CaseLight1977

Amherst, OH, USA

The object/craft was able to stop time.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-12-28
Where
Amherst, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.398, -82.222 · exact
Slug
light-over-amherst-oh-1977-0c7bbd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Amherst, OH shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 13 reports came from Ohio in 1977.
  • In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.