CaseOval2017

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
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

  • 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

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