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Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 22 UFO sighting reports in Mishawaka, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (5 reports, 22.73% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 27.27% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 22.73% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 13.64% of total).
- 07/02/10 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 4.55% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (10 reports, 45.45% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Mishawaka, Indiana
These Mishawaka, 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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Saw at least 50 spheres flying in aircraft formation overhead. I was awe struck by how many balls of light flying from east to west. Balls of light in a fighter formation but the number of them where amazing.
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Bright light outside bedroom window, loud noises, window rattled sounded like a jet plane On Tuesday, Feb 4 at 12:20 am a low flying jet woke me up. The windows were rattling and loud engine noises were heard. I got out of bed to look out the window, it was bright outside but I didn't see the plane.
I'm in Mishawaka, IN. The brightness was South and I think the sound was traveling from North to South. I asked the people I was living with if they heard or felt anything in the morning and they said no.
One of the people was awake and in the living room watching TV. I'm curious to know if anyone else reported something in my area.
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A large bright blue light feel out of the sky. It was deffiantly to low to be a UFO, but there was something different about this that did not look man made.
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While stepping outside before night's end, I always look to the stars. There were 3 lights dancing around each other as if they were playing in the night sky. I have seen UFO's before and told my girlfriend.
You can imagine the looks she gives me. But last night (5-23-16) she saw first-hand, and is still in awe… ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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3 burning lights cruising through air 5 seconds apart. Came from south going north not entirely in straight line but at decent pace not just floating. Able to watch last one as it cruised north and slowly fade out or out of sight.
No idea. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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2 bright white lights side by side traveling from west to east off of Dragoon trail Mishawaka just over tree tops 2 bright white lights side by side traveling over treetops from west to east silently viewed by older woman in early seventies disappeared after going over neighborhood by Dragoon trail. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate. We have assigned an arbitrary date.
PD)).
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We veiwed 6 separate bright orange lights disconnected in the clear night sky flying and then disappearing at different times. My wife and I were on our way home at a little after 9pm. I was in the passenger seat and was looking toward the houses outside my window.
I saw six bright lights in the sky through the trees. They were spread out too far apart to be one craft. I told my wife to pull over and she asked where and kept driving.
After about ten seconds there was a parking lot so she pulled over. As we were watching another car pulled in with a young girl, she parked and watched. I tried to get a video on my phone but it didn't stay on my phone.
My wife noticed an airplane flying near the group and said those aren't planes. The unidentified craft started disappearing first 2 then one-by-one. When that happened the girl drove away while talking on her phone.
After the last light disappeared we left and while driving home we both agreed whatever the lights were was unidentified. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Three reddish orange light moving across the sky. We saw three orange/red moving lights in a line formation go across the night sky coming from the south and heading towards the north west. Have never seen anything lime this before.
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Red light triangle over Indiana My son & I were out enjoying a cigar, watching the perfectly clear night sky. I just happen to look straight up at my 12 o'clock position and caught a triangle going in a slight north northeast position, coming from slight south southwest. Totally silent, hard to say what altitude was at least 30,000 feet had to be larger than passenger plane.
Had red lights on all 3 corners, running at a level flight. My son caught the tail-end of the sighting after I pointed out to him, seeing the rear 2 red lights. I found this website to see if there was any other reports in my area.
Saw the report on 4/01/13 in Brookston,IN. Identical description and direction.went onto MapQuest you could draw a straight line in slight north northeast direction to Mishawaka IN.
approx. 100 miles. Went to internet to calculate air speed of triangle.
using 30,000 ft. time covering horizon in 5 seconds at least 900 mph.
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3 circular dark ufos seens south of Mishawaka, IN I was driving west on bipass 20 and saw three dark circular objects on the south side of the highway flying 200 feet over the ground heading west and slightly south. I could not keep up with them even though we were moving in the same direction. As I approached the breman highway exit they disappeared over the horizon.
I suppose they could have been helicopters but I do not know how to verify this.
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2/4 orange Circle's of light over Mishawaka,Indiana My Mother and I pulled in the driveway got out of car. I got some things from the back seat and as I turned I saw 2 orange circles of light flashing in the south eastern sky. They seemed like they were about a 1/2 mile away when we first spotted them, and maybe they were the size of a small helicopter.
I had just came back from watching fireworks and had my camera in my front pocket. I grabbed it and started filming it they came forward side by side very slowly. Since I was using a digital camera I only taped it for 32seconds and than shut the camera off and tried to take a picture of it but didn't get anything.
They were getting closer and I for got to turn the camera back on because I couldn't believe what I was seeing. They eventually turned to the right and seemed to be on top of each other and then they flew all most out of sight. We came inside and I called the police and reported it and asked if anyone else had seen it and they said they hadn't reciev! ed any calls as of yet.
