Fireball over Springfield, OH
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The report, as filed
Then went out of my sight behind the treetops.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #124199). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-11-16 → 2015-12-03
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February 16, 2020 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Springfield, OH
My friend was driving me home, when above the reservoir we saw a formation of 20 or more orange lights stretching across the sky. It looked like they were hovering 200 to 300 feet off the ground. They seemed to have a reddish glow in the center of the mass it almost looked on fire. When my friend was driving back from dropping me off they were gone.
October 11, 2015 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Springfield, OH
My daughter (19 years old) and I (45 years old) were driving on I-70 West from Columbus, heading toward I-675 South around midnight on October 10, 2015. The sky was very dark, with little cloud and very bright stars. We were close to Springfield, Ohio when I noticed a very large bright flashing white light with a small flashing red light on one side, and a small flashing green light on the other. Because of the flashing side lights, I initially thought it was an airplane, and it was just extra bright against the dark sky. But as we got closer to it, the white light was bigger, and it appeared that the light was hovering in place, not moving. I then thought maybe it was a warning light attached to a tower, as there are many along I-70 West, although the warning lights are typically all white or all red. As we drove by it, it was not over the highway, but off to the side over the trees and fields. I was able to see it briefly because I was driving. I looked up at it and could see underneath. It was not attached to a tower, but was a rectangle shape that seemed to be standing still in the sky. It did not have the body shape of an airplane and there were no wings. The bulk of the underneath was the white light, and the two smaller lights were on either side. I could hardly believe what I saw, but there was no safe place to pull over so I kept driving and my daughter watched behind as we drove away from it. It did not appear to move to her, and she did not see wings or a tower either. She continued to watch it, until my driving caused her to lose sight of it.
July 4, 2015 · 10:37 PM · FIREBALL
Springfield, OH
Moving south to northwest. Stopped a few times.made a 90 degree move to west. Bright orange ball. Disappeared and 're appeared twice. I have watched the heavens for 40 years, never have I seen this. Not an airplane, not an airplane, not an airplane.
May 10, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, OH
As I was traveling north on Derr Rd. in Springfield, Ohio, I looked up to see two orange lights traveling at what appeared to be aircraft speed in a South/Southeastern direction. At first a believed that they were planes or helicopters but the light was orange and constant (not flashing). There were a few small clouds floating around in the area so I could tell that one was higher than the other but they were traveling at the same speed in the same direction. After about two minutes going in a straight path the higher one stopped immediately as the lower one continued on. A third orange light appeared just above the one that had stopped. The two lights stayed in that position for around 30 seconds then began a very fast circle as if chasing one another. As the two performed the circle the lower stopped abruptly and just sat in one position. The two lights moving in a circle flashed once and were gone. There was still sunlight in the sky, enough to see a silhouette of a plane if thats what it was, but there was nothing. They were both completely gone. Immediately after the two dissapeared the third made a very sharp angled u-turn travelled a short distance flashed once and vanished just as the first two did. I watched the surrounding sky for 30 minutes after to see if there were any more or any commercial aircrafts in the area but there were none.
May 9, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Springfield, OH
Observed orange glow approximately 200 feet above street level directly overhead. Object glowed like a fireball with some small flashes. Fireball like object steadily rose to 750 feet over the duration of the siting and extinguished approximately 1/2 mile away. Fireball did not leave a trail, nor did we hear any noise or feel heat from the object.
December 23, 2014 · 9:45 AM · CIRCLE
Springfield, OH
The item moved quickly from location to location and I saw it in a variety of sizes before it finally disappeared.