La Porte, IN, USA
Brite lights moving in sequence in triangular formation various size with no lighting other than being very bright
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 78s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-22
- Where
- La Porte, IN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1.30 min
- Geo
- 41.608, -86.714 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-la-porte-in-2012-7d94bb
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
- La Porte, IN shows up 17 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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