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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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February 13, 2023 · 5:17 PM · CYLINDER
Gypsum, OH
At around 5:10-5:20PM on 2/13/23 I was outside with a coworker when I looked up to the sky and saw an object I could not explain. It was low flying in the direction of Northeast. White/Silver in color. The object made no noise as it glided overhead at a estimated *70-100mph* I pointed it out to my coworker as I was about to take a photograph. When I looked back up the object had become a speck in the horizon. Initially it was overhead. As I stated it was low-flying and made no noise. The plant where this was seen is very close to a regional airport. On 2/12/23 I saw a low-flying plane. With discernible wings, windows, and noise. The object seen on 2/13/23 had no wings. I have no idea how it was flying. Immediately after checked the flight radar. Which showed 3 jets on the horizon. Two to the east, and one to the west. These jets had visible trails, and one could be heard as it flew nearby. No flight on the radar showed a path that could’ve been the object in the air. I know this sounds like a hoax. It is not.
February 12, 2023 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Bucyrus, OH
I had noticed a light with glow around it east of city and as I watched it begain to move in a half circle movement toward the west part of the city and hovered in the west side of the city were it stayed about 20 minutes the disappeared
February 12, 2023 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Arcanum, OH
While observing Venus and Jupiter, a point of light was seen 30-45 degrees to the North of Venus rising from the horizon. At about 30 degrees it appeared to be a well-lit contrail though the sun was well below the horizon . At 45 degrees, it became evident it was a straight-line formation of 18 or more white lights spaced at irregular intervals. At 60 degrees overhead, the lights brightened to the intensity of Venus and appeared to be made up of both points and rectangular lights. The formation was longer than the space between thumb and index finger of an outstretched arm. No aircraft navigation lights were seen, and no noise was detected. After continuing eastward, the lights rapidly dimmed out. No clouds were detected in the sky. Video was captured by other witnesses several miles away and both sightings were reported to the local Sheriff’s Department. In my opinion, given the size of the formation, the intensity of the lights, complete absence of sound, and lack of navigation lights, it is unlikely the formation was that of a commercial aircraft. Likley Starlink
February 12, 2023 · 7:40 PM · FORMATION
Grand Rapids, OH
Starlink
February 12, 2023 · 7:39 PM · CHANGING
Liberty Township, OH
I was on the side of my house taking the trash out and leaving food for the raccoons and rabbits, etc and I always look up to the sky when it’s clear out because I look for planets and stars and such using my sky view app and I’ve becoming really good identifying stars and planets. Well I looked up and there’s this glowing streak of light like a train almost that was glowing and the light was nothing I’ve ever seen and the white light was magical almost. Anyways I freaked out and started recording and shouting to myself “wtf is that?!, omg wtf is that” and I stopped recording to get on my ring app to turn off the camera lights because there were so bright it was messing with my camera and right before I can get a good image/video (better than the one I have, I did record it!) it just vanished like almost disappeared or turned it’s lights off as if it heard me yelling or something. I don’t know wth that was and I’ve seen meteors before and the light/streak they emit and I can’t I’ve seen it all but I have been searching for videos of meteors to see if any resemble what I saw and I can’t find any. With all these flying objects being shot down I was a tad nervous and wondering wth that was. The object(s) was a long line almost like a train with even space between each light, and it was freaking long and glowing and moving at a steady pace and not fast at all, pretty slow moving east/northeast, it was roughly 20 objects/lights connected to each other, it was a clear sky and I can see stars and the moon clearly, there was NOT an aircraft/airplane tugging anything, I’m sure of that. The color of the lights were a bright white light. The lights glowed on and off, on and off, then off and I can almost still see it before it disappeared. Likely Starlink
February 12, 2023 · 7:38 PM · CIGAR
Twinsburg, OH
Clear skies; starlit night. I saw a line of bright white lights that were at a 60-degree angle from my perspective. I initially thought was a contrail as I headed west on Glenview Dr. in Twinsburg. When I first saw it, it was directly to the west of me and I thought it was very high assuming it was a contrail; but a very bright contrail. What was odd is the length was constant; didn't change. There were no other contrails I could see. When I turned north on Liberty Rd to head home, I rolled down my window to watch its progress. I was thinking it could be a reflection on an object from the moon, but I didn't see the moon to the south or east. The string of lights never changed in length from what I could tell, but it followed me to the north and was getting closer. I thought perhaps it was the Goodyear Blimp with lights because it looked like the lights were moving (changing in brightness) like it was an advertisement of some sort, but figured it was not far enough to the north of me so I couldn't read anything. It was just bright dots of white light that was moving closer to me. This all took place in approximately a two to three-minute drive. I pulled into my development and stopped the car heading to the east and looked straight up. I wanted to take a picture of it, but when it got right over me, I watched it fade away. I looked around and didn't see anything; didn't hear anything. That was it. I got home a few minutes later and looked back towards where I drove from and saw nothing. I saw other planes flying through the sky, but no contrails. Likely Starlink
February 12, 2023 · 6:15 PM · OVAL
Waterville, OH
It flown SW to NE. Oval / diamond shape. About 3/4 mile from me. No wings, no lights, no noise. I filmed it with my cell phone.
