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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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July 13, 2023 · 11:15 PM · FIREBALL
SANDUSKY, OH
My son and I was standing on our back porch looking in the sky with family and then a few hundred feet (200-300) above the trees, a bright blue light appeared and was coming down and thee blue light stretched about 50 feet and disappeared in seconds. There were no sounds. It looked exactly like the ufo reported on the officers body cam in las Vegas in June 2023. I ran after the light and stopped because i felt something off/erie. My daughter that was on the porched screamed and i turned around and ran. I stood on my back porch and my neighbors moition flood light came on. (I've never seen it turn on when cats or other animals were around) then it quickly went off, I felt like something was watching us for a few minutes until we went inside.
July 12, 2023 · 11:36 PM · CYLINDER
Fairview Park, OH
Tic tac object. Color and as bright as moon. Was width of a dime at arms length. Moved north to south at 40 degrees above horizon as viewed from skylight window in 4 seconds but had definitive edges with a slight hazy aura around it. No noise or aircraft sounds. Unmistakable tic tac shape. Followed ten minutes later by another object having a red light centered in a hazy white round blob. This moved first north and suddenly reversed direction to south-south east. Size of blob similar to first object and observed for about 6 seconds. Hopkins airport is near but these objects had NO running lights, wing surfaces or other shapes indicating convential aircraft. We are professionals in journalism and military history in our early seventies and have written many articles and op Ed's for large area newspapers. One of us has won 2 awards in journalism.
July 11, 2023 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
The Plains, OH
First 2 were still like if they were bright planets, then suddenly started moving opposite directions. Called another person to witness and he missed the QST 2, but was there for a 3rd light moving fast, slightly changing direction, later a 4th appeared, same motion, but opposite side of sky.
July 9, 2023 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
North Myrtle Beach, OH
It appeared to be a ball of light but then it changed into like just a morphing ball of light almost. The video I took of it better describes it.
July 9, 2023 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Saint Clairsville, OH
Floating, shining object in the sky, a few miles away across a valley and above the horizon. It hovered for several minutes before either being overtaken by clouds or retreating into them.
July 5, 2023 · 11:38 PM · LIGHT
Reno, OH
At approximately 11:38 PM ET, we, my mother and I, both saw the same light due West of our location in Reno, Ohio. We are located out a county road in a semi-rural location. We are very familiar with aircraft seen regularly in the area as we are due Northeast of the Mid-Ohio Valley Airport (KPKB) as well as being avid skywatchers of satellites including the International Space Station (ISS) and meteor showers/"shooting stars". This was none of the above. In the course of seeing this object or light appear in the sky due West of our location, it seemed abnormally bright - brighter than Jupiter or Venus or even the ISS. We figured that it might be landing lights on an aircraft, but no marker or strobe lights were visible - not red, green or blue. This was a bright 'white' light. What was most unusual about this light is how we could make out against the twilight or airglow that the light was curving rapidly in an 80 to 90 degree turn that would have made its position going from a Northerly route to a Westerly route from our perspective. It made this trajectory move quickly in what appeared to be an area much smaller than the curve of the turn radius of most aircraft large and small we regularly see here. However, shortly after (1-2 seconds) the light faded at an accelerated pace into nothingness - no more bright white light and still no markers/strobes and nothing visible against the twilight/airglow. It is noted that a Piper Cherokee P28A (N780U) was airborne near this location at the appearance of this light, however, that flight traversed in a nearly straight line from Morgantown, West Virginia (MGW) to Athens, Ohio (UNI) South to Southeast of our location with little to no course correction resembling the path of the light we saw. The absence of marker strobes and the rapid curving and fading of this light was what made it quite unusual - granted this is not the first instance of strange lights seen in this area and we have on occasion seen blocked military or government craft flying through or to/from KPKB. In a separate unreported incident approximately eight (8) years ago, either in the month of July or September (based on the fact we celebrate several birthdays in both of those months where we often have family get-togethers), an ultra-slow pulsating light appeared to myself and 5 or 6 other observers during a campfire one night near the same location herein stated that could be seen for over an hour - definitely not a plane or satellite as satellites do not hover and slowly move over the course of an hour and planes should have marker beacons, which this did not. Needless to say, a couple of people that were present that night who you'd label as skeptical were dumbfounded at the appearance of this light "event" and still recall how weird it was these years later. Another instance that we're not sure about and was reported by my mom in 2017, my mother experienced a bright orange moving light on her way home from work around 10:45 PM in the late Winter (February) that traveled downward and disappeared from view at the horizon. That report was listed here: https://nuforc.org/webreports/reports/132/S132919.html All said, we're unsure at what either of these instances were, but the one this evening was unusual enough to report. Thank you.
