CaseSphere1980
Middletown, OH, USA
Red ball of light turns white then red and floats away into the sky,very close to it,only about 25 ' up
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-04-18
- Where
- Middletown, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-4 min.
- Geo
- 39.515, -84.398 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-middletown-oh-1980-b79e12
In context
- Middletown, OH has 18 sightings on file here.
- 1980 brought 10 reports from Ohio.
- The 1980s skewed 8.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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