NUFORC Sighting 27646

Occurred: 1966-10-15 18:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-02-11 12:11 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Martinsville, IN, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

Craft hovered about 20 feet above barn. Lights in horizontal orientation for about 30 seconds and then darted away. Others saw.

October 1965: My family lived in rural Morgan county, Indiana, about 20 miles south of Indianapolis. In those days, there were few outdoor security lights. My family was getting ready to attend a National Honor Society induction for my older sister. I was standing in the living room of our home and looking north through a large sliding glass door. It was dark outside. My father was a farmer, but he had received his "wings" from the USNavy during World War II. He had done quite a bit of night flying and was trained in night flying by using the constellations. He was somewhat interested in the reports that pilots would see unusual objects, but he wasn't a nut. He spent many hours alone on the tractor, cultivating soybean fields at night. The evening of my UFO sighting, my father was taking a bath. I saw what at first looked like a large airliner over our neighbor's barn, but the "airplane" didn't move or appear to get closer and larger. There were white lights that looked like windows of the plane, but the plane would have been way too low to be on approach to the Indianapolis (Weir Cook) airport. The airport is located about 20 miles to the north west of my parents' farm. When I realized that this was not a jet, I shouted, "Daddy, come quick.. It's a UFO! It's a UFO!" There had been several sightings around Indianapolis during the summer of 1965. My father came running, with just a towel on. The whole family tried to see the object, but it darted quickly to the west and disappeared. I was the only person who really saw the object.

When we got to the high school, I was still rattled. Then some of the other students said that the radio had reported that people saw a UFO over Southern Plaza, a shopping center located near US 31 on the south side of Indianapolis.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-03-21

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