CaseOval1972
New Washington, OH, USA
A witness in New Washington, Ohio reported a white, oval-shaped object initially mistaken for a street light, during a two-minute sighting in October 1972.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (155 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-10-01
- Where
- New Washington, OH, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.962, -82.854 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-new-washington-oh-1972-bc7072
In context
- New Washington, OH shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Ohio in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 6.9% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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