Mt. Orab, OH, USA
The object looked like a star and hovered, moving only a small amount in an hour's time. ((NUFORC Note: Planet? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 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
- 2015-04-23
- Where
- Mt. Orab, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.028, -83.920 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mt-orab-oh-2015-5de335
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
- Mt. Orab, OH has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 214 reports from Ohio.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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