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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
May 25, 2019 · 10:50 PM · FLASH
Middleburg Heights, OH
We looked you when we saw shooting line formations. We discussed it it was a meteor but it kept flashing in a straight line . Reminds me of a ship shooting a laser. Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 10:50 PM · FORMATION
Uniontown, OH
I am a retired police officer and my wife is a retired nurse. We had not been drinking. Thirty four or so years ago I observed a Russian satellite beaming apart in the night sky. I then saw at least three objects streaming through the sky which were slowly spreading; last nights observation differe! d in that all of the objects were traveling in a straight line and what appeared to the same speed. I have seen hundreds of meteors, but they last for only a second or so. Satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 10:50 PM · OTHER
Urbana, OH
Dots in straight lines, multiple led lights rippling in a stream. Followed by more dots moving slower without the pulsing light. Still having sittings North of The Great Bear. Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 10:47 PM · OTHER
Sunbury, OH
My cousin and I were walking around our campground at night when I looked up too see a large aircraft directly above my head. It stretched very long, from about the visible length of star Vega to Altair. It was a very long and skinny spacecraft with hundreds of small lights at the bottom that moved very slowly across the sky and turned largely, the way a boat would, before disappearing. Hundreds of lights seemed to all move and one glowed brighter suddenly in the center before dimming back to the same level as the others. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.
May 21, 2019 · 4:48 AM · OTHER
Stow, OH
I work the midnight shift, and I happen to look up into the sky (facing north) just below the handle of the big dipper (ursa major) I saw what looked like a comet. It was a big bright white light as bright as the moon was last night. Then in an instant it went from one to four balls of light falling kind of in a check mark shape, and as quickly as it appeared, it was gone. I've tried to search and even posted to social media to see if anyone else saw this, of course most people I know are in bed at that time. I wish it would have lasted long enough to get capture footage. It was beautiful what ever it was.
May 18, 2019 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Canton, OH
Witness provides no text about sighting. PD
May 17, 2019 · 10:00 AM · LIGHT
Trenton, OH
No information provided by witness. PD
May 12, 2019 · 2:27 PM · CHANGING
Columbus, OH
While driving within a shopping plaza in NE Columbus I noticed a black object in the distance which appeared to change shapes. At first I thought it was a massive kite, but as I got closer to the object I realized it was actually somewhere between 8,000-12,000 ft in elevation. I pulled my car into a parking spot and watched the object for roughly another couple of minutes. The object seemed to be stationary although rotation might have been occurring. I snapped 5 pictures with my cellphone before the object was blocked out by cloud cover.
May 8, 2019 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Cincinnati, OH
I was driving home when something very large in the eye caught my eye. I was stopped at a light near my home and only got 15-20 secs of view. The craft was very large v/triangle shape. 9-10 lights lining the V pattern. I heard no sound from the craft. The craft was heading NE at an estimated 15-20k feet. Dark in color either black or dark gray. It made 2 movements. It seemed to descend rapidly and then abruptly shot out of sight along the same path it was traveling. I am not aware of any other witnesses to this phenomenon. Life changing.
April 29, 2019 · 11:16 PM · LIGHT
New Lexington, OH
Light traveling from the south heading north. The light was strobing on a straight path. The light appeared as round,to slow to be a meteor and to fast to be a plane. The light made no sound. Weather conditions were mostly clear.
