Terre Haute, IN, USA
silently, it came over my head from behind; as I was laying on my back. About the size of a thumbnail at arms length, was a lite white
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-10
- Where
- Terre Haute, IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.467, -87.414 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-terre-haute-in-2004-f3d603
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
- Terre Haute, IN shows up 55 times across the archive.
- 105 reports came from Indiana in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.