CaseCigar1967

Lima, OH, USA

I was 16 years old. On a sunny mid-morning I was alone, walking westward in an open alleyway between North Street and Oakland Parkway

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1967-06-03
Where
Lima, OH, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
40.743, -84.105 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-lima-oh-1967-9a35ba
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • Lima, OH has 21 sightings on file here.
  • 1967 brought 13 reports from Ohio.
  • The 1960s skewed 7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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