Indianapolis, IN, USA
A witness in Indianapolis, Indiana reported an object resembling a fast-moving white cloud in level flight, observed for about seven seconds in August 1954.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (156 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1954-08-15
- Where
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 39.768, -86.158 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-indianapolis-in-1954-febc25
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In context
- Indianapolis, IN shows up 248 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Indiana in 1954.
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