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CaseDisk1977

Ft. Wayne, IN, USA

Close Encounters of the ??? Kind

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-10-27
Where
Ft. Wayne, IN, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
41.131, -85.129 · exact
Slug
disk-over-ft-wayne-in-1977-ad712e
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In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Ft. Wayne, IN.
  • This case is one of 17 Indiana reports filed in 1977.
  • Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

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