CaseFormation1940
Elkhart, IN, USA
Before WW2, June or July of 1940, there was an amazing phenomona about 9 or 10 at night, when the sky had a large illuminated circle.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1940-06-01
- Where
- Elkhart, IN, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 41.682, -85.977 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-elkhart-in-1940-373ed7
In context
- Elkhart, IN shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Indiana in 1940.
- In the 1940s, 3.9% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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