Lafayette, IN, USA
Orange lit square object, over head, just above tree tops. Size of a small house. No sound.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-08-15
- Where
- Lafayette, IN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1-2 min.
- Geo
- 40.417, -86.875 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-lafayette-in-2009-312a9c
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 — 4 Lafayette, IN reports filed in August 2009.
In context
- Lafayette, IN shows up 41 times across the archive.
- 77 reports came from Indiana in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.