Martinsville, IN, USA
Craft hovered about 20 feet above barn. Lights in horizontal orientation for about 30 seconds and then darted away. Others saw.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-10-15
- Where
- Martinsville, IN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.428, -86.428 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-martinsville-in-1966-809441
Part of a wave
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
- One of 6 documented reports from Martinsville, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 9 sightings in 1966.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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