UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Columbus, OH, USA

Purple ball of light in night sky. Sunday, July 15, 2012. Columbus, OH.

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: 75s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (71 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-15
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
60-90 seconds
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
light-over-columbus-oh-2012-e9f09d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Columbus, OH reports filed in July 2012.

In context

  • Columbus, OH shows up 253 times across the archive.
  • 273 reports came from Ohio in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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