UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2013

Lafayette, IN, USA

White light object cigar shaped turned off its lights and spun 360 degrees and headed north.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-11-30
Where
Lafayette, IN, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.417, -86.875 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-lafayette-in-2013-f69fea
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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In context

  • One of 41 documented reports from Lafayette, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 146 sightings in 2013.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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