April 22, 2019 · 9:19 PM · SPHERE
Strongsville, OH
2 fiery orange spheres with flashing white lights. First sphere arrived and hovered; second sphere moved very rapidly and positioned itself in close proximity to the first sphere, then the two spheres ascended together extremely fast straight up into the sky. Wife's report. We spoke with the husband of the witness, and he emphasized how sincere his wife was about her description of the event and sighting. PD
April 22, 2019 · 6:35 AM · CIGAR
Akron, OH
This morning, my husband & I were sitting with our coffee, looking east, from our porch. My husband had briefly mentioned seeing a strange shaped light in the sky on 04.20.19, at approximately 5:30 pm and was describing the situation to me... He was with a friend when they both saw a cigar shaped object (it was actually situated vertically, not in the horizontal position you would imagine) in the sky that hovered for a few minutes, made a sharp right turn and then disappeared. He was telling me all if this when I saw a similar object in the sky. It was the vertical cigar shaped light he saw. It seemed to be glowing, but we realized it was reflecting the sun rise. It stayed in the same spot, then slowly started to go down in altitude, then disappeared. The object seemed to be hovering in the area close to the Goodyear Airdock/Lockheed Martin. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2019 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Middletown, OH
April 16th 2019. About 8 PM before sunset. My Girlfriend and I saw an object traveling west off to the left of the sun, at about the Ten O'clock position. It was bright yellow ball with two streams of white smoke coming off the sides like wings. Flying in a straight line. This lasted about 5 mins. until it went over the tree tops past the horizon. It looked like it was either was going to hit the earth or flying the curvature of the earth. I thought it was an Asteroid. I have never seen anything like it.
April 12, 2019 · 1:10 PM · RECTANGLE
Parma Heights, OH
Large, rectangular shape below the cloud deck. No lights, no wings, no movement. Looked one dimensional/almost flat in nature. It was overcast sky, daylight, the object was a shade darker then the clouds, but not solid gray, more mottled. I was driving in Parma Heights, OH, southwest in direction. It was not directly overhead, but rather off a way, but large. It was not there when I cleared some trees while driving. What made me notice it is that it was something which was not normally there, I thought it might be an air bus, it was bigger than that, or maybe an airplane was pulling a sign, but it wasn’t moving at all. Witness provides no contact information. PD
April 11, 2019 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Hillsboro, OH
Three witnesses among family--First sighted on the way home, starting with two in a far distance, and continued as we pulled in the drive. Two triangular shaped crafts circled our complex about 5 or 6 times within 20 minutes. One had seven blinking lights and the other had only three; the one with seven blinking lights was leading the other craft the whole time. At one point, the leading craft approached a normal commercial airplane and disappeared, jumping from above to the left of us in around one second. They then went around the back of the house and completely disappeared. Aircraft noises separate from the crafts themselves were heard, possible reasoning behind circling such as watching or chasing them. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 10, 2019 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Beaver, OH
3 large balls of orange light in western sky. Stationary, in straight line. Looked like glowing orange balls, very close together. Extremely bright...lit up the surrounding area and slowly dimmed. Neighbors have seen similar balls of light over the last few nights between 9pm and 10pm.
April 10, 2019 · 12:16 AM · UNKNOWN
Trenton, OH
I was standing at my back porch to smoke a late night cigarette, when a stream of light appeared out of no where int the sky. It was far too low to be a shooting star, but that is the best way I can describe what I saw. However, what was strange about this was rather than fade out, like most shooting stars I've seen, this ended with a bright burst of light, like a bright flash, and then vanished. the streamed of light from the "burst" were mainly horizontal ... The rays were distinct in direction rather than dispersed. The light was a very pale blue color.
April 6, 2019 · 12:45 AM · DISK
Parma Heights, OH
Was standing outside at about 12:45 am, when I observed a saucer shape orange amber color glowing UFO appear in the southwestern sky. As it moved in southerly direction, it slowly faded out.
April 3, 2019 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Englewood, OH
Green glowing light falling nearly straight down in the (cloudy) western sky off route 70, heading West towards Englewood. Flashed and was gone. Lasted approximatslg 5 seconds. Witness provides no contact information. PD
March 28, 2019 · 4:30 AM · FLASH
Newark, OH
Around 4:30AM on Thursday March 28, I saw a bright red flash directly overhead at about my 12 o'clock. Several seconds passed and I expected to see another flash as if it were an airplane, but it took almost 10 seconds before I saw another super bright red flash in the western sky. There was no sound. I have seen many meteors and know what the planets look like. I am actively interested in avaition and can identify most types of planes. I have seen a day time fireball and this was not that as it was a bright flash. It did not intensify like an Iridium satellite, or reentry of space junk. For 30 years, I have been looking at the sky and this one has me stumped.
