South Bend, IN, USA
Gf and I witnessed 3 brilliant red flashes on the sw horizon in the black of night
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-30
- Where
- South Bend, IN, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- Few seconds
- Geo
- 41.683, -86.250 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-south-bend-in-2020-55fd1a
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 58 documented reports from South Bend, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 193 sightings in 2020.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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