UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Columbus, MS, USA

I walked outside for a smoke break on my nightshift and looked at the sky (to clear my head) and saw a blue orb zip across the sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-12
Where
Columbus, MS, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
33.496, -88.427 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-columbus-ms-2017-591ea5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Columbus, MS.
  • This case is one of 25 Mississippi reports filed in 2017.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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