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
Part of a wave
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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