Over 100 Years Of Local UFO Sightings

It seems that our area is a UFO hotspot. After doing some research I have uncovered numerous reports of sightings as recent as late June '08 going all the way back to 1880. This list is so long long in fact, that to post it here would take way too much space. So I broke the list in half and posted it on the EvansvilleUFO Report MySpace Blog. Just go here to read the entire list.

http://myspace.com/evilleufo

Indiana UFOs and Earthquakes - April '08

Well I did not see any strange lights, but I did feel the earthquake. Local TV news reported on the "lights" on the 17th I think it was. Here is a report from Earthfiles.com

UFO WATCH:Strange Aerial Lights Like Texas - But Now Photographed in Indiana, Illinois, and Massachusetts

April 24, 2007 Kokomo, Indiana; Oswego, Illinois; and Granville, Massachusetts - At 4:37 AM Central on Friday, April 18, 2008, at an epicenter 38 miles northwest of Evansville, Indiana (38.450°N, 87.890°W), a magnitude 5.2 earthquake at 7.2 miles deep shook sleeping residents from Bellmont, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri, Des Moines, Iowa, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Kansas and Georgia nearly 900 miles away. Indianapolis International Airport closed down for an hour while the control tower was evacuated. This was the first strong earthquake in the Midwest since 1968. Two days before on April 16, 2008, in Kokomo, Indiana, northeast of the epicenter, residents between 10:25 and 10:40 PM Central, flooded the 911 emergency center with 146 phone call reports about bright lights in the sky and a loud explosion or boom that violently rattled houses and windows. Authorities were quick to say it was “a midair mistake Wednesday night” when at least two F-16 jets in routine training exercises with the Indiana Air National Guard went too fast at 10,000 feet and caused a sonic boom on the ground.But MUFON received a series of alleged UFO sightings on the night of April 16, 2008, from Kokomo residents Here is one example:“At approximately 10:30 PM on the night of April 16, I was in the living room watching TV and my husband had gone to bed. There was a huge boom that rattled the front window. My husband asked what the noise was and I went to the front door to see. Off to the west there appeared a large object with lights all the way across it. It reminded me of a hair barrette with lights. It seemed to be hovering, yet the lights appeared to turn. My husband came out to stand behind me just in time to see the lights reappear from right to left until 5 lights were showing. Then it did it for a second time before it disappeared. The lights we saw with the naked eye were yellowish-orange in color.“If you click on http://www.wwki.com/, click on the article about the Boom and the bright lights. You will see pictures that someone submitted.The fourth picture down is exactly what I saw when I first looked out. This was no meteor orF-16. They don't hover. We could not take our eyes off of it and my husband, who is a Viet Nam veteran and a retired deputy sheriff, said he had never seen anything like it. We are both certain that what we saw was unidentifiable. The next morning, when I went out to get the newspaper at a little after 5 AM, I looked off into the west in the same vicinity. There, in front of the moon was a huge V-shaped dark cloud that reminded me of a flower vase with a lot of much smaller jet trails near it.” Source: MUFON. The next day, WWKI Radio 100.5 in Kokomo, Indiana, posted on its website under the headline:“Big boom! Lights in the sky?Photos courtesy of Dustin Cronkhite, taken between 10 to 11 PM, on April 16, 2008. Take a look at these pictures ... after you do, take the poll and let us know what YOU think they are?”Earthfiles cropped the photos of multiple colored, shape-changing aerial objects to give largest images without too much pixel distortion; thus, variable image sizes...
by Linda Moulton Howe

Evansville UFO reports from NUFORC

These are random area reports from the NUFORC site.

