UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Carmel, IN, USA

round,small no bigger than a van, red lights surrounding it, seen in dark sky,seemed to be falling at first.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-15
Where
Carmel, IN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.978, -86.118 · exact
Slug
circle-over-carmel-in-2008-01d830
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

  • This is one of 18 reports logged in Carmel, IN.
  • This case is one of 124 Indiana reports filed in 2008.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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