West Chester, OH, USA
2 fireball looking objects fell from the sky. They were red with a white glow behind it. Next to those on the left was an airplane.
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-04-18
- Where
- West Chester, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.234, -81.344 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-west-chester-oh-2015-9e5ece
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 31 documented reports from West Chester, 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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