UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Barberton/Akron, OH, USA

My boyfriend and I saw at least a dozen circular ufos in the sky off of highway 224. All were motionless except for one. The one moved

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-16
Where
Barberton/Akron, OH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
41.013, -81.605 · exact
Slug
circle-over-barberton-akron-oh-2016-414412
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Barberton/Akron, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 156 sightings in 2016.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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