CaseLight2008
Portsmouth, OH, USA
More Info on Portsmouth Bright-Dim Lights.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (42 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-06
- Where
- Portsmouth, OH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 38.732, -82.998 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-portsmouth-oh-2008-13c64d
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- One of 15 documented reports from Portsmouth, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 135 sightings in 2008.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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