UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Newark, OH, USA

A bright perfectly round ball shaped object hovering north of our location on a hilly street with a bunch of trees.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-19
Where
Newark, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
19:15-!9:18
Geo
40.058, -82.401 · exact
Slug
light-over-newark-oh-2008-6aa677
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

  • Newark, OH has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 135 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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