CaseChanging2005

Crown Point, IN, USA

Reddish fireball with tail/sphere over Crown Point, Indiana

Report quality: Moderate48/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-07
Where
Crown Point, IN, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.417, -87.365 · exact
Slug
changing-over-crown-point-in-2005-e372a4
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • One of 27 documented reports from Crown Point, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 85 sightings in 2005.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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