CaseOval1988
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
An object that was just above the trees, hovering and taking off in a split second, out of sight.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-07-14
- Where
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.131, -85.129 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-fort-wayne-in-1988-3e90dc
In context
- This is one of 105 reports logged in Fort Wayne, IN.
- This case is one of 3 Indiana reports filed in 1988.
- Oval craft made up 5.2% of 1980s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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.