July 5, 2023 · 10:45 AM · CHANGING
Canal Winchester, OH
My boss and I both saw what appeared to be a large black ball floating rant high in the sky the nothing of Jimmy 5th. We called our other two co workers to come over to witness what we were seeing. We all watched it change shape multiple times and go from right to left covering 30 or 40 miles in just a few minutes. Witnessed a military refueling plane fly past the object and seemed like they didn't notice it, but it was good for size comparison. The object was at least as big as a large car, if not bigger. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
July 3, 2023 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Toledo, OH
I was watching some objects in the sky, that I believed to be drones but the did not have the usual red and green lights, they looked like flames. I thought they might be remnants of fireworks but they seemed to be flying controlled. Two flew side by side. I didn't even think of them as UAPs. While looking at these, my Granddaughter said "look at that!", I saw it as soon as she said it. Above us, was a circular vehicle, no lights, no exhaust, no control surfaces, no markings, no panel lines. I couldn't hear it maybe due to fireworks. It was just flying in the bottom of the clouds, it's color matched the cloud's color (grey) almost a perfect match. There was maybe a greenish haze around the vehicle. I didn't think to take a pic or video, because I know my phone's camera wouldn't be hi res. And partly due to my disbelief and awe of what I was seeing. It flew from south to north and disappeared behind trees at the horizon. It flew in a straight line just like an airplane would.
June 25, 2023 · 8:46 PM · OVAL
Elida, OH
Outside looking at the sky, with a naked eye the object originally appeared circular then changed form to what appeared tic tac shaped (oblong) and then I started recording what was seen. A photo my daughter snapped on her phone, while I was videoing. In her picture, when zoomed in on, it appeared triangular. An additional object was then seen in our sky’s path but distant from the 1st object and they were not close enough to one another to include both in a shot together. When I tried to take another video of the 2nd object, they both seemed to have disappeared. (2 video clips available. Only one was appropriate size to submit)
June 24, 2023 · 10:35 PM · CIRCLE
Dennison, OH
I saw three small very fast moving white balls of lights changing around in their flying formation in ways that’s not possible for planes. There were no blinking lights. They came immediately after fireworks almost as if checking it out. They moved around different parts of the sky coming in and out by seeming to disappear and then emerging somewhere else. These orbs are something we occasionally see here behaving very strangely like this.
June 22, 2023 · 1:45 PM · CHEVRON
Probable conventionalCleveland, OH
I was driving home from Elyria to Cleveland on 480 E. I always look at the clouds & I noticed what I thought was a bird soaring in and out of the clouds. I immediately knew it wasn't a plane because of the way it was moving. As I tried to watch it while driving (kinda hard and even harder to videotape while driving on a busy highway), it literally blended in with the clouds, then I lost sight and when I was able to look up again I saw it reflected light, so it wasn't a bird. But planes don't maneuver the way this one was, in and out of clouds. It wasn't triangular, more like a Chevron and kinda small (that's why I thought it was a bird, until I saw it reflect light). I lost sight when the direction of my road changed and I started going Southbound. [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Probable]
June 19, 2023 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Painesville, OH
Well all I have to say is this isn’t an ordinary flying object encounter I believe this was an OBE with highly intelligent life form I’ve been experiencing my entire life it started when I was a child I had an OBE I use to observe myself sleeping being young I had no knowledge of what was going on at that time due to my parents education was less than high school so I couldn’t talk to them about what I was experiencing but with this platform I can now talk about my experiences, it only occurs at night when I’m sleeping and I know when this event is about to happen my brain receives some kind of signal that puts me in a different state of being just like with that organic oblong being I could see through the object as it approach me while sleep in my bed the strange thing is my wife is in the bed with and somehow it only isolated me for the contact as this oblong organic object approach me I didn’t fear it and I could touch it, it was soft and rubbery in touch and I could breathe in it as it consumed my entire body but could not see anything but I could communicated with it in English it gave me a name but could not remember ( I know this sound like it’s out of a movie ) but this is for real I don’t speak on it fear of being called crazy and I would like to say there is some sort of fascination for asshole probing its as if their putting something in me and even after the procedure I mean days later I can still feel something inside of my rectum just wanted to let you’ll there is more to this than UFO’s thanks for an outlet.
