UFOMYST
CaseDisk1965

West Lafayette, IN, USA

Saucer, slow speed, rotating, red blinking lights, approx. 75' diameter, 7 miles SE of Purdue Univ.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-08-15
Where
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.426, -86.908 · exact
Slug
disk-over-west-lafayette-in-1965-87231b
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • West Lafayette, IN shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from Indiana in 1965.
  • In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.