Toledo, OH, USA
We chased a craft emmiting a pure shaft of light onto back country roads and watched it disappear into the night sky.
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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-06-01
- Where
- Toledo, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1/2to1hour
- Geo
- 41.664, -83.555 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-toledo-oh-1965-95ab8e
Part of a wave
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'…
In context
- Toledo, OH shows up 91 times across the archive.
- 9 reports came from Ohio in 1965.
- In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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