UFOMYST
CaseChanging2006

Merriville and Gary, IN, USA

Lights of unknown origin spotted by 3 over Merriville and Gary, Indiana.

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.

  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-07-03
Where
Merriville and Gary, IN, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
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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…

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In context

  • Merriville and Gary, IN shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 64 reports came from Indiana in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Report

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