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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.
3,827 entries
September 29, 2023 · 9:13 AM · TRIANGLE
Cincinnati, OH
We saw 3 bright orange lights in different areas creating the shape of a triangle and rapidly changing directions. This last for 2 mins. The lights were brighter than the stars behind it and was moving fast than any plane or jet we had ever seen.
September 27, 2023 · 6:16 PM · TEARDROP
Cambridge, OH
While out in the yard with the dog, I glanced up at the sky and notice a dark colored elongated teardrop shaped object speed through an opening in the clouds. It was moving at a high rate of speed, reentered the clouds and was gone in seconds. The object's flight paths was from West to East and south of my location. I didn't hear any sound coming from the object and there wasn't any contrails or noticeable means of propulsion. No flight surfaces where visible and the object appeared to be larger than normal air traffic common to the skies above my home. If I had to estimate, I would say it was about twice as long as an airliner. I was unable to take any photos or video due to the briefness of the sighting. But I did think to take a photo of the sky for reference of the object location and cloud formations present during the sighting (making sure to capture landmarks). I immediately went in the house and did a sketch of the object. It was flat black in color like a weathered car bumper. I will attach the location photo that I took for reference as well as the sketch I did.
September 20, 2023 · 2:28 PM · CHANGING
Probable conventionalColumbus, OH
One White object that appeared to change shape as it moved through space. Was up as high as a plane, flying over the 270/315 area. My husband and I both witnessed it. A lot of birds were flying around the area which caused us to step outside, I looked over to the south side of our house and saw it in the air. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Probable]
September 19, 2023 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Cardington, OH
4-5 hours of 2 lights chasing g each other in the sky and in the grass
September 17, 2023 · 8:11 PM · UNKNOWN
Grove City, OH
On September 17, 2023, at about 8:11pm, my wife and myself were in our backyard when we observed two lights flying above us heading southward. We can normally hear aircraft when they fly over. These crafts were silent. As we watched the crafts we observed them increase altitude and disappear in the cloud cover. The lights were warm in color and didn't resemble the cooler wing lights of conventional aircrafts. The crafts we observed also didn't have red and green flashing lights. About 3 minutes later we observed two more crafts that appeared to follow the same flight plan as the first two. And then another minute later a fifth craft was observed. During each sighting I checked my FlightAware app and confirmed that no aircrafts were in the immediate area.
September 16, 2023 · 8:12 PM · LIGHT
Conneaut, OH
My wife and I were watching the ISS fly over our house. Suddenly we saw another light rapidly coming up behind the ISS, on what appeared to be the same path as the ISS. The light then caught up to and rapidly passed the ISS, at which point we could tell it was quite a bit higher than the ISS and much, much faster. The light passed above and just slightly to the left of the space station, and quickly disappeared behind the clouds. We watched the ISS for probably another 45 seconds to a minute until it also went behind the clouds.
September 12, 2023 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Cleveland, OH
White (glowing) UAP orb sighted to the west of KCLE (maybe 5-500) miles away (was unable to determine range), at unknown altitude (maybe 1000-50k feet above ground level) and was motionless for a minute, and then it slowly moved northward and started changing colors from red, to green, blue, purple, violet, and white. The way it changed colors seemed to animate or move around the craft in a projecting manner. Lastly, there seemed to be some kind of movement of smaller particles moving around the craft in an orbiting like fashion, similar to an animation of atomic particles moving around an atom. I also saw another aircraft with it’s strobe, beacon, and NAV lights on, moving towards the UAP. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]
September 7, 2023 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
Ironton, OH
Hovered for approximately 20 seconds next to the top of the trees. I was mesmerized by all the lights around it. I went to grab my phone and it disappeared. I didn’t see it fly away but I looked away for like 2 seconds for my phone. It was extremely bright because the next night I looked out the same window and couldn’t even see the trees. I was visiting my parents home.
September 3, 2023 · 8:47 PM · TRIANGLE
Miamisburg, OH
In car, riding back home. Saw 3 lights hovering in air, that formed a triangle shape. The lights were very bright and flickering. All the lights disappeared for a few seconds, and just one light reappeared. Over a few seconds all the 3 lights reappeared but began to separate further. The lights then formed a vertical line, with each light descending to the ground at separate times with a visual tail. Very odd, neither myself or husband have ever witnessed anything of this sort.
