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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 9, 2018 · 11:13 PM · SPHERE
Louisville, OH
The sphere had lights rotating around the edge. Was headed eastward through downtown. Once it passed town, it casually veered dorectly north, till it disappeared out of view. The object made no sound. When i first seen the object it was so low to the ground I thought for sure it was going to land. But it never did. It definitely was not a helicopter, or a airplane.
July 6, 2018 · 2:50 PM · RECTANGLE
Columbus, OH
Walking into work in downtown Columbus, and I noticed a glare from the sky. I looked up and there was a rectangular like shape flying in the sky. I thought it was a plane at first glance, but then I realized it was way too far for it to have such a strong glare. It felt like the object had lights projecting off the sides because it was so bright. My eyes started watering from how bright it was and I couldn't look away, but I could see that there was no bulging shapes like one would see on a plane. It was remarkable and then it flew over a building and I could no longer see it. Easily the most bizarre moment of my life. Keep in mind, it was almost three in the afternoon with zero clouds in the sky, so this object was almost like an immense mirror flying at a distance. Zero chance a regular airplane has a glare that makes my eyes water from that distance.
July 5, 2018 · 11:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Batavia, OH
Then in the sky I seen a bright light blink on. I watched it confused for about 3 minutes and when I realized it wasn't moving I went to the window to get a better look. It was so bright that it had light streams coming off either side. That's when I yelled for my daughter to bring my phone so I could record it. She woke up both my sons in the process. We recorded it, not sure how long. A new smaller light came off the main light to the left. Then a short while later a small! light camr off the right and then dropped down fast and went under the main light to the left. Then my memory cut out on my phone. As I was trying to delete older videos off my phone the main light just blinked out. We waited to see something else but nothing happened.
July 4, 2018 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Beavercreek, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 3, 2018 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Beavercreek, OH
Totally red light, not blinking with a slight Buzz like a drone. Very high altitude changing direction sporadically.
July 1, 2018 · 5:27 PM · CYLINDER
Medina, OH
I was driving west on route 18 in Medina. Waffle House was on my left when I saw a medium sized cylindrical object rotating in the air. Each flat side of the cylinder appeared to have a bright white light. The object was moving from south to north across the sky and it moved as if it were a meteor.
June 30, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Louisville, OH
2 very bright craft white light then faded away Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 29, 2018 · 11:06 AM · CYLINDER
Toledo, OH
I was watching a bird fly over head and noticed a shiny, cylinder shaped object with a darker ring in the center flying over head. It was very high up in the air, yet seemed as large as a commercial sized plane. It was also going across the sky in a fairly fast rate of speed. It also produced no sound and had no visible wings. Where I assumed the wings should be, there was a dark ring around the object. I did get 20 seconds of video as I stood there trying to figure out what I was watching before realizing that I needed to get my phone out to record.
June 26, 2018 · 7:00 PM · CIGAR
Elyria, OH
3 friends and I were driving home from the store at around 8pm on a summer night. The moon was coming up and I was watching it through the window of the car. I saw a bright light next to it that would grow in size and flash different colors. I pointed it out to the rest of my friends and they were all immediately intrigued. Once we arrived home we stood outside and watched as more formed in the sky. One of my friends was uninterested and went in the house to begin cooking dinner for the rest of us. We watched for another hour or so and then a large cigar shaped spacecraft came flying from across the street. It was low in the sky. It flew towards us and right above our heads for and stoped for a seconds. It had windows and white and red lights all across it. We watched as it was right above us now. then it took off so fast and climbed higher in the sky. The craft was dead silent but then a rumbling sound began. From across the street (the direction the craft ! came from) a military jet flew past us and after the craft that was still rising. We watched them get higher in the sky and then the jet turned around and flew back. It was dark now but we watched this bright flashing light move around the sky. It seemed to have no direction and would move up and down for seemingly no reason. One of my friends went in around 30 minutes later so there was only 2 of us left. 10 minutes later the entire sky turned white like lightning and it lasted for a split second. When to sky turned to its normal color again all the stars and the craft were no longer visible
June 21, 2018 · 4:00 AM · OVAL
Akron, OH
Was leaving a business in Northfield, Ohio, when I noticed 2 oval objects in the sky that weren't moving. White light on left of "craft" longer green line type of light longer than the white light - and a red light on the right side of craft. The objects were southwest of where I was positioned. I drove home to Akron (Ohio) and the craft were still visible from my home - still in the southwest sky, but appeared somewhat closer than when I observed them in Northfield, Ohio. We spoke via telephone with the witness and found her to be quite eloquent and sincere. We suspect she is a very good witness. We do not know what she witnessed. PD
June 12, 2018 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Southpoint, OH
I seen it off an on all that summer. The first time I was by myself. It was between 10:30 an 11:00 at night. in the northwestern sky a dim light caught my eye. It kept getting bigger an brighter it looked as if was kind of bouncing around. It got closer an closer an it would stop it looked to be about the size of Notre Dame football stadium. Than it would start fading back until it would just disappear I couldn't believe my eyes what I was seeing so I kept it quite until the next night an happened again around the same time I couldn't believe it so I shouted for my lady to see if she was seeing this object we both was feared and excited we knew this wasn't a man made object. This continued on for about three weeks I even talked to my neighbors an together we was all seeing it. The last time I seen it that summer I saw it moving in an out of a storm that was moving through that was the last time I ever saw it.
