BLOOMINGTON
5/19/98
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 3, #21

BUNKER HILL AFB
9/13/59
(Bluebook)
4 p.m. Witnesses: at least two control tower operators and the pilot of a Mooney private airplane. One pear-shaped object, colored white, cream, and metallic, with a trail under it. Object showed little movement during 3 hours. Attempted intercept by USAF T-33 jet trainer failed.

CHARLESTOWN
March 26, 2002
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CRAWFORDSVILLE
January 23, 2003
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DUNLAP
February 12, 2002
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EVANSVILLE
3/15/96
(RDUP3/25/96)
At 6:14 p.m. Central time, several people sighted a UFO in Evansville, a city of 152,000 in the southwestern corner of Indiana. The witnesses reported "a strange orange ball of light in the sky moving very slowly." They estimated the UFO's altitude at 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Suddenly, the UFO accelerated and split into "four or five smaller globes." These spheres vanished one by one. Witnesses also claim they saw an F-15 jet fighter from Scott Air Force Base in pursuit of the UFO.

EVANSVILLE
3/27/98
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 3, #14

FRANKFORT, CLINTON COUNTY
May 29, 2002
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FRANKFORT
December 10, 2002
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FREETOWN
1/17/67
(Magonia)
A man driving on Highway 135 north of Freetown saw a plate-shaped object with red, yellow, blue, and white blinking lights which caused him to lose control of his car and run off the road. Less than two miles away, another man saw an identical object that came within 125 feet of his car.

GOSHEN
4/27/50
(McDonald)
An early airline sighting involved the crew and passengers of a TWA DC-3 on the evening of 4/27/50. The DC-3, piloted by Capt. Robert Adickes and co-piloted by Capt. Robert F. Manning, was at about 2000 ft, headed for Chicago, when, at about 8:25 p.m., Manning spotted a glowing red object aft of the starboard wing, well to their rear.
It was similar in appearance to a rising blood red moon, and appeared to be closing with us at a relatively slow rate of convergence. I watched its approach for about two minutes, trying to determine what it might be. Then I attracted Adickes' attention to the object asking what he thought it was. He rang for our hostess, Gloria Henshaw, and pointed it out to her. At that time the object was at a relative bearing of about 100 degrees and slightly lower than we were. It was seemingly holding its position relative to us, about one-half mile away.
Capt. Adickes sent the stewardess back to alert the passengers, and then banked the DC-3 to starboard to try to close on the unknown object.
As we turned, the object seemed to veer away from us in a direction just west of north, toward the airport area of South Bend. It seemed to descend as it increased its velocity, and within a few minutes was lost to our sight...

GREENCASTLE
1923
(NICAP)
A revolving red object passed overhead from NE to SW. The two witnesses later became college students.

GREENWOOD
10/1/97
(RDUP10/12/97)
At 8 p.m., CPO Ethelred Sharkey, USN, a veteran of the Vietnam and Persian Gulfwars, was working at the Navy Reserve Station in Greenwood, Indiana, about 12 miles south of Indianapolis. Chief Sharkey "was looking to the southeast and a brightly-lit object 75 to 80 degrees in the sky caught his attention. The object looked like a star but (was)extremely intense and appeared to be moving upward. The 'pure white' light was so intense that he 'couldn't believe it.'"

"The object stayed in a small area as it continued moving upward before eventually appearing as nothing more than a dim star. The object was at its brightest for 15 seconds." Chief Sharkey described the object as similar to "construction night lights" on a highway which "blind you to look at them."

HAMMOND
November 13, 2002
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INDIANAPOLIS
7/29/48
(Magonia)
An object swept over a road at about 45 feet in altitude.

INDIANAPOLIS
7/31/48
(Bluebook)
8:25 a.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he was an electrician. Object was shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20' across and 6-8' thick, and was white without any shine. It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning.

INDIANAPOLIS
7/52
(UFO Encyclopedia)
In July, 1952, Captain Richard Case was flying an American Airlines Convair near Indianapolic when he became one of several person who sighted a UFO that startled the residents by making a low pass over the city. He commented that it seemed to be a controlled craft moving at some 1,000 miles per hour and he witnessed it dropping from approximately 15,000 to 5,000 feet before heading in over the city.

INDIANAPOLIS
6/21/62
(Bluebook)
4 a.m. Witnesses: Lt. Col.H. King and tail gunner M/Sgt. Roberts, aboard a B-52 heavy jet bomber. Three bright, star-like lights: one seen; 10 seconds later, two more were seen. Total sighting took 3 minutes.

