La Porte, IN, USA
I saw a fireball shaped object in the sky that moved to the right, the left, went straight south, and disappeared into the horizon.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-07
- Where
- La Porte, IN, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3 mins
- Geo
- 41.608, -86.714 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-la-porte-in-2010-108e53
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
- This is one of 17 reports logged in La Porte, IN.
- This case is one of 97 Indiana reports filed in 2010.
- Teardrop craft made up 0.8% of 2010s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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