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New Albany, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 23 UFO sighting reports in New Albany, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (4 reports, 17.39% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- 2009 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 8.70% of total).
- 07/04/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 4.35% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (12 reports, 52.17% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in New Albany, Indiana
These New Albany, 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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Bright light hovered above city for 2+ hours. Thought it may be a planet, but clouds moved behind it and it looked much closer. My partner leaves for work around 4am most mornings.
I moved to the living room and noticed the light shining through our big window was much too bright to be the average plane in the SDF flight path. Having been here a year, I have seen many planes on the SDF flight path go into and out if the city. This didn’t look quite like that.
It had a large halo, almost like the ring that the moon gets on a misty night. The clouds were visible and moving behind the light. I checked my sky tracker to be sure it wasn’t a planet.
It was not a planet. I chalked it up to being a plane, but it sat still for way too long to make sense as a plane, I went back to sleep after taking a few photos and it continuing to not move in the sky, but was unable to figure out what it was. We are on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Louisville Skyline and the highways.
Without the leaves on the trees, our southbound view is pretty clear. Would be really interested to find out what would hover for that long and then be gone when I woke up again at 7am.
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West to east silent flying object which looked to be on fire suddenly stops to hover. At first, I thought it was a helicopter that was on fire. The object was moving west to east and moving pretty quick.
I was walking my dog and just kept staring at it. All of a sudden the object just stopped and I was kind of shocked and just kept staring and went inside my house to get my son. When I came back out the object was gone.
Another strange thing is I heard no engines or noise. The object looked like it was on fire.
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7 - Orange round - shaped glowing objects we witnessed @ 9:40 PM New Albany, Indiana during the ☆ 4th of July ☆ firework July 4th,2014 my Mother,Sister, Brother-in-law & myself witness "seven round orange shaped glowing objects" trailing one another traveling N/E though the night sky for our suburban neighborhood during the ☆ 4th of July fireworks ☆ around 9:40 pm. We viewed them for about 10-minutes until they vanished from the night sky. We then witnessed one more at 10:03 pm traveling from the N/W direction same shape, same size.
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3 reddish lights hovering in side-triangle formation - split apart 2 off to the east like lighting one remained hovering over tree line Northeast sky 3 reddish color lights hovered in a side-triangle formation. Two eventually "flew" toward the east in a sideways manner (very fast) and the 3rd one streaked downward and then hovered over a tree line - eventually lifted up and we thought possibly towards us, then slowly remained going upward and then away from us until out of sight. They did not get close enough for us to see any shape, other than 3 round lights - and they may have "pulsed" very slightly.
My 1st time ever witnessing anything like this!! Objects may have been too far away to get picture with cell phone.
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Huge white rectangular object hovering in the sky. My wife and I saw it as we were were driving on I-64 heading to I-65. As we were driving by New Albany we noticed a white rectangular object in the distance above the tree-line.
It went out of view as the nearer trees blocked the view. Once a clearing was available again, about a minute of driving later, the object was back in view for perhaps 20 seconds before the view became obstructed again. The view continue to be obstructed the rest of the way.
We thought that the object was a banner. But to us it seemed that the size was too big as this object appeared to be miles away - perhaps 5+ miles. We did not see a plane pulling it.
It woul be worthwhile to determine is a banner was being pupped by a plane. I'm hoping this can be found quickly. This object only appeared to be two dimensional.
White in color and very symmetrical.
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Group of Ships over Skyline I had set up my camera to take photographs of the firework show called thunder over Louisville, it’s the opening to the Derby Festival here in Louisville Kentucky. I was approximately 7 miles away on top of Spickert knob Road up in Floyd’s knobs and the view that I had you could see the entire landscape and is the highest point in that particular area While I was waiting for the show to start I was taking pictures of the air show, as I was taking photos I saw a group of objects that would appear and disappear in the sky. I saw them three different times each time and each time I tried to focus on them I was unable to.
When I was reviewing my pictures the next day I saw that I happened to catch the group of objects high in the sky over the city well above the airplane that is in the picture. There looked to be two groups of aircraft flying in formation. When I soon get in on the picture the crafts all look round cylindrical with a metal color with a definite solid shape on all of them and what looks to be a sit atmosphere at the center of each of the ship much like the reported flying disc.
I emailed a copy of the image to your site in JPEG form however I still have the original photo and a raw format that is too large to email at this time.
