CaseDisk1989

Cleveland, OH, USA

FISHING ON LAKE ERIE, SAW A SAUCER LIKE OBJECT, FOR ABOUT 20 SECONDS, THEN VANISHED

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-08-19
Where
Cleveland, OH, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
41.499, -81.695 · exact
Slug
disk-over-cleveland-oh-1989-7c5044
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

In context

  • Cleveland, OH has 105 sightings on file here.
  • 1989 brought 5 reports from Ohio.
  • The 1980s skewed 14.3% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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