Columbus, OH, USA
4 Orange lights in a diamond formation hovering over Worhtington Hills, in Columbus, OH
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-19
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-columbus-oh-2009-42c1b9
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Columbus, OH in September 2009 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Columbus, OH has 253 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 132 reports from Ohio.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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