Salem, IN, USA
Pulsing, shape-shifting UFO in Southern Indiana. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius is to the left of, and below, Orion. 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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 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
- 2010-08-28
- Where
- Salem, IN, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 38.606, -86.101 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-salem-in-2010-507807
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Salem, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 97 sightings in 2010.
- Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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