CaseUnknown2020

Santa Claus, IN, USA

MADAR Node 114

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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
  • Brief witness text (14 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-03
Where
Santa Claus, IN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Geo
38.120, -86.914 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-santa-claus-in-2020-16e409
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Santa Claus, IN has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 193 reports from Indiana.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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