Indianapolis, IN, USA
A witness in Indianapolis, Indiana reported a planet-like circular object hovering silently over a two-story home in February 1965, with no lights or sound noted; duration was unclear.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-02-01
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- unsure
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-indianapolis-in-1965-d29695
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Indianapolis, IN has 248 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 7 reports from Indiana.
- The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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