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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
October 9, 2019 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Hilliard, OH
I was standing outside facing the north and I saw a flash of white light in the east and it traveled west and then went back towards the east. The sun was rising but the sky was still black in west. It was light enough out at that point that you couldn't see any stars in the sky.
October 8, 2019 · 6:40 PM · CYLINDER
Carroll, OH
I was outside and I looked up at a high altitude airplane and as I was watching it go overhead, this cylinder shaped, all white object was flying behind it. It was spinning in all directions. It was behind the airplane, somewhat far back, going the same speed. Then, it sped up and as soon as it was at the plane, it veered off to the left and flew out of sight. I never heard any noises from it. It did seem to have a cloudiness form about it.
October 8, 2019 · 6:40 PM · CYLINDER
Carroll, OH
I was outside and I looked up and saw a high altitude airplane going overhead. As I was watching it, this white cylinder shaped object (smaller than the plane) was flying behind it, spinning in all directions, following at the same speed as the airplane. Then, it sped up getting closer to the airplane. As soon as it did, it veered off to the left and it flew out of sight. I didn't hear any sounds other than the plane.
October 8, 2019 · 7:00 AM · LIGHT
Defiance, OH
I was driving North on State Route 637 and I saw 5 small white points of light in the North. There were 4 white lights shaped like the points of a box with one white light above the top. As I got closer to the lights, suddenly all 5 whites became one light. It started moving East. I turned on a side road to take a picture with my phone and the light was nowhere to be found. The entire experience was visible for approximately 10 minutes. All the lights were round in shape.
October 8, 2019 · 3:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Columbus, OH
I was up late watching shows on my computer in bed. I leaned back into my pillow and looked out the window for a brief moment. There in the sky was some dark rectangular craft in the sky with green lights. It was fuzzy in some areas because of the clouds breaking against it. And sharper in other areas. I blinked a few times then it disappeared.
October 7, 2019 · 7:00 AM · OTHER
Columbus, OH
October 2019 I was driving to work at 7am in the morning, driving down Rt 161, all of a sudden a person in a space suit was moving in the sky towards my direction. He had on a round space hat and a white space suit he was straight up and down, with no sound and just moving thru the air. I turned left off the freeway and pulled over, got out of my car and turned towards that way and he was gone. Weird
October 7, 2019 · 5:20 AM · LIGHT
Findlay, OH
Very bright non-blinking large light sitting in same spot for a few minutes maybe a few hundred feet up and disappeared as I was watching it
October 6, 2019 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Brookfield, OH
Bright Light over Brookfield, Ohio, Sunday, October 6, 2019 1:53 PM About a month ago, I was walking down my hall toward the kitchen. As I was passing the hallway window, a very bright object caught the corner of my eye. I looked and witnessed a very bright floating object in the East toward Sharon, Pa. It hovered for hours and as morning came, it was more toward a SE position. This morning around 2:ooam, I seen the object again in about the same position in the sky as last time. I got out my husband's cell phone and took pictures with video only to find that it is 2 objects or it has something connected to it. It does change position with the other object as the night goes on. I hope I am not seeing a satellite that is to hover over a certain area. I don't see this object every night though. It comes about every 2 days or so. Surprised no one has seen it or if they have, we haven't heard anything about it. It is very bright.
October 5, 2019 · 8:51 PM · CIRCLE
New Philadelphia, OH
I was traving in the car with my daughter heading north on I 77. As it got closer to me, I noticed its circular shape, resembling a wheel of sorts. There were no flashing lights, but a very bright white light was emanating from the middle of the object. It was moving south at a high rate of speed, but no sound was detected.
October 5, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Pandora, OH
A very very bright blue/white light when cross the sky at 1900/7:15pm traveling at a high rate of speed. The blue/white light was spitting orange/red fireballs out behind its' self with no smoke trails behind those. This Blue/white light also produced no sound. It then disappeared after about 5 seconds of being first spotted.
October 5, 2019 · 8:00 AM · LIGHT
Ravenna, OH
Saw a light changing color, blue, copper color, green, red. Heading NW. Moving very fast. Was not flashing like an aircraft. Light was changing. Almost morphing.