August 29, 2023 · 7:46 PM · CYLINDER
Ashtabula, OH
Pulled off at flying j to point it out to my buddy, get out in the parkinglot and pointed at it.. my buddy see’s it too and then it started to move about 60 seconds later like it knew we saw it. From standing still to moving at a fair pace across the sky instantly, no chem trail and not sure about sound bc the truck is loud idling
August 29, 2023 · 7:00 AM · CYLINDER
Youngstown, OH
I watched ufo for 4-5 minutes. When I got to Youngstown, exit 223, the ufo was on my left. I had to look out and up of my driver's side window. The ufo seemed about the size of a car or big propane cylinder. I did not see any propellers, wings, tail, or jet engines. It did not look like any type of balloon. UFO was light in color, maybe white or silver. The UFO never moved the whole time I watched it.
August 28, 2023 · 6:48 AM · LIGHT
Massillon, OH
I noticed a fast moving star heading north but it slowed down to almost to a stand still and flashed very bright light then continued to pick up speed and I watched it until it went out of sight. At first I thought it was a satellite but it was moving too fast then slowed down almost stopping then let off a intense flash then continued back to its fast speed. I could tell that this star like object was not in our atmosphere but was traveling in space.
August 27, 2023 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Byesville, OH
The ship up front had windows from bottom to top . Front had most lights on. There had to be 30 levels of windows on it. Was so close saw small stream of smoke from it and low hum. Have great picture of this . It has lights all around it you can tell it is oval round shape. I see this craft every night it usually looks like a very bright star and will go out and move closer to my house. I am scared and would appreciate a call back 740 XXX-XXXX .also had vision of being on the craft and they put something in both ears and saw its face for about 5 seconds. Also been followed by it. Seen this for 2 years and every night since. Thank You
August 24, 2023 · 9:31 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
Slightly left of the moon, observably about 200 miles, object is not seen moving, strobing luminosity
August 24, 2023 · 12:16 PM · LIGHT
Cheviot, OH
Looking out side window of house facing south. I see red/pinkish thought strange not Venus. Lights dimmed then intensified. I turn my head to look at my garage. I turn my head back facing south. It’s gone.
August 23, 2023 · 9:18 PM · SPHERE
Orient, OH
I witnessed the object coming from the south, it was solid in color, orange/red, it was not blinking as a plane or helicopter would. It had a linear path and traveled at a constant speed. There was no sound at any point of travel. It was rapid but constant. It appeared round in shape. Orb, not disc. It was bright. We live west of Rickenbacker International Airport, we see planes all day long. This was no plane. My wife agrees.
August 16, 2023 · 8:20 PM · FORMATION
Athens, OH
I regularly take a swim in Strouds Run State Park. I swim across and then return back. On my way back I looked up and saw the sky. It was sunset and dark blue above me. To the horizon was colorful sunset. Above me I noticed thin clouds. I noticed among them were 5-7 square yellow green colored objects. All equal distance and within the clouds. There was no noise. They moved very slowly over head. I could not come ot any other human make objects which they may have been. It was a bit frightening being in the middle of the lake as the object(s) passed overhead of me. I felt am awareness of myself and that something above was looking at me. It was a strange feeling. I swam as quickly as I could back to shore. At this point it had passed and was continuing East slowly over the lake. More more detail, the green/yellow squares apeared to be blinking.
August 12, 2023 · 8:33 PM · LIGHT
Probable conventionalDelaware, OH
Two objects seen, one was orb like light above another that was moving with a visible tail, the orb had disappeared, and left the other object that had a visible tail. Then the object that was traveling with a visible tail, disappeared, and the orb like light, was left by itself. After a while, all these objects just blinked out of view. Caught video of both just not together. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Probable]
August 9, 2023 · 9:53 PM · SPHERE
Westerville, OH
I have a video I’d like to share with you. How do I do that? I’ve described it in my video.
