CaseFlash2017

Mount Pleasant, OH, USA

White flashing light moving irregularly through sky. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-08-12
Where
Mount Pleasant, OH, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
12 minutes
Geo
40.175, -80.798 · exact
Slug
flash-over-mount-pleasant-oh-2017-877a79
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Mount Pleasant, OH.
  • This case is one of 151 Ohio reports filed in 2017.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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