Lowell, IN, USA
At least 12 witnessed at close distance a red fiery orb in the night sky for 30 minutes that was not like anything we had ever seen.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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 (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-15
- Where
- Lowell, IN, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 41.291, -87.421 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lowell-in-1965-dd9222
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
- Lowell, IN has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 7 reports from Indiana.
- The 1960s skewed 2.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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