CaseLight2013

Mineral City, OH, USA

Moving star, too slow for a shooting star and to fast for a plane. No noice and then just disappeared.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-03-07
Where
Mineral City, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
40.601, -81.361 · exact
Slug
light-over-mineral-city-oh-2013-8885b3
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 2 reports logged in Mineral City, OH.
  • This case is one of 363 Ohio reports filed in 2013.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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