August 6, 2023 · 12:21 PM · CYLINDER
Powhatan Point, OH
I am the Manager at my local public pool and while was sitting in the Basket Room (Office) checking the radar it sounded like our splash pad shut off, so I looked out the door and saw what looked like a BRIGHT glowing Tic Tac zooming across the sky. So I ran back into the basket room and grabbed my phone to get pictures and video. THEN I looked on the pool security cams to see if I caught it... I DID.... This thing made no sound and was not a balloon. This thing was on a straight path and moving FAST.
August 4, 2023 · 9:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Rocky River, OH
On Friday, August 4th, I saw a flashing light in the sky. The time was around 9:38pm and I took video at 9:44PM. For the first few minutes the light was stationary and was flashing a green and white color. Then it started to move. I was able to move forward, backwards, every which way, and then remain stationary. Unfortunately, likely due to it being so high up in the sky I was unable to make out what the shape of it was. Eventually a came inside and told my girlfriend. We then watched it outside of the window, and after a couple more minutes it sped off and we were unable to see it. I would also like to add that Wednesday night, just two days earlier, at around the same time, at 9:55PM, there was an object in the sky at almost the exact same time. But this one was slightly different in that we never saw it move, and the lights would flash between red and green, and then off. We have video of this as well. When we went back inside and looked out the window we took a video. The 21 second video is from Wednesday night when the light or object was stationary. The light you will see in the top left is a reflection from the window. The light was gone a short time later. The longer video is from tonight, Friday.
August 2, 2023 · 2:13 AM · FIREBALL
Dayton, OH
looked like a greenish yellowish ball of fire falling down in an angle
July 29, 2023 · 10:53 PM · CHANGING
Etna, OH
Two orbs of light followed me and my Fiancé on our drive home, at the first opportunity I had to get a clear visual recording of them I turned on my camera. I'll stick to just the details that can be seen on video. The two orbs hung stationary in the air, and to the naked eye didn't appear to be changing in size or changing colors, but on my phone screen as I was recording, I noticed that they appeared to be "popping" in and out, they resembled a flat circle that was getting larger and smaller with no rhythm to the change in size. There did initially appear to be synchronicity between the two objects but upon placing the raw video into a postFX software known as Sony Vegas, I overlaid a chroma key to isolate the two objects from the sky around them and went through the video frame by frame, upon further inspection I realized that not only were they getting larger and smaller, they were in fact merging for milliseconds at a time, changing colors through the entire "visible" spectrum, and changing shape. At one point they both appear to split into three objects each, with each having its own unique shape and color. The lighting appears to be synchronized throughout most of the frames, and the shapes they took all appeared to be geometric in nature. We both felt a sort of empathetic connection to these objects, we felt fascination and curiosity, and the overwhelming knowledge that they were presenting themselves to us specifically. These objects followed us to Eisenhower highway before disappearing, but as we drove further I realized they were actually overlaying the trees and houses as we drove past them, by this I mean that I could see the two objects overlaid on top of material that should have hidden them from view.
July 19, 2023 · 5:31 PM · DISK
Dayton, OH
I was driving southbound on Woodman at 5:31 PM today, July 19th of 2023 (writing this at 6:35 PM). Saw a shiny, reflective disk (shiny but shadowed on bottom) just like the one at 4 minutes, 13 seconds in The Phenomenon by James Fox. Was heading south, slightly west, away from Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Disk appeared to be roughly 300 feet in the air. I could immediately tell - this was absolutely not a plane. Regardless, all options must be ruled out, so once I got home (15 minutes later), I checked numerous flight radars to see if there were any planes passing the surrounding area in said direction - nothing, at all. Object was not visible for approximately ten to fifteen seconds due to trees, after which I pulled into a very open parking lot in attempt to relocate object. Was completely gone, not visible whatsoever. Weather had clouds in the far distance, but was (still is) fairly clear in my relative area. I've seen things that were "hmm, that's kinda strange… could have a prosaic explanation I'm just not thinking of…" before. This was very, very obviously not a plane. There was no exhaust emitted from this object whatsoever. No trail. It was very, very obviously not a balloon or drone. I'm very confused as to what this was.