Beverly, OH, USA
IT WAS A WARM SUMMER NIGHT.THERE WAS 6 OF US IN MY NEW COBVERTIBLE.WE WERE ALL 16-17 YRS OLD AND NO WE WERE NOT DRINKONG OR SMO
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-08-17
- Where
- Beverly, OH, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 MIN.
- Geo
- 39.548, -81.640 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-beverly-oh-1966-eb1943
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Beverly, OH.
- This case is one of 16 Ohio reports filed in 1966.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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