UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Lafayette, IN, USA

this aint no hoax, it for real, i saw what i saw!

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-04-16
Where
Lafayette, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
40.417, -86.875 · exact
Slug
light-over-lafayette-in-2008-c62f8e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 41 documented reports from Lafayette, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 124 sightings in 2008.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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