CaseTeardrop2020

Eastlake, OH, USA

Dark teardrop shaped object flew fast close to the ground had blue lights on front of it and moved silently craft was very dark and eas

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-08
Where
Eastlake, OH, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.654, -81.450 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-eastlake-oh-2020-d66d4b
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

  • Eastlake, OH has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 243 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2020s skewed 0.6% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

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