CaseFlash2015
Indianapolis (northwest part), IN, USA
Two intense flashes of light that looked liked transformers blowing.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-01-08
- Where
- Indianapolis (northwest part), IN, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-indianapolis-northwest-part-in-2015-81af89
Wave
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Indianapolis (northwest part), IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 82 sightings in 2015.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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