UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1966

New Paris, OH, USA

August 1966 Sighting, hovered so low and so slow we thought it was going to land..

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-08-24
Where
New Paris, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.857, -84.793 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-new-paris-oh-1966-833895
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

  • New Paris, OH has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 1966 brought 16 reports from Ohio.
  • The 1960s skewed 4.3% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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