CaseChanging2020

Sheridan, IN, USA

Bright, unmoving light in night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a sighting of Venus?? 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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (36 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
2020-02-14
Where
Sheridan, IN, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
~1 hour
Geo
40.135, -86.221 · exact
Slug
changing-over-sheridan-in-2020-f1e40f
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

  • Sheridan, IN shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 193 reports came from Indiana in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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