UFOMYST
CaseFireball2018

Mansfield, OH, USA

Ball of orange light, low in the sky, moving much faster than a plane, headed southbound.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-12
Where
Mansfield, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.758, -82.515 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-mansfield-oh-2018-f92322
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Mansfield, OH shows up 32 times across the archive.
  • 106 reports came from Ohio in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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