Poland, OH, USA
A report from Poland, OH in July 1973 described a greyish, dented, tapered, cone-shaped object with lights, lasting 5 minutes.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-07-15
- Where
- Poland, OH, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.024, -80.615 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-poland-oh-1973-f43c3d
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Poland, OH.
- This case is one of 20 Ohio reports filed in 1973.
- Cone craft made up 0.4% of 1970s reports, vs 0.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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