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UFOs over Richland County -
(A Helicopter-UFO Encounter Over Ohio by Jennie Zeidman, 1979)
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The witnesses who watched the helicopter/UFO encounter were pulled off the road on Rt. 430 where the road bridges Charles Mill Lake, about 2 miles from the I-71/Rt 30 interchange.
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There were four earnest and sober young men in uniform who all signed their names to witness the Oct. 18, 1973 close encounter in the sky over Richland County. (A Helicopter-UFO Encounter Over Ohio by Jennie Zeidman, 1979)
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Two of the men in the helicopter independently sketched the UFO they saw, and both drawings are remarkably similar. (A Helicopter-UFO Encounter Over Ohio by Jennie Zeidman, 1979)
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The Mansfield Encounter, or Coyne Incident, has been referenced in dozens of UFO books during the last four decades, but the first published accounts other than newspaper coverage, came in these two volumes from 1978 and 1979.
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The [helicopter] crew won the National Enquirer Blue Ribbon Scientific Panel’s $5,000 award for “the most scientific and valuable report of 1973.”
And not long afterwards Aviation Week & Space Technology editor Philip Klass (who declares flatly that he never found a UFO case he couldn’t solve) announced that his “rigorous investigation” of the case had determined that the object was merely “a fireball of the Orionid meteor shower.”
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This was a sketch of what Capt. Lawrence J. Coyne and his crew witnessed in the sky over Charles Mill Lake on Oct. 18, 1973.
GALLERY: Coyne Incident
