Hammond, IN, USA
Triangle shaped object with flashing lights, Hammond Indiana ( Hessville ) 1966 or 1967
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-12-28
- Where
- Hammond, IN, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- one minute
- Geo
- 41.583, -87.500 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-hammond-in-1966-817c23
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
- Hammond, IN shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Indiana in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 4.3% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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