LaPorte, IN, USA
bright circle shaped object near the sun looking south
Report quality: Moderate54/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-05-23
- Where
- LaPorte, IN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 41.608, -86.714 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-laporte-in-2011-021da4
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…
Local cluster
LaPorte, IN logged 4 reports in the single month of May 2011.
In context
- One of 19 documented reports from LaPorte, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 96 sightings in 2011.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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