UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1978

Ashtabula, OH, USA

I am 30 years late reporting it. I was in the gulf area in Ashtabula Ohio with my sister and brother in law. It's hard to explain but t

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-30
Where
Ashtabula, OH, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
41.865, -80.790 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-ashtabula-oh-1978-a0191e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Ashtabula, OH has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 10 reports from Ohio.
  • The 1970s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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