UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Fort Wayne, IN, USA

My 3-year-old child, a friend and myself were sitting outside on my porch at our new home together one evening. It was a pretty chilly

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-10-16
Where
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 min.
Geo
41.131, -85.129 · exact
Slug
circle-over-fort-wayne-in-2011-acab19
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Fort Wayne, IN shows up 105 times across the archive.
  • 96 reports came from Indiana in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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