Lafayette, IN, USA
Sometimes 4-5 flashing in 2 different color lights. Hovering or darting in quick movements at most times. It moved from side to side am
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-11
- Where
- Lafayette, IN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 minutes (so far)
- Geo
- 40.417, -86.875 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-lafayette-in-2016-82be73
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
- Lafayette, IN shows up 41 times across the archive.
- 86 reports came from Indiana in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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