Formation over Cambridge, OH
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The report, as filed
line of strange blinking lights over eastern Ohio sky
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2010-10-28 → 2010-11-14
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November 1, 2023 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Cambridge, OH
My first report was hurriedly done and pics were trapped in my camera. I watched a very bright light through our leafless tree for a couple minutes. I called my husband and we watched together a couple more minutes with binoculars. My husband saw a blue aura. I saw a blue light burst from upper left of object. I got my canon camera and took still shots and 2 videos for 5 minutes. Object started below the trees and then went high. Would go farther than closer. Sighting ended as it seemed to spin and disintegrate. An hour or 2 later a chopper flew over and headed east to where we saw the object. There is a cell phone tower with a burned out red light. When that happens a white light blinks like a strobe light. We wondered if the UFO was attracted to the cell tower. I inquired at the sheriff’s office about any reports. They said no. I didn’t leave my name. Area is sparsely populated.
November 1, 2023 · 7:00 PM · CHANGING
Cambridge, OH
Very bright white light through leafless tree. Gained elevation and omitted blue light. Changed shape and direction. There is a cell phone tower with a blinking white light because the red light burned out. Thinking it was observing the cell tower.
September 27, 2023 · 6:16 PM · TEARDROP
Cambridge, OH
While out in the yard with the dog, I glanced up at the sky and notice a dark colored elongated teardrop shaped object speed through an opening in the clouds. It was moving at a high rate of speed, reentered the clouds and was gone in seconds. The object's flight paths was from West to East and south of my location. I didn't hear any sound coming from the object and there wasn't any contrails or noticeable means of propulsion. No flight surfaces where visible and the object appeared to be larger than normal air traffic common to the skies above my home. If I had to estimate, I would say it was about twice as long as an airliner. I was unable to take any photos or video due to the briefness of the sighting. But I did think to take a photo of the sky for reference of the object location and cloud formations present during the sighting (making sure to capture landmarks). I immediately went in the house and did a sketch of the object. It was flat black in color like a weathered car bumper. I will attach the location photo that I took for reference as well as the sketch I did.
November 29, 2020 · 2:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Cambridge, OH
A stationary object was seen apparently hovering with red flashing lights and white stationary lights it did no move for a half hour
August 19, 2020 · 9:47 PM · LIGHT
Cambridge, OH
August 19, 2020 @ 9:47 pm Rural Eastern Ohio While taking the trash can to the curb. I noticed a pair of odd flashing lights in the night sky, traveling west to east in a straight trajectory at a slow but constant speed. The event lasted a little more than a minute before the lights disappeared behind the trees. The bright white lights were flashing in unison and similar to anti-collision strobe lighting on an aircraft. But there were no red or green directional lights observed, just the two very bright flashing lights. I was a bit stunned at first. But then I remembered I had my mobile phone in my pocket. I took it out and attempted to record the object. I say object because the two lights appeared to maintain the same distance from one another the whole time. The lights also appeared to be at a lower altitude than normal nighttime air traffic for this area. At one point I thought that it might be some type of consumer drone. But there wasn’t the telltale buzzing sound that a drone makes. It also appeared that the lights were quite large. At the angle that I was viewing them, I’m guessing that they were somewhere near a thousand feet AGL (above ground level). Therefore being too big to be a drone. There was a slight low rumbling sound during the sighting. If it were a standard aircraft flying at that altitude it would have been easily discernible. Though my video was a bit shaky, I did manage to capture footage of the flashing lights. I also pulled a still from the video. When enlarged, it clearly shows the two individual lights. As far as I know I was the only witness to this event. Our neighbors were outside at the time having an argument (which was captured on the video’s audio track). But I believe they were too immersed in their confrontation to notice the lights. Our property is located about 2 miles east of a small city and these lights were traveling from that direction. About 3 miles to the south west is a small municipal airport. These lights did not take the normal flight path that local aircraft make on approach or departure. I’m a retired security lieutenant and I used to work night security at a factory adjacent to that airport. I have seen countless aircraft on approach at night. These lights did not match anything that I have seen before. I’m also a hobbyist UAS (unmanned aerial systems) pilot. I’m familiar with drones and their flight characteristics. Which is why I do not believe this was a drone. I still have no idea what I witnessed on the night of August 19th 2020 @ 9:47 pm. It has come to my attention that a sighting of a similar object occurred that same day approximately 12 hours earlier in the Cleveland Ohio area. This is why I decided to report my sighting to you.
August 19, 2020 · 9:47 PM
Cambridge, OH
Our study showed compass heading change in the MSV (Multi Sensor Verification) range of 3 degrees from 111.12 to 108.13 in five minutes beginning at 01:47:19 UTC, but without the qualifying field reading change that normally triggers the device, which in this case would need to be in excess of the threshold of 29. This is still VERY interesting in view of the compass heading change for three reasons: 1) Three degrees under controlled conditions is considered as significant, just as 2.5 times local background radiation is considered as significant. 2) Original MADAR was based on CHC (compass heading change) and was successful in several instances, and no field readings in milligaus were available at the time. 3) 3.5 miles was given as the distance between the sighting location and the MADAR site at Canton and occurred within 5 minutes of each other!