CaseLight1989

Clarksville, IN, USA

Small brightly defined light, changing colors, zig-zagging across sky for 5 mins, then disappearing.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-08-01
Where
Clarksville, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.297, -85.760 · exact
Slug
light-over-clarksville-in-1989-038b92
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Clarksville, IN has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 3 reports from Indiana.
  • The 1980s skewed 11% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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