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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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November 8, 2015 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Columbus, OH
Sitting in hot tub when a brilliant streak of whitish-blueish light flew horizontally across the sky out of nowhere with a quiet whistle sound and then dissapeared in a large collection of white sparks, did not look like a fire work or plane/missile; too low and quiet for a plane or missile and to fast and bright for a firework plus was traveling horizontaly not vertically like a firework.
November 8, 2015 · 7:40 PM · LIGHT
Trotwood/Englewood, OH
Several (Approx. 6) flying, flashing red lights in the sky. It was dark out and the sky was clear. I was in my front yard taking my dog out to pee. When I looked up, I saw them were swerving around in different directions, which struck me as odd. After about 2 minutes, I was called back into my house, they might have been visible longer. I got a video of it and immediately posted it to Instagram, however Androids take low quality videos so it's just darkness with my streetlight to the side and me saying I thought what was in the sky might be a UFO.
November 7, 2015 · 10:47 PM · FORMATION
Gahanna, OH
this event happened at exactly 10:47 pm i know this because i have a photo on my phone of these objects with a time stamp and date there was 10 reddish/orange objects in the sky that looked like a ball of light they were at low altitude and were flying directly at port the columbus airport and trust me this was not a airplane or helicopter landing i see that all the time and this defiantly was not that. they were moving at about the speed of a helicopter and they were all moving at the same speed with no noise and not in any sort of military formation there was 3 in front with 1 behind those 3 then a group of 5 behind that 1 then 1 behind those 5
November 3, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Bremen, OH
6-8 orange lights in a horizontal line. The event lasted about a minute, the lights flew over at relatively low altitude, and low air speed. They were traveling about as fast as a helicopter. The lights produced a sound similar to a flock of geese flying above.
November 3, 2015 · 8:35 PM · CIRCLE
Hilliard, OH
I was trying to capture them on video with my phone. I was able to catch one on video before it disappeared. We have amended the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. Witness later corrected both the time and date to 20:35 hrs. on November 03rd, 2015. PD
November 3, 2015 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Campbell, OH
While standing on Wilson Ave. and Snyder on the boarder of Campbell and Struthers, Ohio, witnesses observed 2 triangular shaped objects in the northwest sky. Witness B was the first to notice them and advised the other two witnesses. All looked to the northwestern sky to see 2 seemingly equilateral triangular-shaped objects with lights at each angle. The lights appeared to be an unwavering bright lime-green, with one light forward and the other two in the rear. Due to the limited amount of stars in the night sky, witnesses were unable to determine at this time if the objects were solid or not. The 2 triangular objects were traveling at a very low speed from northeast to southwest. The two objects were also traveling very close together. At this time the 2 objects had crossed over the Wilson Ave. reference point when witnesses observed a single, lime-green in color, orb-like object following the same flight path, but seemingly lower than the other two. At this time t! he two triangular shaped objects further crossed the Mahoning River reference point, and began to spread out. The lead tip light stayed slightly ahead while the two rear lights moved up and further apart, causing an almost straight-line appearance. The lone orb-light object still trailed in the same flight path and slow speed. As the object flew farther away, witnesses retrieved a pair of binoculars to view the objects. All that could be observed were the lime-green lights, no structure or other characteristics. The objects were observed in the same almost straight-line pattern until they traveled so far that they could not be viewed with the binoculars. Witnesses attempted to obtain pictures and video with their cell phone cameras, however due to the objects altitude and distance from the witnesses, the lower focal power of the cameras could not pick up the objects. Due to the single object being of the same characteristics of the lights that created the triangular shape then broke apart, all witnesses believe that there were seven object in total. All witnesses agreed that they had never seen aerial crafts with these characteristics before. All three witnesses have extensive law enforcement careers and all three are military veterans with extensive service time. One witness is a current MUFON Field Investigator. It is also to be noted that the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport/Vienna Airbase (1453 Youngstown Kingsville Rd Vienna, OH 4447) is approximately 14 miles north of the sighting. This region is also a very busy travel route for commercial and military planes arriving and departing at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport/Vienna Airbase and the Pittsburgh International Airport. During the sighting, which lasted approximately 9-10 minutes, there were several commercial airplanes flying in several different directions and altitudes over the immediate area.
