UFOMYST
CaseLight2009

Chesterton, IN, USA

Was out looking at night sky for the comet. Saw a object like a star that kept changing color from blue red yellow to white. Looked l

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-13
Where
Chesterton, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
45 min
Geo
41.611, -87.064 · exact
Slug
light-over-chesterton-in-2009-f1c4ae
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…

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Chesterton, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 77 sightings in 2009.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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