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UFO case file · UFO-5928

Indianapolis entity encounter — November 26, 1983

CE3United States1983-11-26

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Indianapolis entity encounter — November 26, 1983
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Indianapolis entity encounter — November 26, 1983

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

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