UFOMYST
CaseOther1978

OH, USA

Craft lit up the night sky and made it look like daylight.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-11-22
Where
OH, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
other-over-oh-1978-447b76
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

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In context

  • 10 reports came from Ohio in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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