Columbus, GA, USA
On the afternoon of 28 November, 2006, according to the Fire and Police Chief of Columbus, Georgia, "several credible witnesses" stated
Report quality: Moderate67/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-11-29
- Where
- Columbus, GA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 32.461, -84.988 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-columbus-ga-2006-c0a7c3
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Columbus, GA reports filed in November 2006.
In context
- Columbus, GA shows up 46 times across the archive.
- 77 reports came from Georgia in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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