CaseSphere2022

Columbus, GA, USA

Bright light hovering continuously. ((NUFORC Note: Object in video looks to us to be Venus. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (35 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2022-02-26
Where
Columbus, GA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
Continuous
Geo
32.461, -84.988 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-columbus-ga-2022-7f981e
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, GA shows up 46 times across the archive.
  • 23 reports came from Georgia in 2022.
  • In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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