CaseLight1970
Indian Ocean (USN vessel), Indian Ocean
Aboard a vessel in the Indian Ocean, far from any land, a bright light-like object was reported appearing suddenly in October 1970, visible for three to four minutes.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-10-01
- Where
- Indian Ocean (USN vessel), Indian Ocean
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-indian-ocean-usn-vessel-1970-2655bf
In context
- Indian Ocean (USN vessel), Indian Ocean shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Indian Ocean in 1970.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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