Disk over Pataskala, OH
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The report, as filed
Moving as fast as an airplane with a humming sound around 300 yards away.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2008-12-27 → 2009-01-13
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February 2, 2020 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Pataskala, OH
Witnesses approximately 10 to 15 glowing objects racing across the sky moving from Orion the hunter's 3 star belt to the right (north). They were moving way to fast to be planes and seemed to be trying to jockey into predetermined positions. At the last second they suddenly all merged towards each other at an even faster pace and then disappeared like they shot through some sort of space tunnel or portal.
November 24, 2019 · 5:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Pataskala, OH
Looking east about 45 degree from horizon. Multiple objects appeared from dark sky and tracked behind each other and then disappeared. They just appeared in a part of the sky and followed each other. No sounds, no flashing lights. Looked similar to what the Space Station looks like but there were many of them and followed each other. These were not "shooting stars".
September 28, 2017 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Pataskala, OH
I was on the back porch having a cigarette and looking up at the clear night sky, when a silhouette of a triangle flew overhead. It was fairly low running north to south and silent. Its color seemed to match the background of the night sky, and there was an un-lit ring on the bottom of each corner
May 22, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Pataskala, OH
The light flickered slightly to appear more like a flare, rather than a light. There was no sound and no way of telling altitude. At first we thought they could be flares attached to skydivers, but unlikely considering they traveled more laterally than would be expected for a skydiver. Eventually, it appeared some fizzled out as they began to approach the departing horizon to leave our line of sight. Too slow to be a flare shot across the sky, but wasn't sold on it being debris entering the atmosphere either.
April 16, 2016 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Pataskala, OH
My boyfriend and I were driving westbound on I-70 towards Columbus, near Pataskala, when I noticed a shiny object in the sky to our right. At first I thought it was an airplane but on second look I saw that it was larger and fatter than an airplane. It was oblong cigar-shaped, very shiny like the Sun reflecting on silver metal. It was sort of hanging in the sky at a slight angle. I pointed at it, and my boyfriend said he saw it too. When I looked back it was gone. The sky was clear blue with no clouds. We did see an airplane very high in the sky leaving a Chemtrail. The object appeared again, and then disappeared completely.
February 7, 2016 · 6:00 AM · CIRCLE
Pataskala, OH
Green fireball with a tail that looked like sparks falling towards earth 6AM.