CaseSphere1988
Mansfield (outside of), OH, USA
Ball of light enters van, in Richland county,Ohio
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-09-20
- Where
- Mansfield (outside of), OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15-20minutes
- Geo
- 40.758, -82.515 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mansfield-outside-of-oh-1988-925686
In context
- Mansfield (outside of), OH shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 10 reports came from Ohio in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 8.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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