UFO Sightings in Mishawaka: The Documented UFO Record

Aliens & the Unexplained: The Documented UFO Record

Mishawaka's documented UFO record is a one-line record, and this section prints it at its true size. In the whole official archive of the flying-saucer era, this city's name appears exactly once: a single line in the Air Force's index for 1952, closing a report from Mishawaka as "INSUFFICIENT DATA" — the report too thin, as it reached the investigators, to judge at all. Around that line the record holds a share of the night in 1952 when the region's newspaper organized a two-state sky watch over counties that included this one; three unadjudicated reports in the modern volunteer database; one brilliant fireball that the local press reported from a Mishawaka sidewalk in 2021 and that astronomers identified, within the day, as a falling Russian satellite; and, class by class, a set of documented absences — no Mishawaka airship in 1897, no Mishawaka report in the wave literature of 1947, no Mishawaka case in the great wave of 1973, no Mishawaka organization or investigator in the subject's whole local history. What follows takes each item at the size of its record. A sighting below is a documented report, with its carrier and date named; it is never printed as an event established.