CaseUnknown2011

Highland, IN, USA

Bright lights in the sky hovering for over hours. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a star or planet. Probably not a genuine UFO. 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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 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
2011-12-11
Where
Highland, IN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
over 2 hours
Geo
41.554, -87.452 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-highland-in-2011-7efb69
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

  • Highland, IN has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2011 brought 96 reports from Indiana.

Report

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