1 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,320 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,800 In this episode, we're talking about the 1973 Indiana UFO wave. 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,560 That's correct, the 1973 Indiana UFO wave. 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,840 This is made-up of a bunch of different sightings across the 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:20,880 state. A lot of stuff was happening in 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,520 1973 with the UFO phenomena. Now, specifically in October of 7 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,280 1973, it was a crisp bottom evening. 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,440 Residents across the Hoosier State were shaken by a series of 9 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:36,640 unexplained sightings that continue to stir debate among 10 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,200 UFO enthusiasts and skeptics today. 11 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,800 Now, for those who witnessed the extraordinary event, the 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,040 experience was nothing short of otherworldly. 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,240 In fact, the mass show of fuss sightings in Indiana were part 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,920 of a nationwide wave of unexplained aerial phenomena 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,040 that had happened during the fall of 1973. 16 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,760 It was in the small towns in the rural landscapes of Indiana 17 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:00,360 where these sightings left a really deep impression. 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,080 Like for many, it was the night they encountered something far 19 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,520 beyond anything that we could possibly understand today. 20 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,480 Now the first sighting was reported just after sunset when 21 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,360 a bright, pulsating light appeared in the sky near Kokomo. 22 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,800 Witnesses described a craft that wasn't like anything they'd ever 23 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,400 seen. It was a large, luminous object. 24 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,280 It was hovering silently above the treetops. 25 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,400 It moved slowly at first. It emitted beams of light that 26 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,800 darted across the horizon, and then it just shot off at an 27 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,320 incredible speed. Soon some reports began flooding 28 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:42,200 in from various towns across Indiana, Lebanon, Crawfordsville 29 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,520 and Logansport, describing the identical eerie lights that were 30 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,960 first sighted. Now the local authorities, they 31 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,040 were completely overwhelmed with all the calls and this just went 32 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,160 on for hours. The night became a stage for 33 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,720 this really wild UFO spectacle. Remember 1973? 34 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,440 No cell phones, no Internet. When people saw something like 35 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:08,080 this, a lot of times their first reaction was to call the police 36 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,039 station. You can imagine that their phone 37 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:13,520 was ringing off the hook. Now, a lot of witnesses were 38 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,280 just ordinary citizens. Farmers, cops and families had 39 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,080 gathered on porches and people with no history of unusual 40 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,640 claims or anything like that, or any kind of interest in the 41 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:26,720 paranormal. A particular account came from 42 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,680 Bill McCoy. Now he was a local police 43 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,760 officer, and then, while on patrol, he observed a glowing 44 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,920 orb hovering silently above a field. 45 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,120 Said it wasn't an airplane and it wasn't a helicopter. 46 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,280 It didn't make a sound. It just hung there like it was 47 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,920 watching us. McCoy said similar testimony 48 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:47,920 came from families who stepped outside to catch a glimpse of 49 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,720 the strange lights. Marianne Davis, a mother of 50 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,320 three from Lebanon, recalled how her children were transfixed by 51 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,720 the sight of the object. It felt like we were being 52 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,600 visited by something, she said. Something not from here. 53 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,400 The events in Indiana were part of a larger series of sightings 54 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,320 that took place across the US during what later became known 55 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:13,280 as the 1973 UFO wave. Now reports of unidentified 56 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,280 flying objects were coming in from pretty much every corner of 57 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,320 the country with Indiana being one of the most heavily impacted 58 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,320 areas. And during this time the US Air 59 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:26,360 Forces project Blue Book of course, which had investigated 60 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,680 UFO phenomena since 1952. It had already been shut down. 61 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,400 So witnesses they decided to turn to civilian research 62 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,120 organizations probably turned out to be a lot better thing to 63 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,280 have going on now the Ohio based group called Ground Saucer Watch 64 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,080 quickly began collecting testimonies from Indiana 65 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,480 residents and the story he made national headlights. 66 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,560 Now just imagine if Blue Book would have been around, they 67 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,000 would have probably just classified all those reports as 68 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,480 top secret and you wouldn't have been able to see them for years 69 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:59,880 and years if ever. Now, believers in the UFO 70 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,320 phenomenon, a lot of people think that the sheer volume from 71 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,200 the sightings during that fall of 1973 and especially in 72 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,840 Indiana, just making it impossible to dismiss these 73 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:16,240 things is all, you know, weather events or swamp gas or, or 74 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,320 whatever other excuse they could come up with. 75 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:22,040 I mean, when you stop and think about the fact that these lights 76 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:25,440 display behavior that's not consistent with any known 77 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:30,080 technology, especially in 1973, I mean, the abrupt changes in 78 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,280 speed, the instantaneous stops and this hovering that nobody 79 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:37,360 could explain. Now, of course, the debunkers 80 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,040 and the skeptics, they just keep bringing up the same old tired 81 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,880 excuses. Honestly, I don't have time for 82 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,360 them now. The thing about this whole 1973 83 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,520 wave, it did leave a lasting impact because it was just so in 84 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,760 your face that people had, no, they had no way of denying it. 85 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,920 They just had to say, yeah, something's going on here. 86 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:58,600 We can't explain it. We don't know if these are 87 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,280 actual ships or what they are, but they're definitely going on 88 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,680 here in our community. There were some really cool 89 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,240 cases. We'll take a look at some of the 90 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,560 individual ones here. Like in Muncie, IN on October 91 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:14,680 9th, 1973, the residents of that town, they just started off 92 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:17,040 their evening just like any other night. 