UFOMYST
CaseCigar1997

Greentown, IN, USA

Orange cigar shaped object

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-12-01
Where
Greentown, IN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
40.478, -85.967 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-greentown-in-1997-75e7c9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Greentown, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 20 sightings in 1997.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 2.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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