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CaseLight2014

Ft. Wayne, IN, USA

((HOAX??)) Orange beams in the sky; a "V" shaped lighting bolt struck it; I-65 S, N of Ft. Wayne and north of Indianapolis.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2014-02-25
Where
Ft. Wayne, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
41.131, -85.129 · exact
Slug
light-over-ft-wayne-in-2014-b342a2
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

  • Ft. Wayne, IN shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 157 reports came from Indiana in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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