Charestown, IN, USA
it's was very brght :and ciricular object that moves at a fast rate of speed beyond the rate of a normal aircraft
Report quality: Low39/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-15
- Where
- Charestown, IN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- ten min
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- circle-over-charestown-in-2004-45038b
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…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Charestown, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 105 sightings in 2004.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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