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Single panel intelligence dossier image for the July 31 1948 Indianapolis domed disc sighting rendered in muted late-1940s color showing a clear morning over a row of modest 1940s frame houses in south-central Indianapolis with telephone wires and summer trees and the sun low in the east, a man at a west-facing window and a woman at an adjacent window of the foreground house looking up, and high in the western sky a single matte white domed disc shaped like a rounded coolie hat distinctly wider than tall in a roughly three-to-one ratio with a shadowed area on its upper right opposite the eastern sun and a faint spin shimmer crossing on a flat straight west-to-east path, with HUD overlays marking the domed disc and its 3:1 dimensions, the matte white body and upper-right shadow indicating a solid object, the straight and level silent horizon-to-horizon path, the estimated 2000-foot altitude and roughly 1800 mph witness-geometry speed, the DD daylight disc classification, the two witnesses Mr and Mrs Vernon Swigert, the USAF Blue Book Special Report 14 Battelle Unknown No 8 source, and the Unexplained status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Indiana Sightings

1948: Domed Disc Seen over South Central Indianapolis

Published: October 24, 2012 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1948 Indianapolis UFO: The Vernon Swigert Domed Disc Sighting At twenty-five past eight on the morning of...