Strongsville, OH, USA
Red and green cylinder object standing almost stationery with slight, jerky motions.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (84 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-08-06
- Where
- Strongsville, OH, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1Hour
- Geo
- 41.315, -81.836 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-strongsville-oh-2005-c0edb2
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
- Strongsville, OH shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 88 reports came from Ohio in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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