November 2, 2015 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Copley, OH
Saw a triangular shaped craft that made a loud humming noise, descend then maintain elevation and hover over an area to the north that was still within sight range. After a few minutes it disappeared. The craft had lights along each part of the triangular shape. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 2, 2015 · 4:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Cleveland Heights, OH
Cleveland east side, November 2, 2015 : Bright object about 60 degree angle seen in the northeast sky at 4:20 pm. I observed for it a good solid 4 minutes while it did nothing but remain stationary high up in the sky. It did not shift, bounce, vibrate, or jiggle. My husband ran in the house and came out with binoculars which we used to view the object. We were able to see that it was clearly a triangle shape, that it was a rather neutral looking silvery color, and that it had 3 distinct circular illuminations located near each corner on the underside. The illuminating light was white and bright. The light never blinked, but was continuous. We viewed the object for a total time of 15 minutes from when I first noticed it. It appeared to stay in one place, but several times as I viewed it through the binoculars, I was able to see it rotate as it stayed in the exact same place. Then it seemed to go higher and get smaller. From my vantage point, it appeared to go slightly north as it got smaller. There was no sound, no trail, & no ongoing linear movement. It mostly appeared to hover, then go higher as I previously mentioned. Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD
November 1, 2015 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Toledo, OH
We have been seeing UFOs over our area for the last several weeks. They are hovering to the north, south and west. There were 12 a few weeks ago and 6 tonight. They have a pulsating red, green and blue light flashing. We also saw one moving for the first time. Was moving in a straight path very quickly. We see them clearest right after the sun has completely set. A few weeks ago I saw a white object touch multi-colored object then move away. Witness elects to provide no contact information. PD
November 1, 2015 · 4:30 PM · LIGHT
Toledo, OH
Saw a big bright light just appear and fall out of the sky. No crash, no sound, nothing. Not one word of a plane crash on the news. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 31, 2015 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Chillicothe, OH
About 20 to 30 lighted objects in the shy. They was setting still we seen them turned around to see what they was and they was gone. But they were in straight lines, grouped in a square and diagonal lines. We have never seen anything like it before!
October 27, 2015 · 7:13 AM · CIRCLE
Parma Heights, OH
I am the 17 year old sister who is reporting this that my brother saw. At 7:13 in the morning, my 11 year old brother was waiting at his bus stop, him along with about 5-7 kids also waiting, saw 5 or 6 different lighting up, circle shaped objects in the sky. My brother said there was one floating right above our apartment building, by my brothers description they were basically surrounding Parma. He also described one of the objects "blasting off like a rocketship" and moved way faster than an airplane would. The age group of the children at the bus stop were 11-12 years old. The parents waiting at the bus stop seemed to notice nothing and paid absolutely no attention to it. My brother also mentioned after all the objects disappeared, all the children saw a green airplane in the sky.
October 26, 2015 · 9:56 PM · OTHER
North Ridgeville, OH
I was standing outside looking up at the full moon around 9:56pm tonight and i look and i see these blinking and flashing lights in the sky , at first there were only five then all of a sudden at least three more showed up. All of them came together in a circle extremely close to eachother then all of them broke away using maneuvering that our military can't do and there were also at least two of what i thought to be jets, only because i could hear the afterburners and i could see there jetstreams by the light of the moon. well the ones i thought were ours weren't like flying directly at the flashing and blinking lights it was like they were either tracking whatever they were or observing them. but every time they got even an inch closer the lights would be gone not like super fast but almost like they glided through the sky.the time now is 10:28pm im outside again and i can still make out a couple blinking lights and earlier there was only one of them that only would slowly light up red and slowly go dark again. if anything changes ill try and post it on here.
October 25, 2015 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
Hilliard, OH
I was pumping gas at a Kroger. Looked up facing the sunset and saw a white circular light moving fast off to the right. No chem-trail. A circular distortion opened up in front of it in the sky and it soon disappeared upon entering it.
October 24, 2015 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Dayton, OH
About 6-8 glowing reddish-orange lights floating in the sky looking East from Linden Ave and Woodman Dr. They moved across the night sky and then fizzled out after about 5 minutes from first noticing them.
October 23, 2015 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Mismisburg, OH
Lights that would all be one then split out to four evenly spaced going round in circles. Probably met back up 5 times to form one. I would say looked like the moon behind clouds to describe the look and shape. Possibly advertising lights? PD
October 23, 2015 · 7:02 AM · SPHERE
Pickerington, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. The ISS does not orbit to the west. PD
October 22, 2015 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Franklin, OH
Last night I stepped out into my backyard about 8:30 pm and out a distance from me through a tree clearing I saw a round object with red and white vivid bright lights hovering with no noise what so ever. It seemed to be spinning but not so fast that I could not make out the light colors. I was in shock and walked closer to my door in fear but continued to watch. And then it just disappeared. It was definitely not an airplane. My dog was outside with me and began barking as well.
