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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
August 8, 2019 · 12:00 AM · DIAMOND
Olmsted Falls, OH
Tuesday August 6th, I was working on my thesis for Perceptual Dimensional Frequency Bandwidths. I worked for roughly 6 hours on it, when I finished for the night, I took a late night stroll around the block to clear my head. When i was about three fourths of the way around the block, I received a perceptual message inside my head, with energy that was noticeably foreign, instigating me to look up. When i did, passing me from behind me, about a 600 ft above me, was a squarish, diamond shaped craft, with some sort of pivoting thruster mechanism, extending from the bottom of the craft, that had a green aura of light around it. It made no noise. There was another craft up much further in the other part of the sky. This one was unrecognizable, and only seen as blinking lights. I live right next to the airport, and this occurred in the middle of a flight path. I am sure that this was caught on Cleveland Hopkins radars, or one the respective planes radar. When i got home that night, I went to sleep. I didn't really know how i should have proceeded with the incidient, as I am very busy. I continue on with my life until On Thursday August 8th, I had reached a major breakthrough in my theory. That night while I was sleeping, I woke up into sleep paralysis, with a humanoid figure, with blue scaly skin, and short horns protruding from the head, wearing some sort of tattered robe, was rummaging through my room, as I was paralyzed. The following morning on the 8th of august, I had immediately received a telepathic message through perception, telling me to look at my work. When i went into my work books, I had noticed 9 major pages of my theory, in which I had established a breakthrough in the previous night was missing. I was also sent visual perceptive images of a reptilian, and some very weird emotional energy surrounding it. I have cameras everywhere surrounding the property, and there were no intruders, or signs of forced entry. I started to remember previous events of missing time, and a repressed memory came up from the summer of 2015, while I was living in California and I had seen a mothership out of my bedroom window, over the ocean. I am conflicted with the situations decisive path to it resolution. I am busy, and do not have a whole much time to research where I can go with this. Either mufon, or perhaps the government. I fear that my information may have been controlled by a foreign species of consciousness. I decided to contact this website, and perhaps mufon, before making a police report, as I am not sure there is much the police can do in this situation.
August 7, 2019 · 9:00 AM · FIREBALL
Dayton, OH
Saw 5 fire-orange balls of light flying through our neighborhood.
August 6, 2019 · 6:30 AM · CIRCLE
Cortland, OH
I was taking photos at the beach. I didnt notice anything in the sky until I was home and looked at the photo I took. The photo right before this was clear.
August 5, 2019 · 6:35 AM · CIRCLE
Deerfield, OH
Seen a ball of light in the distance hovering in place. As for the craft it was emitting and orange/yellow color. In the matter of a split second the craft took off in speeds no capable by anything to my knowledge. It then hit a 90 degree turn in the same speed and was out of sight.
August 3, 2019 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Willard, OH
At about 10:15 pm tonight, August 3, 2019, over Willard, Ohio, a pair of orange lights were seen moving very slowly in parallel with each other as they crossed in the night sky in somewhat of an arc from southeast moving northwest for a short distance before disappearing. Two more similar lights followed within a few seconds, following roughly the same path and again disappeared. There was no noise. The lights were steady, not blinking.
August 3, 2019 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Louisville, OH
Looked like a flaming ball shooting fireballs off it then it turned and sped off to the South, no way it was a plane or meteor
August 3, 2019 · 9:27 PM · DISK
West Chester, OH
There were approximately four lights flying in the air in some kind of formation and changing formation from straight line to a v and so forth. As it happened the objects white lights turned on and off continuously and towards the end, many more white lighted objects appeared. There was a helicopter or airplane flying back and forth as this was happening. When we zoomed in on the video we took, the objects appear to be disc shaped and lit from the bottom up very quickly. We could see it frame by frame.was odd. As all the lights began to appear to lower down together, it looked like each object was exploding into a small firework then reappearing. White, green, and red explosions that were short lived until it disappeared and was just gone.
