Indianapolis, IN, USA
Several boomerang shaped craft that started out like a huge bright red/orange ball of light, diminished to an amber glow, then to black
Report quality: High73/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-03
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-indianapolis-in-2013-ee555f
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
July 2013 was a busy month for Indianapolis, IN: 6 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 248 reports logged in Indianapolis, IN.
- This case is one of 146 Indiana reports filed in 2013.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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