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CaseSphere2018

Louisville, OH, USA

Walked outside to smoke a cigarette at, a little after 11pm. Looked up in the sky, and seen a large sphere. The sphere had lights r

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-09
Where
Louisville, OH, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.837, -81.260 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-louisville-oh-2018-a374cc
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

  • Louisville, OH shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 106 reports came from Ohio in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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