March 27, 2019 · 8:25 PM · FORMATION
Staunton, OH
I experienced this sighting as I travelled home on I62 SW. I was approximately 3 ½ mi. south of Washington Court House. I saw a grid of very bright green lights flanked by bright yellow lights. Green lights were rectangular in formation and yellow irregular. In front of formation was a small red blinking light which seemed to be what looked like the light of a small air plane. It appeared to be dragging the other lights along. Then the colored lights blinked off only to come back a few seconds later. I watched this out my driver side window as I continued to drive. It was flying slowly and low enough I could do this and try to make sense of what I was seeing. I then saw that the green and yellow lights were shooting out at very high speed from the red blinking light out front which still appeared to be flying at the speed of a regular airplane. The colored lights continued intermittently shooting out at rapid speed forming the rectangular formation as before and disappearing as quickly. I knew of a place a mile ahead where I could pull off safely to observe this phenomena, which I did. The object continued to fly in an easterly direction and was practically out of sight and very low to the horizon. Yet I saw bright yellow gold lights shoot out 2 more times. The speed at which these lights shot out looked like fire works with no tracers, no sparking, just bright globes which quickly blinked out. And then it turned back! With heart pounding, I jumped back into my car and back on the highway. I was relieved there was other traffic on the road because I could not shake the feeling of being followed. I was trying to focus on driving and not watching out my driver’s window. Yet I did look out after travelling about another 4 miles towards home. “Oh S**t!” …. Out of my driver’s side window, this time it’s a line of 4 white lights. They looked like head lights with no space between. They were not bright and seemed to be flying at a 25 degree angle. I had another 18 miles to go before getting home and I was tense. I called my brother via cell phone to let him know what I was experiencing, just in case. My phone record says 8:50 central time so I am guessing first sighting occurred 8:25 CT. I arrive home and still had that feeling so I did not go in the house, but watched the sky instead. Not 5 minutes passed and what looked like a small aircraft came flying in the direction I was standing. I saw no shape, only 2 pairs of white lights. No sound, low flying and disappeared. I have never observed any air craft in that particular position in this location at that altitude in 17 years of living here. I went inside for 5 minutes only to go out and watch more. I saw another red blinking light flying low on the south horizon and another on the north horizon 5 minutes after that. It was a very clear night so it seems strange that the more ordinary lights would disappear. The lights were too low for cloud cover. I really strained to hear a droning noise that should have been audible, yet could not hear anything. I am aware that the county I live in is part of the Wright Patt air zone for training. Any explanation would be appreciated.
March 27, 2019 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Washington Court House, OH
Source of report provides no detailed information. PD
March 23, 2019 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Piketon, OH
Hanging out with my small group of friends at the waverly skatepark we were getting ready to pack up as it was dark and we were tired but we decided to just sit around for awhile. Some time had passed and we were looking at the stars and one friends had asked us if any of us knew why a certain star was so bright. I told him it was probably the north star but after looking at what he saw it was in the middle of the Big dipper constellation and had started moving after we started looking at it. The Object was a bright white light. It was a clear night sky with no clouds so all the stars around us were visible. When the “star” or object had started moving it was incredibly fast and moved in a strange zig zag pattern which is abnormal for any kind of plane. After we watched it start moving for about 1 minute, the light it was emitting started to fade and in roughly 5 seconds completely went dark. After another ten seconds it appear again but was a slightly darker color and was yellow this time and also faded out of view. After the second time of it fading we never saw it again
March 23, 2019 · 4:00 PM · CHANGING
Columbus, OH
My daughter called for me to come outside because her and her sister could see something strange in the sky. When I went out I saw 3 orange-ish balls of light in a rough isosceles triangle. I immediately sent my daughter back in to get her father and the binoculars. When they came out my husband looked through the binoculars and exclaimed that there were many smaller ones too. We all took turns looking and there were roughly 50 smaller ones between the bigger 3 that were nearly impossible to see with the naked eye. At first glanc,e the large ones looked like stationary explosions, but through the binoculars you could see them moving in place at different rates. They looked eerily similar to what protein folding looks like. We got out our telescope and kept observing until we couldn't see them anymore. They slowly spread out but still stayed in a rough triangle. Eventually, we could only see one, and then none. This was all during a cloudless sunny afternoon.