CaseUnknown2022
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
- 2022-01-22
- Where
- Santa Claus, IN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 38.120, -86.914 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-santa-claus-in-2022-101058
Wave
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
- Santa Claus, IN shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 34 reports came from Indiana in 2022.
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.