Waynesburg, OH, USA
Green fireball in W sky, leaving trail and then exploding. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the object may have been a meteor. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2007-03-11
- Where
- Waynesburg, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.960, -82.792 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-waynesburg-oh-2007-3a9246
Part of a wave
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
- Waynesburg, OH shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 116 reports came from Ohio in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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