◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Coyne Helicopter Encounter
On 18 October 1973 four US Army reservists flying near Mansfield, Ohio reported a cigar-shaped object closing on a collision course, a green beam that filled the cabin, and a climb they could not account for. A family in a car below reported seeing it too. This is the record of what the crew and the ground witnesses described, not a verdict on what was over Ohio.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Coyne Helicopter Encounter is a reported UAP case near Mansfield, Ohio, 18 October 1973.
- Four US Army reservists flying a helicopter near Mansfield, Ohio, on 18 October 1973 said their aircraft was pulled up from 1,700 feet to between 3,700 and nearly 3,800 while the controls were set for a dive.
- The 1973 Coyne helicopter crew described a cigar-shaped, domed metallic object that closed on a collision course, stopped above them and put a green cone-shaped beam into the cabin.
- During the 1973 Coyne helicopter encounter the radio is said to have failed and the compass to have malfunctioned, though the instruments tested normal afterwards.
- A family of five in a car on the road below said they watched the same object as the Army helicopter crew near Mansfield, Ohio, in 1973.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 6 distinct sources and 5 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L3 · MULTI-SOURCE — multiple independent sources attest to it.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
18 October 1973
LOCATION
near Mansfield, Ohio · USA
COORDS
40.76°N 82.52°W
INDEPENDENCE
L3 · MULTI-SOURCE
SOURCES
6 distinct
CLAIMANTS
5
STATUS
Multi-source testimony
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