93 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,800 You know, we were talking 1973. You probably had a television. 94 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,560 If you were lucky, you may have had a caller TV. 95 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,000 A lot of them are still black and white. 96 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,200 Probably had ABC, NBC and CBS to choose from and maybe a public 97 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,560 station. I think cable might have been 98 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,440 starting to make some inroads, but a lot of people didn't have 99 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,720 cable back then. They had an antenna or rabbit 100 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,000 ears. And if it came in, it came in. 101 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,320 So a lot of times we're sitting out on the porch looking up at 102 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,400 the sky, just enjoying the weather, doing things people 103 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:47,200 don't really do anymore. So the story kind of begins 104 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,840 after dark. Multiple people reported seeing 105 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,800 an unusually bright object in the sky that was slowly 106 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,120 approaching from the northwest. It wasn't like a plane or a 107 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,680 weather balloon. This craft moved silently 108 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,800 without any of the familiar sounds of modern aircraft and it 109 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,760 slight glowed with intensity that couldn't be mistaken for 110 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,280 Star Wars or terrestrial lights. 1973 it wasn't a drone. 111 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,120 Now John Fuller was a factory worker and a long time resident 112 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,920 of Muncie was one of the first to report the sighting. 113 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,560 He said it was this glowing, saucer shaped thing moving in 114 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,440 ways no plane or helicopter can. It would stop dead in the air. 115 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,680 They'd shoot off at angles that don't make sense. 116 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:31,440 Fuller wasn't alone. Within minutes, several other 117 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,640 witnesses in Muncie saw the same object in the sky. 118 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,840 And perhaps the most chilling account of the night came from a 119 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:41,120 group of local teenagers, though they were out near the Ball 120 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,680 State University campus when the object passed overhead. 121 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,880 Now, Mary Jenkins, who was just 17 at the time, describes seeing 122 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,240 the craft up close. We were just hanging out when 123 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,960 suddenly there it was, huge and silent, floating right above us. 124 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,600 We were scared, but we couldn't stop staring. 125 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,080 It had this bright, pulsing light in the center and what 126 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:05,160 looked like metallic edges. It didn't make sense. 127 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:10,760 Nothing that big should be able to move that smoothly. 17 years 128 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:14,040 old, she can recognize that Jenkins and her friends watched 129 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,600 in awe as the object hovered over them for several minutes 130 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,520 before darting off at an impossible speed, vanishing into 131 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,040 the night sky. Another witness, Muncie resident 132 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,560 Bill Daniels, was driving home when he saw the object streak 133 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,400 across the sky. At first I thought it was a 134 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,280 shooting star, but then it slowed down and started moving 135 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,680 like nothing I'd ever seen. It was like it was scanning the 136 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,000 area, just moving back and forth over the town. 137 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,240 Wow, that's really something. Now, Muncie's encounter was not 138 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,120 an isolated incident, believe me. 139 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,840 That year, UFO sightings were being reported across the United 140 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,400 States from coast to coast. It was part of what became known 141 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,720 as, like we said, the 1973 UFO wave. 142 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,440 The thing is, some of the sightings, I think the best ones 143 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,680 are out of Indiana. But even then you've got the 144 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,360 government covering everything up and is with most UFO 145 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,960 sightings. The October 9th, 1973 incident 146 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,240 Muncie, in Muncie sparked various theories. 147 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:15,720 Of course. Believers were quick to point 148 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,200 out that the crafts movement, its silent operation, and its 149 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,120 high speed maneuvers were far beyond the capabilities of any 150 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,320 known human made technology of the time. 151 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,080 Just common sense tells you this can't be anything of ours now. 152 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,480 The Air Force, which had recently shut down Project Blue 153 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,559 Book, offered no explanation for the Muncie sighting. 154 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,720 Local authorities took the reports seriously but couldn't 155 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:40,320 provide any conclusive answers, leading many of you believe that 156 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,640 the government knew more than it was willing to admit. 157 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:45,320 As usual, they're not sharing that with us. 158 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,960 Just like we find out about these recent hearings that I 159 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,800 guess aren't going to happen right now For the people of 160 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,120 Muncie, the events of that night haven't been forgotten. 161 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,640 The sighting still one of the most compelling pieces of 162 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:59,840 evidence in the case. Extraterrestrial visitors, 163 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:03,400 particularly for residents who saw the objects up close. 