I than powered up my pc to get the UFO Hotline and called them and reported it. After I spoke to him, I checked my camera and we only saw 2 orange lights but the camera picked up 4 blinking orange and blue lights. I than went back outside and there was set's of 2 lights in the sky everywhere it seemed like hundreds of them, I ran back to the phone to call the hotline back to report them.
They are still out there at 1:39 am, they look like stars but if anyone look's close every light has a second light the same distance from it and there are groups of 2 lights all over the sky. There are so many here I can't find the big dipper. I called a friend of mine in Elkhart Indiana to tell him what I saw and after I told him he said he was driving back from Chicago, IL, and saw some strange light's in the sky as well and when I told him about the light's that I am still seeing he described the same thing to me.
((NUFORC Note: Time above was mis-stated by witness. We have corrected time to indicate a sighting just after midnight. We do not know what the witness observed.
PD)).
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Bright orange sphere over Mishawaka, IN On the night of July 2, 2010, my wife, three kids, and a neighbor, and myself witnessed something extraordinary. It was a glowing orange ball (orb?) heading on a north by northwest trajectory and was about 200-300 feet in the sky. It was totally silent, was going very straight and swift, and was quite bright.
The light intensity was steady, never flickered or changed intensity at all. It never deviated in elevation as it came overhead and passed over us. We were almost under it.
My one daughter was actually crying it was so odd. The thing that baffles me most.I never saw anything like it before.
I really wanted to say it was a Chinese sky lantern or a homemade hot-air balloon.but I never saw one ever like this. I used to make and fly model hot-air balloons.
I even sold plans on how to build one in the classifieds of a particular magazine. I've made them out of clear dry cleaner bags and tissue paper, etc. I've flown probably 60-70 model hot-air balloons in my lifetime (I'm 43) and never seen anything like what we saw on the night of July 2.
Me and my wife are avid sky watchers and definitely know what meteors, satellites, planes, ISS etc looks like. This defies explanation to us. What we saw, and we were CLOSE to it.
was a bright round orange light inside what seemed to be a perfectly round glass sphere. I guess that would be my best description. I would guess.
and this is just a guess based on my experience.to be around 7-8 ft in diameter. Perhaps what seemed to be a glass sphere surrounding the ball of light could've actually been just the "flare" effect of the bright light.
Also. we had a county fair going on that night.but this came from a direction that it couldn't possibly have came from the fair.
I'm puzzled to explain it.
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Three lights flying over us. My two friends and me where walking over the train tracks at about 10:40 or so heading back from a friends house. My friend was counting the stars and I said to him that I never count the stars.
Then my other friend said, “What is that.” I looked up and saw three dim lights almost transparent they were yellowish orange almost street light color lights in a triangle form flying across the sky. It made no sound.
It looked like spotlights but it kept going off in the distance. We stood there in shock. We waited to see if we could see it again and if it was really, spotlights after all but we did not see it again.
We took off running back to my house and told every body there. I do not think anybody believed us. It blew my mind.
Today I looked up pictures of stealth bombers during the nighttime to see any similarities. It looked very different from what we seen. Therefore, I found this web sight and had to tell our story.
IT WAS UNBELIVABLE .Me and my friends used to talk about UFO's, and aliens all the time but I never thought I would have the opportunity to see one. It gives me the chills just thinking about it.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain semi-anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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a round object, with a loud noise and two green lights on the top, spinning, It was there and just like that it was gone My 14 yr old daughter was getting up for school and heard a loud noise outside. She looked out her window and there was a round object with two green lights out of the top of it and they, the lights were rotating. On her way to school a girl on the bus said she had seen something this morning and my daugher waited until she described it.
It was the exact same thing she had seen. I don't know how to explain any of this too her. She is a bit frightened.
Do we call the news or not?.
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7/29/07 0620 Mishawaka three lights with tails in shape of upside down triangle moving east Three fire ball looking spots in the sky with a trail in the shape of an upside down triangle. one on each point. I was driving tward them and they were moving away from me much quicker then I was moving tward them.
When I turned off of Douglas Road onto Bittersweet tward Granger I pointed at them to another car and they stopped their car to watch. I watched them untill they were disapearing. They remained in this pattern untill they were disapearing.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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07/21/07 mishawaka IN falling star looking light 0630 stopped falling and just sat there in the sky one light with a tail moving across the sky in the morning. Not like a airplane. More like an astroid.
I thought I was watching a falling star. Then it stopped falling and just sat there as a fire ball. I watched it untill I needed to go into the store.
