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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 tier, a hundred miles southeast of Lakeville: Muncie and Delaware County, where the sightings became a mania — hundreds of reports through the month by the county historical society's account, sightings exploding over five or six days, a hundred calls to Muncie police, hotspots named at Wheeling and McGalliard. Around that centre the wave's Indiana cases cluster in the same tier: Hartford City, where the Donathans' 22 October encounter was investigated for APRO and entered the physical-trace catalogues, and Connersville, whose field investigator fed report after report to the same bulletin through the fall. The national wave's famous cases of those weeks — Pascagoula on 11 October, the Coyne helicopter case on 18 October — frame the same fortnight. Against that geography, Lakeville's share measures honestly: no Lakeville report stands in the reached record of the wave, and the town lay well outside the state's active tier, at the wave's thin northwestern edge, in a county whose file-era and database-era ledgers are both empty for it. The wave share for this ground is therefore not merely unrecorded; it is sized — a major state wave, centred a hundred miles away, of which this township's portion in every carrier reached is zero.