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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 12, 2015 · 2:30 AM · OVAL
Hilliard, OH
WHILE WATCHING THE PERSEID METOR SHOWER AND LISTENING TO COAST TO COAST ON AUG 12 AT 2:AM, I SAW A WHITE ORB MOVING VERY SLOW FROM EAST TO WEST. I WAS IN HILLIARD, OHIO, WATCHING THE ORB STOP OVER DUBLIN, OHIO. 4 SECONDS LATER IT SHOT UP INTO THE SKY. IT WAS OUT OF SIGHT IN A 1/2 SECOND.
August 10, 2015 · 11:45 AM · CHANGING
Streetsboro, OH
On the night of August 10th, 2015, my girlfriend and I were sitting outside, when we saw a bright orange light through the trees. So we go and look at it and it starts to move south east. It turned red, then slowly disappeared. Then about 5 minutes later, my girlfriend saw it again through the trees. So, we called my sister out to see it and when she came out it was turning red again. Then it flashed some multi-colored lights, then it flashed green lights, like a laser pointer. Then, it stayed green and zig-zagged down at an alarming rate and was gone. Then, about 5 minutes later, we heard a loud humming and at that point we went inside and locked all the doors.
August 8, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
East Fultonham, OH
My wife and a daughter along with three grandchildren were swimming in our pool on Saturday night August 8th, 2015, at approximately 2100 hours. I was coming outside to see how everyone was doing and was not in the swimming pool with everyone at that time. My youngest grand daughter who is five noticed what she saw was a shooting star, about that same time I noticed several reddish/orange balls of light. At first there was only three which I thought were unusual and the I noticed three more just above tree level off at a distance. It was hard to tell the distance since it was night and there were some clouds in the sky. I asked what everyone just saw and they said almost the same thing I had just witnessed myself, I went inside and retrieved a pair of binoculars and tried to get a better look at them and they were still fuzzy. I tried my cell phone camera and it would not take a picture because it was to far away. The lights moved several times one in and out of the clouds and another made a drop and joined the other three lights above tree level after about two-three minutes two lights moved off into the distance and the other four lights left as well two of the appeared to vanish. There are no military areas where we live however there are some strip mining areas in the area. Some of the property is owed by AEP and was a wildlife area until it was closed off this past year and signs were placed to keep people out do to sinkholes in the area. The ages of all the witnesses are 60, 58, 31,13, 9, and 5. Myself, I am a retired male age 60 who has been trained over the past 42 years to observe the unusual after being in the Marine Corps and being an ex deputy sheriff as well as a private investigator and correctional officer and a contract security officer for homeland security. One thing I can add to this report is the way the lights in the sky acted. They moved around like no aircraft or helicopter I have ever seen, and had a reddish/orange glow to them, which if checked with any federal regulations on aircraft lighting is highly improper. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 6, 2015 · 12:00 AM · CYLINDER
Tuscarawas County, OH
i looked up and it moved from S to N. And moved from behind my house into a cloud. (it was far away) it moved fast. it was not a plane because it had no wings or any windows. it was pure white. i got a feeling of dread right after though i cannot explain why. Source elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Indicates no time of the alleged sighting. Possible hoax? PD
August 5, 2015 · 6:05 AM · TRIANGLE
Groveport, OH
Taking pics of the sunrise at work, and was going through the 5 pics, when i noticed them in the top of the picture 4 together side by side and 1 off to the left by itself, each had 3 bright lights I have pictures of it.
August 5, 2015 · 3:15 AM · UNKNOWN
Hudson, OH
High machine-like, whistling sound, and sounded like it was communicating with another sound. Coming form wetland and woods of about 200 acres behind the neighborhood.
August 2, 2015 · 10:40 PM · SPHERE
Reynoldsburg, OH
10:40 PM. 2 of us witnessed orange/white sphere high in sky from way far west traveling super fast, no noise, stopped abruptly several times and bounced around, continued westward. There were several (2-3) aircraft at lower altitude, at the same time as the object was passing. It flew westward and out of sight. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 2, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Johnstown, OH
Went to take the dog out one last time before bed. We were walking North. I was admiring the stars, it was a clear night, even though a storm was supposed to be rolling in later. All of a sudden I see this HUGE RED Pulsing orb in the sky. There was no noise. I don't know how else to explain it. It appeared out of no where, then faded into nothing. It only lasted a few seconds. I just shrugged it off as some weird lightning. I told my husband when we got back in and he just looked at me funny. It was bugging me what I saw so did some Google searches, but came up with nothing. That is until I Googled, "UFO sightings in Ohio 2015," and came across the database, and noticed some similar stories. So decided to report mine as well. Thank you. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 1, 2015 · 10:45 PM · CONE
Powell, OH
Very large orange/red circle with conicle rear; Appeared to have a tail/trail or be on fair at the rear.
