UFOMYST
CaseOval1973

Cleveland, OH, USA

Grey oval object with white lights rotating underneath. Object made no sound as it hoovered. Moved quickly

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-07-15
Where
Cleveland, OH, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
3 to 5 mins
Geo
41.499, -81.695 · exact
Slug
oval-over-cleveland-oh-1973-4fe804
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • Cleveland, OH shows up 105 times across the archive.
  • 20 reports came from Ohio in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

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.