CaseLight1964

Defiance, OH, USA

A witness in Defiance, Ohio reported a bright object with a beam of light that made a sharp right-angle turn in flight, in a sighting lasting about seven minutes in July 1964.

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (175 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1964-07-10
Where
Defiance, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
7 min.
Geo
41.284, -84.356 · exact
Slug
light-over-defiance-oh-1964-15a1ec

In context

  • Defiance, OH shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 4 reports came from Ohio in 1964.
  • In the 1960s, 11.3% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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