Columbus, NE, USA
Circular craft, nighttime sighting, close range, red, green, yellow lights, probable abduction, missing time
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-09-05
- Where
- Columbus, NE, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 41.430, -97.368 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-columbus-ne-1966-1d3100
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
- Columbus, NE has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 4 reports from Nebraska.
- The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.