CaseCircle2004

South Amherst, OH, USA

bright white/yellow/red circle of light, moving towards me, then just "blinked out"

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-24
Where
South Amherst, OH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
less than 1 minute
Geo
41.356, -82.254 · exact
Slug
circle-over-south-amherst-oh-2004-ee1150
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…

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from South Amherst, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 134 sightings in 2004.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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