UFOMYST
CaseFireball2006

Carmel, IN, USA

BIG FIREBALL..

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (14 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-02-15
Where
Carmel, IN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20-30 minutes
Geo
39.978, -86.118 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-carmel-in-2006-32d0b0
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

  • This is one of 18 reports logged in Carmel, IN.
  • This case is one of 64 Indiana reports filed in 2006.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.