June 6, 2018 · 4:00 PM · CHEVRON
Mansfield, OH
Traveling south on I -71 near route 30, crescent shaped white/silver object roughly between 5 to 10,000 feet, hovering, banked north then disappeared. Flashed in the sun.
June 5, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Lisbon, OH
This is a bright x shaped light I've used the SkyView app and it's not register as a satellite or star or planet.
June 3, 2018 · 1:00 AM · CIGAR
Toronto, OH
I was oiling the clasp on my dog run wire when I looked up to the Southwest Skies and saw three white lights in a row moving from south to North. The three lights flashed on and off 3 times when I started yelling for someone to come out the house to take a look. My sister-in-law Beth came out to the porch and looked exactly where I told her to look and she saw the last two times that the three lights Flash and then she noticed just above the route the other lights were on three other lights flashed twice. It looked to be two different crafts traveling in the same direction south to North. Each craft only had three white lights that blink off and on and disappeared after the fifth Flash. They weren't marker lights like on an airplane they were white not red and green. After the fifth Flash they disappeared and did not continue across the sky.
June 2, 2018 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Ravenna, OH
My fiance and I looked out over the trees Northwest from our house and saw a bright whitish gold light floating up over the trees. It traveled at a consistent speed not too slow not too fast and did not change directions. We watched it move from Northwest to Southeast and it got dimmer and suddenly disappeared, not behind anything but literally vanished before our eyes. It was lower than a plane and did not look like a weather balloon or a floating lattern. Resembled a star that was moving (not a shooting star).
June 1, 2018 · 10:00 AM · CYLINDER
Ravenna, OH
At approximately 10:30 this a.m., my friend and I, saw a large dark grey cylinder-shaped craft slowly flying above the trees. No lights of any kind, that we could see. It was cloudy, and this actually made the dark craft stand out even more. As we turned right onto another street, it just disappeared.
May 28, 2018 · 1:00 PM · OVAL
Massillon, OH
I did pull out my phone and video taped some of what I saw. Not a plane or a helicopter because there was no wings or sound. The sun did reflect off of its surface and I did notice a small airplane fly by it heading north.
May 25, 2018 · 8:15 PM · OTHER
Chardon, OH
We noticed an object flying in the sky from west to east that look like a normal jet with a secondary set of wings up front. The wings up front were smaller than the wings in the back. This object was flying low at 5 to 10k feet and it was abnormally loud at a lower frequency, almost like low level rumbling thunder. We both tried to get cell video, but it was so fuzzy you couldn't tell in the video. I searched all over the net and could not find one example of anything that looked like this. It was not refueling in mid-air, only one body was sighted.
May 21, 2018 · 1:15 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
Approximately 30 minutes into my flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas, I saw a shiny white ball with an opaque, white "finger" type cloud behind it, connected to the ball, coming toward the plane. It was very close to us,right in front of the right wing. Behind it,perpendicular to it and the plane, was what looked like a jet trail that we can see from the ground. (It was dissipating) The shiny white UFO, for lack of a better discription,"flew" without any fins or propellers. It flew along side us until we flew too far to see it anymore, its trail dissipating like a jet trail.
May 19, 2018 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Blanchester, OH
Finally after about 20-30 seconds of amazement, the lights did a quick fade to sky. my friend's house is on tucker road and the lights appeared to be somewhere over fayetteville.
