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Columbus, OH
Ohio · Fairfield County · Columbus Metro
Columbus is a major city in Ohio with a population of 906,480. Residents earn $65,327 per year, which is 13% below the national average.
3.4
/5.0
B
Good
906,480
Population
4,092/sq mi density
$65,327
Median Income
$37,189 per capita
$234,500
Home Value
$243,005 Zillow
$1,224
Median Rent
28.2% income on rent
55°F
Avg Temperature
271 sunny days/yr
503
Violent Crime/100K
3,308 property/100K
B
Overall
3.4 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
B+
Economy
3.7 / 5.0
$65,327 median income, 3.6% unemployment
A+
Affordability
4.7 / 5.0
$234,500 home value, $1,224/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
503 violent crimes/100K (32% above avg)
A
Education
4.1 / 5.0
38.2% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
156
Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Historic Markers
46
Officially designated historical markers from the Historical Marker Database
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Mines
8
Active and inactive mining sites tracked by the Mine Safety and Health Administration
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UFO Sightings Near Columbus, OH
156 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Columbus, OH.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus, OH | 2014 | Unusual cloud formation I had never seen before low in the sky south of the city of Columbus, Ohio. |
| Columbus, OH | 2014 | Silver object that jumped across the sky so many feet. It moved very quickly would disappear and reappear. Then its gone. |
| Columbus (northwest part), OH | 2013 | Clear sky 9pm-Red Object traveling faster then any plane i ever eyewitnesses in the NE sky 35-40 secs. before " blinking out" |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 6-7 orange fireballs following in formation across sky |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Strange glowing fireball/orange object moving quickly in Columbus, OH. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Columbus Ohio area- orange and white lights |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Large formation of 15-20 small white glowing orbs heading northward, vanished. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Bright light seen stopping, turning, and behaving very unlike an aircraft. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Saw triangular pattern of Flying objects with red lights |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Large red light moving very fast from South to North over southern Columbus. Halfway across sky it shrank (maybe changed direction slig |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Round orange object spotted over Columbus Ohio |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 4 hover lights in sky! |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Huge light cluster (possible ufos). |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Ohio light sighting. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 4 Red lights viewed from Binns Blvd and Briggs Rd to the south east in Columbus, OH. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 5 slow moving fireballs. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Four round white lights seen making patterns by the South Drive-In Theater in Columbus, Ohio. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | The four lights we all saw by the South Drive-In Theater were confirmed as sky divers as part of a show at Scioto Downs horse racetrack |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 4 glowing lights in sky |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 3/9/ 13 0:00 Columbus, OH Sphere 7 minutes Orange Silent Slow - almost hovering. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 4 orange lights moving quickly forming different shapes in the sky |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Three red-lighted objects forming a triangle shape in the sky moves around and then disappears! |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Strange lights over the sky in northwest Columbus |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Object sighted - Columbus, OH 09/24/2013 7:07? – 7:12 am.Location: Columbus, OH. North end east of I71 and west? of Westerville ro |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | ((HOAX??)) A big colorful oval shaped vessel slowly descending, while spinning and moving forward. No noise what so ever. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 5 balls of fire in the sky flying in formation. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | One big fireball look that broke off into upside down l formstion where there was 4 then. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Giant rectangular craft with cloaking technology witnessed |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | Shape shifting Light Orbs. |
