CaseFormation2009

Batavia, OH, USA

Possible 7-8 flares seen in sky

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-10-29
Where
Batavia, OH, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1 Min
Geo
39.077, -84.177 · exact
Slug
formation-over-batavia-oh-2009-e6df13
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

  • Batavia, OH shows up 15 times across the archive.
  • 132 reports came from Ohio in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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