UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Indianapolis, IN, USA

Unidentified object in night skies over Indianapolis ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))

Report quality: Low26/100

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
  • Brief witness text (52 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
2004-05-05
Where
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
All evening
Geo
39.768, -86.158 · exact
Slug
light-over-indianapolis-in-2004-7a35b0
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 248 reports logged in Indianapolis, IN.
  • This case is one of 105 Indiana reports filed in 2004.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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