Columbus, OH, USA
One big fireball look that broke off into upside down l formstion where there was 4 then.
Report quality: High85/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 7 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-06
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-columbus-oh-2013-c30000
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
Columbus, OH logged 9 reports in the single month of July 2013.
In context
- One of 253 documented reports from Columbus, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 363 sightings in 2013.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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