UFOMYST
CaseFormation2004

Lafayette, IN, USA

4-6 fire-orange objects in formation turning into many more objects flying erratically

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-10-28
Where
Lafayette, IN, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.417, -86.875 · exact
Slug
formation-over-lafayette-in-2004-f618ad
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 41 reports logged in Lafayette, IN.
  • This case is one of 105 Indiana reports filed in 2004.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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