CaseLight1984
Columbus, OH, USA
Driving in a thick pea soup fog. Car headlights went out suddenly. I had seen "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind" a few years ago. ( th
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1984-10-20
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 hr
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-columbus-oh-1984-29a3c5
In context
- This is one of 253 reports logged in Columbus, OH.
- This case is one of 10 Ohio reports filed in 1984.
- Light craft made up 11% of 1980s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.