Canton, OH, USA
As I was driving east on US Route 30 between Massillon and Canton, right by the Ashland Oil refinery, I witnessed a green flash that l
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-12-13
- Where
- Canton, OH, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.799, -81.378 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-canton-oh-2006-8d9c4e
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
- Canton, OH shows up 43 times across the archive.
- 101 reports came from Ohio in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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