CaseTeardrop2000
Cleveland (approaching), OH, USA
Near miss - a UFO shot out from under our MD-80 and made a ninety degree turn off our right wing.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-05-15
- Where
- Cleveland (approaching), OH, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 41.499, -81.695 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-cleveland-approaching-oh-2000-a28b28
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Cleveland (approaching), OH.
- This case is one of 80 Ohio reports filed in 2000.
- Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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