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Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 11 UFO sighting reports in Columbus, Indiana to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (2 reports, 18.18% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 18.18% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 27.27% of total).
- 2006 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 18.18% of total).
- 10/18/03 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 9.09% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 45.45% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Columbus, Indiana
These Columbus, Indiana UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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May be the moon partially obscured by clouds.
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MADAR Node 205 .
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Triangular object hovering in one spot, dark in color I was driving home down Central and I say lights above the donut shop, and at first I just assumed it was a lower flying air craft, but then I noticed it wasn't moving. I thought i was crazy at first so I pulled into the parking lot real quickly and get out of my car to see if I can see it better but it disappeared. The appearance was a thinner looking triangular craft dark in color, there were lights on one side of the craft but you could still see the silhouette of the triangle.
I looked around in the air to see if there were other air craft it could have been but the closest one was too far a distance to how quick I turned in to park and look.
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Orange ball crossing sky south of Camp Atturbury. South of sr 46 west of I-65. Looking west saw an orange ball of light.
It skimmed the treeline headed north, then Started climbing. Started going almost verticle. No sound except, "What is that?" Have seen these orange balls quite a few times but never with another witness.
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large, flat black triangle passed overhead, observed by two adults, one a flight attendant. A young woman, outside for a smoke, noted an approaching red light, southward bound. Her mother was summoned and both watched as a large, flat black triangle passed overhead.
The object had a large central red light and a smaller red light near the leading vertex. Four white lights were spaced unevenly along each of the leading edges. The red lights pulsated slightly, while the white ones strobed irregularly at varying intensities.
What looked like smoke was emitted from the rear. The UFO seemed to be 15,000 to 20,000 feet high, travelled linearly, and sometimes hovered. Moving on an ascending southwest track, it was lost behind trees.
The main witness works as a flight attendant and is also a nursing student. 15 mins (MUFON Case 60475).
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Pinkish white to red white disks Driving North on County Rd. 400 3 miles south of Highway 58 near Walesboro. I noticed activity N W of my location, like a star moving in the clouds.
When I was 3 miles from Hwy 58 I seen a super bright disk shape object, it was like a pinkish white to red like white. Then the second disk of the same detail. The first disk come out of nowhere where I happened to be looking, then the second disk a couple of seconds later.
They were around 6000 to 8000 feet up moving fast, then they both shot away moving up very fast out of sight. It was very awesome.
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Chrome Blimp, miles in the air, travels halfway across horizon at same speed before beginning to emit a disturbing chemtrail. After stepping out of Fairoaks Mall in Columbus, IN around 7:00 p.m.
I noticed what I first thought was a BLIMP, only MILES higher than any blimp I've ever seen before. I began to watch it as it traveled across the sky very slowly. It was low for a jet or commercial plane, but still much higher than any blimp you would normally see.
I began to think maybe it was a weather balloon of some type, but eventually decided that since it was traveling on such a direct path that it must be some sort of vehicle with an engine. I was first surprised by the fact of a blimp so high in the air at first, but what really surprised me was what happened after it had traveled halfway across the sky. It was traveling at the same speed, never stopped or slowed or sped up, yet when it had traveled roughly halfway across the horizon it spat out a huge chunk of white "smoke".
Then about 3-5 seconds later it spit out another hunk of what I thought was smoke. Now there were 2 dashes ! of smoke across the sky coming from what I thought was a blimp. My second witness also witnessed these puffs of smoke.
However, seconds after these two puffs were spat out, it began to emit a CONSTANT trail of this smoke like substance, just like your typical Chemtrail (or Contrail, I suppose). After traveling at the same speed completely across the horizon, this Blimp (which looked like a cigar covered in Aluminum foil) just SUDDENLY, out of nowhere without changing a thing in trajectory, speed, or altitude, began to omit a chemtrail. It literally looked like a giant crop-dusting blimp, miles in the air.
The thought of it made us feel extremely eerie and upset for the remainder of the day.
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Witnessed Diamond Object with Light formations hover then move as it faded or dissappeared I drive Tractor-Trlr OTR. On Wed. Dec 13 2006 at exactly 19:35 Eastern, I was driving South on I-65 at mile-marker 71 near Columbus, IN.
to the West/South-West at approximate 30 degree angle from ground and at what I estimate to be 5 to 7 miles out, I witnessed an object in the night sky. The sky was dark with a slight backlit auburn haze and distant low cloud blanket and even further out clear sky. The Object was diamond shaped with 8 light formations on what I beleive to be the belly of Craft.
