UFOMYST
CaseLight1989

Mansfield, OH, USA

Ball of light enters van twice and dissolves through door and occupants experience missing time.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (96 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-07-10
Where
Mansfield, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
40.758, -82.515 · exact
Slug
light-over-mansfield-oh-1989-2a6696
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • This is one of 32 reports logged in Mansfield, OH.
  • This case is one of 5 Ohio reports filed in 1989.
  • Light craft made up 11% of 1980s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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