UFOMYST
CaseOval2012

Cleveland, OH, USA

I was outside with my stepson around a firepit and we were about ready to call it a night and I saw a craft in the air which I thought

Report quality: High73/100

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  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-05-12
Where
Cleveland, OH, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
:05
Geo
41.499, -81.695 · exact
Slug
oval-over-cleveland-oh-2012-1984d8
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Cleveland, OH logged 3 reports in the single month of May 2012.

In context

  • One of 105 documented reports from Cleveland, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 273 sightings in 2012.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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