Light over Gary, IN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A group of lights with strange and independent movement were hovering over the southern shores of Lake Michigan
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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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2009-10-03 → 2009-10-20
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November 14, 2022 · 3:11 PM · DIAMOND
Gary, IN
The object was very bright and shiny. It was like the shiniest metal I’ve ever seen. It was in the shape of a diamond and it just came down quickly like someone was dropping it from the sky (in the distance) and then it just disappeared. It was like it evaporated in thin air or went through some portal.
July 25, 2019 · 1:10 AM · OVAL
Gary, IN
I got off work round 12 at night came home sat outside and then I noticed the school lights came on but 3 times as bright as usual, then every light in the neighborhood cut off but the school lights remained on then the house lights got to flicker like Christmas lights and went into a dominoes effect one by one slowly and then fast and then off for 5 minutes. So I got out my car and then seen an oval light above the school, it looked like a street light so I tried to get closer and the light started huvering up and down slowly and then went in the air stopped and shot away very fast disappeared. I thought I was only one but my neighbor seen it too. After that I started witnessing other things can’t say.
July 30, 2018 · 3:21 PM · OTHER
Gary, IN
I was waiting for my wife and I decided to get some pics of the old City Methodist Church. i did not see the object until i decided to use the video camera on my phone, which is an lg k7. when i looked at the phone at the object it was hovering and appeared to be spinning at about the height of the churches roof. It then moved to the left a few feet then to the right, and made a very fast circular motion. it then dipped down below my line of sight for a couple of seconds. It then came back up still spinning, I think thats when I moved to get in a better position to record what i was seeing, and that's when i lost sight of the object. the wind was blowing pretty hard that day and my first thought was that i was looking at a floating black plastic bag. and it may have been just that, i leave it up to you to decide. i felt very excited and amazed at what i was seeing at the time of the sighting and after. I have to emphasize that I could only see this object when I looked at i! t in the cameras display screen. The object look as if it changes its shape a couple of times. It kind of looked like to grey triangles attached side by side, and then back into a cylinder shape laying horizontally. That is why I can't say that it was only one shape. I have also submitted a report to MUFON (CASE#93958).
September 6, 2016 · 6:15 AM · CIGAR
Gary, IN
i went inside to get my camera to take a picture but by the time I got it the craft was in the tree line!! I figured I would report this! I do not know what it was could of been space stuff falling, i will leave it up to you the experts!! But it was NO plane for sure!! Thanks for listening to me!!
October 20, 2008 · 3:57 AM · UNKNOWN
Gary, IN
I observed an object that was extremely bright and appeared to be close to the ground, as if it were an airplane heading to the nearby
June 8, 2008 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Gary, IN
diamondlike shaped object