CaseFormation2013
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Many white objects in the sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-28
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-indianapolis-in-2013-6920f1
Wave
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
- One of 248 documented reports from Indianapolis, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 146 sightings in 2013.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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