UFOMYST
CaseCigar2015

Elkhart, IN, USA

In the back yard of a buddies house throwing horse shoes (by myself while waiting for my friend to finish cutting 2 other friends hair)

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-06-05
Where
Elkhart, IN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
41.682, -85.977 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-elkhart-in-2015-6ce5ee
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Elkhart, IN.
  • This case is one of 82 Indiana reports filed in 2015.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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