UFOMYST
CaseSphere1965

Aurora, OH, USA

Observed at close range hovering red glowing sphere 15 to 20 feet above the ground in wooded swamp area in Aurora

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-08-15
Where
Aurora, OH, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.318, -81.345 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-aurora-oh-1965-d5248a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Aurora, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 9 sightings in 1965.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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