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CaseFireball2013

Fort Wayne, IN, USA

It was just before dawn and the sky was clear with just a little fog. I was just getting out of my car at work when I saw the bright fi

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-09-26
Where
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
41.131, -85.129 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-fort-wayne-in-2013-16e636
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

September 2013 was a busy month for Fort Wayne, IN: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 105 reports logged in Fort Wayne, IN.
  • This case is one of 146 Indiana reports filed in 2013.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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