South Bend, IN, USA
We saw some object in the sky move very slowly that was not a plane or a star.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-02-01
- Where
- South Bend, IN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- >1 hour
- Geo
- 41.683, -86.250 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-south-bend-in-2004-4e133e
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 has 58 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 105 reports from Indiana.
Report
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