CaseOval1990

Americus, IN, USA

There was an absence of light, like a blackhole.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-01-11
Where
Americus, IN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10min
Geo
40.526, -86.758 · exact
Slug
oval-over-americus-in-1990-8042e4
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

  • Americus, IN has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1990 brought 8 reports from Indiana.
  • The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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