CaseFormation2005

Mishawaka, IN, USA

Several contrails that appeared to be in formation, VERY high in altitude. ((NUFORC Note: Probably not UFO related. Aircraft. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-10-29
Where
Mishawaka, IN, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1 minute
Geo
41.662, -86.159 · exact
Slug
formation-over-mishawaka-in-2005-5da8d2
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…

In context

  • Mishawaka, IN shows up 21 times across the archive.
  • 85 reports came from Indiana in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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