CaseUnknown2004

Columbus (south on US 23), OH, USA

2 balls of red pulsing light 1 small blinking.Near aep power plant.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-17
Where
Columbus (south on US 23), OH, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
6-10 seconds
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-columbus-south-on-us-23-oh-2004-3db711
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…

In context

  • Columbus (south on US 23), OH has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 134 reports from Ohio.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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