164 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,520 And believe me, when you see these things up close, it does 165 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:08,760 leave a big impact on you. Now, some skeptics have 166 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:12,480 attempted to offer their own explanations, which to me is 167 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,560 nothing more than debunking. But the fact is, the people that 168 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:17,840 saw these things know what they saw. 169 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:21,640 They didn't see swamp gas. They didn't see weather events. 170 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,000 They didn't see the planet Venus. 171 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,840 When you see one of these ships like this, like these guys saw, 172 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,480 it's big, it's up close, and it's in your face. 173 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:32,720 Now I want to take a look at a couple more cases here. 174 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:34,360 These things are really interesting. 175 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,440 Now, I found this article written by Tori Jane. 176 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,320 It's posted over here on msn.com. 177 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:45,200 It says numerous UFOs were sighted in Indiana decades ago 178 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,520 and it's among the most credible sightings in history. 179 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,160 The date was October 19th, 1973 and it was pretty much just 180 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:58,200 another low key autumn evening in East Central IN the sun had 181 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:02,600 gone down and 911 dispatch operators were settled in to the 182 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,600 night shifts, expecting nothing out of the ordinary Tonight. 183 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,600 Suddenly a strange call came in. Someone in Delaware County saw 184 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,840 something bizarre in the sky, and then one call turned into 185 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:19,200 two. 2 turned into three. Soon enough, Delaware County 186 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,120 found itself plunged into one of the most credible mass UFO 187 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,240 sightings in Indiana, as well as the entirety of the Midwest. 188 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,280 To back up the more than 700 calls from terrified residents, 189 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:34,720 Ball State University students and staff confirmed that there 190 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:37,480 was something visible in the skies by the telescope. 191 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:42,400 Now think about that 700 calls. They've got a really cool 192 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,480 picture here. It looks like a flying saucer 193 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,440 with one of these kind of stove fight tops on it. 194 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:51,160 It's kind of this really bright, almost translucent green collar. 195 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,080 And it's they're just hovering in the sky. 196 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:59,080 Really cool stuff. And it says and Fort Wayne folks 197 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,600 at an airfield determined there was a strange blip on radar 198 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,920 plain as day. Only right now, it wasn't day. 199 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,040 And that was a problem. Local law enforcement was 200 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,040 dispatched to check everything out, and they, too, had some 201 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:15,040 truly bizarre experiences that night. 202 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,920 Now, it was tough to see the craft, they say, or whatever 203 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,040 this thing was in its entirety. Witnesses described a red, white 204 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:26,640 and blue revolving light that dipped incredibly close to the 205 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,440 ground on several occasions. They tracked the thing in the 206 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:35,280 sky for hours, watching it light up, dim down, fly higher, fly 207 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,920 lower. Many of the maneuvers it made 208 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,360 were too fast for a known aircraft to have pulled off at 209 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,520 the time. Think about the accelerations, 210 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,880 these things you're doing. The human body just couldn't 211 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,040 survive the G forces. Then it says Indiana wouldn't 212 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,360 even be the only state to site this bizarre craft in the air. 213 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,120 Within minutes of the calls tapering to a stop in Indiana, 214 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,960 they began in Ohio. Several people on the ground 215 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:02,760 that night claimed to have had some sort of close encounters 216 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,040 with the thing, and they insist it was not of this earth. 217 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:10,640 Now October 1973, we're told, ended up being a wild one for 218 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,360 UFOs. The sighting on the 9th of 219 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,080 October was just the beginning. And they had another picture of 220 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,520 this saying this kind of had like a blue on the edge with 221 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,800 this super bright luminous white light in the middle surrounded 222 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,640 kind of this red collar. Really, really neat stuff. 223 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,040 It says there were so many compelling reports that 1973 was 224 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,320 nicknamed the UFO invasion. Talk about bizarre. 225 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,720 Of course, no official explanation for any of the 226 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:40,320 sightings on this night exist. Naysayers often cite, unknown to 227 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,920 the public at the time, aircraft as it being the most obvious 228 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,440 explanation for this flap. But no other UFO sightings in 229 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,440 Indiana or the Midwestern states come close to the sheer size of 230 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,040 this one. With more than 700 official 231 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:55,360 reports called in, it's incredibly difficult to simply 232 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,080 hand wave it all the way to some strange coincidence. 233 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,840 Well, you'd have to be. You can look at these pictures 234 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,360 and see this thing was enormous, maybe the size of a cruise ship 235 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,200 or something. And we're to believe that this 236 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,200 is hidden technology from our government. 237 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:14,320 If you've seen how governments act toward their citizens, you 238 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,800 should be able to understand that if they possess this kind 239 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:22,440 of technology, we would have even fewer rights than we do, it 240 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,760 says. If anything, 2023 has been an 241 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,520 utterly bonkers year for the whole UFO phenomenon, which has 242 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:31,520 been rebranded as Uaps instead, thanks to the stigma surrounding 243 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,400 the term UFO. Hopefully we're a little closer 244 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:37,440 now than we ever were, than we ever have been to getting a 245 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,920 formal explanation for the UFO invasion 1973. 246 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,800 And it says if you're interested, you can check back, 247 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,880 go to their website. That's an OK article. 