CaseFireball2013
Delta, OH, USA
Brightly orange fireball with small objects coming out of it.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-21
- Where
- Delta, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.574, -84.005 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-delta-oh-2013-025f27
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
- Delta, OH has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 363 reports from Ohio.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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