All Reported UFO Sightings in Michigan City, Indiana

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I honestly can’t explain what i saw, it moved but never out of sight or even very far, i honestly don’t know. I had come to sit out in the car with my boyfriend, and we noticed a bright light in the sky. We thought maybe it was a star, but it was moving up and down and side to side occasionally.

It was flashing but not super bright, it would dim and then flash again. It was not a plane, it never went out of view and we watched it for more than an hour. I took a video on a samsung galaxy 22 and magnified to 100 so you could see the movement.

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6-8 ufo flying in a straight line eastbound total visible duration maybe 1 minute then disappears.

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1/2 moon shape with lighted bottom, very large. A co-worker at the car dealership we work at saw this in the sky and took a picture. He just showed the picture to me yesterday, 12-14-2016, I found it to be very compelling to share it.

Undulating swarm cloud of thousands of multi-colored blinking lights in the sky for 10-15 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Date is approximate.

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With the aforementioned date and time. I was turning into the rear area of my duty station, where I encountered a strange looking animal like that I perceived as possibly being either a reptile, raccoon possum or whatever. What was so alarming to me was that it appeared to have some weird back legs and the face was at least eyes were flashing with a "blinking motion".

I was stunned by its shape a looks. I stopped my vehicle to investigate as to what I thought I saw. I pulled up against a grassy areas with the background of trees and beyond that apartment complexes.

I always arrive on or about that time and one day before this encounter I heard dogs cry with most unusual sounds, yet I thought nothing of it, until Wednesday, December 16, 2015. As stated, I encountered this strange looking object that ran into the grass and while I was watching it, the object began to start a communication signal the eye socks were blinking like off and on.then it went diagonally with lights turning, from white, red, blue or greenish.

I picked up my cell pointed in the direction of this light and captured the first .55 seconds, at which I was looking for my IPAD to capture more yet, I continued with the cell phone and captured 2.45minutes of the remaining observation of this unknown object.

I informed a co-worker arrived approximately 06:15 and asked him accompany me out that general once day light arrived. We both gone out and seen nothing or no trace of what I was seeing. However, it was appromiately 15:00hrs, one hour before my departure from work that I showed the captured unknown object to my co-workers and it was then that I notice other unknown object, approximately 11 of them flying and around trees and a few were within the grass area.

Well, the recording will tell the story from there. I am not sure what it is or who but I do know it is not something I ever encounter before.

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Odd dark & dense cigar shaped object appeared in photo on a farm in Michigan City, IN. I'm 38 years old, white/blonde female, born and raised in Manhattan, college educated.recently bought a 14 acre farm in Michigan City, IN, next to a 300 acre, unusual soil and plant life nature preserve (Ambler Flatwoods).

My profession is a Author/Hypnotherapist. The second witness is my cousin, white male/red hair, 37 years old, college educated. He works for his father's metal recycling company.

May, 17, 2015, at approx. 2:40 pm, my cousin and I were sitting by a 1.3 acre pond on my farm property and looking up admiring a very tall tree near by.

I positioned my cell phone to take a picture of the tree - at that time, the sky was clear - no planes, sounds nor birds seen as we were looking up at the tree and surrounding sky. I saw nothing except sky and the tree through my phone camera as I was trying to position the frame for the best angled shot. As soon as I took the photo and checked it, and saw a rather dark and dense cigar/cyclical object with a slight bright "aura" around it very close to the tree's image in the photograph.

I quickly turned to my cousin and said, "What is this??" Now, admittedly, I have been interested in ET's and alternative spirituality for quite some time. Though I certainly would rather my photo be debunked than jump to wild conclusions.

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i seen two hovering lights in the sky and then they came together to form one craft and zoomed away really fast ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD)).

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Spotted a flying disk while playing with my brother and he can attest to it. I was right across the street of my home (the address the i included) in the parking lot of the prison in Michigan city. I was a about 10-11 years old at the time and my older brother of 1 year was playing with me.

We spotted the disk at the same time as it was flying toward us. As we ran back across the street to get our mom to witness it, it flew away pretty quickly. It was the first time I realized it could rain on one side of the street and not the other.

Maybe the UFO had something to do with that. It was rainimy on the side of the street the UFO was on but not the side my house was on. Maybe there is even camera footage from the prison if it goes back that far.

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black object that seemed to impode into a sphere and vanish, only to reappear in the same shape and move location Looking across Lake Michigan on the beach towards the light pollution of Chicago, almost complete cloudless sky was observed. A small area of black was observed approximately halfway between Chicago and the beach across the lake. Further observation showed that the object was denser than what was immediately thought to be a small black cloud in the otherwise cloudless night sky.

The object was slanted about 30 degress from bottom right to upper left. The bottom of the craft was flat with sharper edges on the two bottom corners and the top was flat but a little more curving. The object was completely black with a small change of color going towards dark grey from top to bottom.

