UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1977

Akron, OH, USA

I think I saw either an alien transport or God doing something wonderful.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (73 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-10-05
Where
Akron, OH, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 min
Geo
41.081, -81.519 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-akron-oh-1977-af7c67
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 63 documented reports from Akron, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 13 sightings in 1977.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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