Donald Berger

Three panels showing the same searchlight catching a glowing sphere over Norwood, Madeira, and Milford, Ohio in 1949

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Ohio Sightings

1949: Sgt. Berger’s Ohio Searchlight Sightings

Published: August 27, 2026 | Updated: August 27, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1949: Sgt. Berger’s Ohio Searchlight Sightings Six times across five months, the same searchlight operator kept reporting the same...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the 1949 Norwood, Ohio searchlight UFO incident, showing a night carnival scene with tents, a church steeple, and a distant crowd looking up as a single powerful surplus searchlight beam rises into a hazy night sky and catches a stationary glowing circular object, the beam appearing to bend slightly into it, with the uniformed searchlight operator in unidentifiable silhouette; rendered in coarse late-1940s black-and-white silver-gelatin and 16mm-frame texture, with a clipped degraded film-frame inset and a note questioning whether the Albee Theater and church searchlights were bouncing off cloud, and restrained warm-white tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, many civilian clergy police and military witnesses, sourced to the Berger logs, Stringfield, and Kenny Young, status Explained by searchlight for the mass episode and Insufficient Data for the residual reports.

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Ohio Sightings

1949: Norwood, Ohio Searchlight UFO Incident

Published: April 5, 2015 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1949: The Norwood Searchlight Incident — Norwood, Ohio On the night of August 19, 1949, a parish...

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1949: Sgt. Berger’s Ohio Searchlight Sightings

1949: Norwood, Ohio Searchlight UFO Incident

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