August 3, 2019 · 9:17 PM · CYLINDER
West Chester, OH
After a couple minutes, I glanced in my driver's side mirror and all four blew up like colorful fireworks and disappeared. Thank God for this beautiful sight!
August 3, 2019 · 9:17 PM · UNKNOWN
Deerfield Townsship, OH
At 9:17 pm, I took a picture of the moon at sunset. A few seconds later I looked to the west and saw 4 bright circular lights, moving away at speed. They appeared to be moving up and down as they moved directly away from me toward the west. The picture I took shows the objects I saw. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 3, 2019 · 9:15 PM · FORMATION
West Chester, OH
I had just gotten dinner at a restaurant when off in the distance in the direction of Tylersville, I saw 4 white balls of light in a slightly bent arc hovering in the sky. Their formation slowly morphed and moved to a more complete arc. A little higher up in the sky I saw two balls of light that were separate from the other pack. I took a video of the event and am willing to share .
July 28, 2019 · 10:54 AM · CIRCLE
Newark, OH
Was on my way to work and across the street from Kroger. I saw and object that looked like a doughnut. It was heading south. No lights or odd movements. Looked like chrome polished to a mirror like finish.
July 27, 2019 · 10:40 PM · FIREBALL
Bellevue, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 27, 2019 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
Lexington, OH
Sighting 1 of 2. On July 27th my wife and I were stargazing hoping to see some shooting stars in field just south of Clearfork Reservoir near Lexington, Ohio. The location was perfect with very little light pollution along with clear skies. At approximately 1:30 am I thought I saw what would have been the brightest shooting star I have ever seen entering Earth’s atmosphere, originating from the southwest on a bearing of 045 and 30 degrees above the horizon. The object continued to get brighter and just as I was expecting it to flame out the speed immediately slowed to that of a commercial jetliner and the brightness of a normal star. It continued along a straight line for 5-6 seconds before instantly accelerating to full speed and previous brightness as it left Earth’s atmosphere. To be clear, the object flew in the same path and was visible for approximately 7 seconds in its entirety. I am a former pilot who from The Ohio State University flight school. As a pilot, it is imperative to understand what you are seeing and normal phenomena. I honestly thought this would be the only time I wouldn’t be able to explain a sighting only to be proven wrong, two months later. 2 0f 2 to follow
July 24, 2019 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Lynchburg, OH
I want to apologize for not remembering the precise date, but I know it was a Wednesday night around 2230 or so as the early local news was over. I had forgotten to take the garbage to the road after dinner so before bed got the vans out by the road. There was no moon and it was a clear night. I was walking back towards the house. Normal night sounds when suddenly there was a glow in my immediate area. Probably about 10 feet across as bright as the full moon. I've had 707s pass directly over head at 3000 ft turn their landing lights on which was similar but there was utterly no engine noise. None. So I spun around and looked up as that seemed to be the direction it came from. This put me looking roughly sse. At about a 45 to 50 degree angle from the horizon there was a really bright light, kinda blipping around. I saw no blinking anti collision lights. No wing position indicator lights. Just a single bright white light that was not painful to look at. It was about the size of a pea held at arm's length. Solid white. Fluttering in a area about palm sized for about a minute. Then it "turned" in place and shot off to the sse at an incredible speed. We are talking one second it was there and within a beat or two it was a dim dot on the horizon. No noise at anytime. No sonic boom (I've heard those) no afterburner kawoosh (heard those too). Nothing. Although a few seconds later I heard a fighter craft coming out of the nnw. Which from my home is the rough heading towards wright pat. It was twin engine and booking it. Not afterburner level but could tell he was not just out for a cruise. He was going the same heading as the unknown. He had a single red anti collision light and I could see the glow of his engines as he passed. Definitely heard the rumble roar of his jets too. So that happened in July of this year. It was a Wednesday. But I forgot to note which Wednesday. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 19, 2019 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Fostoria, OH
I and my friend saw 2 triangular crafts with 5 lights in total on rack 2 on each of the sides and 1 in the middle the lights were green on left sides and red on right sides and middle light was white they disappeared and all the lights turned very bright white.
