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From: Kenny Young <task@fuse.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:52:43 -0400
Fwd Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 01:12:29 -0400
Subject: Michigantown, Indiana UFO Sighting


UFO REPORT: Michigantown, Indiana

The National UFO Reporting Center, received a report from a man
who advised of a sighting approximately 3-miles north of
Michigantown, Indiana (Clinton County), where 2-witnesses
observed a most peculiar "circle of yellow lights descend
vertically down from the sky."

The object was reported to then rotate, tilt "upward," and
disappear back up into the sky.

NUFORC Director Peter Davenport advised of the UFO sighting late
Wednesday evening and stressed that the reportee wishes to
remain anonymous. For this summation, the witness will be listed
only as Mr. Stephenson.

Stephenson, an instructor of electronics, was contacted by
telephone around 9:50 a.m. on Thursday morning, August 27.

He said that while driving north along Highway 29 at around
10:15 p.m. on Monday, August 24, 1998, he and his nephew became
aware of an unusual object that was visually spotted low over
the roadway near their car.

"We watched these lights drop out of the sky... very, very close
to us at around 25 to 30 yards distant, it was 'powerline'
high," said Mr. Stephenson.

"Now that I think about it," he said, "it resembled the bottom
of a helicopter with two rows on the bottom of the base, but it
rotated and looked like a solid line of lights. It rotated 90
degrees and tilted vertically and then it went up and
disappeared."

The nephew, seated in the passengers seat, said that the object
appeared to him to be of a circular shape. "When it rotated, my
nephew said it was like a circle. He also thought the yellow
lights had a blue tint," Stephenson added.

Stephenson said the object was first seen low to the ground near
the roadway, probably a little higher than a powerline. It then
looked as if it was starting to 'go up' and in the split second
that he leaned forward to watch the object, it then just seemed
to rapidly ascend and disappear.

He drove on for a short distance and then stopped his car in
attempt to see the object again.

During the sighting, both Stephenson and his nephew were
cognizant that they were visually observing something unusual.
The duration of the event was around 5 or 6 seconds, and no
sound was heard in conjunction with the object. Stephenson
recalls that he even switched off his radio to detect any sound.

He drives the area routinely going to work, and the area is
comprised of several small country towns, large bean feilds and
cornfields. In the area near the sighting location, there are
about 3 or 4 cell-phone towers that could be seen in the
distance, spanning the horizon. Around 2 or 3 miles from the
sighting location, there are east-to-west powerlines crossing
Highway 29.

Mr. Stephenson said that he knows of no other witnesses, but
added that another car coming from the north and heading south
was within 1-mile of the object when it was sighted.

Stephenson said that there had been a severe storm earlier in
the evening and skies were 'pitch black' at about 6:30 in the
evening, but at the time of the sighting the sky was clear and
many stars were visible. The temperature was about 60 degrees,
but he had the air conditioner turned on in his car.

He talked to some friends about the unusual object later, and
after talking to some colleagues at work, decided to report the
UFO to the National UFO Reporting Center hotline directed by
Peter Davenport.

On Thursday morning at 9:40 a.m., The Clinton County Sheriff's
Office (765-654-5563) was contacted and the dispatcher who
answered was asked if any UFO sightings had been reported near
Michigantown. He was not aware of any UFOs being reported to his
department. The dispatcher took my number and said he would call
back if he had found any information for me.

The Frankfort Police Department (765-654-4431), the nearest
local department about 5-miles from Michigantown, was also
contacted. They also had heard of no UFO sightings.

There is no Michigantown Police Department, as everything is
dispatched through the county.

The descriptive characteristics of a flying object, near to the
ground with yellow-lights in a circular row, tilting and
disappearing, complicates our efforts to explain this in
conventional terms. This description, in addition to the
reported 'silent' performance, is not compatible with a
helicopter or other aircraft explanation. It sounds like an
interesting UFO report.

Michigantown is about 42.5 miles north of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Filed;
August 27, 1998
Kenny Young
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