All Reported UFO Sightings in Peru, Indiana

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Military base closes for day, UFO seen leaving base. After the 10PM alarm that shuts the base down, my roommate and I watched a disk like aircraft leave the base slowly and zip away suddenly. It had an orange colored light and it took off really slow at first and then disappeared.

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A bright orange light with blue-ish white middle was observed launching upwards into the sky while driving home on a clear night. I am a 23 year old Father of 1 and stepfather of 1 with my lovely GF. My employment history is spotty, so in my free time I study greatly on medical uses of drugs, ufology and the registered close encounters, crimes/detective work and so forth.

At the time of this incident I was returning from a friends house located 15-20minutes from where I live. At the time of this incident I was alone and seen no other drivers on the road. It gets dark very fast here in the winter but you could make out every single star and constellation with ease this night.

No cloud. No tree lines as my hometown is surrounded by cornfields. I’m very familiar with planes, what they look like at night, and sound like due to living only a 20minute drive (max) from Grissom Air Force Base all my life.

This was no plane or anything of human made origin. The singular object was very bright orange (with a hint of blue-ish white in the middle) ball of light that sat in the sky. I first noticed it after going from a 4-way stop.

Half way through my drive home. I paid no attention at first, thinking it was someone flying a drone nearby or was just a bright star. I continued my drive and realized the object was keeping pace in front of me but was at a great distance away, easily 500-600ft away and had an elevation of around 8-10,000ft.

I then slowed my speed 55mph to 30mph (no other cars around on the road) so I could get a better look at what I was seeing. The object then seemed to rotate, which I then seen the blue-ish white color in the middle. This is about 5-6minutes into seeing the object, time seemed like it was at standstill.

I felt like I was being watched. I continue driving but keeping my eye on the object. After I got back up to 55mph and only a few minutes away from home, I seen the ball of light jolt itself to the r! ight of about 35ft.

Stop. Jolt upwards of I’d say 50-100ft. The blue-ish white in the middle became slightly bright, then the object launched itself upwards and disappear, faster than I ever seen anything go in my life.

No sound. No booms from the fast speeds. I finished my journey home and instantly told my Girlfriend about it.

I grabbed our binoculars to try and see if I could locate the object and seen nothing but stars. To this day I am for certain I did not see a plane or human made craft, but something truly otherworldly.

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One had lights amd flashed colors. Some silver cigars and some black oval. Some look like black triangle clouds.

I have videos from 3 weeks ago to today. Every single night they are over my house. I have filmed up to 9 of them in one 7 minute period time.

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I WAS TRAVELING EAST ON HIGHWAY 24, COMING BACK FROM PERU INDIANA, WHEN I SAW A FIREBALL OVERHEAD TO THE EAST. IT LASTED ABOUT 10 SECONDS, AND THEN BURNED OUT CLOSE TO THE GROUND. IT WAS BRIGHT WHITE, WITH NO DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS.

I HAVE RARELY SEEN A FALLING FIREBALL IN THE SKY.

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Red light formation over Grissom ARB Indiana At approx. 2150 while watching fireworks on the old Grissom ARB housing area, myself, my 15yrold daughter and a neighbor saw 4 very Bright Reddish colored lights traveling north approx. a mile away and at about 1500 feet altitude, they were in a semi V formation, and they were not traveling vary fast, maybe 60 plus Mph, the weather was overcast,70 degrees and about 2mph wind from the east, and lots of fireworks going off in the area, yet the craft(s) made no sound.

I had my daughter try to Video the objects, she did get some video of them, I went in the house to grab a pair of binoculars, I turned on the Flight Aware website for Grissom and the Live ATC, there were not aircraft noted on it in the immediate vicinity at the time and No ATC chatter. I returned outside, and could still see 3 of the objects now headed west, and beginning to disappear, as if the lights were fading or possibly turning off, we then lost sight of them at approx. 2205.

No other aircr! aft were noted during the observation. Noted that as the Objects approached the fireworks stopped for a couple of minutes then resumed as the objects passed overhead. I am a 58 yro Retired Astrophysicist, served in both Army and Marines in Law Enforcement, as well as being a Private Pilot.

