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
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: 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
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…
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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