Merrillville, IN, USA
Five fireball objects which were being escorted by military helicopters. The picture I took showed five disc shaped objects
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-01
- Where
- Merrillville, IN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.483, -87.333 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-merrillville-in-2009-3dc280
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
- Merrillville, IN shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 77 reports came from Indiana in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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