Chesterton, IN, USA
8 bright orange objects seen "flying" north to south on clear night at 11:25pm; scattered formation with 3 leading the rest.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-09
- Where
- Chesterton, IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.611, -87.064 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-chesterton-in-2012-7622d1
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
- Chesterton, IN shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 146 reports came from Indiana in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.