Bay Village, OH, USA
At 9:30 pm on 12/12/25 in bay village , ohio I saw a reddish orange light go from ENE to WSW at lower aircraft altitude.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-12
- Where
- Bay Village, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1.5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.485, -81.922 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bay-village-oh-2012-3291f4
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
- Bay Village, OH shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 273 reports came from Ohio in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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