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UFO Sightings in Lakeville: The Documented Record

Section 30 of 111 in the Lakeville record · 5 entry pages

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Aliens & the Unexplained

Aliens & the Unexplained: Zero Cases, Proved at the Strength Stated

No UFO/UAP report is tied to Lakeville, Indiana in any carrier reached. The national frame stands once: Project Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book (1952–1969), the Air Force's own totals 12,618 reports and 701 unidentified. Against that…

The one file-era case worked at file level: South Bend, 13 October 1948

Project Blue Book Unknowns catalogue, entry 120 · the county's case, not imported beyond its file

The county's one file-era case is worked here at the strength its surviving file summary allows — and no further, because the file allows no further. The case stands in Brad Sparks' Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book UFO…

A Blue Book ledger for the county, compiled as far as the indexes allow

The Unknowns ledger complete; the explained ledger's residue named

A county ledger has two halves — the cases the Air Force left unknown, and the cases it explained — and this section compiles the first whole and names the second as residue, rather than printing a half-ledger as a whole one. The…

The great wave's share measured: October 1973 lay over east-central Indiana

The state's centre located; this ground's share sized from it

The tested file printed the October 1973 wave negative for Lakeville without saying where the wave was; the centre is now located, and the negative becomes a measurement. Indiana's October 1973 centre was the state's east-central…

Investigators and organisations: the state's named men, and none of this ground

The local-investigator test, run at state strength

Indiana had named UFO investigators in the file and wave eras; none of them was of this county, and nothing they filed touches this ground — the local test's answer, printed whole. The named record: Francis L. Ridge of Mount…

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Source: UFO Sightings in Lakeville: The Documented Record, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/ufo-sightings/