UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2017

Canton, OH, USA

Strange Atmospheric Destortion spotted in skies over Ohio or was it a UFO?

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-12
Where
Canton, OH, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
40.799, -81.378 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-canton-oh-2017-a163fe
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 43 reports logged in Canton, OH.
  • This case is one of 151 Ohio reports filed in 2017.

Report

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