CaseCircle1999
Charlestown, IN, USA
Seemed to be a sattelite but for 3-5 seconds it brightened to near the brightness of Jupiter.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-08-21
- Where
- Charlestown, IN, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- @ 20 seconds
- Geo
- 38.453, -85.670 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-charlestown-in-1999-77996a
In context
- Charlestown, IN shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 53 reports came from Indiana in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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