The object was motionless and after several minutes of observation began to turn in on itself, implode into a small sphere and then vanished into nothing. The object then appeared to quickly return to its original shape. This happened again, and the second time it disappeared competely.

About 5-10 minutes later, the object appeared again, although this time was above the shoreline towards the pier down the left side of the beach, a distance of about 50 miles from where it was originally seen. The object exhibited the exact same shape, no movement, although this time it was slightly closer to my viewpoint. It again imploded on its self, first forming a small black sphere and then vanishing, only to "pop" back out and reappear in its original shape.

This happened several times before disappearing completely again. The object then returned again several minutes later, although this time much closer, and appearing larger. It retained the same shape, angle of the bottom, color etc.

Around this time we decieded to leave to get a telescope to see it clearer as it began to faintly disappear again after several minutes of observation. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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3 lighted circular air craft above Lake Michigan Early Sunday morning, July 5th, 2009, at approxiamtely 1:30am in Michigan City, Indiana, my friend and I were sitting on my parents deck 1 block off of Lake Michigan. We are both in our 30's with children and have never experienced what we saw that night. In the Northern sky approximately 30 degrees toward the West, was a bright white light, with a flash of red and sometimes blue.

The sky was clear and there was a full moon. Upon further study with binoculars, this was not a star, an airplane nor a blimp. I've never believed in anything like this, and when I looked through the binoculars, I wanted to vomit.

We tried to think of what else it could be without stating the obvious. Through the binoculars was an object with squared lights to the left/right, that towards the right side was bright white, and as you looked to the left the lights resemebled LED lights, flashing and moving. This object sat above the water for approxiamtely 2 hours before it eventually turned and lowered.

The brightest white light was now on the left and it moved further north. ((NUFORC Note: Given that the object was visible for two hours, we believe that it may have been a celestial body, perhaps a star, given that the object was "flashing." PD)).

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Blacked-out, silent wing-shaped object flying at approximately 1500 feet/300 knots over Lake Michigan I was just leaving the police station where I work to resume patrolling. I work midnight shifts (5:30 pm to 5:30 am). I have never previously seen what I would consider a UFO.

NOTE: I do have extensive aircraft observation time, as when I was stationed in Iraq in 2005, my unit was positioned in a location very close to the airfield. The object came into my peripheral vision from the right. I was standing facing due-north.

At first I assumed it was a bird, but when I began visually observing it, it was obvious that it was wasn't, as it had a smooth, man-made appearance. Also, it was obvious that it was fairly far off and at a much higher altitude than one would expect to see a bird. This is especially true since in the region in which I live, during this time of the year there is little bird activity, especially at night.

The object appeared to be flying at an altitude of around 1500 feet and at an slightly oblique angle to me. It appeared not much smaller than a C130 at that altitude, but I could not make out a fuselage, etc., that one would expect to see on an aircraft.

The object moved rapidly, much faster than a helicopter - perhaps several hundred miles an hour. It appeared to bank to the left (north-west) as it passed in front of me. It was an extremely smooth banking turn and the full wing shape became quite visible at that time.

As it reached full bank (object perpendicular to the ground), I lost sight as it passed behind a building. Due to the my angle of observation, that's the last I saw of it. The object was gray in color.

It blended well with the cloudless night sky (especially as effected by urban light pollution). There were no visible markings. Intriguingly, the object made no sound.

At that distance, if it were an aircraft like a C130, one would have definitely heard the engine drone clearly. Also, there was no jet sound as one would expect to hear from a jet flying so close. I thought that, as in the case of an A-10, I might hear the sound after the craft had passed overhead.

I heard no sounds. The flight characteristics exhibited seemed to indicate it was an aircraft. But as previously stated, it lacked a fuselage, any markings and was completely blacked-out.

There were no lights of any kind visible. Furthermore, the object left no contrail. I am, as one might expect, fascinated by what I saw.

But I certainly cannot explain it. Though it exhibited some aircraft flight characteristics, I could not identify it as any aircraft I've ever seen (in person or through research).

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Cluster of large triange lights drops from the sky Returning from Chicago we were on the boarder of Indiana and Michigan. It was a rural area. It was a dark clear night with sveral stars.

I was watching the stars when I saw an uncommonly bright "cluster" of lights in a triangle shape hover and dip quickly. At first I thought it might have been a falling star but they were in a formation and they dropped slower than a shooting star and it dropped straight down. I waited to see if there was a crash on the ground but there was nothing.

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Flashing lights in the atmosphere. My brother was outside and he saw a flashing light in the atmosphere and he thought it was an airplane at first, but it wasn't moving. Then 6 of us, including him, went to the field in the back of our house and looked up and saw many flashing lights.

They looked like stars, but were flashing red and blue lights. There was one bright one and then some smaller ones in a V shaped line. They seemed to be in groups of three except the bright one was alone.

