Light over Grove City, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
"Star" zoomed across night sky at high speed. stopped and began acting like star again.
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 2012-02-02 → 2012-02-19
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September 17, 2023 · 8:11 PM · UNKNOWN
Grove City, OH
On September 17, 2023, at about 8:11pm, my wife and myself were in our backyard when we observed two lights flying above us heading southward. We can normally hear aircraft when they fly over. These crafts were silent. As we watched the crafts we observed them increase altitude and disappear in the cloud cover. The lights were warm in color and didn't resemble the cooler wing lights of conventional aircrafts. The crafts we observed also didn't have red and green flashing lights. About 3 minutes later we observed two more crafts that appeared to follow the same flight plan as the first two. And then another minute later a fifth craft was observed. During each sighting I checked my FlightAware app and confirmed that no aircrafts were in the immediate area.
November 10, 2020 · 6:20 AM · LIGHT
Grove City, OH
I went out around 6:15 AM to look at the stars and planets. It was just before dawn, the eastern sky was a lovely orange when I noticed a bright light moving is a south easterly direction. The elevation was an estimated 60 degrees when I first noticed and about 30 degrees when I took my eyes away. This appeared to be because of the direction and not a loss in elevation. There were no blinking lights visible, appeared to be higher than planes normally appear, was fast but not unbelievably fast, and made no sudden turns. The only odd thing was that as it moved away and near the end of my sighting it looked like something ejected up from the object. It appeared as white streak of light flashing straight up for a fraction of a second and disappeared. I wear glasses and guess it was an imperfection in those or atmospheric illusion. I checked NASA for the position of the ISS and when I looked that path was south of me and the position when I was east of Florida. It certainly could be the ISS but did not do the math for something traveling 25,000 miles an hour. I guess the path to the southeast was close to what I witnessed. My bet in on the space station but hope it is something weird.
July 2, 2020 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Grove City, OH
Driving home, stopped at a stop sign and noticed a bright orange light hovering in the sky. The light hovered for about 2 minutes in the same slot and then very slowly began to move below the tree line.
March 26, 2020 · 5:50 AM · LIGHT
Grove City, OH
5 lights appeared traveling northeast,then another and anothe and another....they were on the same path. What was odd is that as the next light appeared it would catch up to the light in front of it. No aircraft would be able to do that in the speed it was done.
December 23, 2019 · 10:24 PM
Grove City, OH
Large green light ball falling quickly.
November 7, 2018 · 6:35 PM · FIREBALL
Grove City, OH
I got my cell phone and turned on the video camera then about 45 seconds into the video the same lights appeared again farther off to the west about the same altitude and for about the same duration. I got off the highway at Georgesville rd and parked in a parking lot and got out waiting for about 5 minutes for another sighting. But with no luck. So I got back in my truck and travelled south on Holt Rd. and pulled into my neighborhood, stopped at the stop sign facing west and saw the exact same lights do the same thing again, but this time much closer. At this point I realized the lights were just south of Bolton Field Airport, but very high in the sky. I went out onto my porch several times looking west and about 15 minutes from the last sighting me and the woman that lives with me saw a group of 3 to four tiny flickering lights that appeared to be travelling north and over the Bolton Field Airport. My line of sight was from my back porch facing west and the lights appeared just above my neighbors house that is about 60 feet behind mine roof line. We watched them for about 6 or 8 seconds before we lost sight. They were flickering and travelling very slowly. We got into the car and left and took a country ride to see if we saw the lights again, with no luck. But after returning home I went back to the porch and a little higher in the sky in the same general area I looked at the stars and saw a white light and htne if lowly went out. I watched and witnessed this light lower itself in the sky and repeated to light up about every 6 or 8 seconds it seemed several times before it stopped. We have seen numerous strange lights in the past few years around Columbus including a very large red triangle ufo that lit up through the clouds over the south end of Hilliard, Ohio, in the evening of February of 2016 that lit up twice for about a second or two, but was massive, probably being a mile or so away and hundreds of yards wide. As well as two separate instances on opposite sides of the city in the distant southern skies were we saw a short string of large orange fiery lights, 5 or 6 fire orange colored lights lighting up at the same time that were very clos to being linked to each other like a small lego, then slowly dissipated within a few seconds, then light up another 1 to two times and disappear. The first time I saw these lights there was another small light off to the side in the distance light up when these light starting going out. I was in Reynoldsburg, OH in November 2016 facing south on this first occasions. And in Kouisville, OH, southwest of Columbus,! Ohio in February 2017 the second time. On the second occasion we parked and filmed a 14 minute video (but didnt capture those big orange lights ) which we submitted to MUFON that contained several minutes of dozens of sporadic red and white lights spread across portions of the sky flickering. We later realized we also captured a very clear image of bright white UFO with what appeared to have a small spout shaped extension extending off to the right and downward to the bottom right corner of it. Though the camera remained steady focused on a triangle of three bright white stars, this ufo looking object clearly travels up the left side of the screen from bottom to top for about 4 seconds .