Mitchell, IN, USA
((NUFORC Note: Star or planet? PD)Brilliant white light, very high, swaying left, right, up, down, slowly but continuously moving up
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-30
- Where
- Mitchell, IN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Hours
- Geo
- 38.733, -86.474 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-mitchell-in-2005-b0ae77
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
- Mitchell, IN shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 85 reports came from Indiana in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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