Cicero, IN, USA
craft changed direction 6 times within 1 minute. Disappeared ater every 5 flashes for 30 seconds and would move opposite direction. Nei
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-31
- Where
- Cicero, IN, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 mins
- Geo
- 40.124, -86.013 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-cicero-in-2009-72005d
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 5 reports logged in Cicero, IN.
- This case is one of 77 Indiana reports filed in 2009.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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