CaseTeardrop1990

Indianapolis, IN, USA

low flying object about 5 feet away

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-02-14
Where
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
Geo
39.768, -86.158 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-indianapolis-in-1990-cc7504
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

  • Indianapolis, IN shows up 248 times across the archive.
  • 8 reports came from Indiana in 1990.
  • In the 1990s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.

Report

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