CaseCircle2013

Columbus (northwest part), OH, USA

Clear sky 9pm-Red Object traveling faster then any plane i ever eyewitnesses in the NE sky 35-40 secs. before " blinking out&quot

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 28s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-19
Where
Columbus (northwest part), OH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
25-30 seconds
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
circle-over-columbus-northwest-part-oh-2013-07cf65
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Columbus (northwest part), OH.
  • This case is one of 363 Ohio reports filed in 2013.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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