Dayton, OH, USA
Dozens of oranges fireball like objects flying silently, disappearing, then reappearing, they just kept coming over the horizon, flying
Report quality: High73/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-04
- Where
- Dayton, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.759, -84.192 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-dayton-oh-2013-7479ac
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Dayton, OH in August 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Dayton, OH has 85 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 363 reports from Ohio.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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