UFOMYST
CaseOval2013

Columbus, OH, USA

((HOAX??)) A big colorful oval shaped vessel slowly descending, while spinning and moving forward. No noise what so ever.

Report quality: Low39/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2013-09-24
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
oval-over-columbus-oh-2013-04a32f
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

September 2013 was a busy month for Columbus, OH: 8 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 253 reports logged in Columbus, OH.
  • This case is one of 363 Ohio reports filed in 2013.
  • Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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