CaseFireball2014

Austintown, OH, USA

((HOAX??)) I couldn't tell what it looked like before i could blink it was gone. It had different colors coming out the back.

Report quality: Low21/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2014-03-19
Where
Austintown, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.102, -80.765 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-austintown-oh-2014-8abe3d
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

  • One of 15 documented reports from Austintown, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 279 sightings in 2014.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

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