Batesville, IN, USA
Huge round black rimmed circle appeared in sky over Int 74 near Batesville, IN on 6/14/08
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-14
- Where
- Batesville, IN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 39.300, -85.222 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-batesville-in-2008-d2b61b
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…
In context
- One of 4 documented reports from Batesville, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 124 sightings in 2008.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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