| Columbus, OH | 2013 | 1 bright white and four smaller orange orbs. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Orange Glowing Orb or Fireball seen over Columbus OH, (North OSU Campus) |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Craft rotating in an arch with 3 bright, rapid blinking lights. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | 4 fireballs in the sky that disappear one at a time. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Like nothing i have seen before |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Orange shimmering object moving across night sky |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Odd, glowing oval sped across sky in 10-15 seconds. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Flying object in Columbus Ohio July 15th 3am. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Red light in the southern sky. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Bright white cigar/cylinder above columbus OH 4/03/2012 daytime sighting |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Yellow and orange oval spheres three of them |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Teardrop fireball crosses path of plane. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Orb in the night sky that accerated very fast |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | I saw strange lights in the southern sky of Columbus? It was a stream of lights formed a upside down spoon. It couldn't have been the b |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | 2 spheres flying in formation |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Four red/orange orbs move erratically over Columbus, Ohio. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Four orange/red lights in changing formation viewed from the Short North |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Three red lights in consistent formation, occasionally vanishing, and re-appearing. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | I saw a huge triangular object with lights on the bottom flash across the sky and in like 2 seconds it was gone. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Watching large object separate then merge again. |
| Columbus, OH | 2012 | Orange object with tail moving across night sky from north to south |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | Huge Arrow shaped object with multiple lights veiwed and followed in car with friend over Columbus, Ohio. |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | Set of bright lights close together (as if on one craft), stationary in sky, and then dart southward and disappear. |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | UFO's over Columbus, OH! |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | Rapidly moving night time sphere object, heading north with no lights or strobes or sound. |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | low flying Silver disk ufo sighted in central ohio. Seen in broad daylight then became invisible |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | Amber fire lantern over midtown Clintonville in Columbus, Ohio hovers for 10 seconds then quickly disappears into the sky |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | Possible UFO's over Columbus Ohio October 29th |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | Dark colored object moving fast. |
| Columbus, OH | 2011 | Orange orb / ball seen over NE columbus ohio |
| Columbus, OH | 2010 | Reddish white lights on a slow moving black near silent object flies across columbus sky |
| Columbus, OH | 2010 | Triangle UFO seen near Port Columbus International Airport was ''wobbly''. |
| Columbus, OH | 2010 | A line of 5-6 red lights moving slowly, not making any noise passed over us. Could not tell if the lights were connected to anything. |
| Columbus, OH | 2010 | ((HOAX??)) A yellow triangle that made a big bang. |
| Columbus, OH | 2010 | UFO spotted and then switched directions abruptly. |
| Columbus, OH | 2009 | UFO follows a small aircraft over the southend of Columbus,Oh |
| Columbus, OH | 2009 | slow moving metallic orb in sky stopping in mid flight and then changing direction |
| Columbus, OH | 2009 | I was in the backyard , sitting on a chair and thought it was geese , but it wasn't. |
| Columbus, OH | 2009 | 4 Orange lights in a diamond formation hovering over Worhtington Hills, in Columbus, OH |
| Columbus, OH | 2009 | Silver looking object disappears into the sky. |
| Columbus, OH | 2009 | Luminous blue Cloud-Orb spotted over the Sky area of Buffalo NY from Columbus, OH same time as crash of Aircraft |
| Columbus, OH | 2008 | bright white orb moves slowly, dims, and vanishes followed by all night power outage |
| Columbus, OH | 2008 | Silent round black object moving opposite the wind direction - Columbus, OH |
| Columbus, OH | 2008 | I saw a white object with a black side in the air in the morning that dissapeared. |
