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
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…
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 daysReport
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