CaseCigar1965

Nyona Lake, IN, USA

Cigar shaped object. 25,000 to 40,000 ft. high. Color silvery and at times white. Summer 1964, 0r 1965. UPI reported it was seen in 8 o

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-07-15
Where
Nyona Lake, IN, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.964, -86.185 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-nyona-lake-in-1965-87b38a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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

  • Nyona Lake, IN has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1965 brought 7 reports from Indiana.
  • The 1960s skewed 7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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