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Nine fireballs almost in a cricle moving around. Nine fireballs in almost a circle they were moving about there self. Seven faded slowly away.
The other two seem to move fast for a short distance then stop for a few sec. a couple times then also faded away. It happend near grantline road at I.
U.S.
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Large, hovering, triangular shaped object(s) in New Albany, Indiana. I am very reluctant to post this. I checked the internet just now and so far, nothing on the news.
I was driving West on 256 just past I-65. I realize this was relatively close to the Clark Co. airport, but at this height 40-60 feet it would have been crashing and either much too large or much to close to one another.
It was not moving. I rolled down the window and slowed to nearly a stop to look and listen. It/they were completely silent, triangular shaped, and 40 feet in length from lights at the points.
Lights were orange in color. What is strange is the fact that just moments before on the North side of 265, just past 65 in Clark County I had seen an extremely bright, white light near the trailer park approximately the size of an Olympic swimming pool (but round in shape) that came from nowhere, lasted maybe three seconds and went out like a switch was flipped. I pulled over at the Charlestown Road exit to get a look and the hovering object(s) had vanished.
I know at least four other cars in front of me saw it too, they slowed down and I could even see a passenger in one car point at it as if to ask, "Do you see that too?" I am quite shaken, and a little sick to my stomach. This wasn't anything remotely resembling any 'normal' aircraft in shape and wasn't like any plane or a helicopter I have ever seen. Approximately 30 seconds before the events, the radio broadcast of the Big Ten Championship game that I was listening too cut out.
I thought it was a broadcast error and turned off the radio. I didn't turn the radio back on for several minutes after the event. The broadcast was back on.
I am a male. Mid thirties. Caucasian.
Married. Children. College educated.
Employed. I don't care about any kind of recognition, in fact I would prefer none. But I would love an explanation of what I just saw.
I will answer questions if you need more info.
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Clear sky, full moon (behind me) three spoke object, blue and white lights, white changed intensity,, soft jet sound I sighted the object on route 150 just outside of New Albany Ind. Object was shaped like a three spoke, or Mercedes or peace logo. It had a white light a the end of each spoke and one in the center of spokes.
There was a blue light on each spoke just inside the white ones. The craft was suspended in air as I drove under it. There was a hushed jet engine sound, or a sound like a hot air balloon getting a charge of hot air.
The white lights looked to be completely around the spoke, like a gas lantern globe. The white lights on the spokes changed in intensity and blocked out the blue ones. Then the white lights on the spokes went down in intensity and the middle white light brightened even more than the three spoked ones, when it went down the white spoke lights brightened again, but not all at the same time as earlier.
I was still driving very slow, and it disappeared over some trees as I dove under and by it starting up a tree covered hill. I quickly turned a! round and when I got back to the open location ( 20- 25 seconds? ), the object was gone. This was on a full moon night without a cloud in the sky, visibility was excellent and I had a good view as it was a large valley.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD)).
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5 red lights moving across the sky ((NUFORC Note: Date may be flawed. Witness does not indicate year of sighting. PD)).
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Large disc appearing and disappearing while hovering with no change in direction. A large metallic disc appeared and disappeared in a very gradual manner above some woods a couple miles off the highway. It hovered very steadily and had no direct course of flight.
I made absolutely sure that this was not identifiable. Disappeared without any trace after a couple appearances.
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A night out driving turned moment of awe thanks to moving lights above the trees. I was driving home through New Albany, a city I lived in and know well and was crossing a well travelled intersection one night. I had the windows to my Jeep down because my air conditioner needed to be charged.
I was sober and 19 years old. I was going to university in the city and I went to see a relative. I left her house by myself on a very cool night.
It was breezy and balmy so having the windows down felt good. It may have stormed. I drove my Jeep through New Albany and ended up driving north on Silver St.
at around 9:00pm that night and came to the intersection of Ekin Ave. I came to a stop and found the two red flashing “STOP” lights working as usual that night except there were more this time. More lights.
I slowed down because I was so engaged with what was rows of lights that dove so low over that intersection, after this craft slid over my head, the small one story houses and their trees ended up hiding them. It was semi quiet and LOW. Very low.
