Rochester, IN, USA
Round orange colored lights in the sky that lasted only seconds and disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-08
- Where
- Rochester, IN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 25seconds
- Geo
- 41.065, -86.216 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-rochester-in-2004-21d2b9
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
3 reports came out of Rochester, IN in April 2004 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Rochester, IN has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 105 reports from Indiana.
- The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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