Ellettsville, IN, USA
I was driving down Arlington Road, heading towards Ellettsville from the North side of Bloomington. I noticed a helicopter flying semi-
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-20
- Where
- Ellettsville, IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15-30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.234, -86.625 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ellettsville-in-2019-889e34
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…
In context
- Ellettsville, IN shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 182 reports came from Indiana in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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