UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Princeton, IN, USA

Return of short-lived bright orange lights in night sky NNW of Ft Branch/Princeton, IN area that dissipate after initial illuminations.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-15
Where
Princeton, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15-20 seconds
Geo
38.355, -87.568 · exact
Slug
light-over-princeton-in-2004-13556d
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

  • Princeton, IN shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 105 reports came from Indiana in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.