The Craft was a vague silloette to my eyes. The Ligh Formations on the Craft were a yellowish-white color and 8 in numbr. each of the eight light formations were composed of two rectangular segments of equal size forming a 45 degree angle pointing towards apparent front of craft.
(examp. >). The 8 formations of lights were arranged in perfect geometry to the shape of the Craft.
example: ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ The individual light formations seemed to intensify while object was stationary and as light intensified, The Object began to move upwards at a 45 degree angle to the Left of It's position. The Object suddenly faded from sight as it accelerated.The Object appeared to be the size of, or larger than; a Lockheed C-5A transport plane.
In my estimation, the lights did not appear to be flaming or fuel burning outlets or exhaust ports however, My gut feeling was that they had some sort of propulsion function. The Object never reappeared to my view. Now, the other part of this event was; at the moment I assumed the object had "disappeared":I witnessed directly South and Approx.
30 to 35 thousand feet up at a distance from Me of est. 5-8 miles out, Two Fighter Planes rapidly pursuing a path towards the tradjectory of the craft's distant path. My reasoning that the 2 aircraft "in pursuit" were Fighter Jets was 1.
) their speed and altitude 2.) the marker beacons on each aircraft.(one strobing white and blue marker light on each jet.
) Looking at a Road Atlas later on, I noted an Airport exactly West of my position at 20 miles.(Bloomington, IN). I also know of Louisville,KY's airport/A.
N.G. base to South.
I have lived near Air Force Bases and am certain that no aircraft built in U.S. have been made public knowledge, of this nature.
I can accept that this craft could be Man-made or of Extraterrestrial nature. I also theorize that It could be visable by some while not visable to other Humans. P.
S. I had an identicle sighting to the detail in the Mojave Dessert approx. 2 years ago.
(Did not report It,then.).
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5-6 rapidly blinking lights seen travelling in a straight line. In the distance traveling across the northern sky, a series of five-six lights were blinking a in a rapid pattern. These lights were very small, and there wer no other shapes visible.
They were travelling in a straight line, and the lights were flashing 5-6 times in a second, then they would have two seconds off or so, and then blink again. The five lights wer not timed together. They somewhat changed colors--mostly white, but every third or fourth blink it would be red or blue.
They travelled out of sight in ENE direction. There were no sounds, and it is a very clear night. I would think they were quite a distance away.
I would guess that they were helicopters, but I have never seen lights behave thay way before. The blinks of light were different time lengths--not all five blinks were on the same amount of time.
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Steady, non-flashing, rotating red light moves off to west. Iam a 52 year old college graduate and part time UFO researcher. Last night while driving home from work, I noticed a red (about the color of a stop light only a little darker) spherical, steady light about 40° above the horizon to my left.
At first I though it was a tower light but then realzed it was too high. It appeared to be stationary but I wasn't certain because I was moving at about 50 mph. Anyway, As I kept glancing at it, I noticed that an elongated, vertical, dark spot kept moving from right to left across the object/light which seemed to indicate that it was rotating.
I looked for a road to turn off on but it took a few minutes and by the time I saw the light again, it had moved westward and was closer to the western horizon. Soon thereafter it moved out of sight. NOTES: I am an experienced observer of the night sky and of various types of aircraft and their light displays.
This object, whatever it was, had a shade of red that I have never seen on an aircraft. Plus it appeared to be rotating and I saw no white or green flashing anti-collision lights. The sky was clear and the object was about three times as large as Mars appears to be.
Mars, by the way was in a different part of the sky. I was driving on S.R.
#7 in Indiana at the time and the object was just east of Columbus, Indiana in the northern sky. This was DEFINITELY not a twinkling star or a flare.I"ve seen both of those many times.
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Fast bright light I saw a birght light and than this object in the sky as I was walking my dog. I was next to my car that had my camera witch took no time at all to make the shots. I am know a true beleiver.
This all happend under about 3 minutes. The first part was the best, but I missed it.
Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Triangle | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Formation | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Monday | 3 reported sightings | 27.27% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 27.27% of all reports |
Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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10/18/03 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
12/13/06 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
04/17/06 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
06/28/10 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
07/16/10 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 5 reported sightings | 45.45% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 27.27% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 18.18% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Columbus, Indiana
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Columbus, Indiana.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 1 UFO Reports | Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2022 | 2 UFO Reports | Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2015 | 1 UFO Reports | Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2014 | 1 UFO Reports | Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2010 | 2 UFO Reports | Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2006 | 2 UFO Reports | Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2006 |
2003 | 2 UFO Reports | Columbus, Indiana UFO Sightings in 2003 |
All Indiana Cities with UFO Sightings
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Indiana