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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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July 10, 2015 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Fairborn, OH
Orange glowing sphere flying across the sky it was visible for 5 minutes then it disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 10, 2015 · 9:45 PM · SPHERE
Monroe, OH
My girl and I were leaving Cincinnati heading north on i75. It was about a couple miles after we past the Cincinnati Outlet Malls. We saw some strange activity west of the highway. We agreed it wasn't an airplane or any sort of common explanation. We saw an orb it the sky. (Note: its not jupiter.) It had me curious, so I keep my eyes on it. Then not too long after that three more orbs came out one at a time. They would line up with the mother orb and then all go back inside til we saw the vision of one orb again. That was all we saw because of cloud cover that night. I've seen recent videos of this particular UFO activity and this is what it reminded me of.
July 10, 2015 · 12:25 PM · DISK
Delaware, OH
As we were walking, I noticed a red, almost pinkish, light through breaks in the northerly cloud bank. A front was passing the area and cloud deck was low over the city and I thought that a Chicago flight was descending through the clouds to land at Port Columubs 30 miles south. There is always heavy air traffic over the city. I directed my girlfriend's attention to the light and we saw that it was descending through the cloud in an unusual manner. The light suddenly disappeared and in its place was a jet black disk that slowly moved south. We both had, pardon the expression, a WTH moment. The disk was the size of a half dollar piece, held at arm's lenth, and silent. Now this is where it gets eerie. As the disk moved south I half joking said, "Why don't you stop." As if it heard me the craft immediately stopped and hovered, maintaining its altitude. The craft was tilted slightly to us and we could see that it had a spinning band around the middle. We could also see that the upper portion of the craft was lit and illuminating the cloud cover above it. We had an uneasy feeling that whoever was in the craft was observing us observing them. It hovered for two minutes and then resumed a south eastern direction over the Ohio Wesleyan campus and was gone. We also saw the disk was wobbling as it left. Delaware is a growing bustling city with heavy retail traffic on Friday and Saturday. Surely someone else should have seen this. Thanks for reading my entry.
July 9, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CONE
Lima, OH
The object was moving North to South and was finally lost to sight as it passed large trees that were between me and it. I went outside during the event to see if I could here any engine sound, but heard nothing.
July 5, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Columbus, OH
I was letting the dog out around 10:30 p.m. when I looked up into the southwest sky in Columbus, Ohio. Three red beams of light were shining brightly in the shape of a triangle. What was most odd was that the object seemed to hover in the same location (unlike an airplane) for several minutes. At first, I thought the object was shaped like a stealth bomber, except that it appeared white in color. My other thoughts was that the red, glowing objects had white beams of light connecting them together. I ran inside to tell my husband and daughter to come outside to verify what I saw. By the time they got outside, there were only two, red glowing lights connected by a single white beam of light. My daughter saw the bottom one disappear first and then the top one followed suit. My husband also saw the two lights fade away into the sky. During this time, I ran through my house to the backyard to see if they would travel in a typical flight path. However, there were absolutely no signs of the objects. Their disappearance was quite unusual in nature. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:37 PM · FIREBALL
Springfield, OH
Moving south to northwest. Stopped a few times.made a 90 degree move to west. Bright orange ball. Disappeared and 're appeared twice. I have watched the heavens for 40 years, never have I seen this. Not an airplane, not an airplane, not an airplane.
July 4, 2015 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Sandusky, OH
Lights in the sky disappearing and then reappearing and made a triangle shape and then disappeared.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Perrysburg, OH
During night sky; open field; 1 yellow sphere remained in sky during family firework display. Only light that remained; red/orange hue. It got brighter; moved; dimmer; flickered; disappeared .....
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Sandusky, OH
Crazy stuff
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
West Chester, OH
My wife and I were standing outside, watching neigborhood fireworks displays, and during that time, we witnessed several orange balls of light traveling from West to East in seemingly low altitude. They traveled in a single file line one right after the other. I took two videos about 3 minutes long on each. You can contact me for these videos.
July 4, 2015 · 9:52 PM · SPHERE
Brunswick, OH
We were out watching fire works. From the direction of Elyria there came 1 sphere which traveled at slow speed, then just dimmed out. This was followed by 4 more exactly the same. Then at approximately 2210, another 4-5 appeared coming from the Independence Area. At 10:45, another 3 were spotted, they formed a triangle, then 2 veered away and then all three dimmed out. Watched local news and there was no mention of anything. Hard to believe nobody else has reported this. These were NOT fireworks. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:04 PM · CIRCLE
Cincinnati, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Strasburg, OH
Sighted all craft at N.E and S.E of our position. Our position was as we were sitting on our back porch. First craft sighted was S.E. of us headed north at altitude. It was a large brilliant red circle. It all of a sudden just disappeared. The second craft was sighted at the same time but was NE of us and "at" altitude and headed in a southern direction. The third craft was soon then spotted NOT AT altitude but came "from behind" the distant ridgeline I would say that is approx. 5 miles away. My location is on a ridgeline of a valley. The fourth craft followed the third soon after. The fifth came out "in front of" the ridge line and the sixth came soon after from behind the ridge line again. The last craft headed to the south and one headed to the east. As they raised up above the ridgeline they were HUGE and BRILLIANT RED CIRCLES or orbs. By comparison they were several times larger than any commercial aircraft at that distance! . The brilliance of the red lights and size was ..geesh. They all rose relatively slowly at about a 45 degree angle then when they reached a certain altitude they gained speed. Two of them disappeared then reappeared then the lights got smaller as they took off. The others gradually reduced in size or brilliance as they "quickly" distanced themselves until they disappeared. What you would expect from a craft going from close to distant quickly. No sound at all. About a half hour or so later two "air craft" were seen flying from south to north. One at about the same altitude as "the craft" before they took greater speed and a second at a lower altitude very close to where we saw the majority of the craft come above the horizon or ridge line. Wish I had a camera! One did change color from red to white then back again. This was NOT fireworks.