248 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,200 Listen, they're still UFOs to me. 249 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,160 We have to control the verbiage on this stuff. 250 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,600 We just can't let these guys come in and take over the whole, 251 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,680 the whole conversation, say and tell us what we have to call 252 00:13:57,680 --> 00:13:59,680 them because like I've said, if they control the verbiage, they 253 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:01,920 control the narrative. There's another article. 254 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:07,120 This is from thestarpress.com dated January 1st, 2018. 255 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:12,600 Keith Roysden, Dateline, Muncie, IN says with recent news reports 256 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,920 of a secret Pentagon investigation of flying saucers 257 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,200 and unidentified flying objects going back over a period of 258 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:23,720 several years, it is important to note that Muncie, all of East 259 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,040 Central IN, really got there first. 260 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:31,320 Muncie's dramatic 1973 brush with UFO mania was recently 261 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,840 cited in the magazine article. And of course, 2017 saw the 40th 262 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,120 anniversary of the release of Steven Spielberg's close 263 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:43,080 Encounters of the Third Kind, which was set largely in Muncie, 264 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:44,440 although it was not filmed there. 265 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,960 Before any of that happened, however, in October 1973, Muncie 266 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:54,000 newspapers ran daily stories about sightings of UFOs around 267 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,720 the country. And then the flying saucer 268 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,520 sightings began in earnest, right in her own backyard. 269 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,320 Sometimes it seems like they almost call these things. 270 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,160 In October 1973 began with the United Press International story 271 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,640 played on page 16 of the Muncie Star about UFO reports in 272 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,520 Tennessee, where a County Sheriff said he had personally 273 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:18,280 seen 3 UFOs. 20 people called police down there, noting they 274 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,600 had made similar sightings. The next day, another UPI story 275 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,760 appeared, this time on the front page of The Star, expanding on 276 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,280 Tennessee sightings. Two brothers, 13 and 9, took 277 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,360 refuge in a chicken coop when they were buzzed by a UFO in 278 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:36,440 Chester County, Tennessee. Two days later, according to a 279 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,640 story published in The Muncie Star, police found a weather 280 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,560 balloon that was likely responsible for the UFO 281 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,120 sightings north of Indianapolis. How convenient. 282 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,040 For several days in a row, Muncie newspaper readers saw 283 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,640 account after account of UFO sightings. 284 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:55,160 Elsewhere, Reports rampant in the South read in one headline. 285 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,920 Then on October 10th, 1973, the UFO craze came to Muncie. 286 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:02,080 Well, maybe just the UFOs came to Muncie. 287 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:06,400 The evening before, the Muncie Star reported mysterious multi 288 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,200 colored lights were seen by several 100 people. 289 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:11,200 About 100 people called the police. 290 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,040 Now we know this is not correct. We know there were 700 reports, 291 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:15,320 right? Because the college did the 292 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,560 study. So it kind of shows to me this 293 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,440 might be a little bit, might be a little sloppy reporting. 294 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,880 About 100 people called police. Sheriff Sergeant Richard Craner 295 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,280 said over the course for over the course of two hours, another 296 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,840 50 to 60 people called Muncie police. 297 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,000 Police theorized that whether balloons were to blame. 298 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,400 Yeah, because the police always have the answers to these 299 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,040 questions. Newton Sprague, director of Ball 300 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,880 State University Observatory, offered the balloon. 32 Then on 301 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:49,000 October 13th, local newspapers carried a UPI story about two 302 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,560 shipyard workers in Pascagoula, Ms. who said they were abducted 303 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,120 and taken aboard a UFO by silvery skinned creatures with 304 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,720 big eyes and pointed ears. And that's not that great of a 305 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,720 description. The report it encounter became 306 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:04,839 one of the most famous of the UFO era. 307 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:08,040 The floodgates were open for UFO sightings in the Muncie area. 308 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,000 You can kind of see where this author's going at. 309 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,560 It seems like he's trying to put this off as just kind of mass 310 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,440 hysteria. On Saturday, October 13th, 1973, 311 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,200 four or five Indiana National Guard helicopters were blamed 312 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,119 for a ration of UFO reports over Muncie and Delaware County. 313 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,160 The choppers prompted 40 calls to police. 314 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,440 Honestly, I'm finding this reporting to be quite sloppy. 315 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,280 He he's mixing a matching here all day long. 316 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,320 The next day in Dayton, OH, woman told police that an oblong 317 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,200 object with blinking lights killed 2 cows went landed in a 318 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,600 field. In the meantime, UPI reported 319 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,680 that hypnosis supported the stories of the two Mississippi 320 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,840 men who said they were abducted. Not only that, but they were 321 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:50,720 secretly recorded in the police station. 322 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,320 I think that supported it as well. 323 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,320 And we also have, we know now, years later, we have multiple 324 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,400 eyewitnesses that were independent. 325 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,640 That's all this Northwestern University researcher J Allen 326 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:04,480 Heine, upon whose case Spielberg's movie was partially 327 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,000 based, said there was no doubt Earth was being visited by 328 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,840 aliens. Yes, this is a big change in 329 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,840 opinion for him. On October 17th, the Muncie 330 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,880 Evening Press reported on a few days of months of UFO 331 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,480 encounters. More UFOs reported in Muncie. 