CaseTriangle1999

Richmond (just east of), IN, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Richmond (just east of), IN, USA
Start: 1999-09-04
Location: Richmond (just east of), IN, USA

Observed fireball with small tail in slow swirling motion, then observed a series of orange lights in a perfect V formation.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (124 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1999-09-04
Where: Richmond (just east of), IN, USA
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 3-4 min
Geo: 39.829, -84.890 · exact
Slug: triangle-over-richmond-just-east-of-in-1999-7bf258

In context

Richmond (just east of), IN shows up 1 times across the archive.
53 reports came from Indiana in 1999.
In the 1990s, 11.6% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

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