| Columbus, OH | 2008 | Bright White Sphere at I-270 and 23 on the south end travelling at an incredible rate of speed |
| Columbus, OH | 2008 | White-blue lights over Columbus, Ohio |
| Columbus, OH | 2008 | Object of solid blue light moves quietly over our house and travelled away from us, then quickly fading into nothing. |
| Columbus, OH | 2007 | 2 bright objects, great distance from each other move in unison from W into SW, disappear simultaneously. ((NUFORC Note: ISS? PD)) |
| Columbus, OH | 2007 | Strange vapor trail |
| Columbus, OH | 2007 | bright stationary light in sky for approx.3hrs |
| Columbus, OH | 2007 | We were traveling east on Broad Street, east of I-270 when we saw a large black triangular shaped craft heading west very slowly toward |
| Columbus, OH | 2007 | I have seen a great many different aircraft from different angles and at different altitudes but have never seen anything even remotely |
| Columbus, OH | 2006 | 6 circular objects sighted over Columbus, OH |
| Columbus, OH | 2006 | Formation of 6 to 7 objects in Columbus, Ohio |
| Columbus, OH | 2006 | huge saucer seen hovering and flying very low which made no noise |
| Columbus, OH | 2006 | Two fat weiner-shaped objects traveling north-north-west. Maintained wide distance apart. Wind at near-by Bolton Field SE at 4 mph. Alt |
| Columbus, OH | 2006 | Shining Craft seen in the Columbus, Ohio area. Round in shape no noise about 5000ft above tree level. |
| Columbus, OH | 2006 | Shiny metallic ball observedThanksgiving day over Columbus, Ohio |
| Columbus, OH | 2005 | Unidentified solo object over Columbus |
| Columbus, OH | 2005 | flashing red sphere |
| Columbus, OH | 2005 | Long cylinder shaped UFO sighted along I-70 near Columbus Ohio. |
| Columbus (south on us 23), OH | 2004 | 2 balls of red pulsing light 1 small blinking.Near aep power plant. |
| Columbus, OH | 2004 | Cloud formations with a light emmiting from the center of one. |
| Columbus, OH | 2004 | Glowing UFO seen in Columbus that began traveling backwards nearly instantly |
| Columbus, OH | 2004 | 5-7 objects flying in formation |
| Columbus, OH | 2004 | White orb silently passing over metropolitan area |
| Columbus, OH | 2004 | two lights, side by side, fast and gliding. No strobes were on it. We saw over 10 go by, all out of same direction. They are flying |
| Columbus, OH | 2004 | Unknown light from the sky shinning on the ground |
| Columbus, OH | 2004 | Three lights in a triangle shape that eventually lined up and moved farther away until we couldn't see them any more. |
| Columbus, OH | 2004 | Was shooting digital shots for a client of thier building (I'm a professional photographer) The building faces North, so I was there |
| Columbus (140 mi ese of), OH | 2003 | Bright lights in triangular pattern 'hang' in sky, then accelerate and fade from view. |
| Columbus, OH | 2003 | One large bright light, very low, in the Southwest part of sky, light dimmed, then seemed to turn into 3 smaller black craft that follo |
| Columbus, OH | 2003 | Formation of five points of lights in daylight, hovering and changing foramtion, comparable to satalites in brightness, rising up until |
| Columbus, OH | 2003 | On Jan. 31st 2003 I believe what I saw classifies as an unidentified flying objects that was hovering over the top of trees in fron |
| Columbus, OH | 2003 | A glowing object past over the columbus zoo late at night |
| Columbus, OH | 2003 | Large black cube shaped UFO spotted; Columbus, OH. Time seemed to stop! |
| Columbus, OH | 2003 | Unknown flash of light. |
| Columbus, OH | 2003 | Bright, slow moving light. |
| Columbus, OH | 2002 | Shooting ball of brilliant white light |
| Columbus, OH | 2002 | He could clearly make out three lights, with combinations of red and white."It was weird. I thought it was 3 planes flying together |
| Columbus, OH | 2002 | In Columbus, Ohio we heard music and saw flashing lights that appeared to be coming from something flying through our neighborhood. |
| Columbus, OH | 2002 | Blue Circle/Flame shooting across sky |
| Columbus, OH | 2002 | bright light that grew and then suddenly disappeared, followed by a large object falling out of the sky with a large fire trail. |
| Columbus, OH | 2002 | behind the clouds and high speeds involved. |
| Columbus, OH | 2001 | It few over then stopped in a hover position. It looked like the crafts were in a fighter like formation then dispearded. |
| Columbus, OH | 2001 | The date could be sometime in May, June or July. I was traveling north to south on the West outerbelt of Columbus, Ohio, heading for t |
| Columbus, OH | 2001 | Triangle hovering near freeway. |
| Columbus, OH | 2001 | I HAVE BEEN DOING ASSTRONOMY, FOR YEARS,AND HAD JUST FINISHED SETTING UP MY TELESCOPES. IWAS LOOKING FOR A SATELLITE, THAT WAS DUE TO F |
| Columbus, OH | 2001 | Light in the sky that moved at a high rate of speed and that changes direction five times |
