CaseLight2020

Dayton, OH, USA

Bright white orb flying low from east to west towards fairborn. Object had steady pace few hundred feet above trees and did not make a

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-15
Where
Dayton, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
39.759, -84.192 · exact
Slug
light-over-dayton-oh-2020-c11523
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 85 reports logged in Dayton, OH.
  • This case is one of 243 Ohio reports filed in 2020.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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