CaseFireball2015

Springfield, OH, USA

I had the dogs out to use the restroom, glanced up and saw a ball of bright light with a tail of fire in the southwest sky traveling w

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-11-19
Where
Springfield, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
39.924, -83.809 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-springfield-oh-2015-25a269
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 40 documented reports from Springfield, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 214 sightings in 2015.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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