New Palestine, IN, USA
I couldn't believe what we were seeing in daylight. It was a large metallic object that just hovered for over 30 minutes
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-07
- Where
- New Palestine, IN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- aboout 45 mins
- Geo
- 39.722, -85.889 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-new-palestine-in-2008-a70115
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
July 2008 was a busy month for New Palestine, IN: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in New Palestine, IN.
- This case is one of 124 Indiana reports filed in 2008.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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