Lewis Center, OH, USA
Thinking at first was either a balloon or then based under the unusual movement of the object we were thinking drone. ((anonymous))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-16
- Where
- Lewis Center, OH, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 40.198, -83.010 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-lewis-center-oh-2016-d870ca
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
- Lewis Center, OH has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 156 reports from Ohio.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.