Filer’s Files Indiana Flap April 2008 News Brief
INDIANAPOLIS — Strange sights and sounds filled the nighttime sky in Howard and Tipton counties late Wednesday night April 16, 2008, leaving residents and authorities wondering what they had seen and heard. Reports of lights in the sky, crashes and vibrations on the ground baffled residents, who began calling authorities right after the rumblings at about 10:30 p.m.
WESTFIELD –Tonight, April 16 2008 at about 10:37 PM, my brother, our friend, and I witnessed something that was not manmade. We live in Central Indiana and I was looking north a little northwest and saw these bright lights come into view. They were rotating in a counter clockwise direction. It wasn’t fire. These were lights because you could see each light. We all kind of looked at it for about a minute in a half and then boom! It just took off and vanished. We called the local police department and reported it, and then we called the local news. They had calls flooding in. So we watched the news and they reported that something shot out of this UFO, and that a plane was down and that there was a huge explosion or a sonic boom. Later on at the end of the program they said that nothing was down and no planes were missing. What I witnessed tonight changed the way I look at the sky. Weather: Few Clouds At 25,000 Feet. Visibility Was 10 Miles. Winds Were From the South at 9 MPH.
Whatever I was looking at was not no way no how anything man made. The area that the news reported it happened was over 20 miles away. This thing was HUGE cause we could see it perfectly. Anyway I don’t know what reporting this event might do. More than likely nothing, but I know that it wasn’t man-made. I’m sure the government is already covering it up. They are already starting to say that it may have been military flares. No WAY!!! NO HOW! These were in a perfect line and rotating. The location of the sighting was Tipton County and State Road 31 intersecting with Country Road 300. That is where they reported it happening. Something happened and I am now I think a believer.
Comments: What these witnesses have reported and what the news media reported are certainly dichotomous. These witnesses say that they saw rotating lights followed by an explosion. The media (via police reports) explained the explosion as due to meteors. Given this witness report a meteor or military flares seems like quite an unlikely explanation. Anyone seeing these lights is urged to file a report. Please send any photos, videos, or sketches of your observations. Thanks to Bill Puckett UFOS Northwest http://ufosnw.com
TIPTON COUNTY – MUFON reports, “On April 16, 2008, I was in the living room watching TV, about 10:30 p.m., there was a huge boom that rattled the front window. My husband asked what the noise was, and I went to the front door to see. Off to the west there appeared a large object with lights all the way across it. It reminded me of a hair barrette with lights.” It seemed to be hovering, yet the lights appeared to turn. My husband came out to stand behind me just in time to see the lights reappear from right to left until five lights were showing, and then it did it for a second time before it disappeared. The lights were yellow orange in color.
If you look on www.WWKI.com , click on the article about the Boom and the bright lights, you will see pictures that someone submitted. The fourth picture down is exactly what I saw when I first looked out. This was no meteor or F-16, they don’t hover. We could not take our eyes off of it, and my husband, who is a Viet Nam veteran and a retired deputy sheriff said he had never seen anything like it. We are both certain that what we saw was unidentifiable. The next morning, when I went out to get the newspaper at a little after 5 a.m., I looked off into the west in the same vicinity, and there, in front of the moon was a huge V-shaped dark cloud that reminded me of a flower vase with allot of much smaller jet trails near it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
TIPTON COUNTY — Another person writes, “There is a Big Coverup going on here in Indiana. Too many people are seeing UFO’s and Military Jets, and Booms that shake houses, ground shaking earthquakes and objects falling from the sky. Is there a battle going on between UFOs and Military aircraft? or are there just objects falling out of the sky and hit the ground so hard it feels like an earthquake?
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Look around you will find reports all over the Place.
