Indianapolis, IN, USA
((HOAX??)) Object changed shape and left a tree flew away-in a 3-4point array shape-like a hat or disc-was gone-30secs or less.1
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-08-24
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30seconds
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-indianapolis-in-2008-abb3fd
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 has 248 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 124 reports from Indiana.
Report
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