CaseOval2008

Osceola, IN, USA

Red-Orange lighted oval with haze around it moving slowly across treetops, then speeding up, no sound.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-06-17
Where
Osceola, IN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.665, -86.076 · exact
Slug
oval-over-osceola-in-2008-9cd39c
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 7 reports logged in Osceola, IN.
  • This case is one of 124 Indiana reports filed in 2008.
  • Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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