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CaseSphere2016

Lapel, IN, USA

On Thursday July 14, 2016, at around 11:30 pm, I went outside for one last cigarette before bed. It was a beautiful clear night, so I w

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-14
Where
Lapel, IN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
—
Geo
40.068, -85.848 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lapel-in-2016-f2d43d
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

  • Lapel, IN shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 86 reports came from Indiana in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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