October 4, 2019 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Maineville, OH
At a bonfire (church) around 7:00 pm we witnessed multiple white objects appearing and disappearing in the sky to the northwest....at first there were 3 then 1 seemed to disappear and then over the course of about 30 minutes the objects changed in number (never disappearing completely)...and no more than 5 that were visible...one of the parents told the children they were sundogs after the kids began calling them ufo’s....I wanted to video but parents wanted to distract their children...these objects were in the wrong location for a sundog..,they were not meteorites or shooting stars....don’t know what they were just thought I’d share ...surely someone else must have witnessed what we all saw...I am including pictures...you’ll have to zoom to see objects and one picture has a football in it to the right (kids playing catch)... Witness does not indicate a date of the sighting, so we have assigned an artificial date. We have made two attempts to contact her, but have not been successful in reaching her at the number she provides. PD
October 2, 2019 · 8:00 PM · DISK
Dover, OH
My father and I enjoy watching the space station when it passes over our property. On the night of October 2, 2019 the station passed over at 7:13 pm. Around 20 till 8 Dad decided to take his dog inside the house. My step-son was outside with me at approximately 7:45 when we both saw 4 lights traveling very slowly (to us) in a row. As the lights got closer they got larger. They were red on the bottom and orangey-red on the top. They made no sound whatever. For help in your understanding, I’m going to number them 1, 2, 3 and 4. My step-son ran into the house to get my dad and my husband to come out and see this, and they did. The lights came from what I perceive as the north-west, going in a southerly direction. Numbers 1 and 2 stopped and numbers 3 and 4 flew sideways and caught up with the first two, forming a perfect square and hovered there for about 20 seconds. By this time they appeared about the size of a saucer that is put under a cup. There was absolutely no sound coming from them. After hovering there, number 1 raised up and flew west. Number 2 raised up and flew west also, but in a more northerly direction. The other two raised up and disappeared. I would estimate that all four had disappeared from view within 3 seconds. I cannot explain what I saw any more than this.
September 28, 2019 · 7:30 PM · RECTANGLE
Columbus, OH
Look like a rectangle with flashing red lights
September 27, 2019 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
Mansfield, OH
Sighting 2 of 2 On September 27th, my wife and traveled to the back side of Charles Mill Reservoir, just outside of Mansfield, Ohio. The location we choose is void of light with very little light pollution from the city, perfect for stargazing and watching out for shooting stars. What would be a routine sky watching evening would turn anything but. At approximately 1:30 both my wife and I witnessed what we would both classify as the exact same event as described on July 27th, post 1 of 2. We saw what we thought was a shooting star entering the Earth’s atmosphere from the northeast at 30-40 degrees above the horizon on a bearing of 210. Just as we thought the object was about to flame out it immediately slowed down to the speed of a commercial jetliner and the brightness of a normal star. After approximately 5-6 seconds it accelerated to the same speed as it had entered the atmosphere and the same brightness. Needless-to-say, we were both left speechless. As a former pilot I have never seen an incident which left me wondering what it was I just saw. Whether or not this was military or something not from this Earth, I do not know. But what I do know, is what I saw. I not only saw it once, I have seen it twice. During both incidents, there was no alcohol involved as neither of us drink. We are both sound of mind and these are the first two incidents we have ever reported. I will state again, I know what I saw and it could not in any way shape or form be mistaken for something else.
September 26, 2019 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Mentor, OH
4 small solid white lights, equidistant apart in a straight line, initially appeared to look like stars due to their high altitude but did not change shape or intensity. Skies were clear, no clouds in the vicinity. Lights appeared stationary at first with surrounding blue hue then began to move silently from east to southwest across the sky. As the lights began to move, the blue hue disappeared. Their speed increased rapidly and they disappeared in the distance within 4-5 seconds. Lights did not leave any kind of heat signature, smoke or vapor trail visible to the naked eye .
September 26, 2019 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Mantua, OH
We live in a rural area with no background lights from any city. We both have witnessed the usual meteor showers so we are familiar with how they appear. This was totally unfamiliar. The object glowed red,orange, yellow and you could say that it appeared to be on fire.
September 26, 2019 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR
East Canton, OH
The craft had 4 lights that were not blinking. Moved steady and silent across my path I was driving. Lights on just one side (front) but was flying at about a 45 degree angle. Could have been another side I could not see that would make it a “v” .
