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CaseCigar1973

Mansfield, OH, USA

A report from Mansfield, OH in September 1973 described a cigar-shaped object that reportedly followed a young boy as he walked home, lasting 2 to 5 minutes.

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (157 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
2 to 5 minutes
Geo
40.758, -82.515 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-mansfield-oh-1973-b105e4
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  • 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

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Mansfield, OH reports filed in September 1973.

In context

  • Mansfield, OH shows up 32 times across the archive.
  • 20 reports came from Ohio in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 5.2% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

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