CaseLight1973
Wolf Lake, IN, USA
What I thought was an airplane flying at a distance, wasn't an airplane at all.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-01
- Where
- Wolf Lake, IN, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 min
- Geo
- 41.673, -87.518 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wolf-lake-in-1973-e0399d
Wave
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Wolf Lake, IN shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from Indiana in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
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.