CaseDisk1968
East Palestine, OH, USA
Looked like a typical flying saucer silver in color. lights on bottom.less then 100yds on ground maybe 200 ft up in the sky. flying nw.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-08-15
- Where
- East Palestine, OH, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.834, -80.540 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-east-palestine-oh-1968-99f1e7
In context
- East Palestine, OH shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Ohio in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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