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“Crawfordsville”

Stories2

The Crawfordsville Monster

September 5, 1891 · Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources

26Thinly documented

Pro early

The Crawfordsville Sky Monster

September 5, 1891 · Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana

United States

UAP · Creature · 31 sources

23Thinly documented

Names4

Charles Fort Person · 25 stories
A collector of strange reports, Charles Fort carried many early cases into UFO literature.
Fort Person · 6 stories
Charles Fort collected the strange.
Vincent Gaddis Person · 4 stories
A Crawfordsville reporter and member of the Fortean Society.
Fortean Society Organisation · 3 stories
Its magazine was called Doubt.

Documents1

The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 186 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 142 …behind trees at low altitude. II September 13, 1961--Crawfordsville, Indiana. 4:00 a.m. Three people reported a round…
- p. 153 …9-13-61 Crawfordsville, Ind. Round orange UFO approached rapidly, stopped and hovered for 5 minutes; light intensity increased, UFO…