CaseOval2017

Goshen, IN, USA

Walked out of my house in the country, and seen a ball if light.It was lower than normal for anything which would make sense to see

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 (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-22
Where
Goshen, IN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
Geo
41.582, -85.834 · exact
Slug
oval-over-goshen-in-2017-ad5578
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…

In context

  • Goshen, IN has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 57 reports from Indiana.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

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.