August 1, 2015 · 12:30 AM · DISK
Miamisburg, OH
It stopped and went away after a few seconds, but came back and did it once again. After that, we did not see anything else. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 31, 2015 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Dublin, OH
Sitting on my back porch, then lights and some sound came out of no where. It flew over me really fast, then was gone. This triangle like craft had 5 green lights and one red light. Four in the back and one at the point all bright green. Then one in the middle which was bright red. It made noise but not loud enough to be anything I've ever seen. I was a little bit higher then a two story house and was a perfect triangle. It had no trail but looked as if it hovered. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hoax?? PD
July 31, 2015 · 4:20 AM · SPHERE
Medina, OH
I had been awake since 4am. I dressed, made coffee then walked to the sliding glass door to open it. I glanced up to the sky and a very bright, spherical object was in the process of passing overhead. It was the color of a bright star, heading from south to east. It was amazingly close and zipped out of my sight over the trees. The object took me by surprise, but what gets me is how silent it was. I had seen a fireball two years ago and this was no fireball. This morning's object was perfectly round and had no tail. This makes the second sighting I've had this year of the same kind of object. What I found interesting is that with my first reported sighting, someone in Bangor, PA, reported having had seen the same object I had. Bangor is a straight shot east from Medina, Ohio.
July 29, 2015 · 9:48 PM · SPHERE
Grove City, OH
Went outside to put the trash out. Spotted a light in the western sky. I am a former Army helicopter crewchief!, so I immediately recognize the light pattern was nothing I had ever seen before. It seemed to have a reddish Corona and a white center. It was pulsing and moving slowly to the northeast. It sort of swayed left and right, as it moved forward. I went inside and asked my wife to come out and validate what I was seeing. By the time we got back out, it was moving north. Then, suddenly, it faded and disappeared.
July 26, 2015 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Mentor, OH
I was coming out of Quaker State and Lube on Rt. 306 in Mentor, Ohio, through the back door. Two people were looking up at the sky at about a 60 degree angle. I looked up and saw about 7 objects with distinctive red lights on the front. The size of these were about one third the size of the front of these objects. Kind of resembled a red laser beam. I remember about 35 or so years ago when an engineer in my apartment demonstrated one he was working on for Bailey Meter in the late 70's. These objects were in a stationary delta formation. I wanted to contact the people (man and woman) in front of me about 30 yards, but was somehow blocked or deterred from doing so. After a few minutes the lights on some of the objects started to fade and then the objects themselves. I noticed a delta shape to the left wing on one of the closer ones. I left as all objects began to fade. These objects were in a delta formation. They were stationary and seemed to have come from a North-South direction from Lake Erie about 3 miles away. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 24, 2015 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Delaware, OH
My husband and I were just arriving home around 11pm, and we noticed a red orange sphere in the sky. It appeared stationary and then moved slowly towards us. It then stopped again, and changed color from red to orange. It then dimmed down to a white light then became bright again and then blinked out completely. There was no sound. There were no tail lights or trail left from it. I would estimate the object to have been at around 10,000 feet. It was a very clear night not a cloud in the sky. We both found it strange that it just blinked out and disappeared. We had a good view and would have seen it, if it just flew off. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 24, 2015 · 10:45 AM · RECTANGLE
Akron, OH
Saw a rectangular (nearly square) object moving about the same speed as a blimp moves (maybe a little faster). I first noticed it while I was driving on 77N (on my left, maybe a mile or less away) by the Copley exit, lost it in the tree line, but then saw it again heading on the same straight path. Lost it again in the tree line (as the highway declines in elevation) before I exited on the Ridgewood/Miller exit. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 23, 2015 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Sagamore Hills, OH
One light, not super bright though, being chased by three helicopters. At first I heard what sounded like an army tank going down the street and I ran outside to see three helicopters flying almost directly over my house and they were very low. You could see the flashing lights on the helicopters, and I could see in front of them a smaller light, that was not flashing at all and they were following it. Just as quickly they went over the trees across the street and I could not see them anymore. You could hear the helicopters for about 30 seconds or so then the sound was gone. It's night here so I could not see any markings at all on the helicopters.
July 23, 2015 · 12:15 AM · FIREBALL
North Ridgeville, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 16, 2015 · 1:00 AM · DISK
Eton, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 15, 2015 · 9:50 PM · CHANGING
Columbus, OH
Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
July 11, 2015 · 11:45 PM · CYLINDER
Negley, OH
Very slow cylinder shaped with flashing red lights in two sections and not flashing in a simultaneous manner. Above tree lines over Lake Tomahawk, Negley, OH, traveling southwest very slow. Thought it might be a blimp, but not sure.
July 11, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Oregonia, OH
It changed to 3 orbs disappeared. Then back as one orb, then changed to 6 orbs and disappeared again. My wife and I have seen this last winter, and I have seen these orange orbs several other times over the past 4 years. Being an avid aircraft enthusiast, ((I know that)) these were no aircraft.
July 11, 2015 · 10:08 PM · CIRCLE
Miamisburg (west of), OH
Reappeared slightly higher in the sky now five orange reddish lights changed formation asymmetrical and changed altitude. Stayed visible for approximately another 40 seconds then disappeared.
July 11, 2015 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cleveland, OH
Very LOUD, sonic boom type sounds at 10 o'clock sharp, repeated. First was loudest by far. Never recall hearing such a sound... My first thought was that is was like the "Blue Angels" from the air show only WAAAY bigger.. My boyfriend and I felt a major panic, I must admit... Now it sounds like fireworks in the distance... Something is not right..