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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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October 8, 2016 · 8:45 PM · CHANGING
Marietta, OH
I was in a local parking lot talking in the phone with a friend. It's a parking lot with several businesses in it, restaurants and stores. I was facing east. Around 8:45 p.m. I started to see about 30- 40 lights shoot up into the sky. There was roof tops in my way but it appeared to be shooting up from ground maybe 500 feet away from me. They were orange/yellow color. After shooting up and the lights moving down the sky, forming a chevron like pattern, I was able to snap 2 different photos from my cell. I then decided to drive towards where this was happening, because I wanted to get a closer look, and also was trying to figure out what it was that I was seeing. So as I was driving towards it, the lights went into triangle shapes, and then I saw a HUGE V. The V was stationary. By that time I had pulled into another parking lot and had a great view, got out of my car and went to take a photo, the lights from the V then shut off, only 1 remained. I snapped a photo of that. The one light remained for about 5-10 minutes before phasing out. I could clearly see what looked like a mothership above the V lights. The other lights I saw that took formation, different formations, seem to be like smaller craft going to the bigger craft. The thing is, no one else seem to see it that night or at least I've not heard any reports. I kept checking social media, I asked a few people if they saw anything in the sky that night, no one else seems to of seen it. I reached out to four different ex military men, some are family, a couple friends. I showed them the photos, and they have all said they have never seen anything like it and that when you zoom in the photos I have, it is pretty crazy and creepy. You can clearly see several smaller aircraft. I can say it's left me a little unsettled, as I KNOW what I saw, but still can't believe what I saw! Resolved. Caused by launching of sky lanterns at a wedding ceremony. PD
October 8, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Cincinnati, OH
I was driving in Anderson Township at twilight to pick up Chinese food on Ohio Pike. I was alone in the car when I noticed a very bright, low hovering light in the western sky toward the downtown Cincinnati direction. It was way too low on the horizon to be a star or planet. I pulled over in the car and parked where I could have nearby points of reference to see if this object was moving at all. It was not. There were no flashing lights, just a brilliantly bright slightly flickering light. When viewed through a very low power set of bird watching binocs it took on a 3 pointed shine shape. I drove to another location a few miles away and over the course of this time it never moved or changed. Possible sighting of Arcturus of Jupiter in W sky? PD
October 8, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CHEVRON
Marietta, OH
I would like to report a strange group of lights that I saw on Oct. 8, 2016, between 8:00 and 9:00 PM in Marietta, Ohio. I was driving South on Pike St. (Route 7), when I saw a group of slow moving lights that were low and appeared to be moving North up the Ohio River. The lights were formed in a “V” pattern, much like a flock of birds or geese. They were amber in color. Each light had an individual “V” shape as well. I pulled my car over to watch and they kept moving up the Ohio River until I lost sight of them. I called my husband to tell him to go outdoors to see them, but he could not see any activity. We live approximately 3 miles from where I had seen the lights. I called the Reporting Center today, Nov. 1, 2016, with this information.
October 7, 2016 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Kettering, OH
Another one appeared from nowhere, shot across the sky and disappeared. They just hover in the sky. 3 of them hover in a straight line. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 6, 2016 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Columbus, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 5, 2016 · 10:00 AM · CIGAR
Greenfield, OH
Clear day sky. Observe white/silver cigar object resembling (size) the KC-10 but no markings, no tail, no wings, no sound, no contrail, and no lights. About one mile high and less than one mile away traveling a steady horizontal course west to east (est. 100-200 MPH).
