CaseTeardrop1998
Demotte (viewed from), IN, USA
Green round glowing fireball with short glowing tail, fell slowly from below cloud cover to very near ground level, viewed at distance.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-12-16
- Where
- Demotte (viewed from), IN, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 4 - 5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.195, -87.199 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-demotte-viewed-from-in-1998-49c776
In context
- Demotte (viewed from), IN has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 31 reports from Indiana.
- The 1990s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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