My daughter is 15, neighbor also witnessed the objects, and maybe a number of people in the area as there were a lot of people shooting off fireworks at the time. I did call the sheriffs dept they had no other reports of this at the time.

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This has cured me of my scepticisim Three round balls of light, in a southeasterly direction from our home. These lights were flashing red to blue. The items were also stationary as we could see military aircraft flying in the vacinity of these lights.

The wind out of the wnw at 10 knots and we can hear a hilo turbine and rotor. Rough estimation of distance is within 5 nautical miles. Tried to reach family in the Marion and Wabash areas, and was unsuccessful in getting other witnesses.

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4 orange fireballs satelitting a bright white light. I was sitting outside on the evening of 7/22/08 and noticed a very bright white light breaking through the clouds. Four orange balls formed a satellite around the white light then moved off in different directions moving through the clouds.

The orange fireballs moved back to the brighter light and moved out farther yet again. This went on for about 22 minutes with the lights converging several times to the stationary bright white light. We have quite a few aircraft that fly close to our house, however these objects did not have the sound or jet trails that we would normally see or hear associated with aircraft.

This was witnessed by 3 people as well as me. 2 of the observers are former military personnel and had no explanation for what the lights could have been.

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Saw bright orange lights that went on and off, and also seemed to split into more lights. We saw 8 lights up in the western sky in a formation. The lights seemed to split into two lights, then went off.

After the bright lights went off, there was what seemed to be sparkling in the sky. When we could see the lights, they went back and forth.

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Two bright objects over Grissom seemed to dance with each other in middle of night. Two white glowing objects above Grissom Air Base in Peru Indiana. I was watching them for about 40 minutes.

They seemed to dance with each other. They were not like any aircraft I have ever seen. One of them seemed to get dim and then bright again, while getting closer to the other object.

They got closer and far away 3 times in the 40 minutes i seen them. P.S I DREW ON PEICE OF PAPER WHERE THE OBJECTS WERE AND ALL THE STARS AROUND IT.

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Saw a large number of UFOs flying rapidly above us, chasing each other, and suddenly disappearing unlike planes. We, myself and 5 other friends, were having a bonfire at a friend's house. We noticed one light moving up and down behind the trees and above them.

It would disappear and reappear rapidly. Suddenly, other lights and crafts appeared, one with a beam of light coming from it forming a path across the sky. Two lights or crafts chased another across the sky.

One craft flew above us and there were red lights and white lights and a strange, foreign humming and whizzing sound. It did not have wings and could not have been a plane. There was lots of activity and strange lights everywhere.

They moved fast and disappeared unlike planes or other aircraft. They moved irregularly.

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A Really Wild Full Moon Night At 1 am my 8 month old woke up screaming crying. I went into her room and began to rock her back to sleep. As I was rocking her I noticed an engine noise outside.

I dismissed it thinking it was my mind playing tricks on me so late at night. Once I got her back to sleep I went back to my room and thought I saw a shadow in the doorway to the bathroom. I got a sudden fear and turned on the lights nothing was there.

I again dismissed it thinking it was a shadow. About 3 am my older daughter age 6 came into my room I asked her if she had a bad dream. She said no " there was alians and ghost all around her bed.

As she began to tell me the story I asked her if it was a dream she said "no, it was real", She continued to tell me the story and then started to say it was a dream. I'm am sure this was all just a silly night with our imaginations running wild. But it was enough for me to think about it more then once.

Just as an FYI I was not aware of any tv show until the next day when I was telling my friend about it. She asked me if we watched the show. Thinking it was our minds playing tricks.

I know this sounds so far fetched to me also. And I can't believe I am even typing it. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous.

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Strange lights! As my daughter and I were coming home we BOTH saw in the sky a set of 3 different sections of lights close together, consisting of about 2-3 different lights in each section. Colors of red and yellow, maybe blue too, can't remember- we watched them trying to figure out if it was a plane or what and then all of a sudden the lights just went out!! Very Strange- and would've thought my mind was playing tricks if my 8 year old hadn't seen it to. I am a professional and I AM NOT making this up! I would love for someone to tell me what this was!! The other wierd thing was a truck was coming rom the opposite direction and his lights kept flashing on and off, don't know if he/she was trying to get my attention or if it was electrical interference? No trouble with my vehicle though.