September 24, 2019 · 7:20 AM · LIGHT
Worthington, OH
I was driving east on Snouffer Rd in Worthington, OH at 7:20AM. I was at a stopped light while looking up at the sky. The sky was completely clear with no clouds and the sun was rising. There was a black plane noted to the far right, which was easily identifiable but the sky was otherwise clear with no other planes or clouds. Suddenly, out of nowhere there was a bright white, round light that appeared straight eastward. The light hovered for about 10-20 seconds when suddenly a second bright white light appeared to the upper right of the first bright white object. They both hovered there with no movement for about 30-40 seconds. I was unable to stay and continue watching as I was at a stop light and unable to hold up traffic. They were clearly not airplanes and appeared as if two of the brightest stars I’ve ever seen just randomly appeared in the day sky.
September 23, 2019 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Enon, OH
I observed a very bright white sphere in atmosphere. It traveled SW to NE across sky. No flashing lights indicative of commercial or military aircraft. It was too low and too big for satellite. Not a meterorite or shooting star. No sound at all. No contrail. I watched it until it was farcenough in atmosphere tonlose sight of it. The distance it traveled across the sky tells me that it was very fast.
September 22, 2019 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
North Royalton, OH
Traveling north by car on Bennett rd. near Akins rd. in North Royalton Ohio, I saw several(5-7) orange lighted triangular objects. These objects were overhead in the sky, zooming at a very fast speed traveling west to east then disappeared. Observed by 68yr old female.
September 22, 2019 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
North Royalton, OH
On Sunday evening Sept 22nd we were sitting on our back porch after dinner, 5 adults. No alcohol was involved with dinner. We are all in our 50-60’s age wise. We all saw exactly the same thing. Slow moving orange lights coming up from the west and then moving north. At approx. 20:00 we saw these lights coming out of the west sky that were orange balls. Since it was the evening game for the Cleveland Browns we thought it was something flying up to the stadium?? There was no sound. They were very slow moving but they kept coming, 7 of them. They were flying too high to be luminaries. They flew north and then disappeared. My company left approx. 20:20 and saw them down the road now flying in a formation. There had been no news reports on the tv and we were surprised at this as they were in the air for some time. Due to the number and color of them we thought there would for sure be some report.
September 21, 2019 · 11:13 PM · CIRCLE
Gallipolis, OH
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESSES)) Saturday 9/21/2019 11:13 PM Gallia County Fairgrounds ((deleted)) Gallipolis, OH 45631 While enjoying our campfire at Gallia County Fairgrounds, listening to the coyotes in the valley, we both saw a small, dim, white light appear above the tree line to the south of our campsite. It began coming towards us, getting brighter and brighter as it approached. My husband had been shining his strobing flashlight at various aircraft flying overhead just prior to its arrival. I began to worry that this was a plane or helicopter that was going to attempt a landing in our vicinity. It cleared the tree line and dipped downward, traveling across the field and straight toward us. It was moving slowly and stopped several times on its approach. It kept getting brighter as it came close, a brilliant white light in the shape of a circle, the white of an LED bulb. It hovered approximately 50 yards maximum from where we were sitting. It appeared as a flat, circular, one dimensional, brilliant white light that looked almost like it had been cut from a piece of paper. It hovered for about 8 seconds before shooting off to the west at a phenomenal speed. At this point my wife bailed and escaped into the RV. I noticed that all of the animal sounds had quieted. Dead silence ensued. Unsure of its intentions, I reached for my 45 caliber handgun on the picnic bench next to my chair. I was unable to lift the gun as my arm seemed to no longer function. Panic hit me at this point. The object quickly shot off to the west, dimmed and was gone. The next morning, I surveyed the area, took some photos. I estimate that its diameter was 20 feet or larger.
September 20, 2019 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Logan, OH
It was very very high. I thought it was a meteor. I saw a light going across very high and it was faint and extremely small so it must have been high. I thought it was a meteor because it was going way too fast to be an airplane. we get airplane here and they're lower and lights blink. This shot across the sky way too fast and didnt burn up. Just went the full distance of skyscrapers that were visible to me.