UFO case file · UFO-5928
Indianapolis entity encounter — November 26, 1983
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Case description
The Indianapolis listing records an evening humanoid report with one witness on November 26, 1983, citing the 1984 MUFON symposium proceedings. It does not identify the observer, describe the figure or say whether any craft was present. The exact event behind that short catalogue line could not be securely reconstructed from the material recovered for this record.
The cited symposium includes Budd Hopkins’s paper on the Kitley Woods family experiences near Indianapolis. Thomas Bullard’s detailed digest of that paper describes a late-November episode in which four-year-old Robby reportedly called out about a small man in his room. The boy said the figure communicated without moving its mouth, prevented him from moving and left through a closet. His mother Debbie reported an afterimage-like impression when she investigated. Bullard gives only late November; other later chronologies assign a related child episode to November 27 rather than the imported November 26 evening date.
That family narrative is useful source context, but neither its date nor the identity of this catalogue entry should be treated as settled. Hopkins’s broader investigation included hypnosis, and memories from other months or family members cannot simply be attached to an unidentified one-witness report. No craft description, independently verified entity image or physical trace is established for the November 26 entry. The plate is consequently a labeled residential location study, without borrowing a child, alien portrait or spacecraft from a possibly different episode.
Recorded details
- Local time
- Evening
- Entity description
- Humanoid Report, one witness.
- Coordinate precision
- LOCALITY_APPROXIMATE
- Date precision
- EXACT_DAY
Sources and further reading
- NICAP database JSON — full sequential public corpus
- NICAP database listing by date — source index PDF
- NICAP1983 chronology: November26 Indianapolis listing
- Thomas Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, vol.2, case195, digest of Hopkins1984 symposium paper
- MUFON1984 proceedings contents: The Haunting of Kitley Woods, Budd Hopkins
- Later chronology distinguishes November26 listing from November27 child account