CaseFormation2019

Westerville, OH, USA

20-30 lights moving in a straight line over Westerville, Ohio. ((NUFORC Note: "Starlink" satellites? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-11-25
Where
Westerville, OH, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
40.126, -82.929 · exact
Slug
formation-over-westerville-oh-2019-2c8a31
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

  • Westerville, OH shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 211 reports came from Ohio in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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