CaseFireball1999

Columbus, OH, USA

I saw 4 or 5 fireballs going across the sky.They were right behind each other.

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
1999-11-16
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-columbus-oh-1999-4d525b
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Columbus, OH in November 1999 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Columbus, OH has 253 sightings on file here.
  • 1999 brought 128 reports from Ohio.
  • The 1990s skewed 6.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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