Francesville, IN, USA
Object hovered for apprx. 5 min. then proceeded west - it was apprx. 300' long 50-75' wide 50-75' high w/lights.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-10-01
- Where
- Francesville, IN, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- Approx. 15 min
- Geo
- 40.985, -86.879 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-francesville-in-1978-750e9d
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In context
- Francesville, IN has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 8 reports from Indiana.
- The 1970s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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