CaseSphere1986
Decatur, IN, USA
white lighted ball shape ufo hovering slowly above tree tops, no sound
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-08-15
- Where
- Decatur, IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.831, -84.929 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-decatur-in-1986-daa370
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Decatur, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 4 sightings in 1986.
- Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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