UFOMYST
CaseFormation2018

Painesville, OH, USA

Group of several randomly blinking lights moving across the night sky together. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-13
Where
Painesville, OH, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
41.724, -81.246 · exact
Slug
formation-over-painesville-oh-2018-f07601
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Painesville, OH has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 106 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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