Gary, IN, USA
A group of lights with strange and independent movement were hovering over the southern shores of Lake Michigan
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-06
- Where
- Gary, IN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 min
- Geo
- 41.593, -87.346 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gary-in-2009-22f533
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
- One of 13 documented reports from Gary, 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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