CaseFormation1956
Columbus, OH, USA
A "V" shape set of lights either on one large, silent aircraft, or 5 different aircraft flying in formation. No noise heard.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-12-01
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-columbus-oh-1956-6ecff9
In context
- Columbus, OH has 253 sightings on file here.
- 1956 brought 6 reports from Ohio.
- The 1950s skewed 1.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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