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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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December 21, 2020 · 4:23 AM · UNKNOWN
Painesville, OH
Had looked up in time to see it enter the earths atmosphere and leave mist have fly through within a second, it was cool i had asked GOD to see proof of Extra-Terrestrial life and it presented itself!
December 3, 2020 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
At around 7:45 PM on 12/4/2020 in Columbus, OH, near the area of Morse Rd. and I-71, two of us witnessed a line of lights to the west. They appeared about the size that Venus appeared at the same time, and seemed to be a little less bright, or at least more yellow to the color. No other structure could be seen associated with the lights. They appeared to be almost perfectly, equally spaced from each other, forming a perfectly straight line staring from lower left to upper right, making roughly a 45 degree angle with the horizon. This is a rough estimate, but I would say they were located maybe between 15 and 30 degrees above the horizon. As far as distance from where we were standing, it was very hard to gauge, but my best guess would be between a few miles to maybe 50 miles. The person I was with pointed them out to me, and we watched them for about a minute, as they appeared to be moving slightly towards us, then slightly north, maintaining the same ! formation the entire time. Then, just as they appeared to move north, they started to fade out and not be visible anymore, starting with the lights at each end of the line. It almost appeared that they were turning and the lights were no longer facing us, but they did not reappear as I observed for about 20 minutes afterwards, so I think they just faded/turned off. The movement was not along the direction of the line, but was perpendicular to the line. The movement was also very slow, in fact I was not even sure that the line was moving at all until it moved slightly to the north. I read your requests to not report the SpaceX Starlink satellites, and I don’t believe that is what I saw. I looked it up afterwards and did find a number of stories referring to people sighting these strings of lights. However, the ones I saw appeared to be cloud-level, not moving along an orbital path, and the angle in relation to the ground would not make sense for where they were in the sky, but I can not completely discount this possibility. My friend suggested a group of drones, but I can not really see that as the formation remained equally-spaced and along a line for the entire encounter. The weather conditions were fairly calm at the ground, but even so they would have to be pretty high-end to keep such a tight formation. I am generally a skeptic of such sightings (not a non-believer though), but the location in the sky, the formation, and the pattern of movement all leave me with no solid explanation at the moment. I have a degree in physics, so I am generally aware of the possibilities outside our planetary sphere, and I have spent plenty of time stargazing, so this really did make an impression on me to start looking this far into it.
December 3, 2020 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Hilliard, OH
There was a big circle of lights in the sky. There was one in the middle of 8-10 lights that was a little brighter than the rest. When I looked up it looked like an alinement of planets in a galaxy of how straight they were. It looked like it was gonna be the end of the world. The lights would blink and than one half of the lights would turn off than turn on than the other half would do ye same and than the lights would slowly go away one by one after about 7-10 minutes. You could see a big circle shaped ship behind the lights. It would rotate clockwise but the one main beige red light wouldn’t move position but you could tell it was rotating.
November 29, 2020 · 2:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Cambridge, OH
A stationary object was seen apparently hovering with red flashing lights and white stationary lights it did no move for a half hour
November 19, 2020 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Fremont, OH
My dogs ran away and i was hollering with my flashlights. I saw a helicopter fly by and then the helicopter circled over twice so I started to record. There are 4 fireballs to my southwest. One of them went up and then all four went down. There weren2 witnesses with me and whoever was in the helicopter.
November 13, 2020 · 3:20 PM · OVAL
Canfield, OH
With the Covid situation it has forced the couple to shop in much different ways than normal. They were looking for a farm market to see if they had any vegetables. As the man and his wife were on an out of the way road, mid afternoon, he sighted something about 800 foot off the ground, oval and very shiny, with the sun reflecting off of it, slowly moving up and down. He asked his wife if she was seeing what he was seeing and she confirmed that she also saw it ahead of them. As they drew closer and had a better view of it, the shape was almost a perfect elongated oval, they could not see if there were any lights on it because of the reflection of the sun. As they approached the object it made a slight wobble and shot straight up and disappeared in the blink of an eye. His wife had always been a non-believer of such things but never kept him from his interests. Now, she said, "I always thought you were crazy, but I can't argue with what I saw." At 3! :45 pm, the sun was setting in the southwest, clear sky, very little wind , no one else in the area (farm country).
