CaseCircle1959
Lafayette, IN, USA
In November 1959, a witness in Lafayette, Indiana, reported a white circular object that approached and then flew away, observed for about twenty minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (154 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-11-15
- Where
- Lafayette, IN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 40.417, -86.875 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lafayette-in-1959-4ccc4d
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In context
- This is one of 41 reports logged in Lafayette, IN.
- This case is one of 3 Indiana reports filed in 1959.
- Circle craft made up 10% of 1950s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
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