Lima, OH, USA
Pale circular yellow light passed overhead travelling West to East. I observed no red or green flashing lights on it. I heard no soun
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-08-13
- Where
- Lima, OH, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.743, -84.105 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lima-oh-2015-12d609
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
3 reports came out of Lima, OH in August 2015 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Lima, OH has 21 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 214 reports from Ohio.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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