National UFO Reporting Center State Report Index For IN

2/22/07 01:10 Evansville IN Rectangle 2 minutes Evansville, IN 2/22/07---LARGE Craft passed overhead, noise eminated, definitely not standard aircraft, report from amateur astronomer 2/24/07
10/3/06 00:15 Newburgh IN Sphere 2 minutes Large orange ball of light hovering 200-300 feet from our home. 10/30/06
9/29/04 04:00 Evansville IN Circle 20 secs 2 objects, one following the other, leaving the atmosphere. 10/27/04
5/7/04 21:15 Boonville IN Sphere 6 minutes Orange illuminated sphere moving west at high speed in a straight line. 5/10/04
12/20/03 22:40 Evansville IN Egg five seconds bright light falling from sky, southwest to northeast. descending at 90 degree angle 1/17/04
10/13/03 01:00 Evansville IN Light 10min confirm coast to coast caller Sullivan Indiana 1/17/04
8/28/03 23:30 Evansville IN Other 2-3 minutes Our family had gone to bed for the night, when my daughter entered my bedroom and expressed concerned over an outside "light" that was 9/4/03
9/3/02 21:41 Evansville IN Light ME AND MY MOTHER SAW A SPHERE SHAPED OBJECT HOVERING IN DIFFERENT SPOTS EVERY NIGHT IT HAS A CONSTENT WHITE GLOW WITH RED SPINNING 9/6/02
7/12/01 02:55 Evansville IN Circle 45 seconds WHITE SILENT CIRCLE THAT FADES IN BRIGHTNESS, TRAVELING SOTHWEST TO NORTHEAST AT 5,000 FEET 8/5/01
4/13/01 02:37 Evansville IN Disk side ways It was like seeing a fleet of plates all grey except for the lights flying through the air. 4/28/01
12/24/00 20:00 Evansville IN Fireball 4 plus hours while driving home from pre christmass dinner, OUr family began to pay attention what we thought was an airplane. However, the object a 1/3/01
5/7/00 22:45 Evansville IN Diamond 10 seconds I spotted an amber colored diamond in the sky that seemed to shrink and fade until I could see it no more. I was looking to the west-no 5/11/00
4/1/00 06:28 Evansville IN Sphere 10 min noticed a dark stationary object hanging just below the cloud base 4/15/00
1/1/00 22:00 Evansville IN Cigar 2 seconds Long black cigar-shaped craft flew over at low altitude and was extremely quick despite no engine noise (only wind) 2/24/01
6/17/99 23:30 Evansville IN Light 1 min. I was outside at work at the specified time looking up at approximately a 75 degree angle facing east. I noticed a small group of sta 7/5/99
6/22/98 00:45 Evansville IN Light 5 minutes TO: National UFO Reporting Center From: ((Deleted)) Dear National UFO Reporting Center, I live in the city of Evansville, loca 11/21/98
3/26/98 19:00 Poseyville IN Oval 50 seconds I couldn't tell if it was about ten crafts or one craft with about ten lights. They were tinted red, and have been seen around my town. 1/28/99
10/18/97 15:00 Evansville IN unknown about 1 min. Daughter & I were fishing and when we heard & saw a plane I said "look honey, see the plane!" At that time somethuing appeared just beh 1/28/99
3/15/96 18:35 Evansville IN 5 min Two men in car see 2 bright orange lights in N sky, which move, then extinguish. Reappear in NW sky, split into 5 objs., disappear. 11/2/99
10/15/95 22:00 Evansville IN Unknown 4 minutes Bright Bold Primary Colored Lights in the Sky BUT no shape of a craft. 12/2/00
7/12/94 06:45 Evansville IN Circle Small,bright(white),fast,and round 5/24/99
11/2/93 02:00 Evansville IN Triangle 30 minutes Driving home from work one evening late around 2am on hwy 44 evansville indiana I noticed in the night sky a strange light. It looked s 9/9/04
9/20/90 01:30 Newburgh IN Triangle 1 hour lighted object with a strange motion. May have been livestock involvment. 9/2/05
3/5/87 03:00 Evansville IN Light 1 min. I was a junior in college at the local university. It was some time in March just before midterms. I was sound alseep and suddenly aw 9/2/05
4/20/70 14:00 Evansville IN Disk 10 minutes saucer shaped object above cornfield 3/2/04

Is Evansville a UFO hotspot?