! Nobody else was around and I drove on Ekin, following in my Jeep and the craft flew over a bank of trees southeast, in front of a home no less, when I assume it headed for the river. I couldn’t drive as fast as I’d have liked but I tried to catch up and couldn’t. I called 911 in two counties and asked if they had gotten any calls, they had nothing and told me to call the airport.
The airport hadn’t heard or seen anything but I know what I saw. I think I even called the news station. They took my story but didn’t care.
I made a point to exhaust all avenues but no one else saw it. The sky at the intersection that night was dark and it was breezy. Pulling up to the STOP became something else entirely.
These lights were bulbs (?) of some sort and they lined the bottom side of the craft. As the craft flew over the intersection of Silver St. and Ekin Ave.
its underbelly was flat with three red orbs as lights or something else? I pulled up and noticed the craft as I stopped and s! lowed to a halt as I looked at it cross over my head and down ! Ekin Ave nue. That is when I began trying to follow it. It was probably headed to Ft.
Knox. When I say “craft? I assume it was all attached. It was above me and moving but the lights seemed anchored somehow.
Positioned. There were no aircraft in the sky and if there were they wouldn't be that low. When I called the airport I told them it flew "as the low as the treetops" when they said they had heard nothing.
The airway into Louisville goes over the city. This 40ft(?) craft was over New Albany, IN, headed southeast down the river. Towards someplace else.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Fire in the sky over Indiana 11:00pm July 6th 2008 in New Albany Indiana me and my kids along with my nephew and GF saw the similar thing. It all started in the same kind of fashion. I as well was being entertained with the neighbors fireworks, when all of the sudden what appeared to be a plane on fire was in the sky in front of me.
the reason I say on fire was because of the unusual orange lights. Since I've never seen anything like it I immediately thought of fire. It appeared that the front right engine was on fire because of the concentration of light on that area.
The lights were very bright but thats when things got strange. One why would lights on a plane if not fire be pointing upword more than down. Two at that point it was moving so slowly just a straight path no funny movements but I'm still thinking plane on fire .
Then I realized NO NOISE which would mean the plane should be coming down (no sound = no engine). But in fact it stayed at the same highth the whole time. I told my nephew to go get everybody else they had to see this.
The "plane" was directly above us at this time. still no noise. But maintained an altitude of what I assumed even using a single engine plane for reference of about 10-15,000ft.
My GF was amaized at what she saw, normally being the skeptical one, so much so that she didn't want it to scare the children so she took them inside. once the "plane" was past it just all of the sudden disappeared. Now I know it was nothing that I have or will ever see again knowing that it wasn't identifiable by me.
After it disappeared I actually hopped on my Motorcycle and went to the Clark County Airport expecting to see some type of search plane which is normally done in a single engine plane crash but they acted like they saw nothing. At this point my mind even though I'm open to anything still didn't or couldn't wrap around seeing a UFO.
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Two red objects moved across the sky from east to west about 30 degrees above the horizon.
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Bright Lights Appear Then Move Off Very Dim In Orange Color This is the same object ive reported as a welders arc blue light that dosn't twinkle when it shows up in the warm months about everynight and sometimes 4 times a night over my vicinity in southern Indiana in New Albany. It appears as a satilite at times and dissapears like some of the other reports that people have posted here. This object appeared this time at about 15 degrees directly south of the zenith at 9:34 pm on 5/18/01.
The object moved directly north from south and moved very slow after turning a very dim orange in color. This object appeared right before my eyes at the location i mentioned and was a very bright light blue like light that got 3 times the size of the planet Jupter at it's brightest and when it dos this it dosn't look to be hardly moving at all if any across the sky. After about 10 or 15 seconds glowing bright like mentioned it dims very rapidly to a dim orange in color and starts moving off very slowly still but faster than when it was brightly lit up.
Since ive been seeing this object for over 3 years now ive given it a name and call it Kilometer 6. When i observe this object again i will refer to it as such and thanks for reading.
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Objects Changed From Oval To FootBall Shape For An Hour 1 silver in color object was seen and observd for 20 minutes moving North to South before it stopped about directly over head and was dead stopped in the air for 5 more minutes before i and 3 other witnesses noticed another object move from and in the same direction as this first object and both were in mid air directly over head and seem to meet there for a specific reason. They were there for about 5 more minutes before both of them started moving together very slow toward the South. 5 minutes later about 45 degress above the horizon looking south toward the objects 1 started to move toward the West and 1 continued on South a few more minutes and then started heading directly South.
