CaseTriangle2018

Steubenville, OH, USA

Triangle shape, blueish-green lights on the perimeter. Flew over Ohio River and made the water move, but no sound. ((1st report))

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-03-19
Where
Steubenville, OH, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
40.370, -80.634 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-steubenville-oh-2018-1442eb
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

  • Steubenville, OH shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 106 reports came from Ohio in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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