February 12, 2023 · 5:19 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
I was driving and witnessed a shiny object floating on air moving very different not plane nor helicopter …. Took my phone out to video tape and called 911
February 9, 2023 · 7:16 PM · CONE
Newark, OH
The main object didn't move much it was the smaller objects that moved quick as Christmas lights is what caught my attention the weather that night was very very windy and the fact they were so high up makes me think it wasn't commercial drones they came in between onions belt and the north star and that's where they did the little light show and one by one the lights went out and then the big one was the last to go I reported this because it's the day after the 1st Chinese Ballon I don't think it was green lizard people trying to steal our cows or people it was all just very odd
February 9, 2023 · 5:45 PM · CYLINDER
Cleveland, OH
We were grilling in the backyard watching a plane go by when we saw this object higher in the sky moving very quickly I snapped a pic and then it disappeared a few minutes later we saw another one coming back the opposite way and it changed direction very quickly..
February 9, 2023 · 3:30 AM · CIRCLE
Austintown, OH
I was walking to my girlfriends house and happened to look up and saw two "ufo" and they seemed to follow me , then they separated two went one way and one went to the right , I couldn't see anything except circular lights very bright, definitely no airplane or helicopters or small air craft very round. Thank you
February 6, 2023 · 11:06 PM · OTHER
Van Buren, OH
I was driving home from work and saw the unusual object to the north
February 3, 2023 · 5:25 PM · CIRCLE
Mentor, OH
A bright light was observed for a second and go directly up into a cloud. There was no noise or lights. Hard to discern the shape since it was a light going upward.
February 2, 2023 · 8:30 PM · CHEVRON
Bremen, OH
So I let the dog out for a RR break. As I always do, I was looking into the sky just for something to do. As I was looking over top my house, I noticed something that looked like a big bird, chevron, boomerang or something moving what appeared to be really slow. It made no noise, and appeared to be the size of a small plane flying low over house, but hard to tell. The conditions that night were silent, and a pretty clear night with some clouds. This object appeared to be translucent as it went over top of the house I could see the stars looking odd as it went along. It reminded me of a cloaking device from Star Trek. This object was so faint that if I hadn't been looking at that exact spot, at that exact time, I would have not seen it. Initially, I thought it was something in my eye, so I moved my eye around, and the object did not follow, and I looked back at the object just long enough to see it fade into the horizon. I am a sane, employed kinda educated 45 year old male with common sense. Other info: My wife and I just had a barn burner of an argument right before the sighting. Later on, I was wondering why the object flew over MY house. I have another question, but can't put down in this forum.
January 28, 2023 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Mount vernon, OH
I was driving down the road. Something obove me caught my attention. Low-flying object, 3 lights in a straight line, moving slowly, no noise.
January 21, 2023 · 7:29 PM · LIGHT
Athens, OH
I was walking to meet my friends at a restaurant on Court St. Athens Ohio. When I was walking out of my building I noticed the a light in the sky that was flashing green, blue, purple, and white. This light was not moving and continues the flash in what seemed to be a color coordinated sequence. I took 2 short videos, and observed the flashing light until I got into the restaurant.
January 20, 2023 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Cincinnati, OH
Football pitch sized (approximate) sized cutout opened in the dense clouds at night, moon visible through this hole. The edges of the clouds were sharp and the shape was distinctly symmetrical down the length of the would-be object. This was directly over Lunken Field in Cincinnati, Ohio. Four to five minutes elapsed, and the cloud volume swirled back into place rapidly. There was apparent cloud movement in the lower atmosphere that night, and this punch-out stayed perfectly still during the duration it was there. I have not seen any online live-feed or Artemis cameras from that night that would be facing directly upward or have that portion of the sky in their field of view. Local AM radio was not being received by my vehicle at the time this occurred, then was clear when switched back on after returning to car.