According to the Burlington UFO Center, Evansville and the surrounding area is a hotbed of UFO activity. The following info is taken from their website.

UFO Hotspots of the Nation

Gulf Breeze, FL- This has been all over "Sightings" and on the specials on TV. You can go to the beach on the Gulfpanhandle near Pensacola and be entertained for hours by all the lights moving about. Sort of a paranormal 4th of July. It's a nightly event.
Corydon, Indiana- This has been listed in one resource over a long time as being a top sight. It is a small town just west of Louisville, KY in the southern part of the state. There is a lot of activity in Indiana and I will give you the rest coming up.
Anza Valley, California- I am assuming this is just west of San Diego.
Elk River, Minnesota- Just to the north and west of Minneapolis, another little town.
Lincolnton, North Carolina- Here is yet another little hamlet just outside of Charlotte to the northeast.
Pine Bush, New York- This teeny town of about 1500 is located in southern NY state just north east of Middletown.
North Bergen, New Jersey- Situated on the Hudson river directly opposite New York City, this small city has experienced over 7,000 sightings over a 5 year period.

SEMI-HOT RE-OCCURRING CITIES... Topanga, California Springfield, Missouri St. Louis, Missouri Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and vicinity Clio, Michigan Kalamazoo, Michigan Waynesville, Ohio Waverly, Ohio Owensville, Ohio Madison, Ohio Raeford, North Carolina Havelock, North Carolina Newark, New Jersey Asbury Park, New Jersey Fort Wayne, Indiana Bloomington, Indiana Evansville, Indiana Ligonier, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana Phoenix (and Gilbert, a suburb), Arizona Prescott Valley, Arizona Bouse, Arizona Tuscon, Arizona Portland, Oregon Eugene, Oregon Salem, Oregon Yakima, Washington Houston, Texas Austin, Texas (Those are the specific towns or cities where activity has been heavy over the years.)


Here is a run-down of areas within the states with a good concentration of sightings. Be on the look-out if you are driving through these areas at night.

HOT AREAS IN KEY STATES...

Indiana- For some reason they like Indiana a lot. There is heavy activity from Evansville area up through Bloomington to Indianapolis and from there up to South Bend. If you follow that line, you will see the main UFO trail emerge. Other areas are up by Lake Michigan and down by Richmond, near the Ohio border. Of all the states, Indiana has the most number of different places where re-occurring sightings occur.
Ohio- Mostly around the Cincinnati area, but there is a trail leading from there, northeast to Columbus and up to Akron.
Illinois- Has a few from St, Louis up the center of the state to Rockford, which is quite hot. Rockford just had a sighting of abut a dozen UFO's over the city, January of 2001.

E'ville History: Small UFO flap in area - March '98 Part Three

It almost seems like a "Phoenix Lights" type of event right here in our area. Here is one last tidbit I found.

