CaseFireball2015

Dublin, OH, USA

Oval, orange-white, large candle/fireball floated slowly across the sky at a smooth, steady speed.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-09-05
Where
Dublin, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.099, -83.114 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-dublin-oh-2015-2cea54
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

September 2015 was a busy month for Dublin, OH: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 22 reports logged in Dublin, OH.
  • This case is one of 214 Ohio reports filed in 2015.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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