CaseFireball2014

Wheatfield, IN, USA

It was traveling across the sky slower then faster. Moving up and down and in tight circles. Close to town or over. Another white ball

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-04-11
Where
Wheatfield, IN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
unknown
Geo
41.193, -87.056 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wheatfield-in-2014-fe622a
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

  • Wheatfield, IN has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 157 reports from Indiana.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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