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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
June 27, 2016 · 7:00 AM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
While driving along 270W towards 71N on my way into work, I saw an object moving in the sky from west to east. It looked like a light reflecting off mirror like surface in the shape of a sphere. I have a background in the Air Force, and I watch planes flying overhead every day. This was not an airplane or helicopter. The object moved slowly across the sky and then seemed to disappear completely. There were no clouds to cover the object, and I searched the sky afterwards in an attempt to make sense of what I witnessed.
June 25, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Newton Falls, OH
1 large red orb going from north to south at approximately 9:45 p.m. on June 25th in Trumbull County, Newton Falls, Ohio. No navigational lights, no noise
June 24, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Novelty, OH
After a power outage, I went in the back of our house to see if other homes were affected. We have a large field with power lines. Immedialty after the power went out, I saw a large blimp like object hovering a little near the top of the power lines, moving slowly, and making no sounds. The front of the object had a light, the back end appeared to be dark. It slowly moved down the path of the power line. I followed it for about 5 min. I went in my house to get my husband, when we went back out it was gone and the power came back on.
June 17, 2016 · 10:47 PM · FIREBALL
Spencerville, OH
I was walking south in town. I seen a "falling star" bright blue that broke up. The direction was North to south. I then headed one block west one block south and 20 feet west then south. I decided to sit out and watch for more. That is when I seen the FIREBALL in the sky low altitude with a cruising speed faster than a patrol plane. There was no noise. The Flame effect was close to a hot air balloon at night but the flame was large,constant and the speed somewhat intense in comparison. There were approximately 15 FIREBALLS that appeared to "launch from the east" that seemed to have a trajectory. They turned south southwest at approximately the same area in the sky. I have 4 video's from my Smartphone couldn't keep up with all of the FIREBALLS as they were systematically appearing over the eastern tree line and fading into the south western direction. According to video time on a pair that I caught, visual time lasted 5 minutes. All appears to be the same diameter, speed, elevation. I gave up trying to record all of them do to the night sky. The moon and neighbors porch lights were the only viable background. My Droid Turbo did not pick up the orange flame color or the actual visual distance,diameter and speed. I am a 40 something person with a 12 year background in automotive. If hot air balloons travel this fast, I've never seen any like these during the day.
June 16, 2016 · 10:47 PM · OTHER
Centerburg, OH
We were walking down the heart of Ohio trail, we had just left the baseball fields and as we were coming to where we were supposed to turn off I saw a bright search light kind of thing looking down the trail toward us the light was blue tracing around us. As we walked closer my friend started to throw up. We went toward it and we saw a green cresent shaped figure looking 3 foot tall flashed the light to my eyes the next time I saw it, it was standing behind a tree glowing a dim green I saw dart to the woods as we approach where the search light was seen we found x-shaped indents in the grass I touched it and felt heat. We left for 10 minutes, came back to go look where the figure stood before running my friend stayed back as I checked it out. My friend remarks hearing a helicopter kind of noise but as I approach the tree I hear thunder to my right, then to the left side and then right in front of me and I see the figure walk towards me it seemed as if their w! as a fog in front of the figure as I turned and ran I felt like I was going to fall, I don't remember 2 minutes between that feeling and being at the road running. I got 30 yards away and sat down my friend came back to me and I was texting someone and out of nowhere my phone shut off and the street light flickered around us I felt pain in my stomach as we ran home then my chest and then an intense headache I played down inside the house and blacked out and remember three dots in my vision and couldn't move then we heard a humming noise outside of the window. This is our sighting this is all true and as for the three crafts, they were almost dots in the sky as we ran away, the clouds were too thick for any stars to be seen also, near the sighting earlier this day an electrical poll was heard humming and electricity jumping like a Taser
June 15, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Lancaster, OH
Me and my friend were driving towards lancaster when we both saw a very bright light hovering just above the tree line. The light was very bright, brighter than anything ive ever seen in the sky. The object was also very large. When we got to Lancaster the light was hovering lower than before near mcdonalds. We slammed on the brakes and turned around, then the light darted away extremely fast. We then drove in the direction of the light and saw it in the distance. The closer we got to it the further away the light seemed to be. We then lost the object over near walmart
June 15, 2016 · 11:00 PM · FORMATION
Lancaster, OH