June 18, 2023 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Upper Sandusky, OH
I was carefully walking the railroad tracks back home 45 minutes to an hour after sunset, and I walked into what I just assumed was a number of lightning bugs, like I said, I was watching where I was stepping I wasn't necessarily looking up and focusing until I was in the middle of it, and I Saul along the other side of the railroad track a bobbing light that was much tighter, and it's a luminescence it almost looks like a lackadaisical walker with a flashlight on the other side of the tracks. I know I'm not supposed to be on the railroad tracks at all so I quickly jumped off and kind of crouch in the longer grass and that's when it made a beeline directly at me and when it came of the tracks it hugged the ground, almost like it was making a point to traverse each track on its own. It stopped about 3-5 feet from my face and we just stared at each other for what felt like 60 seconds. Then it turned, got up on the track set i had been walking and shot due west. I stayed crouched for maybe 3 minutes or less terrified but eventually i talk to myself into getting back up on the tracks and walking thinking to myself. What am I gonna do? I got a knife on me versus is it gonna take me to go to take me so I'm just gonna walk this I walked directly at it, and it stayed a distance away. I walked through what had to of been 100 are over that flashing orbs on each side of me and I eventually I got off the track as soon as I could that fertilizer plant and that's kind of what I was planning on doing to kind of end my walk as I sing, and this one fertilizer barn has great acoustics, so I was like I think most people probably would I was talking to myself. I don't remember exactly what I was saying at first, but I do remember specifically saying "they're not going to stop me from singing" and that's when the sliding door shook in response to what I was saying, like something was shaking it from behind the door deliberately, and then I swore several times. I don't know why at that point I was not white as a ghost, but then responded to me again, my shaking the door and nobody was there. It was just me I didn't take me very long to get back home we live not even a 10th of a mile from the fertilizer plant and I didn't know what to do. I don't have anybody to tell so I just video document in my account of what happened and I immediately just uploaded it. I didn't edit it or anything I've since taken that down or hit it. I've made it private because it's freaks people out. I actually had a girl that I was talking to just stop talking to me because of it, but that Upload didn't go up until two in the morning roughly, and i don't know what happened to that time.
June 2, 2023 · 10:55 PM · LIGHT
AKRON, OH
I was outside with my dog letting her use the restroom. It was a clear night. I was sober. I was admiring the stars. While observing the stars, object entered view and gained my attention. Once observed directly, dim light moving in a straight line from left to right from behind tree branches. I thought it was a satellite based on it moving straight and in a consistent speed. Object then started to light up, becoming brighter and brighter still moving straight from left to right in the sky. Object then started becoming more dim again, dimmer than when it first entered view but was still visible. Object suddenly dipped "down" in the sky. Still very dim but tracable with the naked eye, made a maneuver never observed before, it accelerated at an alarming rate. It moved from its downward to the right dip, directly into an upward to the right turn, shifted suddenly northeast in the sky from my perspective and was out of site. I stood in disbelief of what I witnessed for some time. It wasn't a plane because it cannot perform that manurver and it had no flashing lights that would identify an airliner.
June 2, 2023 · 1:21 AM · DIAMOND
Lakewood, OH
The shape of the craft was triangular diamond shaped that had sharp edges. It was white, glowing, and soundless. It stayed the exacted speed with the exact height for the duration of its travel. It wasn’t going fast or slow maybe like 5-10 mph. The motion of it was unusual it was gliding but unnatural. Certainly something I haven’t seen before. We were in the pool swimming when I looked up and it emerge from the house and flew across to the end of garage then disappeared. It was a residential neighborhood near Lake Erie.
June 1, 2023 · 1:55 PM · CHANGING
Sylvania, OH
Driving home around 1:50 pm I saw two crafts in the sky. They were in the same place in the sky I would typically see airplanes. The shape was different and they almost seemed to float. Then I saw flashing white lights. It was a sunny day with zero clouds. I thought hmm, maybe they are blimps and the light is just a reflection when it moves. When I pulled into my driveway, I threw it in park and quickly recorded what I saw.
