UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

West Lafayette, IN, USA

Oval unidentified object moving impossibly in the sky

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-20
Where
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.426, -86.908 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-west-lafayette-in-1997-6263db
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from West Lafayette, IN in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Indiana logged 20 sightings in 1997.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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