CaseTriangle1998
Columbus, OH, USA
I first noticed a long, thin, sort of cigar shaped bright white light slowly moving W to E behind my house. Upon looking out the window
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-02-20
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 8 min.
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-columbus-oh-1998-7defbf
In context
- One of 253 documented reports from Columbus, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 71 sightings in 1998.
- Triangle sightings ran at 11.6% during the 1990s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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