UFOMYST
CaseOther2016

Portage, IN, USA

V shaped object appeared out of nowhere.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-09
Where
Portage, IN, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30
Geo
41.576, -87.176 · exact
Slug
other-over-portage-in-2016-865f33
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

  • Portage, IN has 20 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 86 reports from Indiana.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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