Light over Mt. Orab, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Three orange/yellow lights suddenly appeared, seemed to "fall" into each other, and then disappeared; happened three times Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132596). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-02-10 → 2017-02-27
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January 25, 2018 · 6:30 PM · FORMATION
Mt. Orab, OH
3 very bright lights in a line. The lights appeared like a flare.
October 17, 2017 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Mt. Orab, OH
Saw the lights first, while driving into town, then we got home, we drove to the back of our property and turned out the car lights and only had to wait a few minutes. It starts with what looks like strobe lights in fog. Multiple little strobes, then we see the lights appear, and then a one light comes out of another, then another. They appeared above and below as well. Multiple lights in multiple positions, now way to know if it was one, or many.
February 16, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Mt. Orab, OH
Multi day event. Monday February 13, 2017 about 8:00PM,we were walking out from our barn to get our horses to bring them in the for the night. I looked over at a small softball park that behind our property, it is closed for the winter. I saw close to the ground a red glowing orb. I thought at first it was someone with a dim flashlight, but then it appeared to flicker out like a flame. Then reappeared, and then disappeared again. I can't pinpoint exactly where it was, since I was looking across several acres, and trees. No one else saw this. Wednesday February 14, 2017, we were again walking out to retrieve our horses. this was around 7:30 PM. My husband said something and stopped.. I stopped and backed up to see, a cluster of these glowing red almost rectangular in shape lights, that were up in the air, through the trees. There were at least 7 lights, that randomly came on and off, and would reappear in other locations. These lights appeared to be dripping something. It appeared as if there were burning embers dropping from these lights. Also amongst these, were white sparkly lights, that would come on and go off randomly. We had a helper who ran out of the barn, to see what we were seeing, and he too witnessed the lights. I then thought to take out my phone and record, and I did get a small white dot, that came on and off, but it is hard to see much from it. A 4th person came out of the barn and also witnessed some of the lights. By this time they were drifting north and getting further way, and all we saw at this point was the white sparkly ones. We watched until they disappeared. Thursday February 15th, 2017, this night we did not have to bring the horses in, as they stayed in most the day, but we did decide to go out and see if we could see the lights again. This was at 7:00 PM. We saw them immediately in the same area. Same red glowing lights, that soon went out. We ran toward the back of our property to get beyond the trees, and were treated to many white sparkly lights, and clusters of pulsating white lights, that we thought at first were airplanes. However, I mentioned that there were too many, too close together to be airplanes, and they were not traveling, they were staying stationary. Then we saw for just an instant, a row of red round lights, that lit up one at a time, till a row was visible, and then they went out just as they lit up. 3 of us witnessed this. By this time the white strobes slowly drifted north again, leaving one loan red orb, hovering over the trees. This was very far off, but we could see it. It would move left the! n right, go up a ways.. over, and then back down. This stayed for at least 10 minutes. My husband saw one that was a small solid light (silver/white), that he thought at first was a satellite, till it came to a complete stop. It sat stationary for about 10 seconds, then it moved straight down, stopped again, was shining for a minute or two then went out. We watched all this take place over about 15 to 20 minutes. By this time we were cold, and decided to go in. We have called a friend with good cameras, to come tonight to see if we can see them again.
April 23, 2015 · 2:30 AM · SPHERE
Mt. Orab, OH
At 2:30 a.m. on April 23, 2015, I awoke to let my dog inside. Standing at the kitchen door, I happened to notice a really bright, white “star” in the western sky (located at about 2:00, when facing south; 10:00 if facing north.) It did not move forward in the sky at all, so I dismissed it as being a plane. I looked at it for a few seconds and noticed that it was moving slightly in all directions—right, left, up, and down—in no particular order. The movement was very subtle, which made me think, at first, that my eyesight was wavering. The light hovered in the sky at a distance. From our house, it appeared larger than a pen point; however, it was a good deal smaller than the eraser on the end of a pencil. It could be seen about a foot to the left of our neighbor’s tree, which is located in her back yard, I would say, about a 200-foot distance from the west entrance to our house. I studied it for about ten minutes, and because it hovered, in proximity, close to the same place, I decided it probably was not a helicopter. I woke my husband, telling him, “Come see this.” He awoke immediately and came to the door. We analyzed the “light,” and he agreed that it was a little strange, hovering as it was. He stood and watched it for about ten minutes longer. The light continued to stay in approximately the same place, hovering but unchanging, so he headed back to bed. I watched the light for a while longer and tried to make out a shape, but could not with my bare eyes. I attempted to take a photo with my cell phone camera. The photo showed nothing discernable. Then, I tried to take a photo with our new, digital camera, but was not familiar enough with the camera yet to get enough light in order to have an image show up. I watched for a while longer, then went to find some binoculars. I came back to see the light still hovering in the same spot. It was pretty fuzzy, and it took me looking around a bit to decide that the “star” was what I had in my sight. I caught the neighbor’s streetlight (in the front of her house) in the sight and moved to the right, past the back of her house. Through the binoculars, the light appeared as a perfect sphere that, though fuzzy, was a grayish, mottled ball, rolling forward at a moderate speed with some shadows and contours. There was a symmetrical dot off-center on the left surface of the ball tha! t made me think that the ball was rolling forward, because it would disappear and appear once more within seconds. I know that there was visual contrast between the grey of the star and the dot; I think the dot was white, but this is the only detail that I’m not sure about. (I didn’t make note of anything until I sit, writing this.) I continued to watch for about another twenty-five minutes, until about 3:30. In that time, I noticed that the “light” had inched its way closer to the neighbor’s tree, (still at a subtle hover and still at a large distance, but appearing a little smaller). When it began to slip behind the tree, hindering my view, I went off to bed. Planet, we suspect. Perhaps Jupiter, which would be in that area of the sky, at the time indicate. PD
November 4, 2013 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Mt. Orab, OH
Observation of two circular unidentified lights not behaving like man made object