Porter/Burns Harbor, IN, USA
Circle object w/ rings of white light around the center w/ other spots of light circling around the rings; object was not moving.
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: 28800s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-28
- Where
- Porter/Burns Harbor, IN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- All Night
- Geo
- 41.616, -87.074 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-porter-burns-harbor-in-2014-117d2d
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
- Porter/Burns Harbor, IN has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 157 reports from Indiana.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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