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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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August 8, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Galion, OH
Then when we used binaculars and it looked like a light white circle surrounded by a bright white circle. I took a picture and when I zoomed in on the picture taken, it clearly shows 2 circles side by side surrounded by light.
August 6, 2016 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Dresden (near), OH
My friend and I were out catfishing one night and I always look up at the sky and observe all the stars whenever I'm out at night well this night I was doing just that when I thought I saw a shooting star well I ignored it for a few minutes then looked back up facing north east I saw a triangular shaped object hovering in the air about 400ft off the ground about 400 yards away it was very large in size that emitted 3 very bright lights so I immediatley got my friends attention and he looked and we were in complete awe at what we saw we sat and watched it for around 45 minutes and it hovered there and moved around and then all at once took off east faster and more nimble than anything I've ever seen before in my life while doing so it made the weirdest noise a noise I had never heard before while doing so it the lights on it grew brighter and there were more about 6-8 lights as it took off and the dogs that were barking out the road had stopped barking there were no coyotes were howling the woods were dead silent from the time it arrived till about 15 minutes after it left
August 6, 2016 · 8:10 PM · CYLINDER
Elyria, OH
Sitting on back porch in daylight hours saw a pure white wingless long cylinder, slowly traveling south west
August 4, 2016 · 7:53 PM · CIGAR
Fairborn, OH
I was at Maplewood Park in Fairborn, Ohio, with my girlfriend on the swings. I looked up and saw a shiny, pill shaped UFO fly overhead. It was completely silent and looked like it was really high in the air. I thought it was really odd to see an object flying so high in the air, not making nay noise, and it was metallic. So I pulled out my cell phone and started recording right away. It went straight, at a steady pace, looked like it was floating across the sky. My girlfriend and I just watched it and kept swinging. I'm not sure what I saw that day, maybe it was a satellite or a blimp. It makes me wonder because I was only a comple miles away from Wright-Patt Air Force Base. I lost sight of the object when it flew out of distance and on the other side of the tree. The object was flying from North to South. I was facing East when I noticed and recorded the UFO.
August 3, 2016 · 10:55 PM · TRIANGLE
Englewood, OH
I was driving southbound, when I noticed bright lights that seemed to be hovering about 100-200 ft in the air. Once I got closer, I observed the object slowly hovering west to east. It seemed to be a triangle with white lights surrounding the exterior with a few red flashing lights. I came to a stop sign and lost sight of the object. I turned left and headed east bound. I then saw the object 50-100 feet above the ground, now traveling south to north at a much higher rate of speed. It was coming from an area about 1 mile southeast of where I first observed it. (Same description, same lighting) it seemed as if it jumped one location to another in a few seconds.
August 2, 2016 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Mount Gilead, OH
I looked into the sky tonight, because I saw a flashing light and what I saw amazed me. I saw what looked like a jetpack of some sort, shooting across the sky and then slow and stop and hover. Then I looked around the sky and there were a few more, sitting in certain area. They were lit up in red, white, and green lights. They sat there as if they were waiting for something to happen. Others move around from place to place, and then just stop. Not sure what's going on up there tonight but it has me curious. I saw one shoot out what looked like a fireball, not sure what it was firing at.
August 1, 2016 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Baltimore, OH
I was sitting on my front porch when i looked to the sky and saw two red lights in the sky. The lights were solid and not blinking at all. As i took a closer look i could see the shape of a disc behind the lights. The object seemed to hover over the tree line a few miles wway. The object hovered there for about 2 minutes. Then I went inside to show my brother. My brother came out than immediately ran inside to grab a camera as he was inside the object started to move closer towards my house, then the red lights went off and I could still see the faint shape of the disc. I was unable to keep track of the disc and I couldnt see where it went. We were also unable to get a picture in time. This is not the first time I've seen weird objects in the sky. I actually reported another incident that happened right down the road from my house. This object was different than the other ones I've seen before.
