State Report
UFO Sightings in Indiana
4,148 sightings on record from 1920 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
4,148
Share of US total
1.93%
Peak year
2012
275 reports
Top shape
Light
771 reports
Years active
103
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-14 | Batesville | flash | 40 Seconds | No trails eyes couldn’t track seemingly instant, Appearing in/out in complete opposite initial trajectory Curving around... |
| 2023-12-14 | Fort Wayne | orb | 15 seconds | Horizontal bight light |
| 2023-12-12 | West Harrison | unknown | 12 seconds | Fast moving object with glittering trail |
| 2023-12-04 | Dunkirk | circle | 20 seconds | No sound, projected several bright beams of light from round circle of light into woods onto the ground. |
| 2023-12-03 | Memphis | light | 3 minutes | Unexplained bright shiny light |
| 2023-11-18 | Evansville | orb | 30 minutes | 3 orbs fading in and out |
| 2023-11-15 | Kokomo | oval | 4 Minutes | I saw a silver object flying SE to NE. No Aircraft running lights. |
| 2023-11-13 | Milan | triangle | roughly about 7 mins | Triangle black craft |
| 2023-11-12 | De Motte | orb | Three minutes | Three orbs of blue light flying in a rotating triangle pattern moving from north to south. Moving fast estimated 300mph,... |
| 2023-11-05 | Indianapolis | chevron | 5 minutes | They looked to be 40 or 50 and flew like drones and they had black or dark sides and light or bright sides. |
| 2023-11-04 | Montgomery | other | less than five minutes | saw a object coming toward our house; Just thought it was a bird until I relized it had no flapping wings..and sun... |
| 2023-10-21 | Henryville | cross | 1-3 minutes | Have 4 pictures that appear to see a craft enter our atmosphere at a tremendous speed, stop just above the horizon and... |
| 2023-10-15 | Indianapolis | formation | Ongoing at the moment | Lights behind clouds in 2 separate circular forms . Slowly rotating in the sky behind clouds |
| 2023-10-15 | Indianapolis | formation | — | I got it on video it’s was lights moving and gliding like sprites |
| 2023-10-14 | Indianapolis | orb | 30 seconds | At first I saw a black drone. Then I realized it was comprised of multiple black orbs. |
| 2023-10-10 | Fort Wayne | disk | 1 minute | I saw a shiny metallic disc. It traveled away from me. |
| 2023-10-03 | Huntertown | circle | — | Flying a little slower |
| 2023-10-03 | Huntertown | other | I was driving 30-60 sec | It was long with 1 green and 1 red light solid in the center with slow flashing white lights at each end. |
| 2023-10-01 | Knox | unknown | Split second | Taking picture of fog over filed. Captured image by accident |
| 2023-09-21 | Terre Haute | unknown | 1-2 seconds | My dog was outside, then stopped in the yard. Looked around, then a flash of light that was a lighter blue above him. |