Aurora, OH, USA
In a wooded swamp near Aurora, Ohio on August 15, 1965, witnesses reported a glowing red sphere hovering 15 to 20 feet above the ground, observed at close range for two minutes.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (177 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-08-15
- Where
- Aurora, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 41.318, -81.345 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-aurora-oh-1965-d5248a
Part of a wave
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
- One of 10 documented reports from Aurora, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 9 sightings in 1965.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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