UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

Noblesville, IN, USA

AS WE WERE LINING UP OUR REFLECTOR TELESCOPE WITH POLARIS. SEEN SOMETHING HIT THE ATMOSPHERE, STOPPED FOR 2-5 SEC. AND DISAPPER. WITHOU

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-14
Where
Noblesville, IN, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10-20 seconds
Geo
40.046, -86.009 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-noblesville-in-1997-cb4d8d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

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In context

  • One of 35 documented reports from Noblesville, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 20 sightings in 1997.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 6.8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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