October 21, 2015 · 6:00 PM
Cincinnati, OH
Traveling east on 275 getting on the 52 exit, right before dark. When I seen two orange-ish white flickering lights, while hovering approximately 3 to 4 secs, then disappeared. There had to be a bunch of people who seen this! I'm not the type who would make this up, I've never seen anything like this! I'm pretty sure this wasn't any kind of fireworks nor any kind of man made aircraft! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 18, 2015 · 7:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Medina, OH
October 18, 2015 I was outside and took note of the number of aircraft I could see in my field of view was unusual. Normally I only see 5-10 flashing beacons from aircraft at any given time, but this night I could count 20-30 and it was a very clear night. As I watched the sky, I took note of a satellite moving overhead from south east to north west. I was following the movement of the satellite and after watching it for 20 seconds or so, I noticed a blurry object to the left and at a lower altitude appear. At first I thought it was a meteor entering the atmosphere and at any moment I would see a tail streak across the sky. There was no tail, no streak, and seemed as though it was behind a cloud. For a moment I thought that it could have been a reflection from another object on a layer of cloud cover. However, this was not the case as I had noted that it was a very clear night and the amount of other celestial objects I could see was enormous. The object was blurry to gray against the sky a! nd had a dim source of light surrounding it. Almost as if it had its own cloud source or as if the sound barrier was broken for the constant duration. However there was no sonic boom associated with what I was seeing. There was no flashing beacon on it. It occurred to me that it may have been some sort of search light or landing light from another aircraft, but nothing else was near it and again it was very clear with not one cloud in the sky. It was moving in the exact opposite track of the satellite from north west to south east. It was moving at a very high rate of speed as I could only follow it for about 8 to 10 seconds. I would estimate that the object's altitude was some where in the range of 15,000 to 20,000 ft. The space in which it was contained did not lead me to believe that it was assending or desending, it seemed to maintain its path. I look up and watch the night sky as often as I can, I am very familiar with aircraft as I served in the USAF for 4 years and spent a considerable amount of time watching the aircraft on the flight line every night I was on duty. This was not an aircraft that I was used to seeing. I repeated to myself over and over as I watched the object "what is that??!!" and then " what the !*$% is that???." I was floored because I had never seen anything like it before and it made my hair stand as chills rippled through. It followed a very straight and direct path and was moving faster than anything I have ever witnessed.
October 18, 2015 · 6:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cincinnati, OH
My friend and I were passengers in the back seat of a car driving down I-71 south near the Edwards Rd exit. While talking a clearly round, bright white light like a star or planet appeared in the east sky. I pointed and said what was that? We assumed it was the aforementioned but it began to move upward in the sky like a rocket and then disappeared. Then there was a cloud trail across the sky like a jet had flown by. There was no noise like a jet had flown overhead. Also this was a matter of seconds if this was a jet it had to be new technology we were witnessing.
October 17, 2015 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
Grove City, OH
As we moved down the road more came out of the distance. 3 in a row, then two side by side moving from side by side to on top of one another. We pulled over and counted almost 20 go by. We could not make out a shape against the night sky. They looked like balls of light. They were pretty low. We thought maybe they were military helicopters but they were completely silent. They seemed too large to be drones. We tried to find the source by driving in the direction they seemed to come from. We noticed a large bright flash on the ground level to the sky. It was a pinkish flash like the same color as a flare but over a huge area the size of a football field.
October 16, 2015 · 1:30 PM · FIREBALL
North Baltimore, OH
It was the Fall of 2015, I believe mid-October, I was in my vehicle at the CSX Intermodal Rail Yard in Henry Township, Ohio, two miles west of North Baltimore, Ohio. I am in the habit of driving out to the intermodal and shooting random video of activity in and around the yard (opened in 2012). I don't always view my footage, unless something extra was observed. I didn't "see" anything so I didn't view this tape until some number of days, maybe months later. And I noticed the bright "flame" streaking through my view, as the camera was focusing in on some flying geese. I have always been a UFO "buff" observing a couple of interesting events over the years. But nothing really reportable and no photo/video. For whatever reason I have procrastinated doing anything with this video, figuring it probably isn't anything anyway. Well, I ran across it again today and happened to come across your site as well (from Facebook). So I will emai! l the video over. Please, let me know what you think. Email is the best for me to communicate. I get crap Verizon phone reception! Thank you for your time! ((name deleted July 2, 2019 (( Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)
October 11, 2015 · 12:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Springfield, OH
My daughter (19 years old) and I (45 years old) were driving on I-70 West from Columbus, heading toward I-675 South around midnight on October 10, 2015. The sky was very dark, with little cloud and very bright stars. We were close to Springfield, Ohio when I noticed a very large bright flashing white light with a small flashing red light on one side, and a small flashing green light on the other. Because of the flashing side lights, I initially thought it was an airplane, and it was just extra bright against the dark sky. But as we got closer to it, the white light was bigger, and it appeared that the light was hovering in place, not moving. I then thought maybe it was a warning light attached to a tower, as there are many along I-70 West, although the warning lights are typically all white or all red. As we drove by it, it was not over the highway, but off to the side over the trees and fields. I was able to see it briefly because I was driving. I looked up at it and could see underneath. It was not attached to a tower, but was a rectangle shape that seemed to be standing still in the sky. It did not have the body shape of an airplane and there were no wings. The bulk of the underneath was the white light, and the two smaller lights were on either side. I could hardly believe what I saw, but there was no safe place to pull over so I kept driving and my daughter watched behind as we drove away from it. It did not appear to move to her, and she did not see wings or a tower either. She continued to watch it, until my driving caused her to lose sight of it.