CaseLight2009

Gahanna, OH, USA

Travelling and Disappearing Starlight. ((NUFORC Note: ISS overflight at 21:27 hrs. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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 (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-07-26
Where
Gahanna, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 mins
Geo
40.019, -82.879 · exact
Slug
light-over-gahanna-oh-2009-81638c
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

  • Gahanna, OH shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 132 reports came from Ohio in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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