CaseFormation2018

New Russia Township, OH, USA

5 lights in a line formation in the S sky disappearing in order from bottom to top after approximately a minute. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-27
Where
New Russia Township, OH, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1 minute
Geo
44.163, -73.612 · fallback
Slug
formation-over-new-russia-township-oh-2018-96df67
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 1 reports logged in New Russia Township, OH.
  • This case is one of 106 Ohio reports filed in 2018.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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