332 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:23,400 Read the headline. Missus Pierce at 226 N Davis 333 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:28,640 called police at 8:54 PM. Tuesday to report that a UFO had 334 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:32,120 landed behind her home. Patrolman William Kirby, who was 335 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:35,200 at the scene, said the lady did see something because she was 336 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,600 terrified. A neighbor had heard clicking 337 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:41,240 sounds at about the same time. There are people out there that 338 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:43,280 are not people. One caller told police about an 339 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:45,720 incident near the town of Wheeling, north of Muncie. 340 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,200 I'll believe in one when it flies through my living room 341 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,080 window, Muncie's deputy Police Chief Jack Turner told the 342 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,080 Evening Press. In every day's newspaper, more 343 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,400 reports of UFO sightings were reported from Texas to southern 344 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,040 Indiana. It was UFO night for Hartford 345 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,040 City, the Muncie Evening Press reported. 346 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:05,080 On Friday, October 19th, Blackford County Sheriff's 347 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:09,400 Deputy Ed Townsend reported a strange looking object with arms 348 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,080 like extensions over a manufacturing plant. 349 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,160 Now that's weird. Jay County was next. 350 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,480 The story reported on October 20th with strange lights near 351 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,640 Portland. Another sighting near Dunkirk 352 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,920 turned out to be farming equipment, specifically a 353 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,400 tractor and two combines. The area was not new to UFO 354 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,320 sightings, however, Dunkirk Police Chief Gerald Kirby 355 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,080 recalled a few years earlier when a woman who was white as a 356 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,800 sheet reported a basketball sized unknown object. 2 State 357 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:39,320 police officers confirmed the report on October 27th. 358 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,000 Sports fighters are comparing UFOs to a bit of Alexandria High 359 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,560 School's defensive machine that fell victim to a fourth quarter 360 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,760 blitz by Blackford's Bruins. Yeah, we didn't get that either. 361 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:52,600 Before October closed newspapers reported Besides traditional 362 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:56,080 Halloween costumes, the current UFO reports drew some outer 363 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,640 space outfits for trick or treating at Muncie Mall. 364 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,440 UFO sightings in East Central IN and elsewhere appear to have 365 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,640 dramatically dropped the number by the end of October. 366 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,280 By November, the local craze was over. 367 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,080 And done with except for a bit of marketing. 368 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,400 Well, you can kind of see the reporting's OK. 369 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,000 I guess I don't get where he claims that there was 100 370 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,400 reports when we saw from the college that there was 700. 371 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,800 But you know, when you have these waves like that, that just 372 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,720 kind of move in, the fact is it becomes so overwhelming that 373 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,360 really, really what can they do about it? 374 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,480 This is from a little bit more recently. 375 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,880 I thought this was cool too. And now you've talked about that 376 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,000 way that happened in 1973. Well, there was another one in 377 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,200 2014. We'll finish up with this. 378 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:45,800 It says on the 10th anniversary of Fort Wayne UFOUS sightings 379 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,280 continue to mount. Written by the editorial board, 380 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,160 the Journal Gazette dated September 19th, 2024. 381 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,800 It says on Saturday I read it post to the Fort Wayne 382 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,800 celebrate. It marks the 10th anniversary of 383 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,920 reported UFO on September 16th, 2014. 384 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,640 Says I was living at the DuPont Lake apartments. 385 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,320 Posted by Reddit user One September evening at about 9 PMI 386 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:15,440 walked outside and saw a 50 foot UFO hovering above I-69. 387 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,640 I'd say it was 300 to 500 feet above the highway. 388 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,640 The poster described the UFO, now known as an Unidentified 389 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:27,240 Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP, as having flashing blue lights on 390 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,480 its underside that would shut off randomly. 391 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,000 It slowly moved in the direction of Carroll Hyatt, 10 mile per 392 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,720 hour, I guess silently, quote UN quote. 393 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,760 The Reddit poster filed the report siding with the National 394 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,760 UFO Reporting Center, one of two describing the same Fort Wayne 395 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,480 UFO event. Founded in Washington state in 396 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:52,320 1974, the center has received, recorded and tried to cooperate 397 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,400 document reports from individuals who witnessed 398 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,560 possible UFO sightings. Five additional Fort Wayne 399 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,320 sightings have been reported to the database since 2023. 400 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,480 The UFO Reporting Center has processed more than 170,000 401 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:13,520 reports 2764 from Indiana over the last 50 years. 402 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,360 UFO sightings recently have been getting more attention, they 403 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:19,000 say, because the federal lawmakers after former 404 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,640 intelligence officer David Grech told the congressional committee 405 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,200 in 2023 that he believes the federal government holds alien 406 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,520 bodies to spacecraft. Six years earlier, the New York 407 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:32,600 Times revealed the Department of Defense head from 2007 to 2012 408 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:36,200 funded a small program to investigate military reports of 409 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,840 UFO sightings. Footage of unexplained 410 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,760 encounters between Navy jets and objects traveling at high speeds 411 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,640 accompanied Times report. You notice they don't, they 412 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,320 don't go into all here about the chain of custody on those 413 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,720 videos. How they got from the Navy to 414 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,640 the New York Times to Tom Delong, that would be an 415 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,160 interesting story that never gets talked about by these guys. 416 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,720 They say. In 2020, the Senate Intelligence 417 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,960 Committee asked the Pentagon to track data and report findings. 