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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