When I came out it was gone. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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March 17, 2007 - Mishawaka, Indiana Approx 6:30am 3/17/07 I saw a red light reflection on the top of my large picture window. I then walked over and peered out the window and at a very low altitude (too low for an airplane) I saw a large triangle shaped craft with large red lights on bottom. I then moved to the back of the house and looked out the windows from my porch, the craft was still moving very slowly.
I opened the sliding window and observed no sound. The craft continued over and past the tree line in a northwest direction. I live approximately 10 miles from an airport but have never observed anything that resembles this before.
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Several contrails that appeared to be in formation, VERY high in altitude -- no visible airplanes -- contrails dissapated quickly. I was in my car at approximately 4:30pm. The sky was blue and mostly cloudless, only a few cirrus clouds here and there.
I was driving due north in a rural area. I looked up through my window and noticed several airliners at normal altitude. We are in "flyover country," so it is not unusual to see airliners traversing the sky and leaving contrails.
While watching the "normal" airplanes, I noticed approximately 5 or 6 contrails very close together, to the northwest of me (about 10 o'clock high from my perspective driving north). The closely-bunched contrails were forming parallel to each other. They appeared to be on a southeasterly heading.
I could not see the airplanes leaving the contrails, which led me to believe that they were at extremely high altitude. The contrails were clearly moving (growing in length). As I continued to watch, several more contrails began to form to the sides and behind the original few.
All told there were probably around 10. They appeared to be very close together, which led me to believe that they were high flying military jets in formation. The odd thing was that the contrails faded very quickly.
I grabbed my cell phone and called a friend to have her go outside and take a look. I asked her "Do you want to see something unusual? Go outside and look up to the northwest. There is a bunch of contrails very close together.
" By the time I got those words out, the contrails had faded, so I told her to forget it. My overwhelming impression is that they were military jets in formation, VERY high in altitude. Once again the odd thing was how the contrails faded.
It was as though they just "turned off." Very odd. ((NUFORC Note: We agree with the witness that the objects almost certainly were contrails.
Probably not UFO-related. PD)).
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Oblong gray, underneath, from a distance circular like a sun to me, to my husband he says trianglelar I was driving on by-pass with sun roof open. My husband was reclined down looking out the sun roof. He jumps and says "what was that?" I did not see it yet.
My husband discribed it as a gray, huge watermellon shaped object. We were getting off the by-pass and I was looking for a place to park to look. A few minutes later, I parked in the Meijers Parking lot.
By this time it was a mile away. Large like the size of the Sun at sunset. My husband said it looked like a triangle from off in the distance.
It did not move like a plane. Back and force like a sea-saw. It went in and out of the clouds a few time, then disappeared.
To me it looked totally round, like a dark circle, balloon, without a basket. We are 49 years old. Of course when we share this with family, they just smile and listen.
End of story My son had a "UFO" experience too about seven years back. He was in his car with cousin, maybe a friend too, and something small like his car, came real close to them and took off super fast. It tagged along with them at the night time and zoomed with percular patterns, unlike airplanes.
My son is now a pilot. He was only 18 or so back at the time this happen, late in the evening with his cousin, who also saw the unknown aircraft around Warsaw, IN. My sister claims about 30 years ago, she and her friend was chased by one, My mom thought she was drunk.
The teenage girls ran into the house and hid, peaking out the windows to see if it had left yet. Also I had an older friend who said they like to go out at Heaton Lake in Indiana a watch for UFO's - this too has been long ago. Maybe 29 year s ago.
Had you ever heard about that??.
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UFO crosses sky in the dead of night. While lying on my trampoline looking at the stars I saw what appeared to be 3 bright venus's stuck together, flying from SW to NE at maybe 5,000 feet. No trail like a shooting star.
Crossed entire sky in just a few seconds. Very smooth and quiet. Never saw anything like it before.
No way an airplane, a completely different level of speed. Flew in a straight line.
Mishawaka, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 22.73% of all reports |
Circle | 4 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Mishawaka, 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 | 6 reported sightings | 27.27% of all reports |
September | 4 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
June | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Mishawaka, 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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Sunday | 5 reported sightings | 22.73% of all reports |
Monday | 4 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Mishawaka, 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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07/02/10 | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
02/04/20 | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
03/19/09 | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
07/12/93 | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
07/05/11 | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Mishawaka, 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 | 10 reported sightings | 45.45% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 4 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.55% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Mishawaka, Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Mishawaka, Indiana.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2020 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2014 | 3 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2009 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2007 | 3 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2007 |
2005 | 3 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2005 |
1993 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 1993 |
1974 | 1 UFO Reports | Mishawaka, Indiana UFO Sightings in 1974 |
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