CaseLight1966

Indianapolis, IN, USA

Red light in tree

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (17 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-08-20
Where
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
25 min.
Geo
39.768, -86.158 · exact
Slug
light-over-indianapolis-in-1966-5da3a2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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

  • Indianapolis, IN shows up 248 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from Indiana in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.