CaseDisk2013

Ft. Branch, IN, USA

Witnessed bright light with red lights west of Ft. Branch. Followed it and witnessed it go low to the ground then raise up over trees.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-28
Where
Ft. Branch, IN, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
38.251, -87.581 · exact
Slug
disk-over-ft-branch-in-2013-5b9004
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…

In context

  • Ft. Branch, IN shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 146 reports came from Indiana in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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