UFOMYST
CaseCigar1973

Mansfield, OH, USA

In the Fall of 1973 my sister and I came upon a large silver object hovering approximatley 20 feet above us on a clear, sunny afternoon

Report quality: High73/100

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1973-09-20
Where
Mansfield, OH, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
40.758, -82.515 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-mansfield-oh-1973-2ffe16
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Mansfield, OH logged 3 reports in the single month of September 1973.

In context

  • One of 32 documented reports from Mansfield, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 20 sightings in 1973.
  • Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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