CaseOval2010

Gahanna, OH, USA

2 oval shaped craft, moved slowly with no sound, 300-400 feet off the ground, very low, and later say fighters chase it.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-08-23
Where
Gahanna, OH, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.019, -82.879 · exact
Slug
oval-over-gahanna-oh-2010-b3397d
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

  • Gahanna, OH has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 132 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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