Indianapolis, IN, USA
Object left a neon orange trail in its wake. The trail diminished quickly, like a sparkler trail. At first I thought it was a shooting
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-03
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-indianapolis-in-2019-7a02df
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 248 reports logged in Indianapolis, IN.
- This case is one of 182 Indiana reports filed in 2019.
- 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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