The modern database era: NUFORC worked as a database for this ground

1974 – November 2026

Counted and dated, and separated from the file era: the National UFO Reporting Center — founded 1974 by Robert J. Gribble, a Washington-state nonprofit holding more than 200,000 reports, freely searchable with no paywall — files reports by the locality the witness names. Worked as a database for “Granger, Indiana” and for the two townships, it returns a single report: NUFORC sighting 75946, occurred 25 June 2010 at 22:20 local, reported 26 June 2010 — four observers, one minute, a bright red light over Granger seen during family fireworks, no sound as it passed close, the witnesses certain it was neither airplane nor helicopter, and NUFORC's own note that the witness elected total anonymity and provided no contact information. One report in the database's whole span, uncorroborated, ungraded (NUFORC grades only reports from March 2023 forward), and printed at exactly that size. The townships have no NUFORC locality of their own: a Harris or Clay township witness files under Granger, Mishawaka or South Bend, and the cities' files are the cities' — this section does not borrow them. Separated from the file era as the audit requires: the Blue Book record is an investigated file with dispositions; the NUFORC record is an uninvestigated intake with one entry. The modern era's whole documented yield for this ground is a red light over a fireworks evening in 2010.

From the NUFORC databank (nuforc.org), searched November 2026 for Granger, Indiana, Clay Township and Harris Township; the single returned report read whole (sighting 75946); NUFORC's own about and databank pages for the centre's scope and grading practice.