CaseLight1996

Lima, OH, USA

2 adult women about 1 mile apart saw a brightlight 1/2 moon in diameter hover between and above them for about 10 min., then vanish

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1996-11-15
Where
Lima, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.743, -84.105 · exact
Slug
light-over-lima-oh-1996-1db9c8

In context

  • Lima, OH shows up 21 times across the archive.
  • 29 reports came from Ohio in 1996.
  • In the 1990s, 16.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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