Gahanna, OH, USA
In the summer of 1966, a witness in Gahanna, Ohio reported a round, glowing light in the southern sky moving from east to west, visible for about three minutes.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (160 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-31
- Where
- Gahanna, OH, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.019, -82.879 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gahanna-oh-1966-efa44d
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
- Gahanna, OH has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 16 reports from Ohio.
- The 1960s skewed 11.3% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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