418 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,000 That report, released in March, concluded the spike in UFO 419 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,920 sightings in the 1950s and 60s was caused by tests of advanced 420 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,600 UFO spy planes and space technology. 421 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:14,000 Officials said that there was no evidence the federal government 422 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,960 had encountered alien life and most sightings to UFOs were 423 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,240 ordinary objects from Earth. And that's what they think of 424 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:21,440 you. They think that you're a 425 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,960 complete idiot that will just accept this whitewashing. 426 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,640 So they didn't go through case by case and dissect these cases 427 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,280 and examine the evidence. They just spoke in broad 428 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,680 generalities. Nope, nothing to see here. 429 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,040 Move along sheep. And then it goes on here a 430 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,760 little bit. It says UFO sightings continue 431 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:41,360 at a rate of 50 to 100 per month according to the All Domain 432 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,320 Anomaly Resolution Office. 50 to 100 a month. 433 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,200 Really. You think so? 434 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,920 Well, I can find hundreds of them on New Fork. 435 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,920 There's so many sightings that are happening that are being 436 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,440 reported in places these guys aren't looking or they're just 437 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,160 not reported at all. That's what I think. 438 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,200 I've got a little time here, so I think I'll go ahead and I'll 439 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,400 look at four or five more sightings out of Indiana. 440 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,440 The big wave in 2000, you had the big wave in 1973, more 441 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,120 sightings in 2014, more sightings last year. 442 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,160 It just shows that whether it's a wave of sightings or whether 443 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,200 it's settings that are that we see on a daily basis, these 444 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,720 things are piling up year after year after year and the body of 445 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,160 evidence is just overwhelming. Let's take a look at this one 446 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,600 right here. This says it happened on August 447 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,080 22nd, 2024. Duration one minute observers 2. 448 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,560 Location Salem IN Location details S Mill Creek Rd. 449 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:38,120 Driving away from Becks Mill towards Salem IN Shaped triangle 450 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,640 color blackish estimated size like a more geometric stealth 451 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,160 bomber. Viewed from land right above our 452 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,440 car on a country Rd. in the middle of nowhere. 453 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,400 Closest distance very close angle of elevation 45° Says I'm 454 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,200 not good with numbers maybe 100 feet away. 455 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,080 However hovered for a while. I don't know how fast it speed 456 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,280 away. Explanation meteor possible and 457 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,000 it doesn't sound like it if it's a triangle. 458 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,080 Lights on object emitted beans. Large bright blue white lights 459 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,880 shine directly on top of us. I told my friend from Louisville 460 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,080 to check herself for Burns tonight. 461 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,600 My friend and I decided to drive out to Beck's Mill for a 462 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,840 leisurely trip. After we went out to eat, we 463 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,320 were leaving the mill heading back to Salem. 464 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,920 I had my right arm and face outside the window looking up 465 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,480 when this object appeared right over us, shining an intense 466 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:32,920 light down like a gigantic flashlight directly on top of 467 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,960 us. I'm still pretty scared as I 468 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,000 type this. Doesn't sound like a meteorite 469 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,000 to me. When the light went off I saw a 470 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,320 triangular black shape. Maria stopped the car and turned 471 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,120 on the hazard lights on a very dangerous Rd. at that time of 472 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:50,080 night, but we jumped out. I was screaming. 473 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,560 We were both freaked out so we got back into the car and drove 474 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,840 to West Hackberry St. She dropped me off at my house 475 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,360 and then she continued on to her place in Louisville, KY. 476 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:02,160 I put my phone down and went to the bathroom. 477 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,840 When I got back to my phone Maria told me over 80 people had 478 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,760 reported seeing something at 9:45 PM and I remember we 479 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,720 definitely didn't see it until 9:48 PM. 480 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,240 Now I've contacted 2 meteorologists and people are 481 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,520 saying it was absolutely a meteor. 482 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,640 Well she's contacting the wrong people man. 483 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,520 Contact UFO warning maybe it seemed like a meteor but I know 484 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,080 what we saw. Is it possible for a craft to 485 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,960 enter like a meteorite? We had an intense beam of white 486 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,320 blue light right on top of us, like something out of a close 487 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,160 Encounters, but the light was blue and white. 488 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,360 It was too intense and sustained. 489 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,360 Meteors flash across the sky. They don't hover above one spot. 490 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,120 I'm telling you, if they try to say it was just a meteor, then 491 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,360 something else was using it as cover. 492 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,200 We saw what we saw. I know what we experienced was 493 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,680 more than a meteor. Well, I'm with you. 494 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,600 I can tell you what I saw was not a meter. 495 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,640 Meters don't hover above the ground a few feet. 496 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,440 They don't have this super bright, luminous blue white 497 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,880 light shining on you. You know the difference between 498 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,080 a meteor and a UFO. And yeah, you might be a little 499 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,200 scared. You might be a little bit 500 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,560 nervous, but you saw what you saw. 501 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,160 I found this to be a pretty good sighting right here. 502 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,680 This dated 8/10/24 duration 10 minutes. 