CaseDisk1957
Vandalia, OH, USA
A witness in Vandalia, Ohio reported a disk-shaped object with a light spinning through its center crossing the sky from south to north in three minutes or less, on August 3, 1957.
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 (180 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-08-03
- Where
- Vandalia, OH, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5-min.
- Geo
- 39.891, -84.199 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-vandalia-oh-1957-ef3e2a
In context
- One of 11 documented reports from Vandalia, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 4 sightings in 1957.
- Disk sightings ran at 28.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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