UFOMYST
CaseOval2006

Lewis Center, OH, USA

Mysterious oval in sky above all of the trees. ((NUFORC Note: Anonymous. Possible hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low12/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2006-09-07
Where
Lewis Center, OH, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.198, -83.010 · exact
Slug
oval-over-lewis-center-oh-2006-e77ca7
Wave

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  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

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In context

  • Lewis Center, OH shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 101 reports came from Ohio in 2006.
  • In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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