CaseUnknown2004

Columbus, OH, USA

Cloud formations with a light emmiting from the center of one.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-28
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 minute
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-columbus-oh-2004-04ea6c
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Columbus, OH reports filed in June 2004.

In context

  • Columbus, OH shows up 253 times across the archive.
  • 134 reports came from Ohio in 2004.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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