UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2013

Indianapolis, IN, USA

((HOAX??)) Massive cylinder shaped object, thousands of feet long. ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no personal data. PD))

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2013-06-29
Where
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
39.768, -86.158 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-indianapolis-in-2013-68ecba
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Indianapolis, IN reports filed in June 2013.

In context

  • Indianapolis, IN shows up 248 times across the archive.
  • 146 reports came from Indiana in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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