Lowell, IN, USA
Near Lowell, Indiana on August 15, 1965, witnesses reported a hovering ball of white light that could travel quickly and turn instantaneously, observed for about half an hour.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-15
- Where
- Lowell, IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1/2 hour
- Geo
- 41.291, -87.421 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lowell-in-1965-b6b72e
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 7 documented reports from Lowell, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 7 sightings in 1965.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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