Xenia, OH, USA
Disk crashed into oak tree wedging itself about 20ft off ground and the heat coming off it caused tree sap to boil into dense fog.
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 (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-04-20
- Where
- Xenia, OH, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- hours
- Geo
- 39.685, -83.930 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-xenia-oh-1977-4b53b9
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In context
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Xenia, OH.
- This case is one of 13 Ohio reports filed in 1977.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.