UFOMYST
CaseCircle1966

Columbus, OH, USA

Directly overhead, stationary. Reddish-orange slowly pulsating light then moved south very rapidly.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-15
Where
Columbus, OH, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
39.961, -82.999 · exact
Slug
circle-over-columbus-oh-1966-7de3a8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • This is one of 253 reports logged in Columbus, OH.
  • This case is one of 16 Ohio reports filed in 1966.
  • Circle craft made up 10.1% of 1960s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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