Fort Wayne, IN, USA
((HOAX??)) I noticed this black,hazy, dark object swirling around & zig zagging from the direction of the sun! ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2017-12-14
- Where
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.131, -85.129 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-fort-wayne-in-2017-be7056
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
- Fort Wayne, IN shows up 105 times across the archive.
- 57 reports came from Indiana in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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