CaseFireball2018

Delaware, OH, USA

Suddenly my boyfriend and I looked up and saw 6-8 balls of light moving quickly and low across the sky. They were too fast to be a plan

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-25
Where
Delaware, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
40.299, -83.068 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-delaware-oh-2018-0bc3da
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 26 documented reports from Delaware, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 106 sightings in 2018.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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