then started to disappear and reappear for about a minute.
Then all of a sudden it disappeared for good. I knew this was no jet because there were planes that flew over in the time period of this object. I've been into UFO's for a while and lately I've been watching the skies for any sign of a UFO.
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we were not scared they didnt look harmful ther were three triangelular shapes they were hubering about 70 feet off the ground in a small corn filed they were all changeing colors and they were about the sise of a pick up truck as we drove away they disapeard.
Marion, 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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Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Light | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Sphere | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Marion, 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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June | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Marion, 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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Friday | 6 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Monday | 5 reported sightings | 20.83% of all reports |
Wednesday | 4 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Marion, 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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02/09/04 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
11/02/15 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
09/01/05 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
01/14/16 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
11/06/04 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Marion, 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 | 13 reported sightings | 54.17% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 6 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
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