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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 Vernon, in the state's far southwest — a field investigator from 1960 for NICAP, then the Center for UFO Studies and MUFON, a MUFON state section director, founder of the UFO Filter Center, and investigator of his region's October 1973 cases at first hand. Donald Worley of Connersville, APRO's Indiana field investigator, who interviewed the Hartford City witnesses of 22 October 1973 and forwarded many of the state's fall-1973 reports. Both men worked the state's southern and eastern tiers; the investigation map of Indiana in the classic era has its centres where theirs were. For St. Joseph County, and for Lakeville in particular, this section finds no named local investigator, no local group, and nothing filed by either — MUFON's Indiana organisation exists today as a state chapter, but no Lakeville case stands in its database in the banked tests, and no county investigator is named in any carrier reached. The residue is stated plainly: a MUFON Indiana chapter record or a Tribune-era clipping naming a county investigator would reopen the item; as reached, organised investigation never seated itself here, and the unexplained record's emptiness on this ground is partly an emptiness of investigators — nobody was filing from Lakeville. This item closes mixed on that residue: the state's record is dug, the local negative stands at search strength.