The Coyne Incident

Considered one of the most reliably witnessed ufo incidents, it happened exactly 30 years ago. Anyone ever hear about it?

Thirty years ago tonight, strange things were happening in the skies over north central Ohio.

A close encounter in Mansfield, that has since become known as "The Coyne Incident," is still raising eyebrows among believers and UFO investigators.

That evening, in a soybean field on the west side of Galion, Rene Boucher and her brother Brad encountered a bright light in the sky that has lured her from Florida for another sojourn into that field.

It was about 11 p.m. on Oct. 18, 1973, when an Army Reserve helicopter came perilously close to colliding with an unidentified flying object.

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[Edited on 10-18-2003 by William One Sac]

Did the military ever acknowledge this encounter, I doubt it frankly.

The large cylinder or cigar type craft are believed to be those of the lizards and if so this shows that they are agressive and not entirely aligned to the US military.