Portage, IN, USA
Red orbs seen over Portage, Indiana.
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-04
- Where
- Portage, IN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 41.576, -87.176 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-portage-in-2014-32e7af
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…
Local cluster
Portage, IN logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2014.
In context
- One of 20 documented reports from Portage, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 157 sightings in 2014.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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