Mantua, OH, USA
Hovered over neighbors farm for a while, 3+ lights, then became VERY BRIGHT (blinding us). Circled our house a few times and did a 180.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-03
- Where
- Mantua, OH, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Geo
- 41.284, -81.224 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-mantua-oh-2016-00d5d0
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Mantua, OH.
- This case is one of 156 Ohio reports filed in 2016.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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