Akron, OH, USA
Bright white to reddish orange in the sky looked like a shooting star, until it stopped in mid air.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-04
- Where
- Akron, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4 min
- Geo
- 41.081, -81.519 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-akron-oh-2006-6bf05b
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
- Akron, OH has 63 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 101 reports from Ohio.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.