CaseLight1998

Vincennes, IN, USA

seven lights, two miltiery jets. ((NUFORC Note: No other reports of military jet activity. Possible hoax. PD))

Report quality: Low12/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
1998-06-16
Where
Vincennes, IN, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3to4,min.
Geo
38.677, -87.529 · exact
Slug
light-over-vincennes-in-1998-97e05a

In context

  • Vincennes, IN has 22 sightings on file here.
  • 1998 brought 31 reports from Indiana.
  • The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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