Cincinnati, OH, USA
I KNOW METEORS. This was an intermittent light. Brighter than a star. NOT A METEOR. Changed velocity & direction. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-08-11
- Where
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 39.127, -84.514 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-cincinnati-oh-2017-0f0cb6
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Cincinnati, OH in August 2017 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Cincinnati, OH has 159 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 151 reports from Ohio.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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