CaseUnknown2002
Columbus, OH, USA
bright light that grew and then suddenly disappeared, followed by a large object falling out of the sky with a large fire trail.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-01-13
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-columbus-oh-2002-98a00b
In context
- Columbus, OH shows up 253 times across the archive.
- 96 reports came from Ohio in 2002.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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