UFOMYST
CaseOval1977

Bloomington, IN, USA

Three Faint Oval Shaped Objects Flying In Apparent Formation At Night

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (69 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-02-21
Where
Bloomington, IN, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
approximately 7 seconds
Geo
39.165, -86.526 · exact
Slug
oval-over-bloomington-in-1977-d5c3e8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Bloomington, IN shows up 38 times across the archive.
  • 17 reports came from Indiana in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

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.