UFOMYST
CaseCircle2019

New Philadelphia, OH, USA

I was traving in the car with my daughter heading north on I 77. As it got closer to me, I noticed its circular shape, resembling a whe

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-10-05
Where
New Philadelphia, OH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.490, -81.446 · exact
Slug
circle-over-new-philadelphia-oh-2019-48b259
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

  • One of 8 documented reports from New Philadelphia, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 211 sightings in 2019.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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