Columbus, OH, USA
Approx 1215am while driving on 270 S, a blue light went across the sky toward airport then a sudden blue flash. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-23
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-columbus-oh-2017-0a1fc5
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…
In context
- Columbus, OH shows up 253 times across the archive.
- 151 reports came from Ohio in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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