UFOMYST
CaseCircle2005

Brazil, IN, USA

((NUFORC Note: Student report. Possible hoax. PD)) Red object formed out of a yellow one, then they joined again

Report quality: Low5/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-10-18
Where
Brazil, IN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 Minutes
Geo
39.524, -87.125 · exact
Slug
circle-over-brazil-in-2005-cb3753
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Brazil, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 85 sightings in 2005.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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