South Bend, IN, USA
3 or 4 white lights with 1 red light in the center of a triangle that was slow then would stop, then fly fast in a different direction.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-07-28
- Where
- South Bend, IN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 300
- Geo
- 41.683, -86.250 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-south-bend-in-2014-a227eb
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
- South Bend, IN shows up 58 times across the archive.
- 157 reports came from Indiana in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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