Lorain, OH, USA
I was behind my house, having a cigarette on the patio around our pool. I casually looked in the sky as I normally do, and noticed a ve
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-21
- Where
- Lorain, OH, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 20 Min
- Geo
- 41.453, -82.182 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-lorain-oh-2008-2ff721
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Lorain, OH.
- This case is one of 135 Ohio reports filed in 2008.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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