CaseOther1973
Strongsville, OH, USA
A gray metal bell shaped object, half as tall as it was wide, no windows, no sound, hovered 25' in the air.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-09-28
- Where
- Strongsville, OH, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10 minutes?
- Geo
- 41.315, -81.836 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-strongsville-oh-1973-2a84cc
Wave
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Strongsville, OH shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 20 reports came from Ohio in 1973.
- In the 1970s, 6.5% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.