CaseChanging2017

West Chester, OH, USA

Saw 5 lights in a line changed from white to red. Then changed into a V formation lights back to white. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-21
Where
West Chester, OH, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.234, -81.344 · exact
Slug
changing-over-west-chester-oh-2017-bdb0c5
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

  • West Chester, OH has 31 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 151 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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