NUFORC Sighting 4944

Occurred: 1965-07-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1998-11-29 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 8

Location: Aurora, OH, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

It was late, arond 10 or 11 pm, us guys were near a swamp at the rear of Aurora Lake looked up saw a Red Glowing Orb hovering 15 to 20 ft up over an area of swamp land, it just glowed and hovered. The guys were scared and we took off 7 in one car and just the driver in the other, the first car we saw we jumped into and left. Later one of the guys was missing for at least two hours. no explanation was given, nobody laughed it off, we just tried to forget it happened...I never have. ((Personal information deleted)) in Akron, Ohio

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NUFORC Note:

NUFORC: Witness identifies himself as a public employee. His account is similar to two celebrated UFO cases, the Allegash (Maine) Case (circa 1975) in which a group of men allegedly were aboard a craft of some sort, and the Travis Walton case near Snowflake, AZ, in November 1975.

Posted 1999-01-28