New Palestine, IN, USA
Squared flying object in western sky of New Palestine Indiana April 26 2012
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-04-26
- Where
- New Palestine, IN, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 39.722, -85.889 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-new-palestine-in-2012-8b9516
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
- One of 6 documented reports from New Palestine, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 146 sightings in 2012.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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