CaseSphere1948
Scipio, IN, USA
A witness in Scipio, Indiana reported a round, red, glowing sphere moving west across the northern sky, observed for about 10 seconds in May 1948.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (146 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1948-05-10
- Where
- Scipio, IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.079, -85.717 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-scipio-in-1948-16ba4b
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In context
- Scipio, IN has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1948 brought 2 reports from Indiana.
- The 1940s skewed 4.5% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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