CaseOther2002
Merrillville, IN, USA
Night time sighting of a dim, bird shaped, pulsating craft, followed by a bright light performing ariel acrobatics.
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 (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-09-15
- Where
- Merrillville, IN, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 41.483, -87.333 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-merrillville-in-2002-64f07b
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Merrillville, IN.
- This case is one of 47 Indiana reports filed in 2002.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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