Mt. Vernon, OH, USA
a huge orange ball of light shot across the sky with stealth spped then dissapered
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-05-06
- Where
- Mt. Vernon, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 7 -10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.393, -82.486 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mt-vernon-oh-2010-61be21
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 7 documented reports from Mt. Vernon, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 132 sightings in 2010.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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