UFOMYST
CaseFireball2009

Cincinnati, OH, USA

Fireball moves slow, then fast and change directions

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-23
Where
Cincinnati, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
39.127, -84.514 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cincinnati-oh-2009-88bfa6
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

  • Cincinnati, OH has 159 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 132 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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