Indianapolis, IN, USA
Heard a high pitched ringing and turned around to see a shiny, silver space craft.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-03-02
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 7 mins
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-indianapolis-in-2022-24b7fa
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
- Indianapolis, IN shows up 248 times across the archive.
- 34 reports came from Indiana in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 0.2% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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