CaseFireball2012

Elyria, OH, USA

Basically was out side having a smoke and was walking back to my side door to my home and noticed a fire ball object in the sky moving

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-14
Where
Elyria, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 min
Geo
41.368, -82.108 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-elyria-oh-2012-5f91ff
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…

In context

  • One of 22 documented reports from Elyria, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 273 sightings in 2012.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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