Columbus, OH, USA
Witnesses in Columbus, Ohio, reported a glowing orange circular object that hovered silently and motionless in the sky for a few seconds in August 1966.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (152 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-08-01
- Where
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 39.961, -82.999 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-columbus-oh-1966-d0e9b4
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 253 documented reports from Columbus, OH in the UFOMYST archive.
- Ohio logged 16 sightings in 1966.
- Circle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 1960s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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