CaseLight1959
Columbus, OH, USA
In 1959, a witness near Columbus, Ohio, reported red-orange lights motionless over Lockbourne Air Force Base; one light vanished and another sped away within minutes.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-05-01
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 min
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-columbus-oh-1959-fee7cb
In context
- Columbus, OH has 253 sightings on file here.
- 1959 brought 5 reports from Ohio.
- The 1950s skewed 11.5% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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