Maineville, OH, USA
Silver Cylinder Shape with verticle rings around - mostly likely normally transparent
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-20
- Where
- Maineville, OH, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 39.315, -84.221 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-maineville-oh-2012-292e74
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
- Maineville, OH shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 273 reports came from Ohio in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.