Portland, IN, USA
I was standing outside and I happen to look up facing north, and I seen a line of dots moving in a line formation heading east.Then
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-22
- Where
- Portland, IN, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- About five minutes
- Geo
- 40.434, -84.978 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-portland-in-2021-b7c87e
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Portland, IN.
- This case is one of 86 Indiana reports filed in 2021.
- Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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