CaseSphere1996
Tipton, IN, USA
Sphere shaped craft hovering above field
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-10-20
- Where
- Tipton, IN, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.282, -86.041 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-tipton-in-1996-111aaf
In context
- One of 3 documented reports from Tipton, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
- Indiana logged 10 sightings in 1996.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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