Fort Wayne, IN, USA
4 white disk shape objects circling at the night sky. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the lights might have been advertising lights. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-10-07
- Where
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.131, -85.129 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-fort-wayne-in-2012-c77843
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
- This is one of 105 reports logged in Fort Wayne, IN.
- This case is one of 146 Indiana reports filed in 2012.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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