Valley City, OH, USA
It was a star shaped object travelling south that stopped, changed colors, and sped off dissapearing in the night sky.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-10-01
- Where
- Valley City, OH, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.238, -81.932 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-valley-city-oh-1973-8e4060
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Valley City, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 20 sightings in 1973.
- Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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