UFOMYST
CaseCigar2022

Tipton, IN, USA

Saw a cigar shaped craft with lights on the underneath hovering above the city flying at fast speeds ((Starlink satellites??))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-04-22
Where
Tipton, IN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
Saw the craft for 5-10min
Geo
40.282, -86.041 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-tipton-in-2022-05edda
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Tipton, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 34 sightings in 2022.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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