North Central Ohio is very curious about UFO stories. News Journal received a lot of calls after publishing a story on Sunday about a well-known UFO incident that happened on October 18, 1973, in the Mansfield area. An investigator wants to talk to the witnesses about what happened that night.
A handful of present and past residents contacted the newspaper and Mutual UFO Network investigator Terry Hamilton.
No one could identify the aerial object that fall day over four decades ago. But many remember the event vividly because it was very strange to them.
Brian Stevens, who was 13 at that time, said he saw an orange ball hovering and reflecting the light of the setting sun. Steven was looking at Westbrook Country Club when he saw the strange floating object.
Later that night, Glenn Stout was taking a break from his job at Mansfield Tire. He was on the back dock standing with some coworkers when he saw an unusual light travelling toward and almost colliding with a helicopter above the Westbrook Country Club area.
After that sighting, he saw a news story about a UFO that interfered with the flight path of an Army Reserve helicopter above Mansfield. He was sure the news was talking about the same incident he had witnessed. On the same month, he claimed to have received surprisingly low bill amounting $4 only. He wondered whether the object had something to do with it.
Judith Hamm was outside a home earlier in the day near Pavonia when she noticed a plane flying toward another plane, but the object veered away and vanished. Hamm said she nearly screamed because she thought a collision was coming.
Hamm said that she thought that the object was a military aircraft at first but realized it wasn’t because it moved faster than any plane and performed a strange manoeuvre.
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In October 1973 I was 11 years old, living on Wooster Pike Road, just east of Medina Ohio, not far at all from Mansfield Ohio. I do recall an early evening about that time, seeing a craft of some kind off to the east, which was odd looking, a bluish grey craft, shaped like a cigar or maybe disk shape seen edge on. It was lighted in front with an orange color which one would ordinarily think was the rear like a rocket in flight but it was travelling the direction of the orange tip, I think northbound, across the eastern sky, leaving a white trail as it went. I think, there was a helicopter as well but the memory is very vague…I cannot even for sure say, if this was the same date, and I only watched it as it pased by in the eastern sky passing monents later out if sight behind a tree covered hill. This was some miles away, like I say, I was an 11 year old child, and I never told anyone about the incident because it was so odd, and at 11 years old in 1973 most adults had little time for a kid or what they had to say, at least in my world, thus seeing this, I did not know what it was, and knew little about UFOs at the time. It did however, spark my interest in unidentified ariel phenomenon, and my life ling pursuit of the truth. I was very stunned hearing of the Mansfield “Coyne” incident as it was called in publications this last week or so, I knew nothing of this except perhaps hearing something at the time, maybe on radio or local tv, or sonething but, this recent publication blew me away, because I did see something, “similar” in the Ohio skies when I lived there, and I think, it was fall of 1973 (without being regressed I cannot be certain of the date however)… All I can say for sure, it was one of my earliest unidentified ariel phenomenon sightings that has continued throughout my lufe to this day (THIS day), and continues…
“surprisingly low bill amounting $4 only”….what?