CaseDisk1974
Indianapolis, IN, USA
A report from Indianapolis, IN in February 1974 described a fast-moving, high-altitude, glowing orange disk that crossed from horizon to horizon in about five seconds, lasting 5 seconds.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (186 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-02-19
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-indianapolis-in-1974-9ac08f
In context
- This is one of 248 reports logged in Indianapolis, IN.
- This case is one of 11 Indiana reports filed in 1974.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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