CaseLight2000
South Bend, IN, USA
saw light/western sky/thought it was planet/mars?(red hue on white)/no movement/observed for four five seconds/looked away/back-gone
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-12-01
- Where
- South Bend, IN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.683, -86.250 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-south-bend-in-2000-2b9944
In context
- South Bend, IN shows up 58 times across the archive.
- 39 reports came from Indiana in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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