July 4, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Strasburg, OH
This is a follow up from my prior report posted. I saw a mention of "Chinese lanterns" and never heard of them, so did the homework. I found youtubes of them. On one hand what we saw "could maybe" be Chinese lanterns BUT, it was a "still" night. Little to no winds. The "size" of what we say would have had to be very BIG Chinese lanterns. What we saw proceeded from south to north, other north to south, one headed east. Wind currents would have carried Chinese lanterns all the same direction and speed. It "could" be said that at a distance the slow depletion of the fuel cell as it dimmed and extinguished itself could appear to be confused as "speed". BUT, four of these remained "brilliant" AND traveled at high speed. Two of what we saw disappeared but then reappeared. I don't think that Chinese lanterns fuel cells when extinguished have igniters to "relight" themselves. None that I have found available. None "flickered".
July 4, 2015 · 12:25 AM · FIREBALL
Toledo, OH
I was turning into my shop parking lot when I noticed 2 extremely bright lights/fireballs in the sky, they were both slowly heading east, to my amazement one of them disappeared for a few seconds the reappeared then turned red in color, it sped up going east then vanished. The 2nd fireball did exactly the same thing except it headed north then disappeared. I am a ((fifty-ish year old male, work ((deleted)) emergency and ((deleted)) at ((college)), I have been employed by for ((several decades)).
July 3, 2015 · 9:43 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
Look the shit was creepy. I was at church getting ready to watch the fire works, abd all of a sudden these lights just appear. Everyone saw them. Abd i recorded it. Couldn't get a good recording because it was night time and I was using my phones camera. But i saw it and right as the fire works were going off over downtown the disappeared and appeared over on the west side off Columbus... Very paranormal....
July 3, 2015 · 7:47 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
5 lights hovering in a circle and repeatedly blinking one by one before they all disappeared.
July 1, 2015 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
Crown City, OH
Driving home from work, notice bright light in sky with colors large in size. Pulled over, took pictures and video. Honestly, I don't know what it was. It wasn't raining or foggy. It would stayed stationary not move then move rapid in irregular motion. Just curious what it could be.
June 30, 2015 · 9:00 PM · EGG
Cincinnati, OH
Saw in night sky. Did not appear to be moving. Definitely not a star because at the time it was a bit to light for stars. Seemed to get further after while. Do not know end time to to night time. Venus and Jupiter. PD
June 29, 2015 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Mineral Ridge, OH
Saw a yellowish light moving mid way across the horizon. Light rapidly moved upward in the sky and then sporadically went up and down high and low in respect to horizon and quickly disappeared.
June 29, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Youngstown, OH
Two circular objects, one lit more than the other. One light appeared hovering the other, slowly moving downward towards the ground. The two objects stayed in position as a bright flash of light periodically flashed above the top light.
June 29, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Youngstown, OH
Two circular objects, one lit more than the other. One light appeared hovering the other, slowly moving downward towards the ground. The two objects stayed in position as a bright flash of light periodically flashed above the top light.
June 23, 2015 · 10:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Blue Ash, OH
I went outside to get something out of my car and I hear an extremely loud sound with really heavy bass elements. It sounded slightly like a helicopter, but it clearly wasn't. It flew extremely fast and low from one horizon, over my house, and to the other horizon within 10-15 seconds. As it got closer to me, it started to sound similar to a supersonic jet approaching the speed of sound. I couldn't see any form to the craft, but all I could see was two red lights, one on top of the other with the top one pulsing. Throughout the night, I saw several planes and helicopters in the sky, as usual and they looked nothing close to what I saw, which confirmed that this wasn't a normal craft. The placing of the lights weren't normal for any craft I've ever seen and there was a complete absence of headlights. I would actually bet this was a stealth military craft, rather than one of extraterrestrial origin. Either way, this was clearly a UFO and absolutely abnormal. I have the last half of the sighting on video, but at this point you can barely make it out through the trees, but you can hear it pretty well.
June 23, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OVAL
Coshocron, OH
This craft appeared out of the south and appeared as a cloud. Then directly overhead I saw the center light; like a flood light. It continued on to the north then out of sight. Sighting was Monday night, not Monday morning. We have amended the date above to reflect that fact. PD