CaseLight1959
Sidney, OH, USA
Saw a bright light shining down. Pulled over to the side of I75 and watched it about 5 min. before it took off very quickly heading ea
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-06-01
- Where
- Sidney, OH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.284, -84.156 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sidney-oh-1959-42ed6b
In context
- Sidney, OH shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Ohio in 1959.
- In the 1950s, 11.5% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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