Triangle over Wilmington, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Three amber lights spinning slowly, made a full rotation then individually turned off. Very bright
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171372). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-08-21 → 2022-09-07
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January 9, 2023 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Wilmington, OH
Whatever it was I saw 1/9/2023 and reported earlier today (1/10/2023) is not there tonight. Can see all the normal plane traffic, and the stars and planets all around that spot in the sky, but nothing spotted like what I saw last night. Just wanted to follow up.
January 9, 2023 · 8:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Wilmington, OH
Not ready to say this was a UFO, but it was cool to see and worth reporting in case anyone else saw it. Last night (1/9/2023, approximately 7:30 - 8:00pm) , while taking the trash out, I noticed a twinkling/flashing light in the sky to the south-southeast of our house. Didn't think much of it at first, as we do have a lot of air traffic around us, and that's the how the colors appeared to the naked eye - looked like a plane possibly coming straight towards me, with it's red/green/white lights. I continued to watch it for a few moments, expecting it to get closer, but using stationary landmarks to compare against, it did not appear to be moving (meanwhile, had planes going by as normal). I watched it for about 5 minutes, then decided to grab a pair of binoculars to try to get a better look. When I returned outside with the binoculars, it was still in the same spot - through the binoculars, I couldn't make out a shape, but could see a whole rainbow of colors (the colors were in a bit of a starburst pattern around the core object, so it may have been just from the binoculars). I continued to watch it for another 15 minutes approximately before going back in the house for the night. Felt that was worthy of reporting, even if it wasn't a UFO - just in case anyone else reports something similar in the area. Planning to go back out tonight, if the sky is still clear, to see if it is there again tonight...and if it is, I'll get the telescope out and try to get a better look at it.
August 24, 2022 · 8:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Wilmington, OH
Fiance observed strange lights that appeared and disappeared and asked me what it was and to grab phone. I have video. These lights would show up randomly and different spots at times almost touching then separated then moved northeast. I'm a police officer here in Wilmington and I've been working here for 16yrs and never seen this. My father was in the air force and I'm very familiar with jets and military aircraft. These did not appear to be normal. Also I've seen meteor showers this does not appear to be that either. These hovered stationary and then almost touching then separated. What's strange is that about 15min later while we waited for them to appear we observed 3 flashing lights evenly spaced out heading north that may have been jets. We have the video recorded of these lights. I've added screens hots of the video and also shortened video clip but I have original video unedited on phone as well. At times they were in total darkness then show up. At one point you will see 2 or 3 then one disappears and a split second later it's next to the other one.
April 11, 2020 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Wilmington, OH
Went outside to look at a plane flying over our area we had been tracking on a flight radar app, caught eye of 1st orb and considered the possibility of it being a simple satellite, then 16 more followed one after the other with about 3-5 seconds in between them coming into view. They did not appear on this radar app therefore it is not a typical flight. After flying through a small cloud they never re appeared again. No sound, no navigation lights.
January 14, 2018 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
Wilmington, OH
At 6:00 pm, 4 people observed what appeared to be a rocket launch southwest of Wilmington, Ohio. There was a single craft that was large in size and had an “S” shaped trail behind it. The craft was black in color and was observed from about 15 miles southwest. I’ve searched for launch dates and I can’t seem to find one for today
July 9, 2016 · 11:25 PM · CYLINDER
Wilmington, OH
Saw a reddish orange object moving up and down and side to side. Took 2 photos and the photos were something we were not able to identify.