| Columbus, OH | 2000 | Yesterday, 1/20/00 at exactly 6:00p.m., I observed a "green meteor"? falling from north to south in Columbus, Ohio. My wife and son an |
| Columbus, OH | 2000 | It appeared to leap into space almost institaniously |
| Columbus, OH | 2000 | Dancing "star" over Columbus, Ohio |
| Columbus (event observed from reynoldsburg), OH | 1999 | Dark colored, high altitude, hover to slow NNW to fast West. Covered approx 45 degrees in about 10-12 seconds. |
| Columbus (north of, at the 160mile post), OH | 1999 | high speed vehicles traveling north by northwest, spanning the horizon in seconds. |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | My girlfriend an I were outside of our apt. it was a nice night, no cloud, the object was as bright as a star from the big dipper, goin |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | I saw 4 or 5 fireballs going across the sky.They were right behind each other. |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | Earth Skimmer Meteor? |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | I was looking for meteors. Saw a grey shadow coming out of the east, heading Northwest. It appeared to be a dark grey shape, like a w |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | While on patrol in my police cruiser I noticed a dark object coming from the east. As it grew closer I noticed it was triangular in sh |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | 2 bright flashes in the sky. |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | It was big, it was bright and a huge light. Kinda like a white railroad light but triple the size and gave off a floating effect to it |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | 3 objects within 30 minutes |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | I called the radar installation but they would not tell me if or what they saw in my area.I called during the object's persence. |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | A light in the sky was seen moving slowly through the sky. After moving to the north, the light started to fade, moving away from us to |
| Columbus, OH | 1999 | saw light orange objects moving south to north ,then 4 more moving south to north,then turning west |
| Columbus, OH | 1998 | No joke, a giant Teddy Bear shaped UFO. |
| Columbus, OH | 1998 | I first noticed a long, thin, sort of cigar shaped bright white light slowly moving W to E behind my house. Upon looking out the window |
| Columbus, OH | 1998 | It was a round/disk shaped object that reflected the sunlight. It was hovering at an angle. I say hovering cause it moved like that, no |
| Columbus, OH | 1998 | Formation of lights, arranged in the pattern of an "arrow symbol" or "christmas tree." Hovered, moved, and hovered again. Afterwards, |
| Columbus, OH | 1997 | Very large triangular craft moved silently and darkly (no lights) very fast through dark Columbus OH night. |
| Columbus, OH | 1997 | huge cylindrical lights, thousands of feet long, blink off and then clusters of much smaller light blue and light orange-pink ship ligh |
| Columbus, OH | 1997 | I saw a dark, triangular craft gliding across the sky in Columbus, Ohio. |
| Columbus, OH | 1995 | Two men in car hear weird, "jet" sound. See 8-9 white objects in formation. Zigzagged across sky. |
| Columbus, OH | 1992 | Drove right underneath a UFO while on the freeway--saw 3 more UFOs |
| Columbus, OH | 1984 | Football field sized gunmetal gray rectangular craft with bright lights and "windows" hovering silently 100 ft or so above parking lot |
| Columbus, OH | 1984 | Driving in a thick pea soup fog. Car headlights went out suddenly. I had seen "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind" a few years ago. ( th |
| Columbus, OH | 1981 | A disc shaped craft, approximately thirty feet in diameter, hovered silently roof level. |
| Columbus, OH | 1980 | 12-15 white fireballs traveling north to south ashing off as they flew by, the episode lasted 10-15 minutes over rural Columbus, OH. |
| Columbus, OH | 1976 | The object moved at right angles. |
| Columbus?, OH | 1973 | I was four years old, my brother was one year old. we were in our room when he saw it first. he said its mine, at least thats what it |
| Columbus, OH | 1970 | I saw the Three Red Lights back in the 70's. |
| Columbus, OH | 1970 | I SEEN A UFO WHEN I WAS ABOUT 13 YEARS OLD. THE YEAR WAS ABOUT1970, IT WAS IN THE FALL IN COLUMBUS OHIO. AT FIRST I THOUGH I SAW A BL |
| Columbus, OH | 1966 | Glowing orange sphere, stationary and silent |
| Columbus, OH | 1966 | Directly overhead, stationary. Reddish-orange slowly pulsating light then moved south very rapidly. |
| Columbus, OH | 1964 | Child remembers seeing object over 40 years |
| Columbus, OH | 1959 | Red-orange lights over seen motionless over Lockborne AFB-one vanished and one sped out of sight. |
| Columbus, OH | 1956 | A "V" shape set of lights either on one large, silent aircraft, or 5 different aircraft flying in formation. No noise heard. |