We observed the South bound object for 25 more minutes before it was not visable to the naked eye any longer. The West bound object started to get obscurred by the bright sunshine and was never seen again that we could see after about 3 minutes it headed toward the West. Visability was cear and unlimited and not a breeze of wind to be felt.
I did take a look at the objects with magnified eye pieces and thought i would clearly see a high alltitude weather balloon but thiis was not the case. There appeared to be sorta like shock waves given off by the objects and every second they would go from a oval circle shape to a football shape of form. No aircraft of any kind was seen during this 1 hour period viewing these objects.
Louisville Internatioal airport is about 15 miles due south of were we observed these objects and was very busy taking incoming and out going flights till the objects seem to be in the air space of this airport. End Of Sighting.… ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.
PD)).
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Bright Welders Arc Light In The Night Skys Over New Albany Indiana Ive been seeing this object now for over 3 years till this very day and also see it about every night and wanted to share it with all who may have seen the same object or may find this object very interesting as i have. To see this object it's best to get outdoors about 15 mintes before dusk and anytime there after before midnight. allthough ive seen it at all hours from dusk till sunrise.
This object may appear as a star in the night sky with no movement at times. The object appears mostly as a slow moving star at first and seems to have i very high altitude and moving along as the speed of a high flying commercial airliner. Sometimes it will stop in mid movement also for as long as 15 seconds take or give a few.
The most startling thing about this object is it will turn a very bright welders arc bluish white for sometimes as long as 15 seconds then go dim to a very faint like star and go completly accross the horizon till dissapearing. This object will appear at any point in the night sky. Sometimes at the zenith, sometimes at the horizon, any location in the night sky this object may appear.
I have observed it 1 time to go from a very bright spotlight like light to a sapphire blue in color. Im still seeing this object to this day along with 5 other witnesses. ((NUFORC Note: We observe that the description is reminiscent of a twinkling star.
PD)).
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the ufo was trailing the air craft As I was standing on my balcony smoking late at nite, well after dark I saw and jet in landing pattern. As it flew from dark sky into sky that was lighter because of the city lights I saw somthing behind the jet, it was cigar shaped. The sighting lasted only 2 to 3 seconds as it changed color to match the sky it was flying in.
I was unable to see it anymore. When I could see it, it was very close to the jet and bigger then jet air craft ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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In broad day light, it was as big as three aircraft carriers, but as silent as air. Moving very slowly though the air. at the front the shape was round and thick, then it had like a narrow neck, about half as wide as the saucer shaped front.
It then widened to like a square shape, but with wings, two sets of wings, like an aircraft.But the strange thing was that the front wings were much smaller than the back wings. And instead of faceing the back of the craft they angled to the front.
The back wings were at the end of the craft, angled in the same direction.but were much larger than the front wings. I could see details on the craft, but what I remember most was the what I think was the power jet out put ports????? Thats the only way I can decribe them.
maybe 8 2 rows of 4. could see what looked like portholes on the side of the main square main body,it had so much detail, so dark and silnent, .I must of had watched it past over for at least 30 mins.
beleive me ornot this was not made in the USA ,and it made a beleiver out of me. SO big so slow ,so silent. If there ever was a mother ship this had to be her sister ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact.
PD)).
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Flat black disc, no lights, spinning with a slight wobble, no sound In 1977, my friend & his younger brother & I were walking through a field which is part of st Mary's Cemetary. My friend spotted the disk first. We just stood there saying,"What is that?".
The disk was flat black in color and seemed to have a darker small circle in the center of the disk. It appeared to spin in a clockwise or counter clockwise manner but would also wobble slightly. It made no sound, I'm not sure how high up this craft was, but I would estimate its size to the hole in the center of a compact disk.
I saw this same disk years later at this field while watching New Albanys' football team practice there. I've often wondered if this was a weather balloon, experimental military aircraft, or aliens. I can honestly say I will never cease to wonder what it was that I saw during the blizzard of "77".
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
New Albany, 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 | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Cigar | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
New Albany, Indiana UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
June | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
New Albany, 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 | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
Sunday | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Saturday | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
New Albany, 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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07/04/14 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
10/15/98 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
06/22/14 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
07/06/08 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
10/16/15 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
New Albany, 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 | 12 reported sightings | 52.17% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
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