UFOMYST
CaseFlash2004

Wheatfield, IN, USA

Gradual bright white light at night illuminating the eastern sky and ground. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-10-24
Where
Wheatfield, IN, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
41.193, -87.056 · exact
Slug
flash-over-wheatfield-in-2004-0de552
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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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Wheatfield, IN.
  • This case is one of 105 Indiana reports filed in 2004.
  • Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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