Location file

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Headquarters Eleventh Air Force forwarded a report to USAF Headquarters and Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in May and June 1948 documenting a flying disc sighting at Hobson, Ohio on the night of 8 May 1948. The report, sourced from FBI Special Agent D.K. Brown in Cleveland, described a round, phosphorescent object appearing nine inches in diameter from ground level, traveling at heading 90 degrees at an altitude of 6 to 8 miles, witnessed by New York Central System employees and a patrolman.

Map coordinates

40.5908, -77.2098