503 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:27,080 Observers 2 location Michigan City IN USAI. 504 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,720 Think it's up north around Lake Huron, maybe Lake MI location. 505 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,520 Details on beach looking out overlake Michigan. 506 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,520 OK, correct shape, light color, white, estimated size, point of 507 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:38,720 light. So hard to say. 508 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,400 Well, it looks almost like a planet except for that's moving 509 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,680 around real fast. You can see that in the video it 510 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,320 says angle Ovation 20 Closest distance hundreds or thousands 511 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,600 of miles. Very fast considering distance 512 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,080 from me. Lights on object. 513 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,560 Each craft was moving independently of the others very 514 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,680 far in the distance. They each appeared to be jumping 515 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,080 around very rapidly. My wife and I were watching the 516 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,440 sunset when we noticed a bright point of light above the 517 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,240 horizon. At first I thought it was a 518 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,520 planet because of the point source nature of the night and 519 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:12,840 it's kind of near the horizon I guess you could say. 520 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,680 Then I noticed it was moving and thought it must be a satellite. 521 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,720 Now this is not a satellite. Let me tell you, satellites 522 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,200 aren't moving that close to the horizon like that. 523 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,360 No way. But then I noticed although it 524 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:27,320 was moving in a line West, on average, it was jumping all over 525 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,720 the sky at sudden accelerations. Due to the distance from me, the 526 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,480 accelerations were impossibly fast for human aircraft. 527 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,800 We then noticed there was one other similar object flying east 528 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,200 in a similar fashion. I did not record that craft in 529 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,000 the attached video. Eventually, the craft traveling 530 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,840 E just blinked out and disappeared. 531 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:51,160 The object going West was still moving along when we decided to 532 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,920 leave the location we were reviewing from. 533 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,720 Yeah, just hanging there, moving around, bouncing around, doing 534 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,040 what UFOs do. I guess. 535 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,200 That's a strange 1. You can watch the video over at 536 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,760 New Fork. Like I said, it's Michigan City 537 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,720 IN there. We'll do two more of these and 538 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,800 we'll wrap it up. This is from 8/10/24 as well. 539 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,840 It says duration 4-7 minutes. Observers 1 Military 540 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:17,040 Indianapolis, IN location 3210 E 96th St. 541 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:21,800 Carmel IN shape cube. Oh I just love these color 542 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,600 Black, maybe the size of a small car. 543 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,720 Viewed from land direction from viewer. 544 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,760 Northwest angle of elevation 42, closest distance 1 to 2000 feet. 545 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,720 Estimated speed. Zero mile per hour. 546 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,080 Beautiful day with the Blues, blue sky and white puffy clouds. 547 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,560 Looked and saw black objects hovering. 548 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,120 Beautiful day while attending a car show, looked up and thought 549 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,720 I saw a bird, then ruled it to be a drone. 550 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,720 But the more I watched it, it was perfectly still, no wavering 551 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,480 or draft adjusting. I was miffed and kind of in a 552 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,040 trance when I watched it. It was black and had a vertical 553 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,760 rectangular shape, but also seemed to have an upper section 554 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,920 that tapered in and I could see that it had a slight metallic 555 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,960 soft Sheen to it that was like a very dark amber collar in that 556 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,480 section. I took my phone out to record 557 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,080 and it was dead. I then asked the guys with me 558 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,000 sitting with their backs to it if they could see it. 559 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:20,040 They looked and asked where I was looking and I said I I said 560 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,520 look northwest at about 11:00 position. 561 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,400 Of the two who were really looking, one didn't see it as I 562 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,040 was pointing to it and the other said he saw something but wasn't 563 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,120 sure what it was. When he started to focus in on 564 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:34,360 it, it went further up slowly into the clouds. 565 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,880 It was the dangest thing I'd ever seen during the day. 566 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,440 It had to be about 1000 miles in elevation at least and no sound, 567 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:48,000 no contrail, no nothing, just a black box hovering and oddly 568 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,080 enough disappeared when I was trying to point it out. 569 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,400 I'm former military and retired 42 year veteran of the Indiana 570 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,520 State Police. I know what I saw and this would 571 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,480 be my second experience of this nature, with my first being at 572 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,160 age 9 and now at 67 years old. Also, after the object descended 573 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,240 into the clouds, at least two jets came into the area, flying 574 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,360 in a northeasterly direction, each within a couple of minutes 575 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,560 of each other and just a few minutes before the object 576 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,560 descended. The Jets didn't appear to be 577 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,040 military, but hard to say is they were much higher and moving 578 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,080 fast. Very cool. 579 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,080 I love these cube shapes, man. Kind of hard to call that a 580 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,760 drone or a balloon or anything else, you know, just hanging out 581 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,640 there. And you know, The thing is, he 582 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,240 sees it clearly, gets all the details down. 583 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,960 The other guy doesn't see it at all. 584 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,000 And maybe the third person's like, Oh yeah, maybe something 585 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,120 there. You know, they just there does 586 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,000 seem to be something going on with this observer effect. 