July 30, 2016 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Toledo, OH
I have a similar sighting from one in Toronto. I thought they might be buzzards or black balloons caught in an updraft. Too freakin weird though. We were driving in a restricted lane construction zone southbound and I started looking around because our two 3G devices jammed simultaneously. The jammed phone is my camera, otherwise I would have photographed them, even though they disappeared after 10 seconds. Saturday evening on I-75 just south of the I-280 ramp, east of the highway over some industrial buildings or perhaps further away, looking over near the old Jeep Parkway. 20 -30 swirling and darting jet-black spheres slowly rising like a moving swarm. In the foreground I saw birds of similar relative apparent size that were much closer. My thoughts went from birds, to balloons, to "I don't know what they could be besides balloons, it must be a tangle in the wind". I called attention to them, and looking back, they were gone. I thought maybe the! y were obscured by clouds, but the way they moved it didn't make sense already because there was minimal wind at the time.
July 24, 2016 · 12:15 AM · CHANGING
Toledo, OH
I was driving home from the store heading south on I-75 toward I-280 . On the bend, I noticed 3 bright white lights in a V formation, coming from the southeast heading north west moving in perfect unison. At first I thought they were helicopters flying low but the way they were moving made me think it was one large triangular ship. So I slow down to about 35 miles an hour to watch these things glide over the highway close to the jeep plant. I lowered the windows and listened for any chopper sound, jet sound, propeller sound, could not hear any sound. Three solid spheres of light no blinking lights. They also changed to a red color as the flew over head stretching slightly. When the one stretched at least the one I mainly focused on, you could see a little yellow and orange in the center of it. I'd say they were between 3 to 5 hundred feet up, moving 100 to 200 mph. about the size of small helicopter my wife thought they were drones but she also says it was! something like she never seen before. This I know, these were no common man made flying machines. And we were not the only ones who witnessed this event there were a number a vehicles on that bend.
July 23, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FIREBALL
Massillon, OH
No noise and traveling pretty quick. Disappeared above clouds. Wind was blowing west to east.
July 23, 2016 · 5:45 PM · CIRCLE
Canton, OH
Sitting on porch, orange colored ball traveling north-northeast to south-southwest. Went across the sky at great speed and disappeared.
July 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Westerville, OH
After a day of fishing at Alum Creek reservoir in Westerville, Ohio, a friend of mine, myself and my two teenage sons were preparing to leave the lake for the day. We had just gotten the boat out of the water and were still at the boat ramp when my oldest son noticed a glowing orange ball of light approximately 3 miles to the west. My youngest son quickly grabbed a pair of high end binoculars from under the seat of my vehicle and we all four watched as the glowing light got closer. The ball of light was about the size of a beach ball and was coming towards us at about the speed of a low flying commercial aircraft. Suddenly, we saw the ball of light split into 2 balls of light, now making it 4 balls of light. Then those balls of light each split into more balls of light and the process continued until there were 11 balls of light coming towards us in a straight line. They were still all about the same size as a beach ball and still flying at a steady pace. At one point the 9th ball in line flew off course to the south. There was a full moon that night and it looked as if the 9th ball of light was directly under the moon. Due to the fact that it was now illuminated by the glow of the full moon, we could see that it was a saucer shaped object that looked to be gun metal gray in color and thru the binoculars we could see a compartmentalized structure on the bottom of the craft. It almost seemed as if the object wanted us to see what it was and so it flew out of formation and illuminated itself under the moon to show that it was a spacecraft. Just as quickly as it had flown out of formation, the 9th ball of light regained it's spot in line with the other balls of light and all flew off to the east, following the route of the powerlines. There was a thick formation of trees just beyond the lake and once they flew that way, we could no longer see them. We all stood there mesmerized and then we began talking about what we had seen. We had all seen the same thing and had all taken turns with th! e binocu lars. There were still a few boaters around the boat ramp and they too were looking up at the lights, but I am not sure what they thought they saw. We all told our families when we got home and as the days went by many people that we told convinced us that it was something other than what we thought we saw. After listening to Coast to Coast am the past several years, I am now once again convinced that it was alien spacecrafts that we saw and I wanted to share my experience.
July 16, 2016 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Xenia, OH
Saw orange light keep flying North to South thru my window. Went outside to observe what it was, there was no sound coming from it, it stopped moving and I took a picture of it and then it vanished. When you enlarge the photo it shows a round disc with a cylinder attached to a smaller disc. The whole thing glows orange.
