UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1966

Hinckley, OH, USA

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Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-11-15
Where
Hinckley, OH, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
maybe three minutes
Geo
41.238, -81.745 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-hinckley-oh-1966-ec0717
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Hinckley, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 16 sightings in 1966.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 2% during the 1960s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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