Background

The following case was originally submitted to the Black Vault and was assigned to TBV Investigations Researcher Richard Kidd for analysis.

Witness Testimony

“It was a long time ago.I was standing on the dunes on lake Michigan. Looking eastward. about 4 pm, clear day sunny sky. Brick red rectangle still in the sky over the lighthouse. about 100 ft above the lighthouse, about 100 by 300 ft in size. Had angle beams on the side, looked like circle windows on side. also large rivets and metal pieces of various odd shapes attached. Could not see anything in “windows” and there were no lights or sound. I know what I saw, after watching it sit in the sky for about 20 minutes, I went home. Also remember unusual incidences that happened to me shortly after that.”

The Analysis

Have been waiting for a reply from Gloria regarding her sighting in 1966. As of yet, I have not received any replies to my email and no call back from reporting witness. I am going to send one last email to Gloria and hopefully get a reply back within a couple days. If I do not receive a reply in response to my email, I will conclude with my investigation and submit a final report as to any information I have found connected with her sighting.

Conclusion

Due to the lack of contact of the witness, I am recommending that this case be closed due to lack of evidence.

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Background

The following case was submitted to The Black Vault / TBV Investigations on June 16, 2018, just a few days after the sighting. It was assigned to TBV Investigations’ researcher Tiffany Hahn for investigation and analysis.

Witness Testimony

The witness submitted the following testimony. Only minor corrections were made for clarification:

“While flying back from [Las Vegas], heading due east toward Indianapolis I was taking a video of [lightning]below. When I watched the video, I noticed a rectangular object flying by, turning from a bright white to a mild green color and made a noise going by. This was somewhere over western Indiana. At 40,000 feet altitude, I have no idea what this might be. Note: The video shows the object going up, but in reality it is going from left to right.”

The Evidence

The following video was submitted by the witness. It is displayed here, unedited and in the original state it was received:

The Analysis

by Tiffany Hahn, TBV Investigations

Witness Pat Alles’ statement contained helpful pieces of data relevant to this investigation and included video of the reported event. 

The witness reported that they were traveling on Southwest flight from Las Vegas, NV to Indianapolis, IN. Based on the provided information, I believe this is the flight the witness was on, noted below. The flight departed McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 11, 2018 at 8:01pm local time. The flight landed at Indianapolis International Airport in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 12, 2018 at 2:21am local time. The witness’ approximation of June 12, 2018 at 1:00am appears feasible, and any time discrepancy may be accounted for due to time zone changes.

It seems likely that a potential event over “Western Indiana,” as the witness reported, would have occurred between 1:00am and 2:00am EDT on June 12, 2018 due to the flight path of the aircraft noted above. 

Weather is frequently a factor in witnessing an unexplained aerial event. The witness reported recording lightning in the clouds below the plane. This lightning is viewable in the provided video. As you will note from the weather history below, it does appear that there were clouds and rain over Indianapolis in the early morning hours of June 12, 2018. 

Despite the weather being unfavorable for viewing aerial phenomena from the ground, I conducted a search at the National UFO Reporting Center website for reports in the evening hours of June 11th and the early morning hours of June 12th near the State of Indiana. Reports for the month of June 2018 can be viewed here: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxe201806.html

There is only one report with information matching the date and location mentioned by the witness.

The event reported to the “National UFO Reporting Center” lists the date and time as “approximate.” As such, I do not know if these are related sightings. They seem to describe different events. 

Video Analysis

The video provided by the witness is 10 seconds in length. In the first few seconds, there is what appears to be flashes of light that were confirmed by the witness to be lightning in the clouds below. The object in question appears in the video around the 3-second mark. It appears to travel from the lower left to the upper right portion of the screen. I slowed down the anomaly and captured the 17 frames where the anomaly is visible. I created an animated .gif with these 17 frames, as seen below. I put a red line diagonally through the screen to accentuate the fact that the anomaly is not going in a straight line. Around Frame 03 and 04, the object appears to flutter or float closer to the red line, then again moves away from it. 

Although not conclusive, it seems unlikely that a potential UFO flying at high speed would flutter or float. This information may indicate that the light colored anomaly is a piece of debris in the air outside the airplane illuminated by cabin lights, or possibly a reflection of something inside the cabin onto the multi-paned window of the airplane. Further, I believe the light colored anomaly is out of focus because the witness was recording lightning far below and the debris flew close to the window or was a reflection fairly close to the window. If the camera were focused far below, something close to the lens would appear out of focus, and the lens would not have had time to focus before it was out of view.

Here is a clip of the same video, with brightness increased:

And a screen shot, possibly indicated an arm illuminated by a smart watch / Apple Watch? This is not conclusive, but one possibility. 

