UFO Sightings in Indiana
2,549 UFO sightings reported in Indiana since 1940, peaking in 2020 (193 reports); most often described as unknown.
- Total sightings
- 2,549
- Span
- 1940–2022
- Peak year
- 2020 (193 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Unknown
1940–2022 · peak 2020 (193 reports)
Top cities in Indiana
Indianapolis
1954–2022 · peak 2013 (27 reports)
Fort Wayne
1980–2022 · peak 2014 (17 reports)
Evansville
1970–2022 · peak 2019 (16 reports)
Mt. Vernon
1956–2022 · peak 2020 (28 reports)
Newburgh
1990–2021 · peak 2019 (28 reports)
South Bend
1997–2021 · peak 2003 (4 reports)
Terre Haute
1955–2021 · peak 2004 (7 reports)
Lafayette
1959–2021 · peak 2013 (7 reports)
Fishers
1996–2021 · peak 2020 (14 reports)
Kokomo
1996–2021 · peak 2008 (14 reports)
Bloomington
1973–2022 · peak 2006 (3 reports)
Noblesville
1992–2022 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Greenwood
1999–2020 · peak 2008 (4 reports)
Santa Claus
2018–2022 · peak 2019 (13 reports)
Muncie
1958–2019 · peak 2011 (5 reports)
Crown Point
1987–2021 · peak 2017 (4 reports)
Vincennes
1970–2022 · peak 1970 (4 reports)
New Albany
1959–2022 · peak 1998 (2 reports)
Marion
1979–2021 · peak 2003 (2 reports)
Mishawaka
1974–2020 · peak 2005 (3 reports)
Southport · IN, USA
Standing in the parking lot talking with my co-workers after closing our store for the night. The Sun was almost set but, there was sti
Jeffersonville · IN, USA
Looking out my bedroom window I saw a triangle shape fly by rather slow. I grabbed my phone and ran outside but it was gone. I looked a
Greenwood · IN, USA
I saw an orange dotted triangle with the orange dots on each side that changed its formed.
Indianapolis · IN, USA
Light/object moved sporadically for almost 50 minutes, unexplainable speed and precision. ((NUFORC Note
Fort Wayne · IN, USA
Orb of light traveling silently
Ellettsville · IN, USA
Shiny silver cylinder above the tree line that didn't move and when I stopped to get a picture it had vanished.
Rosston · IN, USA
Over the course of 15 seconds a shape appeared from nothing, became bright, and then dimmed to invisibility.
Evansville · IN, USA
Eighteen crafts appeared in the sky, moved very slowly, and then disappeared in about 5 min.. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
South Bend · IN, USA
Thought to be star or planet Last night I stepped out onto our patio to have a smoke and enjoy the cooler weather. My back yard faces
Knox · IN, USA
Unexplained red lights in the Indiana sky.
Crown Point · IN, USA
I had stepped out on my porch to smoke a cigarette and I always look up to the stars then from my right side view I see a fireball comi
Brownsburg · IN, USA
Stationary black disc.
Greenwood · IN, USA
Cherry red light, hovering in NW over Fireworks display, then turning 90 degrees and shooting SE at a rapid speed!
Knox · IN, USA
Three red lights in the Indiana sky
Indianapolis · IN, USA
A Giant, Three-Level Craft on Fourth of July.
Fort Wayne · IN, USA
Bright orange light slowly moves soundlessly over northeast Fort Wayne, IN.
IN · USA
I was running late at night, meanwhile my neighbors were lighting fireworks. The fireworks my neighbors had been setting off were the k
Arlington · IN, USA
We sighted it from are porch about 11000 feet in the air it was mercury colored it moved in an arch pattern. Me and my two son saw it m
Kokomo · IN, USA
10 or more lights squirmishing.
Carbondale · IN, USA
While coming back home from Cuyuga, Indiana, my daughter noticed a flying object in the sky. As she described it we didnt believe her,
Amboy · IN, USA
Looked like a odd shaped circle that was moving side to side to side, but not moving forward, below the moon. ((anonymous report))
New Salisbury · IN, USA
Observed 2 very bright lights. Thought they were planes (solid white light - steady); were very close. ((anonymous report))
Shelbyville · IN, USA
((HOAX??)) this red object in the sky it was a light I thought it might be a airplane then it zipped to the
Crown Point · IN, USA
Many disks fly over my house and my dogs react.
Muncie · IN, USA
Opalescent orb witnessed in east-central Indiana sky.