Columbus, OH, USA
I was taking out the trash when I saw lights coming from the south. First two yellow orange balls came into view and I ran in to get my
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-13
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 mins
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-columbus-oh-2019-a84368
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…
Local cluster
October 2019 was a busy month for Columbus, OH: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 253 reports logged in Columbus, OH.
- This case is one of 211 Ohio reports filed in 2019.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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