July 18, 2019 · 3:25 AM · CIGAR
Warren, OH
What was that? North east Ohio, Howland. looking northeast. We saw 2 or 3 objects or maybe it was just 2 I really don’t know what we just seen. Not a plane or helicopter or Weather balloon. From 3:45am to 05:00. Traveling west to east, then 2 light out of nowhere going east to west then south. Then one light went straight up then west to south faster then I have ever seen. I have Never seen anything like it? Thank god my wife was there see it with me. At one point we could almost make out a flat like cigar shaped object but it was moving to fast. Please tell me someone else saw it also. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 15, 2019 · 8:25 PM · RECTANGLE
Piqua, OH
During the early evening of July 15, 2019, as dusk approached I witnessed in my backyard what I can only describe as a “hole” in the fabric of space. It was a quick event, but long enough for me to observe and mentally register the event. When I saw it, I was unnerved to the point I left the area rather quickly, but the next morning I took a photograph from the observational vantage point and doctored it in PowerPoint to capture what I saw. The Event: I had my head down, dragging a pressurized water hose out to the garden. As I ame around the corner of the house, I looked up and observed what is shown in the image. It was about 15 to 18 ft away from me and appeared as a black hole in space, infinitely deep. It hung there for a moment, then suddenly zipped to the right at a high rate of speed, disappearing behind the building shown in the photo. I stood there stuned for a moment, and then quickly moved forward to look around the corner of the building. There was nothing unusual to be seen. Description: As it moved to the right, there was a bit of optical distortion along the left edge. That is, as it moved the edge itself remained sharp, but the view of the world adjacent to the edge was somewhat wavy, like looking through optical refraction you might see from hot air coming off a sun-baked road. It did not change size or shape as it moved and disappeared from my field of view behind the building. There was no sound or air movement as it moved away. It was not flat in space, rather the equivalent of a twisted trapezoid sheet opening. All of the edges were sharp and well-defined. As shown, there were a few sparkles of light in the lower right hand corner, similar to stars but bluer in color. There were a few pinpoints of light that were brighter than those shown, but the overall size and intensity is basically correct. The image I put together is not perfect, however it is a very close, solid representation of what I saw. Nothing however can capture the infinite depth or blackness observed through the opening. We spoke via telephone with the source of this report, and he seemed to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect that he is a superlative, and quite reliable, witness. PD
July 14, 2019 · 9:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Cincinnati, OH
On the evening of July 14, 2019, approximately 9:25 PM EDT, I was driving home from dinner along Cleves Warsaw Rd, travelling west, glancing out the window to observe the conjunction of the moon with the planet Jupiter occurring that evening in the southwest sky, when I noticed a bright orange light which appeared to be moving slowly from west to east. What I immediately notices is that this object did not have conventional aircraft navigation lights, tail beacon, or belly strobe light as you would expect to see on a conventional aircraft. Nor am I aware of any aircraft having an orange headlamp, and having been a student pilot earlier in life, this intrigued me. I was really trying to see what this object was. I continued to drive, until I was able to reach a parking lot, where I pulled in facing south, and I watched the object, travelling at a constant speed, which was relatively slow, my guess would be 30-40 knots, on a steady course towards the east, in the direction of downtown Cincinnati, OH. The object passed slightly south of where I was parked, about 80 degrees off of vertical at my position, at an approximate altitude, my guess, of 1500 feet Above Ground Level. As the object flew past me, to the east, the orange light flickered out, it didn’t just shut off. All through its flight, at every angle, the luminosity of the light had been constant. Once the bright light was gone, I could clearly see a very large black triangular vehicle (perhaps the size equivalent of a Lear jet) continuing its flight to the east, and was able to watch it until it faded into the distance and into the darkening sky (the sun had just set, but there was still quite good light throughout this event). This object made no sound at all. Its course west to eastward took it perpendicularly through the final approach glideslopes of three major runways of the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport. There was no encounter with an aircraft as it moved through perpendicular to all three runway 18 glideslopes which run north to south. I do not know what this was, but a few days later at dinner at a friend’s home, I was told that their son and his friend also saw the same object that same night about the same time from a place that was about a mile east of where I was parked that evening, and that he had called his parents for them to go out and look at it, and his parents missed it. At dinner that evening on July 18, there was speculation about a drone, sunlight reflecting off an aircraft, and yet to me, that doesn’t explain the lack of engine noise. I’m wondering if anyone else saw this, and they would know what it was.