July 10, 2016 · 10:07 PM · OTHER
Fairborn, OH
At approximately 2207 westwardly in the sky at about 2 o'clock from the moon appeared 4 very bright orange lights in a sort of parallelogram shape. They were differently in the lower atmosphere. They moved across the sky at 3 o'clock from the moon. They did not keep the parallelogram shape but instead 3 lined up like a back lash (\) with the fourth one behind them (.\) One by one they slowly faded out and disappeared in the night sky. The whole thing only last about 2 minutes. Posted sighting on social media to see if others saw it. Was told they were Chinese memorial lanterns, but I have doubts. I have a BA in Humanities.
July 10, 2016 · 8:01 PM · CIRCLE
Galion, OH
As we were driving down the road we saw a lighted object... looked like two circles ontop of eachother with points at each corner with lights on the points. This object was going fast, and just stopped. From looking at it, it was so close to the ground it was prob the size of my palm. id say if it was on the ground it was the same size as an airplane or bigger. We immediately turned around looking for it and it was just gone. No clue where it went. The sky was clear and open. This was the craziest thing ive seen and i cant stop thinking about it. I really wish i would have got it on camera bc it was so clear.
July 9, 2016 · 11:25 PM · CYLINDER
Wilmington, OH
Saw a reddish orange object moving up and down and side to side. Took 2 photos and the photos were something we were not able to identify.
July 4, 2016 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
North Canton, OH
While watching fireworks at Dogwood Park on July 4th, I saw a single white light orb floating to the right of the display. It hovered still In the sky and it quickly ascended and descended a few times during the course of the fireworks display. As soon as the display was over it quickly descended out of site. Movement was straight up and straight down. Clearly not the way a helicopter could maneuver...
July 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Warren, OH
Witness, who elects to remain totally anonymous, provides no information. PD
July 3, 2016 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Cleveland, OH
We were watching the fireworks in North Olmstead, OH. A bright light was going across the sky and we assumed it was a helicopter or an airplane. All of a sudden it stopped, and began hovering. The light was very bright and red. For about a minute it hovered, then it quickly exited and disappeared out of sight immediately. It almost looked as if it were going upward very quickly. Initially, it appeared to be at least 30,000 feet. One of us saw a flash of light off to the side in the top of the sky.
July 3, 2016 · 4:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Rootstown, OH
I was star gazing when I saw a strange moving light in the lower part of the horizon South-Southeast towards Randolph-Atwater. At first I thought it was a plane but it was moving randomly in the same region of the sky. It alternated between white, red, and maybe blueish lights. I next thought it was a law enforcement helicopter doing IR sweeps but the movements were too eratic and always in the same area of the sky. From my perspective it moved easily an 1"-1.5" in any direction at any given time.
June 29, 2016 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Akron, OH
My boyfriend and I were having a bonfire when he noticed a strange object in the sky moving east; it looked as though it was on fire but was too low and moving too slowly to be a shooting star. We watched as it continued east and took a picture; almost immediately after his flash on his camera went off, all the "lights" on the object turned off but we could still see the object and it turned and went west. The object seemed to float slowly across the sky until we could no longer see it.
June 29, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Toledo, OH
There was a circle white light moving slowly in sky. Then 3 jets after another circled after it and then right by one of the jets when we were watching it movie it shot really fast like a shooting star and disappeared. So then the jets left. Then again from a different area the white circle appeared again moving and three more jets again. This is our first sighting and it's scary and amazing at the same time.
June 27, 2016 · 11:10 PM · LIGHT
Cairo, OH
The light would go from non-existent to bright and then non-existent again in the course of a second to a second and a half. This occurred approximately 15 to 20 times over the course of about 10 minutes
June 27, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
It was a single flying object that I saw (as I came outside from the front door at 11pm 6/27/16 in Columbus, Ohio) when I thought I saw was a satelite. (It was traveling SW.) However this was different. I could only see 2 very close lights together, one RED the other White, of equal intensity (no actual shape unfortunately). There was no blinking. They were rather bright so I thought maybe it was a helicopter. It suddenly stopped its motion and just hovered, absolutely motionless. Then it quickly reversed from its original direction with great acceleration and then stopped again 3 seconds later. (There was no spot light from it ever.) It did this for a few minutes and then quickly flew north. All motion was very angular and when it hovered, which is unlike normal helicopters. I couldnt make out any sound, but there was a lot of background noise being by the highway. It was a clear night sky. No other strange phenomenon occured. I hope someone else saw it too. Or could tell me what it was!