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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
April 25, 2023 · 4:38 AM · SPHERE
Mt. Vermon, OH
All I saw was an orb of light fall to the earth in front of me
April 25, 2023 · 4:32 AM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
Green moving fast
April 20, 2023 · 11:17 PM · CYLINDER
Dublin, OH
Bright orange object floating in far distance for 1 to 2 minute. Thought it was a planet at first, but the color seemed to be unique. It became larger and larger very very quickly - sustained in air for a 1 minute. Moved sideways very slowly until it could no longer be seen. Way too high up, too bright, and it moved way too quickly to be a drone.
April 13, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Miamisburg, OH
Saw the same exact thing as this YouTube video. This video was shot 1 year ago in same location Miamisburg OH https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JjRzapa-w-E
April 12, 2023 · 5:15 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
I saw an orb flying fast 3 different days at the same location. Fortunately I could record it the last time but I used my phone to do so. I’m not sure what it was but I felt I should report it. Attached is a screenshot from my video recording.
April 10, 2023 · 8:09 PM · CYLINDER
Lima, OH
Driving westbound on State Rd, approaching the intersection of Route 65/Ottawa Rd, this is observed out the front windshield towards the passenger side(Nw) over Route 30. Mid flight, it was twisting as the photo was taken. It made a gradual turn and began to slow as it got closer to the ground For anonymity reasons, I am speaking on behalf of family.
April 9, 2023 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Chesapeake, OH
We watched the objects moving up and down, I shined a high powered laser at them in short and long burst, they tried to hide from the green laser and eventually left the area.
April 9, 2023 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Wooster, OH
Night sky, green red and blue flashing light on a spinning cone shaped disc , it hovered in the sky for minutes, it looked like a spinning disc with robotic arms and the ball in the middle
April 6, 2023 · 10:54 PM · CIRCLE
Lakemore, OH
I went outside at approximately 10:50 pm to smoke a cigarette and just look into the sky as I normally do every night. I like to watch for satellite passings and look at constellations. The moon was out and it was pretty bright. All of a sudden I noticed a very bright white cloud moving from right to left in the sky. I’d say the object was at least a thousand to two thousand feet high. It was slowly floating like a normal cloud would but it was emitting a very bright blinking light. As I focused in more on the anomaly I could definitely make out a entirely separate circle shaped object inside or behind the cloud that was not part of the cloud. It almost looked like one of the surveillance balloons that were recently shot down by our military except it was emitting a bright blinking light. I immediately grabbed my phone from my jacket pocket and was able to capture the anomaly in a 2 minute and 39 second video that clearly shows what I’m describing. It’s hard to gauge the size of the object but if I were to try I would have to say that it was at least as big as a public transit bus. I’m sorry I do not want to take anything away from the full video that I have by clipping it. I did download five pictures of the anomaly, however the video file is too large in it’s entirety.
March 31, 2023 · 6:35 AM · DISK
Athens, OH
I had just made it to the top of the driveway on my way home from work this morning. I seen something odd flying and then it went behind a line of trees so I drove down my driveway as quick as I could, put my car in park and started recording. It was in a saucer shape and it had red blue lights that later turned to green orange. I’m bad with measurements but it really wasn’t too far higher than the tree line and the place where it went out of sight was at the top of a steep hill. I couldn’t tell if it landed but it had to have been within feet from the trees if it didn’t land. No sort of regular aircraft flies like this.
March 30, 2023 · 11:34 PM · SPHERE
elyria, OH
As I was in my living room I hear a helicopter in the distance getting closer and after 2 min of hearing how loud and close it was I looked outside and as I did in the opposite direction I see a flashing horizontal bright light of red blue and white and as I looked I noticed that it was an outline of a sphere shape with the lights coming frome the top and bottom and it seemed as if the whole object was rotating in a flipping motion as the helicopter circles around it a few times and as the object moved east in a slow speed while the helicopter began to give it space and as it was flipping in a weird way I noticed that it made no sound at all . I took a short video of it moving away
March 26, 2023 · 6:00 AM · OTHER
Centerville, OH
Looked liked huge drill bit. Got a few pics. Went and hit video and looked back up and it was gone.
