CaseUnknown2012

Rensselaer, IN, USA

Three lights, one of them blinking. Moves north, then southeast, east, west, and every which way.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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 (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-21
Where
Rensselaer, IN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
30:00
Geo
40.937, -87.151 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-rensselaer-in-2012-16307a
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

  • Rensselaer, IN shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 146 reports came from Indiana in 2012.

Report

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