UFOMYST
CaseSphere1978

Lancaster, OH, USA

Moving from the North to the south , a very white "light" moved in a straight line across the night sky. There were no blinking lights

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Lancaster, OH, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
39.714, -82.599 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lancaster-oh-1978-c37d88
Wave

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In context

  • Lancaster, OH shows up 23 times across the archive.
  • 10 reports came from Ohio in 1978.
  • In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

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.