Cincinnati, OH, USA
Dark object falling rapidly downward from the sky with bright orange flames emanating from it
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 (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-11
- Where
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 39.127, -84.514 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-cincinnati-oh-2008-e57de8
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
- Cincinnati, OH has 159 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 135 reports from Ohio.
- The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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