On Saturday, March 28, 1998, Washington asked Stone to monitor the skies and look for anything unusual due to the "flap" of sorts appearing to be around the Henderson-Evansville-Owensboro, Ky, area. Jerry Sievers, IN/MUFON State Director, first brought this to Washington's attention on the afternoon of March 28 when he called to say that Fox Television had reported over 300 sightings or sightings reports since that previous Monday n the Tri-State area comprised of Southern Indiana, Ohio, and Northern Kentucky.
Stone said he stepped outside around 7:15 p.m. CST to take a look. Within minutes he noticed three objects that were each sporting a white and red flashing light ("there was no sound.") "What was peculiar about them is that they were flying a perfect triangle; it almost appeared as if they were one object because of their well-defined formation. I watched them with great interest as they flew in a NW direction towards the tree-filled horizon. "Before they got there, however, this extremely bright, whitish-gold light descended from a nearby cloud and flew towards the other lights. It was as if it "turned on" the other three somehow, as they began to glow the same color as that one. I watched with amazement as they silently neared the trees. I moved into a position to get a better look and as I did, two of them doubled back and headed straight for me. One of them flew off to my right, while the other one (now back to its white-red flashing light "stage") flew right over the top of my head. That's when I noticed a small triangular object with golden-colored lights on all three corners flying with its tip turned towards a "plane-like" object with red and white lights on its"wings." "I thought a crash was imminent they were that close. As I continued to watch, the tip (facing the two white-red flashing ones) began to generate an even more brilliant golden light. They were directly over me at this time and I could tell that the small triangle was heading slightly southeast, while the object with the white-red combination was heading due east. As they flew along, the small triangle merged with the white-red object, almost as if it were eating it. The now merged object then turned on its side and continued flying while the triangle was nowhere to be seen. (That was one tricky maneuver if you ask me!) I kept watching as it flew out of sight. Throughout the duration of my observation I counted around 15 of these white-red flashing lights all heading in the same direction. I heard a helicopter at one point, as well, but was never able to spot it. It was off to the west and sounded as if an airplane did fly over my head later on, which was sporting the regulation red-green-white combo of lights and did have sound accompanying it."

E'ville History: Small UFO flap in area - March '98 Part Two

And the story grows.......................................

Lynn Taylor: Indiana UFO Sightings 1998
Lynn Taylor, UFO Field Investigator
Date: 98-03-30 10:57:39 EST
Indiana UFO Sightings widespread March 1998

The following article by Mr. Kenny Young in Cincinnati suggests that large scale sightings occurred over Indiana on the night of March 27, 1998 (Friday), and that officials contacted had no official response, except to deny any knowledge concerning said sightings (not surprising). All I will say is, something fitting the general description of the objects reported in the article was observed by three witnesses just three miles south of my home, at 11:02 PM on that same night. One of the witnesses has logged many hours in the field observing nocturnal flying objects, and is considered by those who know her, as a highly credible witness. (She just happens to be my 14 year old daughter, as well.) (I will provide an account of their sighting in a separate e-mail report.)
As a post script, the following evening, Saturday, March 28th, between 10:00 PM and 1:00 AM, my wife and two of my daughters visited various parts of Monroe and Morgan Counties, looking for further signs of activity. Talk about a quiet evening. We had trouble finding even a Piper Cub that night.

