Michigan City, IN, USA
3 lighted circular air craft above Lake Michigan. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of "twinkling" star?? 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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 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
- 2009-07-05
- Where
- Michigan City, IN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2 HRS
- Geo
- 41.708, -86.895 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-michigan-city-in-2009-732a7b
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
- Michigan City, IN shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 77 reports came from Indiana in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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