UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1973

Steubenville, OH, USA

A report from Steubenville, OH in August 1973 described an orange, cylinder-shaped object flying slowly at low altitude, lasting 7-8 minutes.

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (141 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-08-01
Where
Steubenville, OH, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
7-8 minutes
Geo
40.370, -80.634 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-steubenville-oh-1973-7c9eaa
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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In context

  • Steubenville, OH shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 20 reports came from Ohio in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Report

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