Fort Wayne, IN, USA
Midwest clear sky unidentified flashing object.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-24
- Where
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.131, -85.129 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-fort-wayne-in-2013-f4c8f5
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…
Local cluster
Fort Wayne, IN logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2013.
In context
- One of 105 documented reports from Fort Wayne, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 146 sightings in 2013.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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