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
Part of a wave
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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