CaseCylinder2005
Columbus, OH, USA
Long cylinder shaped UFO sighted along I-70 near Columbus Ohio.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-11-29
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-columbus-oh-2005-a0414c
Wave
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 253 documented reports from Columbus, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 88 sightings in 2005.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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