June 1, 2023 · 4:00 AM · CHANGING
mansfield/miffland, OH
It was a dark wooded area I was collecting trash cans at work around 4-4:30 am. A tall human like figure with a long neck broad upper body with slinder waist long legs and long arms peeked at me . We had maybe a 15 second stare off before it hunched over still looking at me . It was about 7-8 feet hunched over . I started walking to it and it took off running into the woods . I got back in the work truck locked the door and drove up to get a closer look but it was gone to far in the woods it had pale skin black circle eyes and moved like a human aware that it was noticed by me . It could run very fast and didn’t want to be noticed.
May 31, 2023 · 9:46 PM · CHANGING
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, OH
We have seen this the same time same place at least the last few nights when K noticed it has moved and I could still see dots around it I took the other pocture and zoomed in on all, the object kept changing shape and size repeatedly and looked like a cross or x with the naked eye I believe I was facing west
May 29, 2023 · 6:08 PM · UNKNOWN
New Lebanon, OH
We were sitting outside having a holiday cookout and I saw a very strange looking aircraft directly to the North and it was traveling at a high rate of speed to the West. I instantly pointed it out to the 4 other adults present and everyone thought it was the strangest thing they've ever seen. The shape was almost undescribable as it looked like a main craft on the top carrying a large object underneath it around the size of a car but shaped completely different. It seamed to change a few different shapes and it appeared to have some sort of orange boosters at the very top. We did not hear a single noise. I snapped a few pics on my galaxy s22 ultra but tried to take them quick on 100x zoom as it was moving out of view quickly so I couldn't get a completely focused picture. The first picture was with the tree in it where I tried to snap a pic before it went behind the tree and you can barely see it in the corner. I then had to run to the end of the driveway to snap the other pictures on 100x zoom to see past the tree. Also, this was traveling directly west away from the direction of Wright Patterson AFB. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
May 24, 2023 · 9:49 PM · LIGHT
Mansfield, OH
I was picking up kids toys and the wife had just got home from work met her out in the driveway. I looked up in the sky that I’ve looked up into 1000 times or more and noticed a bright light. The object covered for almost 3 1/2 hours hey sweet side to side up and down, but never left more than 100 foot in each direction, can’t believe what I was saying so I took pictures and a video crazy factors that happen four days later same spot same thing Went to gas station Thursday and I was coming back and seen the same UFO in the same spot. Which is weird because I’ve looked up in the sky thousands of times and they came back roughly 4 days later in the same spot for about the same duration, and did the same exact thing
May 23, 2023 · 10:31 PM · CIRCLE
Canton, OH
Orange-ish ball of light passed in a virtual line south to north following I-77 near the football HoF. Moved slowly, checked flights nearby and saw none on radar. No noise heard as it passed by. Didn’t record until tail end after checking flights. Is not high in atmosphere.
May 7, 2023 · 11:07 PM · OVAL
North Ridgeville, OH
I see the sighting every night for over a year. They are very bright with red and white lights. Sometimes they come close to the ground and sit there for hours. I would only see one but now there are at least 4. It scares me because they are too close to the backyard.
May 6, 2023 · 1:32 AM · LIGHT
Reedsville, OH
As I rounded a curve in the road the object was low In the night sky about 3/4 of a mile ahead and off my 1 o'clock position and I would estimate a altitude of 400-600 ft. I pulled over and shut my motorcycle off and removed my helmet to listen for any familiar sounds of propulsion but heard nothing then literally as soon as I pulled my phone out and opened the camera app the object silently and slowly tracked towards my position in a slow hovering but not directly at me, it ended up coming up on my right side at approximately 300 ft now and as it neared closer to me I became overwhelmed with the fight or flight feeling of danger that was like nothing I've experienced before. Every fiber in my body started screaming for me to put distance between myself and the craft which I should mention was seemingly quite large (maybe twice the size of a Blackhawk).
May 4, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalNewark, OH
We walked outside and my boyfriend looked up and said babe what is that? I seen the same thing back in 1999, so I ran inside for a phone to record. It was a line of at least 20 orbs of light, connected by strands of the same color light. It stayed very still and just passed on by. Lasted about 1-2 mins. This color was a light blue/white. I know it’s not Starlink because I seen this same thing over 20 years ago but a different color and there were two lines of them with less amount of orbs. Same speed, same design. I later on found the same picture in a UFO book at school 2 years later and it said they can be different colors. Then a different aircraft passed by 10 minutes later, lights like a drone, but it was loud in the sky, too low for a plane. And it stayed around the neighborhood for some time. My boyfriend recorded the video. After it was all done with we went to check the video, it never recorded. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]