CaseLight2018

Laporte, IN, USA

8 orange lights in the sky, fairly low, drifting, almost playing, no sound, moving slowly. Non threatening. ((anonymous report))

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-11-03
Where
Laporte, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
41.608, -86.714 · exact
Slug
light-over-laporte-in-2018-8bc6c6
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

  • Laporte, IN shows up 19 times across the archive.
  • 92 reports came from Indiana in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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