Increasing the brightness also reveals the witness did not have the camera lens flush with the window, which opens up the large possibility the light was a reflection from within the cabin. The light source in the following freeze frame is the lightning, and the cut off to the left and the arrows indicate the edge of the window, which allows a lot of ‘room’ for reflections to take place on the window pane and reflect back into the camera offering an illusion of an object outside the plane, like a UFO. 

The witness also indicated that the visual anomaly was accompanied by a strange sound, a sound that the witness attributed to the possible UFO. 

A visualization of the unedited audio from the video appears as follows.

After some editing, I was able to reduce some of the background noise created by the plane’s engine. The visualization of the EDITED audio is as follows.

My edited audio can be heard here:

The visualization of the edited audio above is consistent with human voice patterns. Additionally, both myself and the witness agreed that the edited audio sounds like a human female voice. The witness and myself also discussed how the recording device was inside the plane. If the sound had originated from outside the plane, it should have been audible to everyone inside the plane if it were loud enough to be recorded. The witness reported that they did not hear anything at the time of the recording nor did anyone inside the plane appear to investigate a strange sound or mention it verbally.

Conclusions

While recording lightning below their commercial flight over Indiana, witness Pat Alles recorded a light colored visual anomaly and accompanying audio. Upon investigating, the reported date, time, and location appear to be correct based on developed flight information. 

Upon analyzing the visual and audio portions of the provided video, several items were noted. I do not have any reason to believe that the video has been falsified or tampered with in any meaningful way. It may have been cropped from a longer video, but this does not affect this investigation. Based on the fluttering behavior of the light colored anomaly and it being out of focus, I believe it is a piece of debris outside the plane’s window. After editing the video to reduce some of the plane’s engine noise, the audio accompanying the video appears to be that of a human female voice. 

It seems likely that this is not a UFO and is explainable.

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I was home alone and decided to go to the kitchen to get a glass of water and maybe find a snack. Just as I approached the kitchen/dining room area (they’re the same room and we have a bay-window/patio door there) I noticed what I immediately thought was a helicopter about 300-400 feet away, just across the street and above the tree-line. Because we kind of live in the country, I thought that was unusual… then it hit me that I couldn’t hear any noise at all! And then the obvious shape difference hit me like a bag of rocks and I ran for my camera – literally (I almost tripped over a rug).

I don’t know how long it was there before I saw it, but it hung around for 2 or 3 minutes after I noticed it… not moving or flashing or anything. The only thing I noticed was a sort of wavy-ness of the air surrounding the object – that’s probably what stuck me most, actually. It resembled kind of what you see over a hot road on a summer day. It was getting dark, but I distinctly remember the dark tree line shimmering just below the object, against the sky-glow.

I had just enough time to take a picture on my camera (before the batteries died), and then I got one on my cell phone right before it “disappeared” — I say that, because I believe it just went directly away from me at a high speed very suddenly… it actually appeared to grow smaller and disappear, but curve up slightly as it was doing so. The direction was about directly westward I believe.

Long ago, when I was a young kid, I remember seeing a funny light in the sky (from very far away) and watching it do all sorts of “tricks” ~ but I couldn’t actually see it as an object. This is the only other time that I have seen something this close, that I know from my own eyes what I saw in a detailed manner. Very exciting indeed (although the first couple nights were difficult to sleep well!)

MUFON submitter 9511

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The following case was investigated by the late UFO Researcher Kenny Young. It is archived here for reference and research:

SUBJECT: Sighting of unusual figure
LOCATION: Manchester, Indiana, North Hogan Road (Dearborn County)
DATE: Saturday, January 24 – 7:30 p.m.

SUMMARY

A 17-year old motorist traveling almost 10-miles north of Aurora, Indiana around 7:30 p.m. at night on Saturday,January 24, claims to have encountered an unusual ‘figure’ in the roadway.

The story was first related second-hand by his uncle, Jerry Schedel (name used with permission), to Bob Leibold of Natural Light Productions, producer of the Cincinnati-based cable television program “UFO Update: LIVE!” on Sunday, January 25. After arrangements were made, I spoke directly with the primary claimant by telephone on two occasions after 8:30 p.m. Monday evening, January 26, confirming the story earlier given and asking additional questions to the witness.

The witness lives in Manchester,Indiana and is a senior at South Dearborn High School. He has 1-sister currently in College and lives at home with his mother and father. His name will not be used in this report.

While driving his black Chevrolet Cavalier,a 1999 2-door model southbound along North Hogan Road, near Manchester,Indiana, a “figure” was spotted in the headlights of the automobile a sit was crouched down near a puddle of water. From the driver’s perspective,the “figure” was spotted out the windshield on the right of the car.

