Columbus, OH, USA
Driving on Henderson Rd. towards High St with my boyfriend, we saw what appeared to be 2 connected oval/disk-like craft.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-07
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-columbus-oh-2017-cac1e0
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 253 reports logged in Columbus, OH.
- This case is one of 151 Ohio reports filed in 2017.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% 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.