UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2016

Columbus, OH, USA

An orange cylinder flew north in the sky and moved at a moderate speed silently away from us and disappeared.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-18
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-columbus-oh-2016-361c22
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

3 reports came out of Columbus, OH in November 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Columbus, OH has 253 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 156 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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