Oval over Avon, OH
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Oblong UFO with red/white lights (Elyria, OH)
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2008-10-13 → 2008-10-30
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April 14, 2022 · 10:42 PM · LIGHT
Avon, OH
4/14/2022, about 10:42 pm, Avon, Ohio, backyard: I looked out briefly to check sky conditions, intending to make some astronomical observations if it was clear enough, as I’m a highly experienced amateur astronomer. After identifying several familiar stars in the clear part of the sky (Castor, Pollux, Procyon, Regulus), I happened to look directly overhead, and noticed to my surprise a very bright, pure white “star” that shouldn’t be there. It was at least as bright as Venus but directly overhead. I watched it to determine whether there was any motion, in case it was a satellite or airplane landing light, but there was no motion. After a few seconds (perhaps between 5 and 10 seconds), the light turned yellow and faded out. As it was fading, a second similar light suddenly appeared about 4° to the southwest of the first one, remained on for a shorter time – also a few seconds – and then yellowed and faded out the same way. For a few more seconds, a tiny faint pinpoint of light was visible in each of the two locations, then they too faded out and nothing more was to be seen. I listened intently for a couple of minutes but there was absolutely no sound (and this was on a calm, quiet night) so the lights were not from helicopters or airplanes. In any case, the only way airplane landing lights could be seen from directly underneath would be if an airplane was in a vertical dive; and no navigation lights or other lights ever appeared. I got binoculars and probed the area but nothing further could be seen other than normal background stars; there were no clouds in that part of the sky at the time. I considered the possibility that the objects might have been meteors coming directly at me, but the description did not seem to fit: the lights were the wrong color for meteors (pure white before fading to yellow), there was no trail or apparent motion (as would be expected if meteors were coming almost toward me), they were much brighter than any normal meteor, and they remained visible (especially the first one) several times longer than a meteor takes to appear and then fade out.
October 5, 2020 · 7:03 PM · OTHER
Avon, OH
Costco parking lot: I was waiting in the car when I noticed a couple parked behind me looking at a small streak in the sky through binoculars and discussing what it might be. I got out my binoculars which we keep in the car for wildlife viewing during camping. This object looked like a small bright streak but up close it looked like a point of white light with two thin, curving tails bending toward each other. A few minutes later it was under the horizon (this was around dusk) and a second appeared higher up. It looked exactly the same through the binoculars. It dipped below the horizon after a few more minutes and a third appeared, higher up and seemingly out of nowhere. This time when I used the binoculars I could see blue and red swirls toward the front of this object and again, the same curving white tails. It disappeared within a few minutes, not going below the horizon like the first two but just disappeared where it had been a moment before. I took ph! otos and the objects look cigar shaped, but there was more to them as I described.
July 14, 2019 · 7:45 PM · CIGAR
Avon, OH
At approximately 7:45 pm EDT on the evening of July 14, 2019, my wife and I observed a white or dull silver cigar-shaped object move steadily through the sky in a roughly easterly or ENE direction. Remarkably, it had no visible wings, tail, or engines; was producing no contrail; and was utterly silent. By contrast, several ordinary commercial jets that we observed just before or after this object – were all readily audible (even when apparently farther away), had plainly visible wings and engines, and were leaving prominent contrails. Birds that we observed flying overhead at the time had obvious heads and flapping wings, again in contrast to the object in question. If the object was the size of a medium-sized commercial airliner (hard to tell), I would estimate its distance as about two to three miles away. The weather was clear, the sky blue with a few high cirrus patches, and visibility essentially unlimited. The sun was still brilliantly illuminating everything in the sky, since it was more than an hour before sunset. I was viewing the object with binoculars, while my wife was viewing it directly without optical aid after I brought it to her attention. Our sighting lasted roughly 30 seconds, from the time I first noticed it in my binoculars while idly scanning the sky until it moved out of sight to the northeast. The object did not noticeably vary its speed or direction at any point during the sighting. It appeared to have small dark markings at its rear and along part of the bottom. It did not look fuzzy but had distinct outlines. The sighting overall was completely unremarkable except for the absence of any sound, contrails, or visible wings or engines. I was left wondering whether it might possibly have been a small private jet with unusually quiet engines, flying banked so that its wings were edge-on to our perspective (and hence not observable by us), but several considerations argue against that hypothesis. First, we should have heard engines, no matter how quiet, at its modest apparent distance and compared with other aircraft in the vicinity just before and after our sighting. Second, it is extremely unlikely that a normal aircraft would have maintained a bank of about 30 degrees (which is what would have been required to put any wings edge-on to us, given its height in the sky from our position) continuously for half a minute in what appeared to be essentially straight and level flight. Third, if an aircraft had been flying past in an attitude such that its wings were edge-on to us, its tail (vertical stabilizer) would have been plainly visible, contrary to what we observed. Fourth, as noted above, conventional jets that we observed at approximately the same time were all leaving obvious contrails. So, in conclusion, I do not know what we saw, but I’m contributing it to the database in case the information is useful.
May 24, 2014 · 9:10 PM · CHANGING
Avon, OH
We were traveling West on interstate 90. I looked to the left which would be south of the interstate and saw two side by side bright lights with golden like trails behind them. At first they appeared to be something taking a nose dive and crashing like footage that you see of air planes that have crashed at air shows. Except it is at night and no craft was visible just two bright lights with fire like trails behind them. They were not very high off of the horizon we lost sight of them in the trees. After the first initial dive they started an up and down motion and then you could see the lights with trails appear to go out of alignment but then you could tell that it was just changing direction. It had very fluid controlled movements. Then we lost sight of it behind the trees as we approached the toll booth. After we got our ticket and were on the other side of the toll booth it was gone. We then stopped a few miles down the road at the Travel Plaza and other people we talking about the same sighting. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 20, 2013 · 9:20 PM · CHANGING
Avon, OH
There were 3 lights that were changing shapes, they were orange lights then they turned a little red and then went back to orange,
March 21, 2012 · 6:23 AM · LIGHT
Avon, OH
White light zoomed off to the west over Avon, OH