October 3, 2016 · 2:25 PM · OTHER
Coshocton, OH
I was driving home from Walmart. My moms on the passenger side eating BK and my sisters in the back doing the same. We turn on 83 and go past the water treatment place and next thing Ik my moms pointing and not saying a word she's just stuttering and my sisters like "oh.my.god." And I'm like "what?!" And they both said look up so I take my eyes off the road to look up and I see in the sky this weird shaped thing like it was shaped like a T and it was slowly hovering behind the hill and it disappeared before it hit the tree line. I look back down at the road and I'm in the wrong lane so I adjust and then turn on otsiego and go up cassingham hollow to head home and we are trying to make since of what we just saw and then we are coming up the hill and I pull in the drive way and there is again it's huge and it looked so weird it was all black but the tips were white and the sky was a solid blue and all we could do is stare at it with no word! s and I put the truck in park and jump out to take a video and it vanishes in thin air. My mom and I just stood there and looked at eachother. We run inside and my little sister draws what it looks like and we search the Internet to try to get an explanation but there's nothing. An hour later my sister that has no medical problems has a really bad nose bleed and a mini seizure and we took her to the hospital and they said she is fine and has no signs of a seizure. I never believed in this type of stuff till today
October 2, 2016 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Kettering, OH
I rolled my trash containers down my driveway to our street at about 6:30 pm or 18:30 hours. After I finished dinner and washed dishes, I took two small bundles of trash down to my trash containers. As I reached the bottom of the driveway I turned left (west) to put my bundles into my trash containers. As I looked up after turning left I was astounded. I saw two gigantic beams of light coming from the sky. The beams of light were aimed at the ground right beyond our neighborhood. From my perspective, the beams made more than a 45 degree slant angle from the sky to the ground. These beams were huge. The width of these beams were about 80 feet and 60 feet in diameter respectively. These beams had very little spread. They were located about 1/2 mile away from my location. The beams were more of a washed out white. The beam edges were very sharp. The beams were very close together. There was a distance of about 20 feet separating one beam from the next. The trees on my left were preventing me from seeing the source of these beams. Then bang both beams were turned off very suddenly. I heard no noise. I saw no craft. I was astounded. I know of no aerial or atmospheric phenomena that can cause such beams. A long time ago WPAFB were testing airborne to ground bright beams. But they were very small compared to what I observed. 50 UAVs could not duplicate what I observed. I did not call local authorities. I did not call Federal Authorities. I did not call WPAFB. I did not call the local paper, radio or TV stations. I did not take a pic.
September 27, 2016 · 6:50 AM · LIGHT
Navarre, OH
Driving to work this morning (Where 251/Stump Road meets with Klick St. SW) I saw 4 lights in the sky which created an elongated diamond shape. On one of the shorter sides of the diamond there was a red light, and on the other points it was a warmer white color. The lights just sat in the sky as I drove by and never moved. I couldn’t make out any craft between the lights. Not sure if there was one or not, but it was very dark. When I looked away for oncoming traffic and looked back up, it was gone.
September 24, 2016 · 11:50 PM · FLASH
Montville, OH
Single, bright flash evenly illuminated the whole night sky with no point of origin. Similar to when you take a screen shot on an iPhone. My friend and I both saw it and described the same thing to each other. Felt like the night sky "reset" Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2016 · 10:45 PM · OVAL
Cincinnati, OH
I witnessed a small orange light coming towards my location at the UDF on River Road and Anderson Ferry. It was coming north from Kentucky near the CVG airport. It was bright orange and circular in shape. It came to a stop and appeared to get larger before it slowly closed down and disappeared. It did not fly away just just got dimmer until it was gone. Not a plane and not a helicopter. First UFO I have ever seen in person.
September 24, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Akron, OH
I saw 4 amber glowing disk shaped objects very low to the ground over Merriman Valley. I was driving so it was difficult to watch. Very odd. Not planes for sure.
