UFOMYST
CaseFlash2017

Valparaiso, IN, USA

Green fireball in Northern sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD)) ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low32/100

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
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-12-18
Where
Valparaiso, IN, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.473, -87.061 · exact
Slug
flash-over-valparaiso-in-2017-a5dcca
Wave

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In context

  • This is one of 17 reports logged in Valparaiso, IN.
  • This case is one of 57 Indiana reports filed in 2017.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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