CaseCircle2002

Columbus, OH, USA

Shooting ball of brilliant white light

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (38 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2002-08-01
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1/4 second
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
circle-over-columbus-oh-2002-7bfb8c

In context

  • One of 253 documented reports from Columbus, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 96 sightings in 2002.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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