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CaseFireball1997

Lafayette, IN, USA

The fireballs were hang in one spot in the air. I was driving my truck east on Indiana route 25 into Lafayette, IN. They seemed about

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-10
Where
Lafayette, IN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
40.417, -86.875 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lafayette-in-1997-1bf5cc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Lafayette, IN shows up 41 times across the archive.
  • 20 reports came from Indiana in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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