CaseLight1998

Cleveland, OH, USA

FAST MOVING SINGLE LIGHT IN NIGHT SKY HEADING SOUTH SUDDENLY STOPS PAUSES AND SHOOTS AWAY IN NORTH EAST HEADING. I CALLED OUT A FRIEND

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1998-05-01
Where
Cleveland, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
41.499, -81.695 · exact
Slug
light-over-cleveland-oh-1998-aab8d3

In context

  • Cleveland, OH shows up 105 times across the archive.
  • 71 reports came from Ohio in 1998.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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