CaseFireball2004

Sagamore Hills, OH, USA

Unidentified aerial event at night. One large ball of flame and 3 smaller blue diamond shaped flames.

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-26
Where
Sagamore Hills, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
41.312, -81.568 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sagamore-hills-oh-2004-3c6631
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

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Sagamore Hills, OH.
  • This case is one of 134 Ohio reports filed in 2004.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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