UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

Columbus, OH, USA

slow moving metallic orb in sky stopping in mid flight and then changing direction

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-04-23
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-columbus-oh-2009-763d8d
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

  • One of 253 documented reports from Columbus, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Ohio logged 132 sightings in 2009.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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