UFOMYST
CaseOval2013

Westlake, OH, USA

Orange/red orbs over Lake Erie.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-31
Where
Westlake, OH, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.455, -81.918 · exact
Slug
oval-over-westlake-oh-2013-5753e4
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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In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Westlake, OH.
  • This case is one of 363 Ohio reports filed in 2013.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.