UFO REPORTS: Indiana, March 1998
A massive series of UFO sightings are supposedly underway as of this writing, according to information this writer has acquired within the last two hours. WTVW, Fox 7 News from Evansville, Indiana was contacted, and I spoke with reporter Kerry Dean, who said that the station had been getting strange reports "as fast as we can take them."
Dean said that reports have been coming in within the past week, but they experienced a dramatic upsurge of reported sightings Friday night, March 27. There were more reports tonight, the most recent being within the past hour.
"They're coming in about as fast as we can take them," Dean reiterated. "They tend to fall into three categories, single lights in sky twice as bright as Venus which are colored yellow, white and silver, five lights in a triangle shape with a brilliant white light on the leading edge, and two parallel lines of white dots in the sky, ranging from 3 to 5 objects."
When asked for details on the triangular object, Dean said that reports indicated it was very large. "People said that there were two lights down each side in formation, attached to large, structured triangular object which was as large as a silver dollar held at arms length."
Dean said that the Evansville, Indiana station has received somewhere around three hundred UFO reports since Monday.
"We contacted NORAD and Evansville (Indiana) FAA Flight Service. Terre Haute and Indianapolis FAA was also contacted and reported nothing," Dean added, "and Colorado is reporting no re-entry of any kind."
Dean said that the duration of the reports lasts between three seconds to four minutes.
There is a video crew out tonight attempting to acquire footage of the UFOs. "We have dispatched some cameramen to record this activity," he said.
The Indiana State Police and Vincennes City Police Departments have also reported UFOs, and have had reports called into them from the public.
The latest UFO sighting occurred tonight near Hosville, Kentucky, involving a bright light in the eastern sky moving south.
"Most of the objects are moving east-west or south, despite the fact that there are very strong southerly winds. The objects would have to be traveling against the wind, which is about 80 knots or 90 miles per hour," said Dean.
When informed of my investigations regarding the Ohio sightings last March 26, Dean said: "The flare theory has been a factor, but the wind is a complicating issue and nobody is taking credit for them."
One of the lights was alleged to have been intercepted by an F-16 over Knox County, Indiana near Vincennes, as per the comments made by a caller to the station. This person suggested that they were flares from an F-16.
The only air corridor used for MOA activities is in Terre Haute, around 100 miles north of there, and they are reporting no operations.
Jerry Washington of Kentucky MUFON reports that Mr. Jerry Sievers (IN/MUFON SD) advised him of a "big hullabaloo" on Friday night, March 27, 1998.
"A big, large ring of UFOs" was reportedly seen near the Toyota manufacturing plant in Princeton, Indiana, and a "large, grey triangle with five lights on one side" was seen around Petersburg, Indiana, and areas north of there. A "nocturnal light" was reportedly spotted in Kentucky, according to the sketchy report.
UFO researcher Francis Ridge saw a news report on the 9:00 PM Fox news that same evening. "I've seen this happen before and nothing ever seems to come of it," Ridge states. "The N-S path is unusual because there are no flight corridors running like that. I guess it's too early to tell."
Ridge added that the Fox report described sightings from Olney, Illinois to Vincennes, Petersburg, Princeton and Evansville, Indiana and south into Owensboro, KY.
"The last time this happened the military said they were doing helicopter maneuvers and dropping flares," Ridge added. However, he cautions that the wind was strong at the time, and there were severe storm alerts in progress. "You don't drop flares under those circumstances," said Ridge.
To acquire an e-mail or fax copy of this news article, I contacted The Indianapolis, Indiana offices of The Associated Press. Mr. Jerry Ross checked a computer and said that there were no recent stories about UFOs reported by The Associated Press. Furthermore, he said, there was nothing that he had heard of regarding UFOs either.
To find out more about this 'Big Hullabaloo,' I contacted the Princeton, Indiana police department. The gentleman who answered the phone wasn't aware of any such UFO sightings. He added that the Toyota plant is outside of their jurisdiction. He said 'the county' may provide more help, and my call was transferred to the Gibson County Sheriff's office.
The female dispatcher there didn't know about UFO reports and didn't have anything off-hand, such as reports or news releases before her. In addition, she reviewed the logs from as far back as 3:00 p.m. on Friday, March 27, and there was no incoming phone calls to their office regarding UFOs. She was a very courteous and helpful person.
The Princeton, Indiana Toyota Plant was contacted at and the security guard I spoke with was present on the previous evening (March 27), and said there were no UFO sightings made to his knowledge. He said he was on-duty until midnight, and that it was a stormy evening with a cloudy sky. He is a dispatcher for the security, and also transferred my call to his supervisor. The supervisor also had no knowledge of such activity. If there was something that happened, he said that he would have known about it.
In an effort to gather more information about an alleged UFO sighted near Petersburg, Indiana on March 27, 1998, The Pike County Sheriff's Office was contacted and the dispatcher who responded to the call seemed surprised at my request for information, stating not to have heard any such news beforehand. She transferred me to another person, Officer Hill.
Hill said there were no reports logged through the department, and there was a 'citizen' who is possibly a crank, that sometimes calls in UFO sightings. However, no calls were received recently. He said that he had talked with the officers from the previous evening, and that it was quiet all night.
On the side, he also added that an Otwell, Indiana resident had seen an unusual object recently, and residents from a nearby Mini-mart store also came out and also saw it. He had heard of this account through a family member.
Around 5:30 p.m., I spoke with someone from a COUNTY Sheriff's office (the precise department will not be specified) who doesn't wish to be quoted. He was very kind and helpful, and I will respect his wishes for privacy. He conveys the following:
Information was transmitted 'over the computer' from The State Police (originating from Evansville, Indiana) regarding some UFO sightings, and a fax copy was received about 1-week ago. The informant does not think the fax copy from the state police was presently at the department, as it may have since been discarded. At the time, the fax from the State Police was perceived to be 'some sort of joke.'
This fax was regarding a Crop Circle which appeared in Duboise County, and an officer was dispatched to the scene, and since instructed to 'be on the lookout.' In response to questions, this informant added that the state police received the news from an associated press newspaper article regarding Crop Circles near Huntingburg, Indiana which were found near a field recently. This person felt that the photo in this newspaper article was fishy, indicating it was of a recent nature, and yet the trees in the photo had 'leaves on them.'
Central dispatch for the area was contacted, and the dispatcher who answered the phone said that he was not authorized to release any information. He then transferred my call to the Duboise County Sheriff's Office. The dispatcher, without missing a beat, immediately told me to contact The Huntingburg Press who had reported the story about UFO sightings and a crop circle.
I called and received no answer (being Saturday evening). This writer will again try to contact this number Monday morning and will provide updates as early as possible.
It was during this same time of year in 1997 that a massive wave of UFO reports flooded police stations and news agencies from the Southern Ohio region. The Springfield Air National Guard assumed responsibility for the sightings, declaring that military flare maneuvers were visible to the populace due to exceptional atmospheric clarity.
The reports from Indiana on March 27 and 28, however, are further complicated by the lack of atmospheric clarity (heavy cloud conditions) and strong winds.
This writer will continue to follow this story, and will advise of any further updates.
Note: Phone numbers for above agencies on file for future reference
Filed March 28, 1998
Kenny Young
Cincinnati, Ohio
Lynn Taylor, Association for Aerial Anomaly Research and Cataloging (AAARC)

