UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

Eaton, IN, USA

2 bright non blinking, moving stars. ((NUFORC Note: ISS and Space Shuttle in formation. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-08
Where
Eaton, IN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.340, -85.351 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-eaton-in-2009-d9aa03
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Eaton, IN has 2 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 77 reports from Indiana.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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