CaseSphere2022

Bloomington, IN, USA

At 1:30 AM to 7:30 AM in the eastern sky witnessed multiple spheres with orbiting red lights moving slow followed by a flash in the sky

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 21600s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-02-05
Where
Bloomington, IN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
6 hours
Geo
39.165, -86.526 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bloomington-in-2022-c7bea2
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

  • Bloomington, IN has 38 sightings on file here.
  • 2022 brought 34 reports from Indiana.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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