CaseDisk1960
South Whitley, IN, USA
In 1960, a witness in South Whitley, Indiana, reported three disk-shaped craft in the sky, visible for about five minutes before they moved out of sight.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (153 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-04-30
- Where
- South Whitley, IN, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.085, -85.628 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-south-whitley-in-1960-53c987
In context
- South Whitley, IN has 4 sightings on file here.
- 1960 brought 2 reports from Indiana.
- The 1960s skewed 23.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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