UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Lima, OH, USA

The power went out and it came from the south moving north. Seemed to circle around and come back. Moved very quickly. The just vanishe

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-23
Where
Lima, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.743, -84.105 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lima-oh-2012-8815a4
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…

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In context

  • One of 21 documented reports from Lima, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 273 sightings in 2012.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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