CaseOther2020

Salem, IN, USA

Electric blue/aqua light with small drone like body speeds through the sky at an astonishingly high rate of speed in broad daylight.

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-05-24
Where
Salem, IN, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
38.606, -86.101 · exact
Slug
other-over-salem-in-2020-d25762
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

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Salem, IN.
  • This case is one of 193 Indiana reports filed in 2020.
  • Other craft made up 6.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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