UFOMYST
CaseChanging1997

West Manchester, OH, USA

My husband and I saw an object hovering in the sky north of our home at 4:15 a.m. E.S.T. September 18,1997, Thursday. It looked like a

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 6300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-09-18
Where
West Manchester, OH, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1hr. 45min.
Geo
39.903, -84.626 · exact
Slug
changing-over-west-manchester-oh-1997-d15887
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 8 reports logged in West Manchester, OH.
  • This case is one of 29 Ohio reports filed in 1997.
  • Changing craft made up 1.9% of 1990s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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