January 15, 2023 · 3:23 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
This is the 7th sighting of these orbs in the past 7 months. All sightings have been in the same 1 mile radius of our home. This orb hovered pretty low, about 2,000 ft. It made no sound, and disappeared right before my eyes.photo is attached.
January 9, 2023 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Wilmington, OH
Whatever it was I saw 1/9/2023 and reported earlier today (1/10/2023) is not there tonight. Can see all the normal plane traffic, and the stars and planets all around that spot in the sky, but nothing spotted like what I saw last night. Just wanted to follow up.
January 9, 2023 · 8:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Wilmington, OH
Not ready to say this was a UFO, but it was cool to see and worth reporting in case anyone else saw it. Last night (1/9/2023, approximately 7:30 - 8:00pm) , while taking the trash out, I noticed a twinkling/flashing light in the sky to the south-southeast of our house. Didn't think much of it at first, as we do have a lot of air traffic around us, and that's the how the colors appeared to the naked eye - looked like a plane possibly coming straight towards me, with it's red/green/white lights. I continued to watch it for a few moments, expecting it to get closer, but using stationary landmarks to compare against, it did not appear to be moving (meanwhile, had planes going by as normal). I watched it for about 5 minutes, then decided to grab a pair of binoculars to try to get a better look. When I returned outside with the binoculars, it was still in the same spot - through the binoculars, I couldn't make out a shape, but could see a whole rainbow of colors (the colors were in a bit of a starburst pattern around the core object, so it may have been just from the binoculars). I continued to watch it for another 15 minutes approximately before going back in the house for the night. Felt that was worthy of reporting, even if it wasn't a UFO - just in case anyone else reports something similar in the area. Planning to go back out tonight, if the sky is still clear, to see if it is there again tonight...and if it is, I'll get the telescope out and try to get a better look at it.
December 23, 2022 · 5:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Homeworth, OH
No sound, big with lights, over top 40 to 50 foot pine tree, see picture
December 21, 2022 · 9:33 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
I saw 4-5 orange balls of light flying from east to west, below cloud cover. Faster than airplanes and noiseless. For some scale, I absolutely would have been able to make out the general shape and multiple lights of an airplane if one was flying that low. Instead, these were large-ish orange balls of light, spaced out from each other, in single file. I saw one from my bedroom window and was trying to understand what I had seen, when I saw another following it. I ran to that window (south facing) and saw another following that one. I then ran to my back door window (facing west) and could see two of the lights heading west. The farthest one simply faded, I tried to get my phone camera going for the next one, when I looked back up it was gone. The last one came, still in the same line as the preceding ones. I again tried to get my camera and it disappeared as well, not as far west as the others had been when they disappeared. My personal background is that I work in accounting, I’m in my forties and I have never before seen anything that I would describe as a UFO. Possibly Starlink
December 20, 2022 · 9:58 PM · CYLINDER
Mentor Headlands, OH
My husband took the dog out and called me out there was a I'm guessing cylindrical craft( the lights were in a straight horizontal line) in the distance moving very slowly horizontally and it was changing colors from white to red, orange then yellow and back to white. From where we are it had to have been pretty large and the approximate location would have been over the mentor headlands which is on lake erie. There's alot of beach and nothingness out there it's a park and lots of wild land I guess you would call it, dunes, scrub grass ect. We watched it for a few minutes until we couldn't see it anymore because of the house across the st. We live approximately 5 miles away that's why I say it had to have been pretty big but we also don't know how far off shore it was, how high in the sky ect...
December 14, 2022 · 9:04 PM · CIRCLE
Lake Milton (outside of Youngstown), OH
I stopped to use the pay phone to let my sister know that we were lost and going to be late with her car and then it suddenly appeared, it was just there, one second it wasn't but the next, it was! There was no seeing it come and go, almost as if it came out of an invisible black hole! so I asked my friend if she saw it (my sister got mad& assumed I was drinking) and we just watched it sit there hovering but the trees barely made a movement, it made a soothing humming sound, it was very graceful, the lights glowed one by one, all in order now that I look back it's funny that I didn't try to look in the windshield to see what was in it but that was the last thing on my mind for some reason we weren't scared it was actually relaxing and didn't pose any threat whatsoever. When we left and got back on the freeway there were semis pulled over and cars pulled over and everyone was staring up in awe! I know what I saw It was a mass sighting, police in a few different jurisdictions also reported it. The next morning my sister said "what did you say about a UFO"? Because it was on the news. I'm a horrible artist I will include a few pictures that I saw on your website that looks very similar, eerily similar!!!