CaseSphere2019
Mansfield, OH, USA
White sphere moving at high speed ascending westward then disappeared
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 (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-09-17
- Where
- Mansfield, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 40.758, -82.515 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mansfield-oh-2019-d9e406
Wave
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
- One of 32 documented reports from Mansfield, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 211 sightings in 2019.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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