UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Chillicothe, OH, USA

Orange ball flew across western to Eastern sky until "hovering" for a couple hours till it faded away

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-15
Where
Chillicothe, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
05:00
Geo
39.333, -82.982 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-chillicothe-oh-2020-fab855
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 33 documented reports from Chillicothe, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 243 sightings in 2020.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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