CaseCircle1949
Mt Gilead, OH, USA
A witness in Mt. Gilead, Ohio reported brilliant, dime-sized objects rotating in a circle, observed for about 15 minutes in September 1949.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (139 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1949-09-15
- Where
- Mt Gilead, OH, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 40.549, -82.827 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mt-gilead-oh-1949-941d43
In context
- Mt Gilead, OH shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Ohio in 1949.
- In the 1940s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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