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 daysReport
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