As reported

Disk over Madison, IN

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

I don't even know how to start this honestly. I suppose I'll just tell you what I saw and when; since it's so fresh in my mind. My name is ((name deketed)), I'm a Chef from Madison, Indiana and I guess, I may have seen a UFO. It was between the times of 11:30 and 11:40 pm on March 15, 2023. I was pulling into the road of where I live and I saw two clusters of white lights moving in tandem with each other. There was three, orb shaped, small white lights on the left, and two on the right. I thought nothing of it, because I live right next to a small airport. As I slowed down to turn onto the road I live on, I found myself at a complete stop and stepping out of my car, because the lights on the right turned green and then began to spin around the white lights on the left. As I witnessed this, it dawned on me that this object was no longer moving forward like a plane does and had actually back tracked from it's original flight path. Still trying to see reason, I thought maybe it was a helicopter, because more have been in our area lately. The only thing is.... This thing didn't make a sound. It almost felt like the sound around me was dampened even. As I stood, mouth agape, because I didn't understand what I was seeing; whatever this thing was, was coming towards me now. It was less than a quarter of a mile away, maybe even closer. At this point it was moving in an unusual manner, all the while the green lights still rotating around the white ones. It moved further up and then further down. It started to fly in ways I've never seen any aircraft fly before, moving sporadically in all directions. All of a sudden it stopped and started to float down towards the ground. It had moved significantly closer at this point just north of my house. Close enough, that when I started walking closer to see if I could make out more detail, I actually saw a disk shaped object hovering silently. The top was spinning in one direction and the bottom was spinning in the opposite direction. I couldn't believe my eyes. I simply just couldn't believe what I was seeing. As it hovered and spun it started to move further away and the green light stopped spinning around the white lights and turned back into white. As quickly as it appeared, it disappeared right in front of my eyes. The lights were above a treeline moving away from me at an increasingly high speed and then simply vanished from view. Unfortunately I didn't have my phone on me to capture a video, or a picture of the event. I'm not saying what I saw was alien, but it was certainly not identifiable to me. My hair was standing up the entire time this was happening, I'm still in disbelief of what I saw. I feel a little crazy for even thinking it was even a possibility of being a UFO, but I had to tell someone. I don't care if you don't believe me, because I don't have proof. I saw something that changed my view on life, that I don't think I'll ever understand. I'm thankful that I saw what I saw, but that was terrifying. One final note to address as well, not 5 minutes after I saw this, there were 3, or 4 small planes, possibly jets in formation flying directly where this thing flew. Feel free to reach out to me if necessary and thank you for your time.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175008). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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