CaseLight2004

Columbus, OH, USA

two lights, side by side, fast and gliding. No strobes were on it. We saw over 10 go by, all out of same direction. They are flying

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-15
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 min
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
light-over-columbus-oh-2004-b09e15
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, OH shows up 253 times across the archive.
  • 134 reports came from Ohio in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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