CaseDisk1956
Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
A witness in Mt. Vernon, Indiana reported a luminescent disk-shaped object leaving a trail as it moved from east to north on a clear night, over seven to eight seconds in October 1956.
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-10-15
- Where
- Mt. Vernon, IN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 7 to 8 seconds
- Geo
- 40.669, -85.824 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-mt-vernon-in-1956-0fc586
In context
- This is one of 87 reports logged in Mt. Vernon, IN.
- This case is one of 1 Indiana reports filed in 1956.
- Disk craft made up 28.1% of 1950s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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