CaseCylinder1993
Marion, IN, USA
A black van asked me and the other witness if we wanted a ride. We then saw a large object lift off and explode into light
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1993-07-07
- Where
- Marion, IN, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 20-30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.558, -85.659 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-marion-in-1993-638421
In context
- Marion, IN has 22 sightings on file here.
- 1993 brought 11 reports from Indiana.
- The 1990s skewed 1.4% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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