November 12, 2020 · 6:58 PM · CHANGING
Mason, OH
Thursday November 12th 2020 6:58 p.m. eastern time. siding interstate 71 in Ohio at the Mason Montgomery exit. First bright lite coming from slitly from the south, to big to be anything ive ever seen. first thought it was a meteor burning up in the atmosphere.Light dimed and i saw a Tic-Tac blue light comming from bottem mid. of craft/fallen angel celestial supernatural spiritual being. Took pics with phone as i was taking the ext. last i saw... it changed directions (west) and was gone
November 12, 2020 · 3:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Huber Heights, OH
I'm a truck driver and on the early morning of November 12th I saw an unidentified flying object. Around 03:45 am along I-70 heading east off to my left I saw an object, triangular in shape. Around the Huber heights area in Ohio approximately 200 feet off the ground flying in a NE direction towards Springfield Ohio. It was black in color on the back a row of lights amber in color went from left to right all across the back. On the underside dead center was a single red light that was flashing. It was about 500 meters off to my left north of I-70 at that distance it was massive. No apparent sound, I was traveling at 65 mphi estimate it was doing maybe 80 to 90 mph. About 5 minutes before it was out of view, I had no safe place to pull over in my truck to get my phone out. On the bottom edges were faint white lights the length of all 3 sides. I couldn’t estimate the size but it was massive. I'm prior military and I know that was no plane currently in our air force or civilian inventory.
November 10, 2020 · 8:00 AM · SPHERE
Painesville, OH
I was working my food delivery job and I just got finished dropping off my last delivery I was about to pull out but as I stopped I looked left to traffic, but something inside me almost wanted to look up and I looked exactly at what seemed to be a stationary object clearly visible with the suns rays reflecting off of it, it was approximately 15,000-20,000 high, I could tell because all of airliners would be higher than what I perceived this aircrafts height to be. Anyways one second elapses of me staring at the object and it was almost as if the object knew I saw it and it bolted off it bolted off opposite of Lake Erie it also left a trail because of how fast it traveled, the light from the aircraft was floating in the air I was at awe of how beautiful it looked then in an instant it was gone like it moved south west and had different things to do. This was my first official UFO sighting all my other sightings were coincidences and easily explainable phenmenon but it was a feeling as if I knew I saw something spectacular. The color of the craft was a reflective white looking object almost looked like a star but it wasent because it wasent a self sustaining light you could tell because when it flew away the light that it was reflecting dissipated as-well indicating it could’ve been using the lights from the city to charge up its vehicle real quick and then flew away when it had charge.
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.
November 8, 2020 · 6:44 PM · DISK
Canal Winchester, OH
My neighbor and I were outside. I saw object coming from the East moving towards the West. Object had no red, green or strobe like an airplane. No sound either. It was around 5-10 thousand feet in the air. It was moving slow about 200 knots then slowed down almost to a complete stop above both my neighbor and I. It then continued West and speeded up then it vanished. I have been watching the sky since I was 10 years old. I am 58 now. I own 2 advanced telescopes. I have NEVER seen a UFO until yesterday. I have seen in the past Apollo, Apollo- Soyuz, the space shuttle, ISS all time, countless asteroids and countless satellites but NEVER anything like this pulsating orange / yellow object in the sky. I also have it all on video.
November 5, 2020 · 7:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Youngstown, OH
Boardman Ohio. As we drove down glenwood ave about 200ft in the sky was a triangle shaped craft that had lights on each corner and one in the rear middle. this craft was about 80ft wide and sounded like a traditional jet. We stood right under it and it was amazing.
November 4, 2020 · 9:45 PM · DISK
Edison, OH
While driving home we saw two objects with lights all around them in the sky. They were just hovering in one spot at first. One ended up circling around the other and then they took off in the direction between West/East. They were fairly close to the ground as well. Their speed was fairly quick.
November 3, 2020 · 8:07 AM · OVAL
Akron, OH
This morning I was in the kitchen making coffee looking out of my kitchen window I saw three metallic objects that look like birds at first like birds because I know the birds are going south in the winter. However, these were the shiniest birds, no wings, they were glimmering in the sunlight. Hhowever these were metallic football shaped, and the shiniest things in the sky they kept shimmering and reflecting sunlight as I noticed they were moving in tight alignment. As they moved out of the plane of my view they aligned into like a three object triangle and as the object starting getting more distant, and at a certain point it didn't stop, it seemed hesitate and then it shot straight up and into the sky of what little left I could see it was just like a really fast blur. It was moving in a south east direction.
