UFOMYST
CaseSphere2013

Columbus, OH, USA

1 bright white and four smaller orange orbs.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2013-12-28
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2+ hours
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-columbus-oh-2013-ba294b
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Columbus, OH in December 2013 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Columbus, OH has 253 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 363 reports from Ohio.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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