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level points of light that dissapeared. On Friday evening 1/14/04 I saw three objects that were unlike anything I had seen before. I was on Indiana SR24 just to the Southwest of Wabash heading toward Peru Indiana and US31.

It was dusk behind me and still light ahead of my in the west. I saw what I first thought was a star. It was 30-35% and bright.

It caught my attention because it was brighter than the brightest star in the night sky, but it was still daylight ahead of me. I noticed another "star" like it immediately to my right. The second object was like the first and equally bright.

It was level with the first object. At that point I realized that I was seeing something far out of the natural. A third object appeared to the left of the first object.

It "faded in" and went from being unnoticeable to gradually increasing in brightness until it was a bright as the other two objects. It was level with the original two objects. When it reached the brightness of the original two objects all three disappeared.

All three objects were white like a star. I wondered if the lights could be attached to a power line( making them level) near an airport. I drove on 24 for miles and the lights didn't reappear nor did I find a power line.

Several minutes after I saw the lights I saw the lights of an aircraft in the same area. I wondered if it might be looking for what I had seen. the lights I saw did not appear to be aircraft, they had not flickering lights of chem trail.

I submit this report anonymously.

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Three bright orange colored objects accompanied by dozens of white lit objects appeared and then streaked across the sky. My wife and I were traveling southbound on SR 29 and U.S 421 just west of Lafayette toward Peru when three relatively large orange and white colored spheres appeared south of us.

Each of the bright spheres emerged, i.e. faded in, one at a time until all three were easily visible.

They appeared to be very different from normal aircraft lights. We know that there are several airfields in the area, but these were not wing or tail lights from any aircraft I know. I can usually recognize those types of lights, since I used to be in the Air Force and had worked in the aerospace defense industry.

Shortly after they emerged, they began to fade out in the order they appeared. When they were visible, they seemed to have lined up in a straight line but were not evenly spaced apart. Along with these large bright lights we noticed what seemed to be dozens of smaller white lights flying around in no particular pattern that we could distingush.

These lights were much smaller than the three big ones mentioned above but were even more intriguing to us. We noticed that these lights would streak across the sky from east to northwest, south to north, and west to east, some in a straight and level flight pattern, some in a random pattern. We saw some of these fly level and then suddenly shoot upward or downward vertically.

I have never seen an aircraft move in this fashion. I know that the g-forces alone from such maneuvers would make it highly unlikely that these aircraft were ours. I could actually see what appeared to be contrails behind some of them at times.

This lasted for about 20 minutes as we continued traveling south. Visibility was generally good that evening with little cloud cover during this event.

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Object over Indiana. This is the first time I have been to your web site and decided to visit after listening to coast to coast last night. I decided to file this report after seeing other reports about an object that was sighted on April 8, 2004 near Rochester IN.

I am a truck driver and was traveling northbound on US 31 between Peru and Rochester IN when I noticed a series of amber lights approximately 100 ft above the ground traveling east at a slow rate of speed. At first I thought it may be a commercial or military aircraft because of my proximity to Grissom Air Base, however, as the object grew closer it looked as if the front was rounded or oval shaped. I slowed my truck and the object passed just behind me making no discernable noise.

I began to speed up and I noticed the object had changed its direction, now moving towards the north northeast gaining altitude until it dissappeared in the clouds. When I got home a few hours later I told my wife what I saw and never thought anything more about it until this morning when I saw the other reports. ((NUFORC Note: Please see other reports from apparently same event.

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Orange/amber globes appeared to come out from behind an object till fully round ,very bright a mist surounded the lights. I am reporting this do to the current rash of sightings in north central Indiana from 4/8/04 thru early May I looked back thru the history files on your system and found the same type of sightings frequently in Indiana dating back to 1953. My Family and I were returning from my inlaws house at around 9:00p.

m. traveling on 24 west toward Peru as we aproached town I noticed the sky seemed to iluminate with no apparent light source present, then a bright orange/amber light slowly appeared as if it were coming out from behind something until it was a full round circle. at the time I thought it was coming out from behind a cloud.