October 31, 2020 · 2:30 PM · CHANGING
Bainbridge, OH
10/31/20 @ approximately 14:30 hrs granddaughter asked about a star in the sky above our farm. Upon looking at the object with binoculars I could see what appeared to be craft emitting a white/silver light with two thick black downward protruding pole and with a third pole that crossed at the bottom of the two downward poles but was extended further out to the port side. The body of the craft slowly and repeatedly cycled between the shape of a diamond and a circle during the entire time of the event. The body had well defined edges and I never had any visual obstruction or blurring caused by the light during it's shifting. It appeared to be at an extremely high altitude with a moderate velocity. Two other aircraft (airliners) were in the vicinity at the time but were well below it's altitude and they both had different headings. I immediately check online at website FlightAware.com which showed only the two scheduled airline flight already mentioned. This we! bsite doesn't show military flights. The objects approximate location was 39°13'58.22"N 83°10'28.67"W with a heading of approximately 100 degrees. Altitude appeared to be in excess of 50k. My point of observations would of been about 10-12 miles west of these coordinates. The sky was clear and sunny, temperature was in the low 50's and the sun would of been to my back during the siting.
October 31, 2020 · 11:41 AM · RECTANGLE
Maumee, OH
I have a 15 second video, it was most definitely not a drone or a smudge on the lens.
October 31, 2020 · 10:00 AM · LIGHT
Vandalia, OH
Spotted red and green switching lights from my deck 10-31-20 at approximately 2200hrs took 4 different short videos. Video show changing lights and object making fast sharp turns and changes in elevation. At first I saw it and did not get my phone camera out; because I thought by the time I got it out the object and lights would be gone. But I was able to take video. There are some trees in the foreground and the object is in the background. The trees give it some depth perspective.
October 31, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Georgetown, OH
Witnes provides no information. PD
October 25, 2020 · 8:40 AM · CIGAR
Canton, OH
I witnessed a strange aircraft flying east over I77n just nort of north canton ohio me marker 115 Cigar shaped object flew over highway and suddenly stopped, it hesitated about 2 minutes then flew west in a straight line and disappeared, now this is north of akron canton airport and there is a national guard base in the area I witnessed object.
October 24, 2020 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Toledo, OH
They slightly swayed back, and forth like a snake, from head to tail. They appeared as if they entered the atmosphere, but they did not break up, they stayed in uniform, almost lined up single file . There where others planes in the area, but this appeared to be higher. The other planes where traveling from west to east, and Detroit Airport is about an hour north east of here, this came from slighly northwest, and traveled slightly south east. Rather than fade away in the distance, this whole uniform of lights seemed to disappear. It didn't make any sound, i tried to take a video of it, but i couldn't get my phone to work. It didn't make any noise. It appeared as if a bunch of planes where grouped together single file, but like hundreds. The whole mass of lights moved together swaying slightly like a snake. There where no trails, no stragglers.
October 24, 2020 · 7:15 PM · CIGAR
Elmore, OH
Driving down the 80/90 turnpike when my wife and I saw a cigar shape hovering over 80/90 in Ohio on our way home from cedar point. Approximately 20 lights in a straight line on the underside. We could see the shadow of the object above the lights.
October 23, 2020 · 11:52 PM · LIGHT
Newark, OH
Green flashing lights all over the sky! Almost like concert lights! Bright green moving very fast! I have a video of it if needed!!
October 23, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
Toledo, OH
While taking dogs outside to bathroom, I noticed 3 lights in sky directly above me. I then noticed these 3 lights moving as one to the West. Then while looking around, I noticed there were at least 40 similar lights all moving same speed and direction
October 22, 2020 · 8:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Austintown, OH
Triangular craft seen while driving on I76E, object first spotted at my 10-ll o'clock position. It appeared as a airplane headed directly toward me in the night sky with a landing gear light. I travel this route every m-f night. I know that no radio attenas are in that area and that they are usually red. This made me assume it was just an airplane, as this light was white. When I finally got closer to this craft, I could tell it was just hovering perfectly still. Not going up,down,left, or right. Not even affected by any wind. As I finally had sight of it now in my drivers window I could tell that it was dark grey or black in color. Each side was approximately 100' in length. It was about 2000' in altitude. Not quite a mile from the interstate. It was positioned with the point I first saw facing west while the other points faced north and south. The west points light was flashing constantly while the north and south points were on solid. The craft was over the east side of the Meander Reservoir area. It was in my view until I couldn't look back any longer. I wanted to take a picture of it on my phone, but was in disbelief of what I was looking at. I had a feeling to just keep moving so thats what I did. For quite awhile I debated on turning around and getting that picture. I've never seen anything like this In my life. I'm a 33 year old truck driver with a clean record with backround check required endorsements. Was just an hour into my work shift.