UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Mt. Vernon, OH, USA

They were large round lights. Much larger than those of airplanes or helocopters.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-03
Where
Mt. Vernon, OH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.393, -82.486 · exact
Slug
circle-over-mt-vernon-oh-2013-ba2763
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…

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In context

  • Mt. Vernon, OH shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 363 reports came from Ohio in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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