Its on all the news channels. Thanks to MUFON CMS
ANDERSON – Another witness states, “I was driving and I saw what looked like something large on fire in the sky I actually slowed down to watch and I noticed the cars around me did as well.” But I was sure I was going to watch something fall out of the sky and crash in the distance, but it just disappeared. It looked like something large on fire almost skipping (as if on land) I kept waiting to see an explosion or something in the distance but it was just gone. I got online tonight to see if anyone else had seen it too or if there was a meteor reported but I’m just at a loss ? Brian Vike reports, “The Indiana Air National Guard claims it was carrying out exercises, and that is why there are all these reports. Well this may be, but I sure have learnt not to take everything at face value, was there a unknown craft in the area and “possible pursuit by the military aircraft? Thanks to Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research http://www.hbccufo.org
KOKOMO – I heard the Boom, went outside and heard and saw overhead what looked like flames from the jets 2 engines. Then to the west about 30 Degrees above the horizon I saw two sets of bright Orange shaded flares. The first set of three flares lit up one at a time from south to north. A few seconds later the second set of about 6 or 7 flares lit up very close together in a straight line north to south just below and a little north on the first set. The flares lasted for only about 10 to 15 seconds.
On April 16 at 10:30 PM we were home watching TV and there was a loud boom like an explosion we went out to check on things when in the western sky there was two lights that looked like headlights then they disappeared and reappeared the third time they seemed to spread from side to side until there was about 6 or 7 lights they disappeared and then reappeared all in the same spot. They were a very bright white and seemed very low and close. After they disappeared we began looking all around the sky, when we noticed a bright light that looked like a star off in the distance as it caught my attention I noticed it was flashing different colors, my husband thought i was crazy.
He went and got the binoculars and discovered it was changing color. It looked like it was disc shape with the lights on the bottom that were blinking. It stayed in the same place the whole hour we were watching it. The next evening April 17, 2008, at 10:30 PM, we decided to go out and see if it was there. Sure enough it was in the same spot again. On the morning of April 18, at 5:35 AM, we felt the house shake and we ran outside to see if the light was still there, it was not there. There was an eerie feeling in the air and a weird sound that I can’t describe. I have never seen anything like it before. I was pretty shaken by all of this. Thanks to Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research http://hbccufo.org
KOKOMO – On April 16, 2008, a woman called the NUFORC Hotline to report that she had witnessed a single object descend, and apparently strike the ground at 11:30 PM. She reported that a police cruiser was nearby, and she assumed that the officer also saw the same event. We are awaiting a follow-up written report from the witness, who is a trained medical professional. Other similar reports were provided describing 7 to 9 very bright objects that came from the West sky, stopped, then jetted off to the North. They appeared in a random cluster, then came together on a gentle curve, heading north to form a horizontal line.
The 7 to 9 bright lights seemed to stop simultaneously, then shot off to the North at an incredible speed never losing their spacing between each other. This was followed by an incredible explosive sound, that got the whole town thinking a plane had crashed. Over 1,000 other people in a three county area reported seeing something and everyone felt the percussion. Emergency personnel are still looking for whatever it could have been. No results have been found, thus far 15-30 seconds.
((NUFORC Note: Many reports to the local media, we understand. We do not know what the objects were, but there is a possibility that they were caused by a military exercise. However, military aircraft are not allowed to fly supersonic over populated areas. We would welcome reports from any other witnesses. PD)) Thanks to Peter Davenport
Editor’s Note: Assuming the witnesses all saw the same thing, some claimed to see an actual craft that appears to have been disk shaped with multiple lights. Military fighters were launched and participating in an exercise and were called on to pursue the intruder. When I was in the Air Force we would be asked to intercept an unknown to identify as friendly or foe. Upon intercept we would describe the craft and be told to continue our mission. The 122nd Fighter Wing known as the Blacksnakes at Fort Wayne airport is equipped with F-16s and probably conducted an intercept on April 15, 2008. An earthquake hit the Indiana region and was centered in Southern Illinois on Friday, April 18, 2008. UFOs are often seen prior to and during earthquakes.
