I saw a bright light and under it was 3/4 colored lights. I looked through my binoculars and saw a gyrating ball hovering in the sky. Then I noticed there were more, at least 8 more. Three were easy in distance, others were high in the sky. I called on my neighbors to look at it and they also saw that, this was around 9:30pm. I continued to keep coming out. At one point one of them started to land in a neighboring field. Then it went back up in the sky. Later at 12pm I decided to call the police. Three came to investigate and one of them saw what I saw. It scared me and still does.
I live in Northwest Indiana and sit on my deck every night to look at the sky. Last night at 10:59 pm, I was looking SE. The sky was completely clear. I saw, what I thought to be a jet. I watched it moving and all of a sudden, it became the biggest, brightest ball of light I’ve ever seen moving in the sky. I knew it couldn’t be an airplane. I took these 3 pictures with my cell phone zoomed in 100x. After the 3rd picture was taken, it dimmed the light, but was still visible. It completely stopped moving towards me and hovered for maybe 30 seconds. Suddenly it made a sharp turn to its right from a complete stop and began to move. It disappeared from the sky about 15 seconds later. The image looked similar to the image I captured the night before (minus the rainbow) of the ISS, so I immediately (before it disappeared) looked at my Skyview app to see if that’s what it was. Nothing appeared on my app, like it had when I actually captured the ISS the night before. I showed a friend of mine the pictures. She did an image search on Google and found a similar image from another country listed as “strange lights in the sky.”
I stepped outside of my job to grab a smoke a few minutes before 8, when we open. Stepped outside the back door and looked up like I always do then, continued on. Wondered if the moon was still full as I could not remember. We often joke around and allow that to determine what kind of day we are going to have at the medical center. Quickly glanced up at it. I then did a triple take as there was a reddish object… or two, stationary on the bottom left side of the moon. I stared at it and scrambled for my phone at the same time as I didn’t want to lose sight of it. Realized immediately that this thing was massive. you couldn’t miss it and it was pretty far up. I also abruptly realized it was not a plane at all. It did NOT have wings! Best description I can give is, It looked like 2 planes stuck together at first. Nose to tail…but also looked like a massive cigar with the label around the middle. It sat there for about a minute. I finally got my mobile camera on it and got a photo. It started moving slowly to the north. Then, it started to speed up and changed direction to NE.
Watched the color of the object go from red to goldish-orange to yellowish-white. I could see that it was a solid object but also noticed the shape had changed. It went over our building and I ran to catch more photos continued to watched it and then it just vanished in midair. Blew my mind! Total sighting was about two and a half to 3 minutes long. I was shaking while filming. I couldn’t even speak. Was in utter shock but excited all at the same time. Managed to catch a couple photos and an extremely short vid. You have to zoom in on it. I could see it clear as day and there were no visible clouds. There was also no sound coming from it.
The incident reported below is a well-witnessed event, a case involving at least 12-15 witnesses, five of which were MUFON Field Investigators. Part of the event, which lasted approximately 5-10 minutes., (a 1.5 minute segment) was videotaped.
As a result of recent, intense UFO activity in the Corydon area, we had conducted a field test of our Rapid Deployment Group and ventured to Corydon, Indiana, and talked with approximately 50 witnesses.
The initial investigation/meeting at 8:00 PM our time (9:00 PM their time) lasted about an hour. We then proceeded to an area where these NL’s were being observed. We observed a jet aircraft coming from the west and I requested that a camcorder be used to gauge resolution and serve as a “control sample”. Scott Wilkerson (FIT) conducted the “filming”. There were four lights on the jet.
At approximately 10:20 PM, an object described as brilliant orange, suddenly materialized in the SSE. The suddenness and the brilliant orange, flare-like characteristics were unmistakably unusual. The elevation of the object was approximately 20-25 degrees at the beginning of the sighting.
The object appeared to be an orange headlight and appeared to be either hovering or moving toward the witnesses. At one point there was a rapid descent down to the left, all the time the brilliance varied only slightly.
Several times the light winked completely out, only to flare up again. After about 5-8 minutes, the object went into a flat W-E flight mode at a relatively slow rate of speed at an elevation of 10-15 degrees.
One member, Harold Hartig, a former radar operator (and GOC spotter) for the USAF and FI for MUFON, reported that through 10×50 binoculars, he observed a red light, about 1/200th in intensity compared to the orange light, in-trail.
Later, he reported that at one time the object appeared as two orange balls, undeniable, with a very small sharply focused red light slightly above the gap.
Another observer also reported the red light in trail. Jerry Sievers, Assistant State Director, verified the fact that the configuration in the beginning was defined as a small red light trailing the larger orange mass. The only person to see the red light were the ones using binoculars.
At no time did the red light vary its set distance from the parent object. It was “apparently” part of the same object. However, during the 1.5 minute segment where the object was videotaped, the red light was in the lead as the object headed East.
During this “filming” period the object “winked out” twice. The duration of the “winkout” was approximately the same, leading us to believe that the object passed behind two telephone or power poles. One such transit was verified.
During the last 30-seconds or so a small commercial or private aircraft (not a jumbo jet) entered the immediate area from East to West on an “apparent” collision course with the anomalistic target. Several seconds of videotape document this as it “appears” as a near miss.
Not knowing for sure that the objects were the same distance from us was the only consoling factor. The vertical separation was almost zero. The aircraft “appeared” slightly lower and closer to us when viewed on videotape. Due to curvature of the Earth, however, this may be misleading.
The aircraft was traveling at least twice as fast as the unknown if at the same approximate distance. The ceiling according to Flight Service earlier in the Day was 4,000 broken.
There were some clouds remaining at that time in the South and East. If the aircraft was traveling at 120 knots, the other target must have been under stall speed.
Another orange target was observed by some observers and an attempt to lock-on with the camcorder unit was made without success, due to preoccupation with the primary target.
Later on in the “evening”, at approximately 12:15 AM, another orange target was observed at Elberfeld (near Evansville) by four person from the group. This was reported to be at low altitude (150′ ) and was lost as the car carrying the observers rounded turns blocked by numerous trees.
