CaseSphere2018

North Canton, OH, USA

While star gazing last night with my Son, we saw a white round light (constant, no AV lights or colors), that we saw moving East to Wes

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-23
Where
North Canton, OH, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
~15-20 seconds
Geo
40.876, -81.402 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-north-canton-oh-2018-fd9029
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…

In context

  • North Canton, OH has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 106 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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