Dayton, OH, USA
Saw 5 fire-orange balls of light flying through our neighborhood. ((anonymous report))
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-07
- Where
- Dayton, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.759, -84.192 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-dayton-oh-2019-08403d
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
- One of 85 documented reports from Dayton, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 211 sightings in 2019.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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