CaseFormation2011
Middletown, OH, USA
Triangular formation over Middletown, Ohio
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-03
- Where
- Middletown, OH, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- approximately 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.515, -84.398 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-middletown-oh-2011-68466a
Wave
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
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Middletown, OH.
- This case is one of 156 Ohio reports filed in 2011.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.