Newark, OH, USA
sepreate lights on a back road country road..lumunous beyond anything manmade....electronical and mechanical (engine)failure.....
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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 (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-21
- Where
- Newark, OH, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 8-9
- Geo
- 40.058, -82.401 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-newark-oh-2008-efc504
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
- Newark, OH shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 135 reports came from Ohio in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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