Indianapolis, IN, USA
Red flame flying through the sky.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-20
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-indianapolis-in-2012-e34218
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Indianapolis, IN reports filed in June 2012.
In context
- Indianapolis, IN shows up 248 times across the archive.
- 146 reports came from Indiana in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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