My wife asked "are you seeing that!" I replied yyeeaa then like the first a second amber spere slowly appeared exactly like the first as if it were coming out from behind something. this was happening directly in front of us as we traveled down the high way the first globe slowly went away in the exact way it appeared then the second. at this point we approached the bottom of the hill and turned into the median then a third amber globe apeared exactly as before, and fade exactly as before I estimate these to have been mabe a half mile away from our location and quite large, I'd guess from the distance mabe 10 ft across unless the globes were closer to us than I am estimating each globe seemed to stay lit for mabe 10 to 15 seconds.

I pulled over and got out to see if any others would light and to my suprise I could see all the stars, there were no clouds to explain the "ducking out from behind" way in which they apeared and disapeared. My wife was nervous and wanted me back in the car so we went on into town. An intresting side note to this, I picked up a pizza the next day and mentioned what I saw to the girl working behind the counter she told me she wittnesed the same thing a couple years previous while sitting outside her job eating her lunch, also a co-worker of mine wittnessed the same thing on 9/10/01 the day before 9/11 thats how she remebered the date this w! as in Ne w Waverly.

If I ran into two people within 2 days who had seen the same thing I saw ,at diffrent times I can only guess and asume this must be happening very frequently I would be intrested in your investigation and best answers to this I do not believe as some have sugested to me that this is military exercises and flares I don't believe a flare would apear as a perfectly round amber light in the sky. I saw no aircraft in the area, have your people done any checking in on this? has the local Indiana chapter checked with Grissom radar or anything? please post some informaion on the progress of your investigation in Northern Miami county and Rochester. More information can be found on these sightings from the Rochester Cintenal.

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big luminous yellow light in sky that fades and then produces 3 more that blink and fade out I will try my best to tell this as i can recollect. I left my home in Wabash, Indiana at approximately 8:00 p.m.

en route to Kokomo,In. to see my girlfriend. I was on bypass 24 east around the area of the city Peru gazing up at the sky in front and to the sides of the vehicle.

Plenty of stars were out and i always notice venus, which i know is commonly mistaken for ufo's. Well, after about 20 minutes i notice to the upper left corner (drivers side) a luminous bright yellow light of significant size glowing and just hovering there like i've never seen before. I would guess it to be just a little above a radio tower in it's reference to height in the sky.

This yellow light had definately captured my attention to the fullest. Ok, so trying to drive and keep my eye on it without accident, it faded out for maybe a minute before glowing again. It did this a couple of times for reasons i don't know before 3 more of the same size lights appeared to what would be the right of whatever it was.

These other 3 yellow lights (which were all in the same size) luminated in what i would describe in junction to the original light as going up in a quarter moon fashion. They stayed on only briefly before giving what i'm calling a blink in order from the first yellow to the fourth yellow and then it was done. I did turn left on county road 550 to try and get closer if not locate it after it faded but had no results.

I have to admit that i am a believer in the ufo phenomenon and when i witnessed this it really made me nervous! It is really hard to say exactly where it was, but i do know that it was close to the Grissom Air Force Reserve Base in Bunker Hill, Indiana (roughly about 10 miles from where i was at the time) to make me wonder if it was montoring activity if any going on there. I did notice a reasonalbe amount of airplanes around so i knew i could dismiss the fact that it wasn't a plane. The planes were much smaller and appeared to be higher.

After i reached my destination i told my encounter to my girlfr! iend wit h her knowing my interst in this she could tell that i was shaken . I never reported this to any law enforcement, media or the base, but now i wish i would have. I don't imagine they could have giving me any answers because there are a lot of skeptics, but i need someone to know that understands just what so many people are witnessing on a astonishing basis.

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Slow moving silver egg-shaped unidentified flying object observed from my front porch twice::::very concerned!!! this is the second time in 1 year I have seen this same exact kind of object! the object is a silver shaped egg, that has 1 visible light, the color of the light has the same color characteristics of a cool-blue headlight. the first time was during the afternoon, this second time was shortly after midnight, I am rather convinced that this object has a purpose for I spotted it from the same location, "my front porch", I am positive it is not a weather balloon, for both times I used my binoculars, I am submitting this, because I feel this could end up having a pattern, and feel it should be payed attention to. The object moved in a slow, what appeared to be slow moving, and i observed it until it was out of my view.

