CaseLight2016

Kettering, OH, USA

8 lights in the 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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (20 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-07
Where
Kettering, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
>1 hour
Geo
39.690, -84.169 · exact
Slug
light-over-kettering-oh-2016-0d3bc9
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Kettering, OH reports filed in October 2016.

In context

  • Kettering, OH shows up 21 times across the archive.
  • 156 reports came from Ohio in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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