CaseChanging2009

Middletown, OH, USA

First of all - I would like to preface this by saying that I was NOT a direct witness to this, but I viewed a cell phone photo of the o

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-07-17
Where
Middletown, OH, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
10 to 15 minutes
Geo
39.515, -84.398 · exact
Slug
changing-over-middletown-oh-2009-adf1d6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Middletown, OH shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 132 reports came from Ohio in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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