E'ville History: Small UFO flap in area - March '98

These reports are now 10 years old but none the less important to review.


TRIANGULAR UFOs SIGHTED IN SOUTHERN INDIANA

Numerous V-shaped or triangular UFOs were sighted last week in southern Indiana around Evansville (population 126,272).
On Sunday, March 22, 1998, at 10 p.m., ufologist Lynn Taylor and his wife Linda were driving home to Bloomington on Highway 37. As they neared Martinsville (population 11,677), about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Indianapolis, the couple "got a glimpse of a giant, round, dimly-lit object, perhaps 50 feet above a hill, off to our right," i.e. to the west. Taylor reported, "This is only the fourth time I have witnessed this type of object."
On Monday, March 23, 1998, Cal Washburn, an Indiana TV producer, spotted a UFO in the sky over Spurgeon, Ind. (population 250), while traveling on Highway Highway 61 about 19 miles (30 kilometers) south of Petersburg.
As he reached a hilltop, Washburn "could see through (the branches of) a tree, some lights that were 'enormous.'" He counted "four to six red-colored lights that were in a 'perfect row.'" He reported that "another four or five lights went off and on intermittently...They moved in a perfect formation. It was as if they were attached to something."
On Friday evening, March 27, 1998, three residents of Evansville called WTVW Channel 7 and reported seeing "a light twice as bright as Venus." Looking closer, they spied a triangular UFO with "yellow, white and blue bright lights...with a brilliant white light on the leading edge."
In Princeton, Ind. (population 8,127), located on Highway 64 about 27 miles (43 kilometers) north of Evansville, residents reported "a large ring of UFOs seen at the rear of the Toyota manufacturing plant" on the outskirts of town.
In Petersburg, Ind. (population 2,449), located on Highway 57 about 14 miles (23 kilometers) north of Princeton, people reported seeing "a large grey triangle with five lights on one side."
A "giant flying triangle" was also reported that evening in Otwell, Ind. (population 500), located on Highway 257 about eight miles (11 kilometers) southeast of Petersburg.
At 11:02 p.m., Jana Taylor, 14, daughter of Lynn and Linda Taylor of Bloomington, was riding in a car with her friend Karen and Karen's mother, Kate, on old Highway 37 just south of Dolan, Ind. when she spotted something strange in the sky.
Jana said she "spotted a triangle-shaped craft hovering motionless, about 15 feet above the trees on a hillside off to our right."
"You could make out the shape because of light pollution from (nearby) Bloomington," Jana reported, "The object had a large, bright bluish-white light at each of the three corners. You know what it would look like if you had a blue lens, then put a white lightbulb behind it that's too bright, how the white will overpower the blue, but you could still see some blue?"
Jana pointed it out to Karen and her mother. Kate pulled onto a side road. Here they saw more lights on the craft, which Jana described as "four non-blinking red lights that could be seen in the middle area." The UFO then "turned southwest towards Bloomington and dropped behind the hills nearby." (Many thanks to Lynn Taylor, Steve Wilson Sr., Jerry Stevers of MUFON and Kenneth Young of Tri-States Advocates for Scientific Knowledge, T.A.S.K., for these reports.)



