CaseSphere1966
Terre Haute, IN, USA
Close Encounter with Scanning Object
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-09-15
- Where
- Terre Haute, IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20-30 mins.
- Geo
- 39.467, -87.414 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-terre-haute-in-1966-49721f
Wave
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Terre Haute, IN shows up 55 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Indiana in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.