Cleveland, OH, USA
It was about 2:15 in the morning when my wife woke me from a deep sleep and began to complain of stomach problems. As I was getting out
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1947-06-01
- Where
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- about three hours
- Geo
- 41.499, -81.695 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cleveland-oh-1947-0c45e5
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
In context
- Cleveland, OH shows up 105 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Ohio in 1947.
- In the 1940s, 5.8% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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