Sphere over Upper Sandusky, OH

The report, as filed

I was carefully walking the railroad tracks back home 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, and I walked into what I just assumed was a number of lightning bugs, like I said, I was watching where I was stepping I wasn't necessarily looking up and focusing until I was in the middle of it, and I Saul along the other side of the railroad track a bobbing light that was much tighter, and it's a luminescence it almost looks like a lackadaisical walker with a flashlight on the other side of the tracks. I know I'm not supposed to be on the railroad tracks at all so I quickly jumped off and kind of crouch in the longer grass and that's when it made a beeline directly at me and when it came of the tracks it hugged the ground, almost like it was making a point to traverse each track on its own. It stopped about 3-5 feet from my face and we just stared at each other for what felt like 60 seconds. Then it turned, got up on the track set i had been walking and shot due west. I stayed crouched for maybe 3 minutes or less terrified but eventually i talk to myself into getting back up on the tracks and walking thinking to myself. What am I gonna do? I got a knife on me versus is it gonna take me to go to take me so I'm just gonna walk this I walked directly at it, and it stayed a distance away. I walked through what had to of been 100 are over that flashing orbs on each side of me and I eventually I got off the track as soon as I could that fertilizer plant and that's kind of what I was planning on doing to kind of end my walk as I sing, and this one fertilizer barn has great acoustics, so I was like I think most people probably would I was talking to myself. I don't remember exactly what I was saying at first, but I do remember specifically saying "they're not going to stop me from singing" and that's when the sliding door shook in response to what I was saying, like something was shaking it from behind the door deliberately, and then I swore several times. I don't know why at that point I was not white as a ghost, but then responded to me again, my shaking the door and nobody was there. It was just me I didn't take me very long to get back home we live not even a 10th of a mile from the fertilizer plant and I didn't know what to do. I don't have anybody to tell so I just video document in my account of what happened and I immediately just uploaded it. I didn't edit it or anything I've since taken that down or hit it. I've made it private because it's freaks people out. I actually had a girl that I was talking to just stop talking to me because of it, but that Upload didn't go up until two in the morning roughly, and i don't know what happened to that time.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179660). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.