CaseUnknown2016

South Bend, IN, USA

Craft repeatedly above the South Bend airport (drone or what?)

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-13
Where
South Bend, IN, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
nightly
Geo
41.683, -86.250 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-south-bend-in-2016-cc773d
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

  • South Bend, IN has 58 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 86 reports from Indiana.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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