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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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June 16, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Oregon, OH
On the night of 6/16/15, at about 22:30 hours, my fiancé and I went outside of our apartment building to smoke a cigarette. I looked up at the stars like I usually do looking for satellites and other astronomical features. This night I noticed a bright single light in the evening sky. I was looking east slightly northeast. I realized it was a different light than is in that part of the sky this time of year. I pointed it out to my fiancé and we both watched it as it moved slowly, almost floating but steadily to the south southeast. As it moved, I looked for any lights that would be on an aircraft, i.e., beacon strobe, red and green lights on the wings. I figured if it was heading away from us we would not see the bright landing light if it were a plane. In my opinion as a private pilot, the object was at least three to five thousand feet in the air and I believe it wasn’t an airplane or other typical aircraft. As we watched the object move away from us, it all of a sudden vanished. We were amazed and awestruck that it disappeared so quickly. Neither one of us has ever seen anything like this before and hopes this small report may help in the overall investigation of UFOs.
June 16, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Medina, OH
This took place between the hours of 9-10pm. Feeling tired, I went to bed at 9pm, leaving my husband to watch television. My eyes were drawn to the outside, as the flashing of the fireflies was quite striking to see. As it grew darker, the fireflies were more noticeable. I decided to rise from my bed and sit on the floor, resting my arms on the window sill to watch them. Our window provides an eastern view and for a change, I noticed the night sky was clear and I could see the stars. Not having done this in a while, I looked for constellations. My eyes were drawn to a very bright "star" in the sky, positioned over our yard. I also noticed a jet flying in from the south with its blinking lights and it was too far up in the sky to hear it. Again, I was drawn to that bright star and wondered if it was a planet. After a while, it started to MOVE. It was closer to the earth than was the jet, because the jet passed behind it. I thought my imagination had kicked in, or that perhaps it simply was the earth's rotation causing this "movement." I used the window pane to gauge the movement and YES, the "star" WAS moving! It moved in a southern direction then STOPPED. The "star" took a 90 degree turn away from me and headed east at a steady speed. I watched it until it disappeared, which took very little time. The last time I had seen anything similar to this was in 2013 around 4:45am. I was driving up Fenn Road to Weymouth Road, on my way to work. The object traveled in a southern direction then turned east. This did not look like a star, but was a glowing orange color and had no flashing lights or sound.
June 13, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FLASH
St. Clairsville, OH
6 eastbound flashing craft hig rate of speed erratic flight. Unknown how high but higher than clouds. 2 minutes later 1 of the same southeast bound at higher rate of speed. Very fast and erratic.
June 9, 2015 · 10:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Akron, OH
ok folks i was looking southwesterly at 2215 and there hovering about 3-5 miles away in the sky a few miles up in ther sky was this unidentified craft. It appeared to have three red lights that glowed in a vertical shaft formation and long with these two white lights flashing off and on. Now i would not of really paid it much attention untill I realized on this clear and quiet night I could not hear one engine! Airplanes fly over the hiosue all the time and I can hear them from miles away long before seeing them. Then the little feller decided to move laterally then vetically and hovered some more. Then is justy took off i should say slowly went out of view. I well versed in military, commercial, and private flying craft and this was not one of them. Not even a drone could do what it was doing at that scale. This was in Portage Lakes, Ohio. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 2, 2015 · 6:30 AM · LIGHT
Tiffin, OH
I was in my car heading north on my drive in to work at 6:30am and saw one bright "star" to the north/northwest in the sky. No other stars were visible since there was quite a bit of daylight. The light was whitish blue and flickered, grew about twice the original size, then just disappeared instantly. Possible flare from an Iridium satellite? PD
May 30, 2015 · 9:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Columbus, OH
Object had red lights in the shape of a triangle, object appeared to be moving slowly with a red light in front of it.
May 30, 2015 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Wooster, OH
Source of report indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
May 28, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Trenton, OH
I saw a blinking light crossing the sky going east towards Trenton, Ohio. Decided to watch it. A bright glowing orb appeared after I lost track of that. The orb split into two or maybe three smaller ones, then disappeared. I wouldn't think think anything of this, passing it off as nighttime skydiving or something. There's an airport in that general direction. However, a few months back I saw some orbs of the same color going North and ascending at roughly a 45 degree angle that were the same color as the ones I saw today.
May 26, 2015 · 12:00 PM · CIGAR
Greenfield, OH
Standing outside looking north on a clear day, the object suddenly came into my view traveling VERY slowly from west to east over town. Less than 1/4 mile distance away and unusually low at 200-300 feet altitude (judging by the trees). Object was approximately 150-200 ft long. Strange thing is, it didn't occur to me until much later after object had already flown out of sight, like an afterthought, that this object made no sound, had no lights, windows, wings, tail or visible markings. NOTE: Reason this report is years after the fact, I recently read a sighting report here that is eerily similar and aligns with date and time (1 hour earlier and 80 miles to my west).
May 26, 2015 · 11:00 AM · CIGAR
Cincinnati, OH
A coworker and I went outside around 11 to take a smoke break. I looked up to see a long white/ silver tube flying north. I asked my coworker "do you see that?" He said "dude, that doesn't have a tail." He was referring to the absence of a tail wing which would obviously make it an airplane. We watched it for about 30 seconds before it was out of view. Though it was flying, it wasn't really "flying." The way it moved was effortless. I know that sounds weird but it moved like nothing I had ever seen. The object looked longer than any passenger jet. Both ends of the object were circular or if you could imagine the ends of it were "capped" with half spheres. It made no noise.
