CaseLight2015

Elkhart, IN, USA

Red lights in 2 different groups..first 4..then 3 more..raising up from low altitude in east Elkhart..heading north from prox sr20 @cre

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-09-06
Where
Elkhart, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
41.682, -85.977 · exact
Slug
light-over-elkhart-in-2015-35ad92
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

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Elkhart, IN.
  • This case is one of 82 Indiana reports filed in 2015.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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