TWO UFO SIGHTINGS REPORTED IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

On Saturday evening, March 28, 1998, witnesses in Hawesville, Kentucky (population 1,150), a town on the south shore of the Ohio River 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Evansville, Indiana, reported sighting "a very bright light in the eastern sky, moving slowly to the south."
On Tuesday, March 31, 1998, Mortimer V. Sloane spotted a "blinking red light on my farm coming from the southwest. I didn't see any structure, just the flashing lights. I have to tell you, this cannot be seen without binoculars--there's something about the red. It's hard to pick out. They stayed in view for two to five minutes. They were about 45 degrees (above the horizon), maybe a little higher. There was no other glow except for the blinking red light."
He described the UFO as looking like this * in the binoculars' field of view.
The Sloane farm is near Wakefield, Kentucky, on Highway 85 about 36 miles (58 kilometers) southeast of Louisville.

E'ville History: Local newspaper report of sighting - March '07

The following is taken from the Evansville courier & press newspaper. The sighting took place on Sunday March 4th 2007. The article appeared in the paper on Wednesday March 7th 2007.

Police: 'UFO' probably a plane
By GAVIN LESNICK Courier & Press staff writer
Wednesday, March 7, 2007

A strange object emitting green-and-white light was seen hovering early Sunday evening over southeastern Warrick County.
At least one person called the Warrick police dispatch center after seeing the object around 6:30 p.m. over the Yankeetown and Red Bush areas.
But Warrick County officials believe it most likely was not out of this world at all.
Warrick County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Brett Kruse, who also saw it, said it probably was just an airplane.
Kruse was driving when a call came over the scanner about the object, so he looked up and saw what appeared to be a distant airplane.
And that, he said, easily could be mistaken for what people traditionally think of when they talk of UFOs or alien spacecrafts. An airplane circling through a small area might appear to be hovering from a distance.
"If it's moving in a holding pattern, it's going to look like it's sitting still," Kruse said.
Deputies went to a house in the area after a woman called dispatch. But Kruse said by the time they arrived about 10 minutes later, whatever it was had gone.
"There was nothing to see," Kruse said. "And there were no cows missing out of the field or anything like that."
Kruse watched the object for about 15 minutes until it started moving to the north end of the county.
He said he is fairly confident it was just a plane, but he stopped short of saying he was absolutely certain.
"All I know is what I saw, and I saw what looked like a plane," he said. "Now, I'm not sure it was a plane. But that's what I would think it would be from my experience and 45 years of watching stuff in the sky. I haven't ever seen any flying saucers."

Strange light seen north of Evansville - March '08

Another local report that came into NUFORC. On Sunday March 9th at around 7:15 pm the following sighting took place.