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UFO - 15 feet away and scared to death. Presently, I am a 31 year old female with two college degrees. I was a senior in high school during this encounter.

My boyfriend and I were parked along side of a country road talking. We saw what appeared to be a bright street light, but then it moved. We watched it hover above a farm house and then a tree, radiating a bright white light from the bottom of the craft.

Then it moved towards us slowly. It was about 15 feet from us and we were scared to death. The craft was a gray silver metallic color.

In the middle was a band of lights. The lights turned on and it was like the most profuse pinks, purples, reds, blues, greens. The lights were astounding.

Then the lights stopped. We could see the shape of the craft, where the lights came from and on the bottom there seemed to be a golden dome that was transparent in nature. We assumed the bright white light over the farm house and tree came from this transparent dome.

We watched the craft hover with a slight hum, but nothing loud or distinct in nature. Then the craft started moving away from us and it disappeared over a line of trees in the distance. I was to afraid to turn the car back on because I was afraid of it coming back.

I had my face plastered to the windsheild watching this amazing site. I'll never forget the bruises my boyfriend left on my legs begging me to start the car and leave. I wonder if it were just some new aviator craft from the Grissom Air Force Base or was it some governmental project unbeknownst to the public, but what I saw with my friend that night, was nothing that the public would take lightly.

I've never reported my sighting until now. I will never forget my experience. If there really are little grey people, I came too close for my comfort, if you get my drift.

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Saucer lights up farmhouse, tree, and puts on a light show for two unsuspected teenagers. I was approximately 18 years old at the time. (I am now 33 years old) My male companion and I were driving down an old country road, where we stopped off for a little car talk session, as we were having fun that night.

I turned of the car lights, but left the radio on. Then the radio station started messing up and completely stopped. I looked over at my friend, who at the time was approxiamately 17.

I looked in front of the car and there was, what appeared to be a very bright street light about 100 feet in front of us. I asked my friend if they had a new street light installed because it was bright. He said no.

Then, I looked again, and the light had moved positions. It was now hoving over a rural farm house that we had stopped by. I asked him if the light had moved positions, and he laughed at me.

We both looked again, and it moved a third time. This time it was hovering over a tree. The house and tree looked bright as day.

The light was so bright that it was like putting a spot light right on them. Only in a big way. We both continued to watch the object as there was absolutely no sound, yet it moved.

I'm not sure that whoever was flying the craft realized that we were in the car watching, but we didn't move. We watched the object come closer and we started getting very scared. It came very close and we got a very detailed description.

The object was a grey-metallic color, it was saucer shaped. It had what appeared to be tiny windows in the middle of the saucer, going all the way around it. The object just hovered there and then it happened.

They turned on the lights. Oh what amazing lights. They were almost irridescent in color.

Red, Yellow, green, blue. I could almost see like a fuschia pink/purple color in there. Like a christmas tree with flashing lights.

Only they flashed the lights so fast that I couldn't keep up with the color changes. My friend was punching me in my leg and screaming to drive, but all I could do was put my face in the windsheild and! say, "L ook at all the pretty colors." Then I saw what seemed to be an almost transparent dome on the bottom of the saucer.

It was like a golden amber color. I thought that maybe the bright lights were coming from that. I mean the bright white light over the house and tree.

The dome wasn't very big at all. Matter of fact, I would have never noticed it unless the thing was so close. It was approximately 1 acre away, just hovering.

It was as close to me as my neighbors house is today. I was completely mesmerized. Then, approximately 5 minutes after the last move and light show, it just stopped all lights and moved to the south as fast as it could.

It was gone in a flash, and I was shaken. Of course, it was a very big ordeal and I told my parents about it immediately. I stayed home from school for a while that week, as I was a senior in high school, and was very confused about the situation.

My friend had gone to school and when I went back, he had told people at school what we had seen. I was embarrassed about it because I didn't want people knowing what we had seen. I didn't want people to make fun of us about it or ask any questions.

Now that I'm older, I've learned to deal with this situation much better. If anyone at the center has seen anything remotely close to what I've encountered, please let me know. Curious.

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