UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Bluffton, IN, USA

The object did look like it was made out of a gray metal

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-06-03
Where
Bluffton, IN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 min.
Geo
40.739, -85.172 · exact
Slug
circle-over-bluffton-in-2010-d58cb8
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 4 documented reports from Bluffton, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 97 sightings in 2010.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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