Rectangle over Michigan City, IN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Rectangular ufo, extremely large, dark red, metal shapes visible, no noise, seen on a clear sunny day.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1966-04-28 → 1966-05-15
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August 20, 2016 · 12:00 PM · OVAL
Michigan City, IN
A co-worker at the car dealership we work at saw this in the sky and took a picture. He just showed the picture to me yesterday, 12-14-2016, I found it to be very compelling to share it. Undulating swarm cloud of thousands of multi-colored blinking lights in the sky for 10-15 minutes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Date is approximate. PD
December 16, 2015 · 5:35 AM · LIGHT
Michigan City, IN
I pulled up against a grassy areas with the background of trees and beyond that apartment complexes. I always arrive on or about that time and one day before this encounter I heard dogs cry with most unusual sounds, yet I thought nothing of it, until Wednesday, December 16, 2015. As stated, I encountered this strange looking object that ran into the grass and while I was watching it, the object began to start a communication signal the eye socks were blinking like off and on...then it went diagonally with lights turning, from white, red, blue or greenish. I picked up my cell pointed in the direction of this light and captured the first .55 seconds, at which I was looking for my IPAD to capture more yet, I continued with the cell phone and captured 2.45minutes of the remaining observation of this unknown object. I informed a co-worker arrived approximately 06:15 and asked him accompany me out that general once day light arrived. We both gone out and seen nothing or no trace of what I was seeing. However, it was appromiately 15:00hrs, one hour before my departure from work that I showed the captured unknown object to my co-workers and it was then that I notice other unknown object, approximately 11 of them flying and around trees and a few were within the grass area. Well, the recording will tell the story from there. I am not sure what it is or who but I do know it is not something I ever encounter before.
May 17, 2015 · 2:40 PM · CIGAR
Michigan City, IN
I'm 38 years old, white/blonde female, born and raised in Manhattan, college educated...recently bought a 14 acre farm in Michigan City, IN, next to a 300 acre, unusual soil and plant life nature preserve (Ambler Flatwoods). My profession is a Author/Hypnotherapist. The second witness is my cousin, white male/red hair, 37 years old, college educated. He works for his father's metal recycling company. May, 17, 2015, at approx. 2:40 pm, my cousin and I were sitting by a 1.3 acre pond on my farm property and looking up admiring a very tall tree near by. I positioned my cell phone to take a picture of the tree - at that time, the sky was clear - no planes, sounds nor birds seen as we were looking up at the tree and surrounding sky. I saw nothing except sky and the tree through my phone camera as I was trying to position the frame for the best angled shot. As soon as I took the photo and checked it, and saw a rather dark and dense cigar/cyclical object with a slight bright "aura" around it very close to the tree's image in the photograph. I quickly turned to my cousin and said, "What is this??" Now, admittedly, I have been interested in ET's and alternative spirituality for quite some time. Though I certainly would rather my photo be debunked than jump to wild conclusions.
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Michigan City, IN
I seen two hovering lights in the sky and then they came together to form one craft and zoomed away really fast