Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Cigar-shaped objects with the orange flame in the front flying in a grid pattern.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-04
- Where
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- >1 hour (for all 5)
- Geo
- 41.131, -85.129 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-fort-wayne-in-2016-a9475d
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…
Local cluster
July 2016 was a busy month for Fort Wayne, IN: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 105 reports logged in Fort Wayne, IN.
- This case is one of 86 Indiana reports filed in 2016.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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