July 14, 2019 · 7:45 PM · CIGAR
Avon, OH
At approximately 7:45 pm EDT on the evening of July 14, 2019, my wife and I observed a white or dull silver cigar-shaped object move steadily through the sky in a roughly easterly or ENE direction. Remarkably, it had no visible wings, tail, or engines; was producing no contrail; and was utterly silent. By contrast, several ordinary commercial jets that we observed just before or after this object – were all readily audible (even when apparently farther away), had plainly visible wings and engines, and were leaving prominent contrails. Birds that we observed flying overhead at the time had obvious heads and flapping wings, again in contrast to the object in question. If the object was the size of a medium-sized commercial airliner (hard to tell), I would estimate its distance as about two to three miles away. The weather was clear, the sky blue with a few high cirrus patches, and visibility essentially unlimited. The sun was still brilliantly illuminating everything in the sky, since it was more than an hour before sunset. I was viewing the object with binoculars, while my wife was viewing it directly without optical aid after I brought it to her attention. Our sighting lasted roughly 30 seconds, from the time I first noticed it in my binoculars while idly scanning the sky until it moved out of sight to the northeast. The object did not noticeably vary its speed or direction at any point during the sighting. It appeared to have small dark markings at its rear and along part of the bottom. It did not look fuzzy but had distinct outlines. The sighting overall was completely unremarkable except for the absence of any sound, contrails, or visible wings or engines. I was left wondering whether it might possibly have been a small private jet with unusually quiet engines, flying banked so that its wings were edge-on to our perspective (and hence not observable by us), but several considerations argue against that hypothesis. First, we should have heard engines, no matter how quiet, at its modest apparent distance and compared with other aircraft in the vicinity just before and after our sighting. Second, it is extremely unlikely that a normal aircraft would have maintained a bank of about 30 degrees (which is what would have been required to put any wings edge-on to us, given its height in the sky from our position) continuously for half a minute in what appeared to be essentially straight and level flight. Third, if an aircraft had been flying past in an attitude such that its wings were edge-on to us, its tail (vertical stabilizer) would have been plainly visible, contrary to what we observed. Fourth, as noted above, conventional jets that we observed at approximately the same time were all leaving obvious contrails. So, in conclusion, I do not know what we saw, but I’m contributing it to the database in case the information is useful.
July 13, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Loveland, OH
After shopping at Branch hill Guinea Pike Kroger's, we left store to see three large sphere shaped objects with pulsing red light. They slowly hovered going away from each other. One floated down to tree line behind Walgreens across the street and hovered in top of tree. Noticed it was pretty large. Easily man sized. It was no longer blinking.
July 13, 2019 · 2:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Canton, OH
Single distinct Rectangular white/metallic object seen in the distant NW sky while traveling northbound on I-77 in Canton, OH. Object was not moving. The object may have had slightly rounded ends. The sky was completely clear and blue, with no plane trails or clouds to note. A patch of trees obstructed view for approximately 5 seconds of drive time (65mph) and the object was not visible again.
July 11, 2019 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
Madison, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 10, 2019 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Columbus, OH
Possibly a star?? PD
July 8, 2019 · 11:02 PM · RECTANGLE
Marion, OH
I was trying to take a photo for the moon and stars. It was falling straight down. As I was taking the photos I thought I was photographing a falling star. After processing the photos I realized it was not a falling star but an object that had lights on both sides and a small light on the back. I only seen the object for approx. 2 mins before it was gone.