September 24, 2016 · 8:45 PM · UNKNOWN
New Holland, OH
Me, my wife, my brother, and my sister-in-law were driving to visit my in-laws at 8:45 pm. As we came around the corner, we all noticed what we thought were lights on one of the many grain bins in the area. However, as we got closer I realized that they were too high in the air (roughly 200 ft) to be a grain bin, plus there was no bin in that area. The lights were roughly in a rectangular shape, four or five white lights and a small red one. They seemed to sit still and were clearly too low to be a plane (low enough that at first they were thought to be a grain bin) As we pulled into the house the trees momentarily obscured the view of the lights. I parked in the driveway and my brother and I got out to look for them and they were gone. This was startling and we began to question what was going on. My mother and father in law were sitting in the heard star gazing (it was a pristinely clear night). They said that they saw nothing and heard nothing (which ruled out a helicopter or low flying plane). My brother and I ran back down the road in the direction we'd come from, thinking that a change in perspective might show us what the lights were, but they were gone. This is where it got strange...we knew they had been there, and they were stationary enough and close enough so that all four of us in the car had assumed they were part of the surrounding farm equipment....in fact, we all assumed this was the case which is why none of us commented to each other upon first seeing them. As we searched, we say a low flying, VERY slow moving, and silent line of lights in the distance....as we watched it glided over the horizon and was gone. The following morning we told the neighbor (a farmer whose lived in the area a long time) what we had seen. His response was, "oh, you saw them too? I've seen those four or five times before, always in the Fall." He continued to explain that he's seen the lights often (4-5 times) before and that they will appear, hover, and then disappear, only to reappear again somewhere else. He even said that, in the past, they've hovered for a time and then shot off quickly. Always in the Fall he said, and usually October....this was an early sighting and he was surprised to hear it.
September 24, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FIREBALL
Cleveland, OH
As we were standing out side of our office building (The city club building), a round orange object came down from the sky, almost like a comet, then it just stopped directly over our building and we could see small shapes on it spinning. We video recorded it as it moved behind another building then hovered beside the PC bank building across from us for couple mins then it shot away towards the lake
September 22, 2016 · 12:15 PM · FIREBALL
Cincinnati, OH
I was laying down in bed when I looked out the window and saw a round ball of light quickly fall in the sky. I believe the cities light pollution would conceal any meteors so I am unsure of what this was. It was also a lot larger than any meteor I have ever seen! After the initial streak of light, about a minute later I could see a still light behind the trees in the distance, it only lasted a couple of seconds before it disappeared.
September 20, 2016 · 6:10 AM · CHEVRON
Columbus, OH
I would like to be informed if anyone else reports this…
September 16, 2016 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE
Lewis center, OH
Looking through foyer window seen very slow moving bluish grey object with a couple of colored lights, then it disappeared, just vanished. I looked for clouds or anything else in the sky and could see nothing but the normal night sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 16, 2016 · 8:40 PM
Fairview Park, OH
sep 16 2016.8:40.two long lights above 1000ft.turned off in panel type one by one. no sound.
September 16, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Garfield hts, OH
Approximately 7:45 pm me and my wife were sitting on the porch looked up to the sky and seen a dark grayish black round or oval shaped object right above us at a sports stadium height like you would see a blimp at.it was silent and slowly rose up and out of the atmosphere through the clouds and disappeared 2 military jets flew over the area maybe around a hour later and again later that night
September 14, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Soringfield, OH
Traveling east to west space Gradually gaining speed and then disappeared to the west in a few seconds
September 14, 2016 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Blanchester, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 14, 2016 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Blanchester, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 13, 2016 · 10:30 PM · DIAMOND
Mount Orab, OH
At 10:30 pm my family were on our back porch and from the northeast about 10 miles or so in the sky, a big red circle appeared in the sky. The dogs in the area started barking and from the orange light, five small lights appeared from it. Then the big orange light disappeared. The smaller diamond shaped lights flew around the area or more then 15 minutes. Also, when the big orange light appeared, it made a loud humming sound, that actually vibrated the ground near us. I did take footage of these light on my phone.
September 13, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Waverly, OH
Close to lake white up in sky a long check mark shape with lots of red lights that would go out one at a time and then light back up one at a time. They was very bright red. It done that about 2 times and disappeared .