UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Angola, IN, USA

Tire shaped object sighted in the woods of indiana had no lights and moved with purpose.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-15
Where
Angola, IN, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
about 3 minutes
Geo
41.635, -84.999 · exact
Slug
circle-over-angola-in-1997-d06def
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Angola, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 20 sightings in 1997.
  • Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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