Diamond over Indianapolis, IN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Around 1:01AM on Friday, December 30th, 2016, I witnessed multiple flying objects in the night sky. I was up watching a show, when all of a sudden I heard a loud and peculiar noise, not one of an airplane but it was louder and more high pitched. I looked out of my bedroom window and noticed a flying, lit-up diamond shaped object coming from across the sky, so I watched it. Curiously, I stayed until it was out of sight, then right as I was about to turn around, I saw another one coming from the same area where the first one had come from. So I waited for that one to pass, but before I knew it I was there for over 45 minutes just watching these objects go from one side of my window to the other. Finally I had gotten tired of waiting for another one after about the 15th one so I headed to bed. There was a gap between the 15th,16th and 17th ones. Around 1:55AM, I went to lay down in bed whenever I heard the noise get louder. Two of the objects flew close to each other a! nd stopped. About 15-20 seconds later they left one going one way and the other the other way. I thought it was finally over until I heard the noise coming back again, but shortly after that, a train came at 2:02AM, and after that train, there were no more flying objects that were seen. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131919). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-12-27 → 2017-01-13
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