Dayton, OH, USA
Formation of at least 9 flying vessels flying a unique precise pattern and flight path. Circular/Crown Shaped.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (110 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-01
- Where
- Dayton, OH, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.759, -84.192 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-dayton-oh-2012-874b6d
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
- Dayton, OH shows up 85 times across the archive.
- 273 reports came from Ohio in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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