“I passed it and looked in rear view mirror, then it was standing,” he said.

After passing the frail-looking figure,the driver looked into his rear view mirror and again observed – illuminated by the tail lights of his car – what he described as a tall, abnormal figure that moved strangely with pointed joints that “buckled out.” He estimated the figure stood around 6 feet, seven inches.

“I had no idea what it was,” he said.”It had protruding joints and moved very strangely.”

The driver said he was able to ascertain the figure, alleged to be dark gray or black and ‘pencil thin,’ stand up and take several steps toward the woods along the roadside. The ‘figure’definitely walked on two legs and was thought, somehow, to be a male -although no clothing was noted. No face or eyes could be seen, but the witness had the impression that the ‘figure’ was looking straight at him.

The ‘figure’ was immediately thought to be something out of the ordinary, not a human being. The duration of the sighting was ‘hurried’ and possibly within the 3 to 4 second range.

The driver continued on for a small distance after passing the figure and finally put on his brakes, coming to a stop at an estimated 2-minute “walking distance” on the road from the location of the sighting. He looked back to further observe the entity.At that point, a second car came into view and approached from the opposite direction, passed and then reached the spot on the road where the ‘figure’was thought to be. The 17-year old motorist reportedly watched closely and observed the second car undertake what he thought to be an evasive maneuver near the vicinity of where he thought the figure would be situated,then the car turned around at that spot and shortly pulled up behind him, somewhat in the grass.

He could then see it was an elderly couple in the car, both in their late 60s or early 70s, and both with gray hair. The driver, who wore glasses,said: “Boy, did you see something back there? I’ll tell you right now, that was no person.”

The passenger in the silver 2-door Cavalier,an elderly female, said: “It was no human being. It was no man.”

The elderly couple were reportedly “spooked”but offered to follow the first witness the remainder of the trip down North Hogan Road, clearly in the opposite direction of their intended destination route.

It was thought that the elderly couple observed this same ‘figure’ on the opposite side of the road, and possibly had observed it more closely.

With the elderly couple following close in the car behind him, the 17-year old motorist continued down North Hogan Road to his destination at a friends house where he called home to tell his mother of the encounter, advising her to lock her doors (his residence is less than 3-miles from the sighting location), and then called his uncle.The witness was said to become increasingly hysterical, and within an hour was describing the figure as “an alien.”

When asked by his uncle if there could be any alternative explanation for this’figure,’ the witness said that there was a chance it could have been an”improperly dressed elderly person,” but still described the object as a “dark, shadowy figure” and “super anorexic” that could have been wandering naked and lost (temperatures in the 20s) in the area without a coat. If so, the witness reportedly said, he would have ‘felt badly’ for the person.

The uncle, Jerry Schedel, was contacted within an hour of the sighting and traveled to the area with his wife some 90-minutes later and did not see anything. There is a house and pond nearby,almost 1/4 mile from the area of the sighting. The uncle said his nephew knows the exact location and can identify the spot, but would not agree to return to the area until daylight.
 

COMMENT

His uncle did try to get his nephew to rationalize how this sighting might be explained, but the witness openly admits not accepting his own speculation efforts, instead telling this reporter: “I have no explanation for what this thing was, I think it must have been some type of alien.”

 He said that he did travel down North Hogan road this afternoon during daylight, slowing down to survey the location of the incident but saw nothing out of the ordinary and the ground was also covered with around 4-inches of snow.

The witness sounds very sincere and cognizant. He answered my questions patiently and offered continued assistance in the investigation process, such as drawing a picture of the ‘figure’and returning to the location for inspection of the area.

Filed,

Monday, January 26, 2004

KENNY YOUNG
UFO Research

FOLLOW UP INVESTIGATION BY RESEARCHER DONNIE BLESSING

I checked with the Aurora, Indiana Police Dept.at 812-926-1101 and the Dearborn County Sheriffs Dept. at 812-537-3431

No reports were made to either about any strange being seen in the area.  – DB

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Description (In Witness’s Own Words): I was outside working on my jeeps and the next thing I know I saw these lights that were really bright and kind a hurt my eyes. So then I see this light covering the whole sky and I heard a really loud noise like a tornado siren right in my ear!@! Then this beam of light starts to pull me up into this machine, luckily I was holding on to my jeep and they let me go.

I prayed really hard and I think that saved me because they left real quick when they saw I wasn’t letting go of the jeep.

Investigator’s Notes:  Certainly this is a spectacular story.  The witness did leave complete contact information (email, phone number , address, etc).  Normally hoaxers don’t leave contact information.  (There are exceptions to the rule.) 

The witness has not responded to my email message whereby I asked him several questions about his experience.  This more indicative that this encounter is a hoax.  Any updates to this case will be posted.

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