March 26, 2023 · 5:55 AM · UNKNOWN
Toronto, OH
Moved simultaneously across the sky slowly
March 20, 2023 · 9:10 PM · SPHERE
Canton, OH
I stepped outside my front door onto my front porch to place a "porch camera" I use to see guests arrive and check Amazon delivery, doordash etc. I looked up and immediately noticed very bright burnt orange orbs slowly flying in a loose formation of 3-4. I took out my phone and opened my front door and yelled for my children to come and look at what I was seeing and I started recording. As I was recording we noticed more of the same orbs begin to appear from behind the housetops in a similar fashion to the original three, all going in the same direction and completely silently, as the first group slowly flicked out of view. I called the non emergency number in my area and officers were dispatched to my home and also viewed the video I captured but nothing came of it. I have the video saved and even uploaded to my Facebook and YouTube.
March 1, 2023 · 7:08 PM · OTHER
Barberton, OH
Jupiter and Venus
February 28, 2023 · 7:34 PM · SPHERE
Probable conventionalCanton, OH
On the evening of Feb. 28, 2023 I was outside feeding my animals when I noticed 2 spinning lights in the western portion of my field. The field has some open areas and other areas that are overgrown with brambles and saplings. The weather was in the 40s(f) and the sky was partly cloudy. The objects were not extremely high in the sky, nor were they close to the ground. They were between the two points. The visible stars were much higher than the objects. To give you a better idea of the location of the objects in the sky, I took 5 videos and there were moments when the objects faded for a moment because they were moving behind the young trees. I was standing on the ground and recording the objects on an iPhone. The objects caught my attention because they were bright and located lower in the sky. I enjoy observing the moon and stars over the field, but would not consider myself an amateur astronomer. I just enjoy looking at the sky and am familiar enough with the sky above my field to know that the bright objects were something I hadn’t seen before. If visualizing a clock, the top object would have been at approximately 11 o’clock and the bottom object at approximately 4 o’clock. The top object seemed to be smaller and not as bright as the bottom object. I didn’t even realize there was a top object until I changed my position in the field. I was facing west in the center of the portion of my field where a mowed area meets a more overgrown area. When I turned to the left and started to walk, that is when I saw the second object. Both circular objects had a second, internal circle that was spinning and reminded me of spinning gears, similar to the gears in a watch. The gears were spinning clockwise. I wasn’t able to clearly see the internal gear-like circle until I used the zoom feature on my iPhone. The objects were stationary at some points (internal circle continued to spin at all times), slowly moving toward the right and left at other moments, and moved slightly up and down at other times. During this period, I heard groups of dogs that started to bark and also heard coyotes yipping. The group of 10 cats that have appeared at my house at various times that I care for stayed away from the field. This is highly unusual because they will always follow me when I walk in the field. I additionally heard either police or ambulance sirens, but I doubt that had anything to do with the objects (but who knows?). The objects were still in the sky when I decided to walk back to the house. I’m not sure if this is related, but to my right I suddenly saw a bright light for a second or two. The location of the road that runs along my house would make it impossible for the light to be headlights. I was worried that someone was shining a flashlight at me which would mean someone had to be on my property in the dark. This has never happened before and I live in a very safe area. However, it IS within the realm of possibility. Seeing the light was so unusual and it scared me. I quickly walked back to my house, which is 4 acres from where I was standing in the field. I stood by my house to see if I could see the light again, or a trespasser. I didn’t see anything besides for the two objects. When I went inside the objects were still present. When I was outside on the evening of March 1, 2023, the objects were not in the sky. A few days ago I decided to watch the videos I took and do some research. I discovered several articles from London outlets, that were written a few years ago, about several boys from Glasgow who recorded mysterious objects in the sky. The pictures in the article looked exactly like the objects that I witnessed. In conclusion, I have no idea what I observed. I do know that it was unusual and something I hadn’t seen before. It appeared that something was bothering the animals in the area at that time and I’m not aware of anything else unusual that was happening. However, it is possible that the coyotes were bothered by something other than objects and their yipping triggered the dogs and the cats. I am interested in an opinion regarding the possible identification of objects by someone who is educated in such objects. PS: I just read the authorization portion and at this time, although I might change my mind later, I am going to send a screenshot of the objects instead of releasing all of the videos. I just captured the screenshots and edited them in the following way: 1)I enlarged the images to make viewing easier, 2) I used the “sharpness” tool of my IPad to make the images clearer. The internal portion of the objects that was spinning appears to be blurry in the screenshot (but not the video) which is most likely due to the motion. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
February 28, 2023 · 6:16 PM · EGG
Tipp City, OH
I was in front of my house and I looked up the sky to see the moon. It was before sunset and no cloud and very blue sky. I immediately noticed that there was a white object flying next to the moon. It was a white tic tac or egg shape object flying about 2000 to 2500 ft above the ground. It didn't make any sound and kept coming toward me. After coming near my head, it turned 90 degrees and flow away from me. I took a photo immediately and it is attached to this report. I took video of it but the focus was not good as it moving away from me. When the object was turning 90 degrees, I saw a small aircraft flying nearby about 1500 to 2000ft above ground. I wonder if the pilot saw what I was seeing there. I saw this white tic tac or egg shape flying object on July 3rd, 2022 and I believe it's the same object. You can see July 3rd 2022 sight report in Tipp City OH in NUFORC database.
