Millersburg, OH, USA
fireball left a glowing contrail as it went out and re- ignited ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch from Wallops Island, VA. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2006-12-16
- Where
- Millersburg, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.555, -81.918 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-millersburg-oh-2006-b445cb
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
- Millersburg, OH shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 101 reports came from Ohio in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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