CaseFireball1980
Columbus, OH, USA
12-15 white fireballs traveling north to south ashing off as they flew by, the episode lasted 10-15 minutes over rural Columbus, OH.
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-10-15
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10 - 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-columbus-oh-1980-afee67
In context
- One of 253 documented reports from Columbus, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 10 sightings in 1980.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.8% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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