February 25, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Jackson, OH
While traveling West on US 32 my wife and I saw a large light traveling Southwest at a very high speed. Was not a shooting star. Way too fast to be a plane. The light never faded as it crossed in front of us. We only seen it for a few seconds. We are very familiar with the military jets that do training in this area. Didn’t look anything like those that we have seen in the past. We were both amazed at what we saw.
February 25, 2023 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Lexington, OH
I thought it was low flying aircraft at first so watched. They did not move. They both appear identical, white light on them with a red in more the middle. They appear to be about 500' high. I could not tell for sure or if my eyes were just playing tricks on me, but thought they moved slightly a few times, but staying in the same area. I called a funeral home near it to see if they were flying balloons as they had before at the advice of a neighbor. I told her I doubted this could possibly be it, as it was large like a plane. When I went to look again after about 30 minutes, they had moved away quite a lot. There is no sound of an aircraft. I took photos but it is impossible to tell what I am seeing as 1 is blurry. There appears to be a haze around the object in the photo. Photo consistent with positions of Venus and Jupiter.
February 22, 2023 · 7:05 PM · CIRCLE
Wellston, OH
I was sitting on my front steps looking at the moon Jupiter and Venus. They were paired close that evening. As I looked around the rest of the sky I noticed what appeared to be a star pretty high in the sky but seem to be lower than other stationary stars I could see. What I saw was moving to the left almost directly above me in the sky. I watched as it moved away from me. It wasn’t fast like a shooting star but seemed to be faster than most planes I have seen. I watched for 5 minutes.
February 21, 2023 · 7:30 PM · DISK
Wooster, OH
Light getting brighter and dimmer hover back and forth in the sky getting closer and further away. For long period of time before disappearing
February 20, 2023 · 4:10 AM · UNKNOWN
Avon Lake, OH
I had got up to go to the bathroom in my bedroom and laid back down. Like I usually do, I scrolled through Twitter. My bed sits in front of my large bedroom window. The curtains typically stay up open for natural light. We live near train tracks so I’m used to strange loud noises. All of a sudden I heard and felt this strange vibrational whooshing. I cannot explain it. It sounded close yet far at the same time and had a distorted talking within it. I couldn’t make out what it said. It lasted between 35-34 seconds and became so loud that it woke up my daughter who was sleeping next to me. The only thing I can say with certainty is that it sounded not of this world. In all my years I’ve never heard anything to resemble this noise. I immediately got goosebumps. It sent shivers down my spine I woke up husband up who is a very sound sleeper. The only thing I noticed when looking at the sky is that one star seemed brighter than normal. Maybe I just haven’t noticed it or there is a reasonable explanation for that component, but the sound is terrifying and unexplainable. I know it sounds crazy, but it really happened. I have to believe it was alien. I have never believed in aliens, but this is insane. My dog made a noise after this experience ended and my daughter never wakes up like this either. This is scary and if I didn’t experience it I wouldn’t even believe it myself.
February 19, 2023 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cuyahoga falls, OH
A local news agency reported on facebook that something made a flash and boom. A person responded to the post with a picture of an object they saw outside of their kitchen window. They said it hung around for 20 minutes then faded away. The person who reported no other details. I gave them your web address, but am making sure it gets reported. I am uploading a photo of the original post by the news agency and the photo the person posted. I am also uploading a close up of the photo.
February 19, 2023 · 7:35 PM · LIGHT
Canton, OH
From the west it looked like a missle was fired and the exhaust stayed for a short while then disappeared.