South Bend, IN, USA
Rectangular configuration, no lights, haze or aura around it at high altitude.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-03
- Where
- South Bend, IN, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- Few seconds
- Geo
- 41.683, -86.250 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-south-bend-in-2019-4a7bc5
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
- South Bend, IN shows up 58 times across the archive.
- 182 reports came from Indiana in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cross — the all-time rate is 0.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.