An Indiana parent and son report watching a "gray amorphous mass" that moved northeast across the southern horizon for about one minute at a high rate of speed at 3:30 a.m. on January 5, 2012, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
"It passed behind a group of trees and based on previous viewing of aircraft landing and take offs at a nearby airport, I would place the altitude at between 500 to 1,000 meters," the reporting witness stated. "The object quickly accelerated and vanished toward the southern horizon."
The reporting witness described the object.
"The object had no identifiable shape other than blob-like and an empty gray color. It was like looking into a hole that you cannot see the bottom of, but as it moved it did block out the stars behind it."
The son did not get as good a look at the object as the parent did.
"My son saw 'something' but was looking in a slightly different direction from me so I cannot say he saw the same object. Having seen aircraft and helicopters in the same area during the day and night I can safely say this was not an aircraft of any design. In fact I think I would be safe in saying it was not a structured object at all."
No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on January 5, 2012. No town name was mentioned in the public portion of the report. The above quotes were edited for clarity.
Indiana is a current UFO ALERT 5 rating, with a low number of UFO sightings nationally. Indiana had 5 reports in December, the 34th highest reporting state - while California had 63 reports in December 2011 - the highest reporting state in the nation.
You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page.
The following is the unedited and as yet uninvestigated report filed with MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Indiana MUFON State Director Stewart Hill investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
IN, January 5, 2012 - grey amorphous mass. MUFON Case 34631.
At approximately 3:30AM my son and I were outside our apartment trying to view the meteor show. I was looking northeast when something caught my eye moving to the south. I turned and viewed an amorphous mass of nothing for about 1 minute moving toward the southern horizon at a high rate of speed. It passed behind a group of trees and based on previous viewing of aircraft landing and taking off at a nearby airport, I would place the altitude at between 500 to 1000 meters. The object quickly accelerated and vanished toward the southern horizon. The object had no identifiable shape other than blob-like and an empty grey color. It was like looking into a hole that you cannot see the bottom of but as it moved it did block out the stars behind it. My son saw 'something' but was looking in a slightly different direction from me so I cannot say he saw the same object. Having seen aircraft and helicopters in the same area during the day and night I can safely say this was not an aircraft of any design. In fact I think I would be safe in saying it was not a structured object at all.
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