Me and a buddy were just cruising along and happend to look up and see a strange display of unusually bright lights, The formation was larger than any plane I've seen. It was made of super bright white lights in a curved shape with another smaller curve on top, sort of like a saucer. It was first noticed above a red cellular tower and then it appeard to tilt over and began to fly down the street so we followed it. Then it began moving incredibly fast unlike anything possible by human technology. It vanished into thick trees. After driving as fast as possible down of few roads we thought it might have went we spotted it moving slowly over Arlington avenue then it stopped and tilted back up but only a few seconds later and took off and almost in an instant it tipped over and zipped off into the horizon in the area by Walmart and mernards before vanishing. During the whole thing it changed speeds and the way it was moving. It was somewhat erratic and incredibly! huge, the size of a building almost a saucer shape. Not any flashes but made of a bunch of lights and it seemed to change intensity slightly. Most incredible thing I've ever witnessed. Hope more than me and my buddy saw it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 15, 2016 · 8:25 PM · CIRCLE
Mount Vernon, OH
I seen what looked to be a single very bright star in the sky after severe thunderstorm. There was still a lot of clouds in the sky but this single star stood out and was bright. It slowly floated up, very slowly at first. I waited for it to get closer thinking it was a helicopter coming closer. It passed behind a tree in the distance. I waited for it to pop up over the top of the tree. When it did the light was much fainter and smaller. There wasn't enought time that had passed for a helicopter to be that close to me and my husband then get that far away so suddenly. Then it progressed upwards at a faster rate behind the cloud coverage. My husband said he seen the exact same thing a few weeks ago while at work during 3rd shift.
June 6, 2016 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Columbus, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 3, 2016 · 9:20 PM · OTHER
Toledo, OH
Changed form over and over but remained stationare at that altitude
May 30, 2016 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Elyria, OH
My husband, neighbor, and myself were star gazing...Coming directly out of the west, was a bright amber sphere with one white smaller sphere on each side of the craft. There was no sound to the craft. The altitude was 2000ft, moving very slow. There were no navigation lights on the craft as seen on a plane (red and green). When the craft went over head and towards the east, we could see white circular motion lights moving around the craft. These lights were very small. The craft moved northeast and it was gone. Description of our background: My husband is a machinist in research and development. I'm retired from working in a biology lab. My neighbor works in landscaping and is a Boy Scout leader.
May 29, 2016 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
Port Clinton, OH
Heard the sound first of a steady decent... Noise was so close I thought whatever it was would land on our tent. When I looked up I saw a circular object flying very low and fast with red, white and blue flashing lights.
May 25, 2016 · 11:45 PM · OTHER
Northfield, OH
It had a very bright white light in the center that appeared to be perfectly round. It looked rectangular with lights on each end that seemed duller than the center, but also bright. I really can't say what color the end lights were because the center light was so dominant. Because I couldn't identify it, I thought maybe it was a drone. I've never really seen a drone in person but I was trying to make some kind of identification. After 15 minutes of following the craft, I decided that I needed to get home. But as I started to head home, I noticed another car stopped in the middle of the street. I thought oh gosh, it's the cops and they must have seen me driving crazy trying to follow this thing but it wasn't. I assumed it was someone else who was watching this low flying craft that was barely moving. I took two pics out of my car window. Best I could get. I'm surprised that all u captured were lights that looked farther away than they were. I won't speculate as to what it was because I really don't know. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
May 24, 2016 · 6:20 PM · CIGAR
Geneva, OH
The sky was clear with a few thin clouds around. A white cigar shaped object was in the sky gliding to the north east. It was quite no noise. About 10 min later, two aircraftes with trails followed in the same path as the UFO.
May 22, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Pataskala, OH
The light flickered slightly to appear more like a flare, rather than a light. There was no sound and no way of telling altitude. At first we thought they could be flares attached to skydivers, but unlikely considering they traveled more laterally than would be expected for a skydiver. Eventually, it appeared some fizzled out as they began to approach the departing horizon to leave our line of sight. Too slow to be a flare shot across the sky, but wasn't sold on it being debris entering the atmosphere either.
May 20, 2016 · 9:21 PM · FIREBALL
Mentor, OH
Video recorded from my balcony, approximately 20 feet high. Estimations of height, size and speed are rough. I'm not an engineer, however I am high school educated, some college (still going). Quick backckground info, my wife (college grad) and I are both white Americans,"millennials", and of sound mind. We have seen them before, myself around 10 times. I will review my pictures and videos too ensure that they were time stamped correctly, and write reports on those as well.
