CaseCircle2012

Newark, OH, USA

Reddish orange flaming ball.

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-03-16
Where
Newark, OH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 mins
Geo
40.058, -82.401 · exact
Slug
circle-over-newark-oh-2012-3c2ea6
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

March 2012 was a busy month for Newark, OH: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 30 reports logged in Newark, OH.
  • This case is one of 273 Ohio reports filed in 2012.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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