587 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,160 Let's take a look at one more and we'll wrap this up right 588 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,680 here. Now this last one that we're 589 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,720 looking at is from April 24th, 2024 says 2340 local times about 590 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,480 20 minutes of midnight duration 5 minutes observers one. 591 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,920 Now they do have some video with us is interesting location. 592 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:07,560 Indianapolis IN front yard of the house had a clearview of the 593 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,000 sky for the initial siding. Hae triangle color black. 594 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,400 Estimated size small to medium sized fighter jet. 595 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,560 That's how the size is wraps up. Viewed from land direction from 596 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,280 viewer northwest angle of elevation is 60°, closest 597 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,400 distance one to three miles. Speed of typical helicopter, 598 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,920 maybe a bit slower. Lights on object to craft with a 599 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,240 triangle light formation on the bottom and a flashing strobe 600 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,640 light flew past while I was outside. 601 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,360 There was no engine noise. I went outside around 11:40 PM 602 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,120 to let my dog out in the front yard of my house. 603 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,440 Shortly after going outside, I noticed 2 blinking lights 604 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,280 somewhat off in the distance moving in the sky from north to 605 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,600 South. As the lights got closer, I 606 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,880 could start to see a triangle light formation on the bottom of 607 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,600 the craft. There was also a blinking white 608 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,520 strobe light on both craft. I can make out the same triangle 609 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,240 light formation on both crafts. Both appeared to be identical. 610 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,640 I couldn't see the craft clearly enough to make out its entire 611 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,160 shape, just the triangle light formation and the blinking 612 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,200 strobe light, but there was enough light to tell that the 613 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,600 triangle lights were attached to or part of the craft and not 614 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,360 just floating lights. The two crafts were flying one 615 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,240 behind the other with the safe distance between them. 616 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,280 I would estimate the size of the crafts to be about that of a 617 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:30,480 small or medium sized fighter jet, like an F16 or F15 for 618 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,040 example. The crafts made absolutely no 619 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,520 sound. No engine noises, no visible 620 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,920 exhaust, no afterburner. I would say they were flying at 621 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,640 about the same altitude you would expect a helicopter to be 622 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,920 at when flying across the city. They were moving relatively 623 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,360 slow. After viewing the craft for 624 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,600 about a minute, I decided to run inside and get my phone as 625 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,520 quickly as possible to film. It probably took me about a 626 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,640 minute to get my phone and start the video. 627 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,120 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to film them when they were close 628 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,880 enough to clearly make out the Triangle light formation. 629 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,680 I did, however, record the craft moving to fly from north to 630 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,880 South over the city of Indianapolis. 631 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:10,960 By the time you see them in the video, I would estimate that 632 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,679 they were over downtown Indianapolis or possibly near 633 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:15,880 the Indianapolis International Airport. 634 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,719 The craft flew in a relatively straight line while they were 635 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,000 close. By the time they passed over 636 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,679 more of the city, they seemed to be further apart than when I 637 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,840 first saw them. I wanted to walk down to the end 638 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,000 of the street to keep filming, but decided to take the dogs 639 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,920 inside first. By the time I came back outside, 640 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,400 I could no longer see either of the craft, though I stayed 641 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,920 outside continuing to watch the sky. 3 to 5 minutes after I 642 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,040 returned outside, I noticed a small white orb high in the sky. 643 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,080 It appeared to be much higher than the two craft I had just 644 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,560 seen. I watched the orb move slowly 645 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,239 for about 5 seconds before it suddenly vanished into thin air. 646 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:59,640 I continued going in and out for a few hours hoping to see the 647 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,720 craft again, but clouds rolled in and I didn't see anything 648 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:05,480 else that night. A few details about the video. 649 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:09,120 During the video there appeared to be 3 lights in the sky, but I 650 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,720 believe the light furthest to the right is the star. 651 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,080 There are also some bugs flying to the camera at the end of the 652 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,440 video. I did not have my camera's auto 653 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,560 rotate feature on, so at one point when I turned the camera 654 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:23,160 horizontally, the video appeared sideways. 655 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,600 Unfortunately, I didn't capture the white orb I saw it 656 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,080 disappeared before I could turn the camera back on. 657 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,320 For context, I consider myself very knowledgeable about 658 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,280 military aircraft and helicopters from World War 2 and 659 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,760 near. I read about military aviation 660 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,800 frequently and have attended many air shows. 661 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,600 That's pretty cool sighting, man Yeah, I'm watching the video 662 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,000 over here and stuff and it's cool. 663 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,560 I mean, I don't know exactly what they've got, but they've 664 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,360 definitely gone to the effort to capture what's happening there. 665 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,600 Until next time, this is UFO warning over and out.