Massillon, OH, USA
Green string of orbs, steady on then to strobes then disappears over populated town.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-03-18
- Where
- Massillon, OH, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 40.797, -81.522 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-massillon-oh-2014-cae030
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
- Massillon, OH has 26 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 279 reports from Ohio.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.