May 19, 2018 · 3:19 PM · RECTANGLE
Monroe, OH
Observer was driving down Hwy 63 and noticed a large, rectangular object in the sky. At first It was thought ito be a sign being flown above a building, but as the witness neared the highway, it was realized that the object was moving across the sky. The next thing thought was that of a sign being pulled by an airplane, but there were no other aircraft in the sky. The object was moving in a straight, smooth line. When the witness got to the light before the left turn onto I-75, a short video was taken. The movement was seemless and straight with no flapping edges or moving parts. Eventually the turn at a stop light which had changed to green, caused the object to be lost to sight.
May 19, 2018 · 10:45 AM · OTHER
Wapakoneta, OH
On Saturday morning, May 19th, 2018, while driving my motorcycle North on I-75 in Ohio I observed an object moving from west-north-west to east-south-east at a very high speed. There was no jinking or other manoeuvre. The flight path was completely straight. I did not note the mile mark, but it was at least an hour out of Piqua, and before the turn to US 30, where I would eventually link up with I-90. I was travelling about 75 mph, and the object moved so quickly, I felt I was standing still. My field of view was about 160 degrees and the object traversed that in about one second. There was no sound (although to be fair, there was a fair bit of wind noise despite the fairing and windshield). It was difficult to gauge height as the object’s shape was nothing with which I was familiar. But to hazard a guess, probably less than 1000 feet. But if I had been in my car, the roofline which not have let me see it. It was below the clouds (but it was not overcast – there was plenty of sunshine). There was no sonic boom, so I could conclude the object’s speed was less than Mach 1, but the speed with which it traversed my field of view meant to me that it was travelling between 250 to 400 mph. The object was all gray, similar to USAF aircraft colours, but darker. I could not see engines, nor any obvious wing shape. There were no lights, there was no trail, it emitted nothing, it stayed the same shape. The sketch of its outline below is from memory (a day-and-a-half old). (the sketch would not paste in this box - I will send the sketch to Mr. Davenport's e-mail address.) My outline is poor - the front was a smooth curve (in other words, no implied cockpit – and I did not see one). A few minutes later I spotted an airplane making a turn off in the distance to the West a couple of miles at least. No idea what type – but it had wings and moved as an aircraft moves, and it appeared to be very low. The object I saw was definitely not a commercial aircraft, private propeller driven aircraft, business jet or a missile. It was not a helicopter, nor was it a civilian drone, nor was it a bird, nor a bug, nor an imperfection in my visor – it was up, nor a floater. I am ex-military (Canadian army officer) and I had just been to visit the USAF National Museum for the Memphis Belle exhibit – nothing there would look like what I saw, even the experimentals, when in the air. Nor would any of ours. I suspect it was a large drone of unique design – but I thought no unmanned air-breathing vehicles were allowed flight over populated areas? Or maybe it was a new experimental manned aircraft and I just could not see the cockpit. Others must have seen it, so I hope my description and others, helps narrow the identification down to a few possibles.
May 8, 2018 · 3:30 PM · CONE
Harpster, OH
Odd shiny reflective cone shaped crafts with appendages off their bottom. 2 crafts, one was closer. It hovered descended and then ascended and vanished fast, both disappeared at the same time, though they were at least a mile apart. Clear blue skies, I'm sure others saw this event as well.
April 27, 2018 · 6:49 PM · DISK
Broadview Heights, OH
My wife and I had just visited Austin Texas in August of 2017. I was sitting on my deck smoking a cigar and noticed a cloud in the sky that was shaped like a bull skull with horns that we saw all over Texas when we vacationed in Austin Texas a few months earlier. I went inside and got my Canon 60D camera and snapped a single photo of the cloud. The next day I showed my wife the photo on the 2 1/2 inch screen on the camera and put it back in my backpack. In August of 2018 we were going on vacation and what I normally do is download my memory card in the camera to my computer, then wipe the card so I ready to taken the upcoming vacation pictures. That's when I noticed the "dark craft" coming out of the cloud. I never saw the craft when I took the picture of the cloud. I wish I had because I would have taken multiple pictures. I take all my pictures with the camera on the RAW setting so this is a 22.9 MP image. It was 6:49 pm and I was looking due East with the Sun setting at my back. Your platform will not allow me to upload a RAW Image so I am attaching smaller jpg files that were adjusted but I can send you the original 22.9 MP RAW image with exif information.