CaseRectangle1956

Painsville/Willoughby/over Lake Erie, OH, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Painsville/Willoughby/over Lake Erie, OH, USA
Start: 1956-11-27
Location: Painsville/Willoughby/over Lake Erie, OH, USA

A witness near Painesville and Willoughby, Ohio reported a black, mirrored, rectangular object over Lake Erie around 9-10 p.m., visible continuously, in November 1956.

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (167 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1956-11-27
Where: Painsville/Willoughby/over Lake Erie, OH, USA
Shape: Rectangle
Duration: continuous
Geo: 41.640, -81.406 · exact
Slug: rectangle-over-painsville-willoughby-over-lake-erie-oh-1956-ed3ba1

In context

This is one of 1 reports logged in Painsville/Willoughby/over Lake Erie, OH.
This case is one of 6 Ohio reports filed in 1956.
Rectangle craft made up 1% of 1950s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

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