May 3, 2016 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Mantua, OH
It was around 9:30 EST, when me and my mother were driving home from a religious meeting. Coming down our road we noticed a light in the air that strangely was not moving. Pulling into our drive, we stopped and observed it directly hovering over our neighbors house (which conveniently was a farm house). Observing it, we quickly came to the conclusion that it was not an airplane. A sudden gasp was heard from our Jeep as the three hovering lights turned into a large white ball of light, like a spotlight, blinding us. This ended in a matter of seconds. Immediately we called the farmer, but he wasn't able to see it. We saw it clear as day, it was like nothing we had seen before. Even pulling into our wooded driveway, it was bright enough that we could still see it. We sat talking to the farmer for around 5 minutes watching the craft go in a back and forth pattern with sharp turns over his house. Here it starting moving closer to us. We pulled the rest of the way up our driveway, and the garage was having trouble opening (most likely a coincidence, it does it sometimes) so we sat and watched it longer. At this point it was dangerously close to our house. From this point on and when we got inside, you could see a triangle of different color lights (white, red, green, blue) that changed colors, similarly to an airplane it seemed at first, but this was not functioning at all like an airplane. Then the whole craft turned red. My father here pointed out that he could hear it, and it sounded like an airplane, until the sound abruptly stopped. Before it was moving very slowly, but now it was moving quicker and making very sharp terms. Finally, it moved out of our sight, slowly again. I have never seen anything like this in my life. The only explanation is brand new military craft or alien ship. Coincidentally, I was talking about UFOs to my father a few nights prior, which was strange. Pictures were not taken due to a lack of a good camera, and my mother yelling at me not to take pictures (Why? I don't know.) for the fear that "It might know." If I could, I'd swear over a bible to let you know that all of this that I saw is true. Long story short, I will not be sleeping tonight.
April 24, 2016 · 3:00 PM · CONE
Beavercreek, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 16, 2016 · 5:00 PM · CIGAR
Pataskala, OH
My boyfriend and I were driving westbound on I-70 towards Columbus, near Pataskala, when I noticed a shiny object in the sky to our right. At first I thought it was an airplane but on second look I saw that it was larger and fatter than an airplane. It was oblong cigar-shaped, very shiny like the Sun reflecting on silver metal. It was sort of hanging in the sky at a slight angle. I pointed at it, and my boyfriend said he saw it too. When I looked back it was gone. The sky was clear blue with no clouds. We did see an airplane very high in the sky leaving a Chemtrail. The object appeared again, and then disappeared completely.
April 16, 2016 · 3:50 PM · OVAL
Lewis Center, OH
very bright object possibly reflective off the sun for it was blue sky and sunny. object at first looked circular like a balloon but moved to where it went very flat over and over a few times. Commercial plane at that time was in its line of path however higher up then the object in question. this however is when we were very perplexed at what this object was for when this plane crossed it path though considerably higher from our stand point, this is when this object took off and went very high in the sky. Trajectory was abnormal. We also are unaware of how high a drone can go but after our research we are positive this object was 10x higher then the average commercial drone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 15, 2016 · 11:17 PM · FIREBALL
Liberty Township, OH
What I thought was a falling star, white in color, was falling towards the earth at what seemed like slow motion. As it got closer, it got bigger in size and I could then see a tail at the end of the fireball. Now going at a rapid speed, it flashed brightly turning from white to green, and streaked by disappearing over a house. This all happened in about 15 seconds from the time I first spied it and until it vanished. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 15, 2016 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Reading, OH
I grew up in Northern Kentucky by the Cincinnati Airport and know what planes look like at night. This was not like anything I have ever seen.
April 15, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Hilliard, OH
Thought it was a planet or bright star, then realized it was in motion. Heading west to east extremely bright light in sky. Expected seeing red lights of plane, but it just vanished into space. http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544⪫=40.0334&lng=-83.1582&loc=Hilliard&alt=285&tz=EST Probable overflight of International Space Station. PD
April 15, 2016 · 11:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Boardman, OH
Walking on a bike path at dusk after a light rain, I looked up into the dark sky and noticed a golden triangle flying quickly under the clouds as they broke up after the rain. It appeared to be approximately 800 feet up in the air and seemed to be the size of a large jet, yet making no sound. As it approached from the West and traveled East, it seemed to be shaking rather violently under the clouds. After coming to a COMPLETE STOP under the breaking clouds, the golden triangle slowly rotated approximately 90 degrees while remaining relatively stationary, pointed its apparent nose up at an angle, and shot up between the open clouds and out of sight into the night sky within mere seconds!