Shelby, OH, USA
Bright white changed to yellow-orange light moving very fast several lights around it followed by a very low shooting star.
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-09
- Where
- Shelby, OH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 40.881, -82.662 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-shelby-oh-2004-6e4de8
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
- One of 6 documented reports from Shelby, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 134 sightings in 2004.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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