UFOMYST
CaseOther2018

LaPorte, IN, USA

Rod like with very bright light on each end.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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 (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-12
Where
LaPorte, IN, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
41.608, -86.714 · exact
Slug
other-over-laporte-in-2018-2093c0
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…

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In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from LaPorte, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 92 sightings in 2018.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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