Lancaster, OH, USA
My nephew and I saw a large craft that was not identifiable and flying very low.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-23
- Where
- Lancaster, OH, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.714, -82.599 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-lancaster-oh-2009-d7a370
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 23 documented reports from Lancaster, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 132 sightings in 2009.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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