CaseFlash1999

Columbus, OH, USA

2 bright flashes in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1999-08-09
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
flash-over-columbus-oh-1999-ebce1a

In context

  • Columbus, OH shows up 253 times across the archive.
  • 128 reports came from Ohio in 1999.
  • In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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