CaseCigar1966
Atwater, OH, USA
This is known as 'Portage County UFO Chase'. It went right over me.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-04-17
- Where
- Atwater, OH, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- hours
- Geo
- 41.024, -81.163 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-atwater-oh-1966-25fc2e
Wave
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
- Atwater, OH shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 16 reports came from Ohio in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 7% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
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.