A bright object flew overhead and landed in a field cleared for a housing development around 2:00 AM.
I hope you take old sightings.
This happened 30 miles east of Cleveland, 3 miles from Lake Erie, around 1963 on a weekend in July.
My house was the second from the end of the road. Past the end was a young woods that had just been cleared for a housing development. Nothing drove around out there except bulldozers and dump trucks. They hadn’t even started the roads yet. To the far side was a road with no buildings through that stretch. To the right, about half a mile away, was an elementary school but it was closed for the summer. To the left was more woods.
On this night, around 2:00 AM, Johnny and I had just finished setting up my telescope in the front yard, all except the lenses, to view Saturn when a light streaked overhead. I thought it was a meteor and turned around to see where it went. Out in that construction area was a bright light shaped like a large coke can, or maybe an open door in something? Johnny said he could see a structure around it.
We talked about going to see it but decided to get the lenses and look at it through the telescope first. We ran the fifty feet back to the house and as I opened the door I looked back and it was gone. We went out the next day to look for marks it may have left but it was a large rough construction site so we didn’t find any.
I'm an amateur astronomer and had a friend who taught astronomy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. I used to go there to visit him at the Warner Swasey Observatory. I called my friends there to see if a large meteor or anything had been reported, they said no.
Over the years I’ve gotten together with Johnny a few times. Every time we would talk about the sighting. We basically remembered the same thing. But his story was a little more detailed each time. The last time he said he could see a large craft, landing struts and creatures walking around outside the door. I still remember it just as a large bright off white light shaped like a coke can. I still think it might have been a window or an open door in something.
Added note: I’ve heard and read that some people think UFOs might be attracted to power plants. So this might be interesting: Three miles straight north of where we were, on the shore of Lake Erie, was Cleveland's largest power plant. It was a problem at that plant that caused the last great power outage that knocked out power for most of the north east US.
I hope you take old sightings.
This happened 30 miles east of Cleveland, 3 miles from Lake Erie, around 1963 on a weekend in July.
My house was the second from the end of the road. Past the end was a young woods that had just been cleared for a housing development. Nothing drove around out there except bulldozers and dump trucks. They hadn’t even started the roads yet. To the far side was a road with no buildings through that stretch. To the right, about half a mile away, was an elementary school but it was closed for the summer. To the left was more woods.
On this night, around 2:00 AM, Johnny and I had just finished setting up my telescope in the front yard, all except the lenses, to view Saturn when a light streaked overhead. I thought it was a meteor and turned around to see where it went. Out in that construction area was a bright light shaped like a large coke can, or maybe an open door in something? Johnny said he could see a structure around it.
We talked about going to see it but decided to get the lenses and look at it through the telescope first. We ran the fifty feet back to the house and as I opened the door I looked back and it was gone. We went out the next day to look for marks it may have left but it was a large rough construction site so we didn’t find any.
I'm an amateur astronomer and had a friend who taught astronomy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. I used to go there to visit him at the Warner Swasey Observatory. I called my friends there to see if a large meteor or anything had been reported, they said no.
Over the years I’ve gotten together with Johnny a few times. Every time we would talk about the sighting. We basically remembered the same thing. But his story was a little more detailed each time. The last time he said he could see a large craft, landing struts and creatures walking around outside the door. I still remember it just as a large bright off white light shaped like a coke can. I still think it might have been a window or an open door in something.
Added note: I’ve heard and read that some people think UFOs might be attracted to power plants. So this might be interesting: Three miles straight north of where we were, on the shore of Lake Erie, was Cleveland's largest power plant. It was a problem at that plant that caused the last great power outage that knocked out power for most of the north east US.
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Eastlake
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OH
Occurred : 7/16/1963 02:00 (Entered as : 07/16/63 02:00) Reported: 3/9/2021 7:14:22 AM 07:14 Posted: 3/31/2021 Location: Eastlake, OH Shape: Unknown Duration: 15 Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object landed
A bright object flew overhead and landed in a field cleared for a housing development around 2:00 AM.