CaseLight1965

Norwalk, OH, USA

In late July,1965, my sister age 15 and myself age 18 were sitting on the front porch of our home. I was waiting for my boyfriend to s

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-07-27
Where
Norwalk, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
25min
Geo
41.243, -82.616 · exact
Slug
light-over-norwalk-oh-1965-93e811
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • Norwalk, OH shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from Ohio in 1965.
  • In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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