CaseSphere2015

Crown City, OH, USA

Stationary flashing multi color lights in northern sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible "twinkling" star? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2015-09-21
Where
Crown City, OH, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 hours
Geo
38.591, -82.283 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-crown-city-oh-2015-40df97
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

  • Crown City, OH shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 214 reports came from Ohio in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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