"I was driving south on a back road off of Highway 41 in Darmstadt,IN near the city of Evansville when I looked up and saw a large, white ball of light moving rather slowly across the sky moving from west to east. It was about 1500ft. up and appeared to be descending slightly as it moved into some clouds and disappeared. The entire sighting only lasted a couple of seconds.I rolled down my window to get a better look and to listen for any sound (possibly from an airplane) there was none.Thinking it might have been an airplane anyway since our airport is only 7 miles from where I was, I drove by the airport to see if any planes had landed recently but from my observations none had. Besides, the approach for this "craft" would have been all wrong to land at our airport.I am a family man in my late thirties with a college degree. If you post this you can call me realwolf."
As always if you have any info on this event or you would like to make your own report, please leave a comment or send me an e-mail.

Triangle shaped craft spotted over Evansville - April '08

On Wednesday April 2nd a "Very dimly lit , low flying and silent triangular object" was spotted over Evansville, Indiana. The sighting lasted about two minutes and took place at around 8:20 PM. Here is the witness report from the NUFORC database.

"On the aforementioned date at the aforementioned time I was on the telephone in the 3rd floor apartment that I live in in Evansville, Indiana. I had been talking to a friend of mine and decided to take the conversation out onto the balcony while I smoked a cigarette. The night sky was clear and the stars were very visible. As I spoke on the phone to my friend and smoked I looked up at the night sky because the view was spectacular. At this time I saw a triangular shaped dimly lit object come over the apartment building and move at a steady but somewhat slow pace on a northwest trajectory. It only seemed to be about 200 to 300 feet above the ground and not very large. It made absolutely no sound. I watched in astonishment and relayed what I was seeing to my friend via phone. I then hung up and thought about what I had seen to see if there was a "logical explanation". I thought of geese because of the somewhat low flight pattern. However in my experience here in Indiana you ALWAYS hear geese when they fly overhead. HONK HONK! This also fails to explain the LIGHTED nature of what I had seen. It was almost like a kite with very dimly lit lights along its edges Possibly six if you count the point. It was so dimly lit in fact that if not for the motion of it I may not have noticed it at all. I called my mother in Louisiana to describe the event to her and once again as I was talking to her I scanned the skies. It was then that I sighted movement in the northwest and saw the same object taking a "nosedive" downward for about 5 seconds and then once again disappear. First time I have ever experienced a sighting of any kind in the night skies."
As always if you have any info on this event, or you would like to make your own report please leave a comment or send me an e-mail.

Recent UFO activity over Newburgh

According to NUFORC (National UFO Reporting Center) there were two strange sightings over Newburgh Indiana in the last week of May. The first sighting occurred on Saturday May 24th at around 10:30 pm and lasted for about two minutes. The witness described the the objects as "Two circular lights about the size of the moon" and gave the following account. "I was about to go to bed when I looked outside my window the last time. Southeast in the sky were two circular shapes. They were both about the size of the moon. The sky was completely cloudy, so there was no visible moon. After about two minutes of sitting idle, it slowly disappeared."
Exactly one week later there is another strange sighting over Newburgh. On Saturday May 31st at around 8:00 pm, A family witnessed the following event over the course of five minutes.
"Five or more people saw a string of bright red lights hovering in the sky that disappeared. I am the daughter of the witness. My father, mother, and uncle were sitting outside. My mother came into the house to tell me they (mom, dad, and uncle) were going to drive down to a place where they saw a string of big red lights in the sky. They went there, and as they got there, two cars turning the corner suddenly stop as they approached the lights. But when they actually got there, the lights were gone. This took about five minutes. My father described them as big red Christmas lights hovering stationary in the sky. My mother described them like exploded fireworks that hadn’t disappeared. My uncle didn’t give a description. My father just now, at 21:54 of the same day, told me he called the sheriff and reported the event. The sheriff said that about a year ago, the exact same thing was reported in the exact same area".
Definitely weird stuff indeed. If you have any info on these particular events or would like to make your own report, please leave a comment or send me an e-mail.