INDIANAPOLIS
1998
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 4, #20

INDIANAPOLIS
August 7, 2001
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INDIANAPOLIS
August 7, 2001
See Filer's Files #35

WESTERN SPRINGS
May 6, 2002
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JASONVILLE
7/24/00
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 5, #32

NORTH JUDSON/KNOX
January 15, 2003
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KOKOMO
4/8/50
(Bluebook)
2 a.m. Witness: Earl Baker. One grey metallic disc, 50' in diameter, 15' thick; top-shaped with a "conning tower" at the top and three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It hovered for 2 minutes, then flew away. Baker aroused from sleep by his dog.

(Magonia)
A metalworker was awakened by his dog and observed an object 60 meters away at low altitude. It was a gray metal 5 meters in diameter, shaped like a top with a kind of turret. It was oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 minutes, then left very fast toward the north.

LAPORTE
5/22/54
(Bluebook)
9:15 p.m. Witnesses: highway engineer R.W. Dring, engineer Geert Tibma. One bright light made a shallow climb for 45 seconds.

LEXISBURG
3/30/66
(Magonia)
A civilian woman and her four children observed an oval object crossing the road as they were driving south about 15 km north of Lexisburg. It came close to the car and a pulsating sound was heard, increasing in frequency as the object came nearer, but it seeme to come through the car radio rather than directly from the object. The witness drove away in fear, but was followed for 13 km by the object, whose color suddenly changed from reddish-orange to bluish-white before acceleratying out of sight.

LOOGOOTEE
10/8/55
(Bluebook)
4:38 p.m. Witnesses: R.D. Prather, H. Ahern. One round, silver or white object flew straight and level at more than 1,000 m.p.h. for an unstated length of time.

MARTINVILLE
3/22/98
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 3, #14

MARTINSVILLE
June 24, 2002
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MICHIGANTOWN
8/24/98
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 3, #35

MILAN
August, 2001
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NEW ALBANY
May 11, 2002
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NEW CASTLE
11/5/57
(Magonia)
An object looking like "a big meat platter" was seen at close range by a woman and her two children, who were inside their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference noted.

NEW PALESTINE
8/1/97
(RDUP8/3/97)
According to the eyewitness, "I was sitting on my patio, appreciating the wonderful weather and, of course, watching the sky. This light in the sky appeared in the south just above the tree line. There is a woods approximately 1,000 feet (333 meters) behind my house. This light looked like a star and was about the same brightness and size as Venus, which was also visible in the west. The strange thing about this was the speed at which it was moving. It traversed the entire sky in about a minute and a half, from south to northeast. I thought at first it might have been a jet, but it was traveling too fast for a jet at that height. Also there were no flashing lights like planes usually have. The speed was constant and it moved in a straight line. I got up and stayed up until I could no longer see it."

NEW UNIONVILLE
1/5/01
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 6, #2

PORTAGE
12/14/98
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 4, #5

ROCKVILLE
7/21/52
(Bluebook)
8:10 p.m. Witnesses: one military officer, two enlisted men. One aluminum, delta-shaped object with a vertical fin, flew straight and level, and then hovered during a 3 minute sighting.

RUSHVILLE
8/1/66
(Magonia)
Several young witnesses reported seeing an unidentified object at low altitude.

SMITHVILLE
3/12/00
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 5, #12

SOUTH BEND
7/23/52
(Bluebook)
11:35 p.m. Witness: USAF pilot Capt. H. W. Kloth. Two bright blue-white objects flew together, then the rear one veered off after about 9 minutes.

SOUTH BEND
August 14, 2001
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SPURGEON
3/23/98
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 3, #14

TERRE HAUTE
10/9/51
(Bluebook, NICAP)
1:42 p.m. Witness: CAA Chief Aircraft Communicator Roy Messmore at Hulman Municipal Airport. One round silver object flew directly overhead, reaching the horizon in 15 seconds. Note: a very similar incident happened 3 minutes later near Paris, Illinois (15 miles NW) and was also listed as "unidentified" for several years, but was eventually reclassified.

TERRE HAUTE
September 1, 2001
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UNION MILLS
5/3/61
(Magonia)
A hemispherical craft with portholes, resting on a road, took off when a car came near it. Estimated diameter was 4 meters, height 2.5 meters, bearing "fluorescent lights."

VALPARAISO
6/20/98
UFO ROUNDUP Vol 3, #26

ZIONSVILLE
September 1, 2001
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