UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1973

Poland, OH, USA

Cone shaped UFO with dents and lights heard and sighted low over an Ohio home in 1973

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-08-20
Where
Poland, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 min
Geo
41.024, -80.615 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-poland-oh-1973-577935
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Poland, OH has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 20 reports from Ohio.
  • The 1970s skewed 7.9% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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