CaseDisk1997

Springfield, OH, USA

I was at a friend's house sitting on the back patio. The time of day was sunset, although it was still bright out. I was sitting down

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-28
Where
Springfield, OH, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
one minute
Geo
39.924, -83.809 · exact
Slug
disk-over-springfield-oh-1997-f73ac0
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

    Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)

    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

In context

  • Springfield, OH has 40 sightings on file here.
  • 1997 brought 29 reports from Ohio.
  • The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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