Oval over Michigan City, IN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
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
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131760). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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December 16, 2015 · 5:35 AM · LIGHT
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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
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