CaseFireball2013

Wilmington, OH, USA

Looked like a falling star at first then started changing colors from yellow to red to orange to a bright green with a long trail of sm

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-10-03
Where
Wilmington, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.445, -83.829 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-wilmington-oh-2013-5b19a7
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

  • Wilmington, OH shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 363 reports came from Ohio in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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