NUFORC Sighting 76611

Occurred: 2010-07-16 21:50 Local
Reported: 2010-07-17 14:54 Pacific
Duration: 8 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Springboro, OH, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects

4 lights over Springboro, OH July 16, 2010 @ 9:45 pm

Last night I was standing in my driveway looking towards West around 9:40 looking at Venus when there was somthing falling from the sky - I thought it was a metor as it was too large for a shooting star - it was very bright and was vertical.

All of sudden it rapidly split from one large light which was vertical with a tail into 4 seperate lights splitting horizontally in the sky. The lights separated for about 15/20 seconds then came back together into 1 light, then split again into 4 lights coming in and out of the clouds. The entire event lasted about 7 minutes or so and the light disappeared one by one.

My husband saw the lights when they were split and going away one by one. I ran into the house to get the camera to try and take a picture buy only caught one of the lights before they faded away and couldn't see them anymore.

I thought it was a metor at first until it split into 4 separate lights - 2 split horizontally left and 2 went right - it was the most amazing event I've ever seen - unbelievable doesn't describe what I saw.

((ADDENDUM FROM MUFON FIELD INVESTIGATOR, JIM STRAUSBAUGH))
Mr. Davenport:

I'm a Field Investigator for Ohio MUFON and we've completed our investigation of 7 MUFON and 4 NUFORC sighting reports, all of which are related. Just want to let you know that all of these sightings are IFOs, in that the objects observed were actually part of a nighttime skydiving pyrotechnics display conducted by Team FASTRAX during 16 & 17 Jul between 2130 and 2200.

The 4 NUFORC Ohio cases are:

7/17; 22:00 Centerville/Miamisburg
7/16; 2145 Miami Township
7/16; 2150 Springboro
7/16; 2140 West Chester

Just wanted to let you know, so you can update your database.

Thanks

Jim Strausbaugh, MUFON FI ID 12701

((END ADDENDUM))

NUFORC Note:

We express our sincere gratitude to Jim Strausbaugh, MUFON FI ID 12701, for sharing the benefit of his investigation into this matter with NUFORC. PD

Posted 2010-07-19