Atwater, OH, USA
On April 17th , 1966, one of the greatest UFO chases occured With police in NE Ohio and Western PA
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-04-17
- Where
- Atwater, OH, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1.5 hours
- Geo
- 41.024, -81.163 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-atwater-oh-1966-a2b262
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Atwater, OH.
- This case is one of 16 Ohio reports filed in 1966.
- Other craft made up 6.8% of 1960s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.