They were in sight for a few hours until one by one they all slowly disappeared. The next night we didn't see them, but they were back 2 days after the sighting, in roughly the same spot.

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Bright orange light that appeared after the solar flare, disapeared within 5 or 6 minutes. My sister, neice, nephew and I were coming home from the Humane Society and talking about the solar flare that had just occured when my 11 year old neice said "What's that orange thing?" The other three of us looked straight ahead to the horizon (the object looked to be in the midst of some wispy clouds in a southwest direction.) I automatically said "It's one of those planes that leave streaks in the sky" until I realized it wasn't moving at all, it was just a bright orange oval shape hovering in the sky.

We stopped the car to get a better look, but then continued down the road to the house. My neice and I grabbed the binoculars and hopped on our bikes, but once we got back down the road where there were no trees obstructing our view, the object was totally gone without a trace. The wispy clouds hadn't changed much, so we're not sure if it was a trick of the light or what.

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Large Fluoriscent fireball with long tail in Northern Indiana Fluoriscent large fireball, fire coming out of all sides with a long tail. Went very fast, was gone in seconds. Was very large.

Coming out the the southeast going northwest. Viewed in the town of Pines, a small town on the western side of Michigan City, Indiana. Was the only one outside and was an exceptionally clear night.

I am a business man in the town of Pines, and I also work with local agencies helping persons who have found themselves in unfortunate situations and are in need of household items which I supply to them when possible.

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Flying V shape over the water It was around my birthday me and my friend saw a flying V shape over the water about every 4 seconds the lights changed colors. There were 5 different aircrafts. They had no wings.

We saw it dissapear, a few minutes later we saw an aircraft go by in the same tracks. We never saw it again. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate.

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5 pieces in formation of the nike symble 5 balls of white light maybe 6. in the formation of a fish hook or the nike symbl.seem to move west to east slowly,then the one in front started to drop, the others followed then they sort of fizzeled out.

they seem to be burning like a childs sparkler.seem to me from where i was they fell into lake mich.thats it pretty much ((name deleted)).

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Three colorful spheres passed close to me and my dog at night on the Lake Michigan shore. I will NEVER forget this night sighting. I lived on the corner by the dunes of Lake Michigan on Georgia Ave.

, in Michigan City. I took our black Labrador, Kahlua, out for her nightly beach walk. We started up the sand dune trail toward the beach, when suddenly(and for the first time ever) my seven year old dog pointed toward the beach end of the path and her backhair was standing up.

I looked and saw a glimmer of shimmering light and figured she had sensed some neighbors sitting around a bon fire on the beach. I took a brisk walk with her to the end of the path, and upon reaching the beach overlook, I stood dumbfounded. There were NO people on the beach but off to our left(West) and approaching us at a slow speed were three glowing spheres of strange light.

I looked down at Kahlua and she was following these objects and didn't move. (She was not leashed) They were about 5 feet above the shore where the small waves were meeting the sand.I could see the foam of the small wavelets illuminated by the spheres ,directly below them.

They were in an echelon formation (like jets fly off each others wing tips). One sphere was ahead of the other two and they were each off to one side and behind the lead sphere. Their surfaces were of a yellow/pink static light that ran around the globes like little lightning bolts but thin and many.

It was very quiet ,except for the breeze rushing past our ears off the lake. I remember seeing lightning way across the lake near Chicago (which you can see the taller buildings on a clear day).It was miles away and barely saw the lightning.

These globes were about 3- 4 feet in diameter and a few feet apart and moved Eastward directly in front of us. That's when I got a good look.The static surface gave me a good view of their outlines and they were perfect globes.

I got goosebumps and hair must've stood on my arms. I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Kahlua never moved except for her head while staring at these spheres with me.

The globes kept moving and seemed to speed up and we watched until they became a single light (due to distance) and they disappeared downshore as they moved out of sight toward New Buffalo,Michigan. I often wonder why I and/or Kahlua never walked or ran closer to see these at close range? It seemed I didn't want to move. I was afraid.

I had lived and walked this beach for at least 1 year and never saw anything as puzzling as this. The globes were controlled and never wavered once in their flight. I reported the sighting to the Michigan City Police the next day but they just laughed and said it was probably "airplane lights".

No way.not 80 -100 feet in front of me along the breaking waves and illuminating the foam only. I sent this report at the time, to Dr.

J. Allen Hynek at Northwestern Univ. but never heard anything more.

I'm a blue collar worker with some collage and was sober and wide awake at the time. I also knew the beach area at night since I lived just a few minutes walk from the water's edge and spent much of my my free time there. Question: Has anyone else reported close encounters with lights,spheres, or otherwise along the beaches of Lake Michigan ?? Thank you for letting me report this unknown.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. We have heard many such reports of luminous spheres. PD)).