Indianapolis, IN, USA
2 oval some what metallic objects at different alt. crossing sky underneath two passing jets headed in opposite dir. ((MUFON report))
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-05
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-indianapolis-in-2018-1d074b
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
- Indianapolis, IN shows up 248 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Indiana in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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