CaseSphere1998
Indianapolis (Carmel), IN, USA
Saw far away in the sky. Looked like a star but there were no other stars in the sky.
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-17
- Where
- Indianapolis (Carmel), IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4-5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-indianapolis-carmel-in-1998-b558b9
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Indianapolis (Carmel), IN.
- This case is one of 31 Indiana reports filed in 1998.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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