CaseTriangle2018

Lafayette, IN, USA

Initially observed lighted mass upon leaving south side Urgent Care and it appeared to be above or close to grocery plaza on 231. When

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.

  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-30
Where
Lafayette, IN, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.417, -86.875 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-lafayette-in-2018-9ab33d
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

  • This is one of 41 reports logged in Lafayette, IN.
  • This case is one of 92 Indiana reports filed in 2018.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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