CaseFireball2017
Cleveland (east side of), OH, USA
Looked like fireflies in the sky moving East over 50.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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
- Brief witness text (53 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-11
- Where
- Cleveland (east side of), OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.499, -81.695 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cleveland-east-side-of-oh-2017-f766ec
Wave
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
- Cleveland (east side of), OH has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 151 reports from Ohio.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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