NUFORC Sighting 178071

Occurred: 2023-09-04 22:30 Local
Reported: 2023-09-05 12:04 Pacific
Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Bluffton, IN, USA
Location details: Oubache State Park campground

Shape: Light
Explanation: Planet/Star - Possible
Characteristics: Changed Colo

One light continuosly changing from green & white to red & white & moved up & down & side to side, sometimes barely, other times more .

My husband and I were sitting at our campfire in Oubache State Park campground on September 4th, 1030 p.m. (the night after almost everyone else there had left from Labor Day weekend). He looked into the sky (his phone compass app said it was 284° WNW) and saw a light that looked like a star, except that it was changing colors (back and forth from white and red to white and green at varying lengths and speeds and sometimes just white). It was also randomly moving up and down and side to side and at angles.

I am slightly near-sighted and couldn't see the colors and movements at first, so we moved away from the campfire to somewhere darker. Then I saw what he saw, including the colors and small movements. As we were standing there, the light suddenly started to "zip" further away from its originating point and then "zip" back. This happened at random intervals, in random directions, and at random distances from its originating point. It always returned to its originating point. We didn't hear any sound accompanying the light.

I called our friends who live in the country in Marion, Indiana (46952) when this was happening and they saw the exact same thing we did.

The light gradually slipped lower and lower in the sky as time went on, like stars do. But I'm 54 years old and my husband is 64 years old and we've never seen a star behave anything close to this way.

My husband has owned his own payment processing services company for over 30 years. He is a 10-year Air Force veteran, and has degrees in Mechanical engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Aeronautical Engineering. My background is in Community, Economic, and Workforce Development.

My husband is semi-retired and I am physically disabled. My husband was also very involved for several years in paranormal investigation; and was a respected member of that community. He has conducted approximately 150 investigations, including one in Kokomo, Indiana in 2008 the night of the Kokomo Boom of 2008. Their team was seeing an unusually high level of activity that night; but when the Boom happened, all activity stopped. He also served as an on-site investigator for the documentary "The Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm" (on Prime Video).

He is a logical, scientific-minded, well-spoken person with a healthy curiosity for mystery. I lean more to the skeptical side; but am also curious, love science and mystery, and well-spoken.

Note: the 1st attached video was taken last night by me on my cell phone at 10:57 p.m. the 2nd video was taken by my husband on his cell phone starting at 10:59 p.m. last night.

Posted 2023-09-10