May 25, 2015 · 11:45 AM · SPHERE
Toledo, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 24, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Miamisburg, OH
Getting ready for bed and my wife looked out our east facing window and asked what it was. The light was like a flare, then burnt out into a small white light and continued to the horizon. Moving WSW to ENE. I got a very short video of the last second and the bright burn and you can't see the small white light on the video. It was most likely space junk burning up. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 24, 2015 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
North Canton, OH
One craft was observed. It was shaped like a light bulb, tapered at one end, and was orange and yellow in color. It emitted no sound, did not touch down, and was visible for approximately 1 to 1.5 minutes before flying north. Unknown background of observer.
May 21, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Columbus, OH
Was on balcony of apartment talking with my boyfriend when i noticed a bright very blue light. Normally, i would dismiss as a helicopter but have never seen one with such a blue light before. As we talked, i watched as it slowly descended perfectly straight down then hovered still in the sky. Then it glided straight and perfect to the right about a half fields distance. Then it glided perfectly straight to the left in the opposite direction. Then glided on the same perfectly straight path back to the middle and slowly descended perfectly straight down. It was a perfect cross it traveled now that i think about it. As far as I've known, there are no known air crafts that can move so perfectly and at such sharp angles.
May 18, 2015 · 12:15 PM · CIRCLE
Ross, OH
Round sphere spotted over/near the Fernald facility.
May 17, 2015 · 10:50 PM · SPHERE
Cincinnati, OH
Walking home from work, I looked up to see 4 blinking sphere crafts moving across the sky. They made no sound, and were in a formation somewhat similar to an 'S'. Following behind them was another blinking sphere with 2 other red blinking spheres very very close to it. Following that was a red blinking sphere. The blinking was all consistent, it didn't appear to be synchronized between them though. A plane flew nearby at first but I could hear the sound from behind the plane but definently not from the other things I saw. I'm a male I work at a Jet's Pizza and live in Cincinnati, Ohio. I have seen UFOS in Cincinnati before on multiple occasions (fireballs).
May 14, 2015 · 9:58 PM · TRIANGLE
Dayton, OH
I was at a traffic light, when we saw a triangle shaped craft fly across the sky above us, then it changed direction. There was no sound coming from it. The front of the craft had big bright white and red interchanging lights, and the bottom had three blue round blinking lights that were circular in shape (one on each corner of the triangle). We tried to get photos, but the craft took off really fast. We followed it until it disappeared. About 40 minutes later, on the way home, we saw it again. I stopped, and this time it hovered over us for about 30 seconds, and took off in the opposite direction.
May 12, 2015 · 11:45 PM · FIREBALL
Hamilton, OH
Me and my cousin was sitting on the porch we he noticed what appeared to be a fireball floating in mid air. I started recording video with my phone it is not as cleared or in detail as it was in person.
May 10, 2015 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Springfield, OH
As I was traveling north on Derr Rd. in Springfield, Ohio, I looked up to see two orange lights traveling at what appeared to be aircraft speed in a South/Southeastern direction. At first a believed that they were planes or helicopters but the light was orange and constant (not flashing). There were a few small clouds floating around in the area so I could tell that one was higher than the other but they were traveling at the same speed in the same direction. After about two minutes going in a straight path the higher one stopped immediately as the lower one continued on. A third orange light appeared just above the one that had stopped. The two lights stayed in that position for around 30 seconds then began a very fast circle as if chasing one another. As the two performed the circle the lower stopped abruptly and just sat in one position. The two lights moving in a circle flashed once and were gone. There was still sunlight in the sky, enough to see a silhouette of a plane if thats what it was, but there was nothing. They were both completely gone. Immediately after the two dissapeared the third made a very sharp angled u-turn travelled a short distance flashed once and vanished just as the first two did. I watched the surrounding sky for 30 minutes after to see if there were any more or any commercial aircrafts in the area but there were none.
May 10, 2015 · 3:40 PM · RECTANGLE
Van Wert, OH
Today is May-10-2015 Today at 3:40 p.m. I saw a UFO. I backed out of my driveway, and there it was, directly in front of me. It was more than a mile away, but so very obvious. What I saw was very black, and very rectangular.It was huge. It was jutting out of a low cloud. (We had scattered showers today.) It was visible for 20 to 30 seconds, before the clouds enveloped it. This occurred in northern VanWert County, Ohio. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 9, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Springfield, OH
Observed orange glow approximately 200 feet above street level directly overhead. Object glowed like a fireball with some small flashes. Fireball like object steadily rose to 750 feet over the duration of the siting and extinguished approximately 1/2 mile away. Fireball did not leave a trail, nor did we hear any noise or feel heat from the object.
May 9, 2015 · 9:44 PM · SPHERE
Williamsfield, OH
I was sitting in my car (not moving, nor running) in my driveway, facing South on May 9, 2015, at 9:44p.m. The sky was very overcast, but illuminated by the Moon which was not seen yet. A glowing orange orb rose from my Southwest from beyond my trees and arced up in a Northerly direction. It continued North for a short time then began to descend, still arcing and continuing to the North. Then something that looked like a smaller (also orange glowing version of itself) appeared to eject and drop straight downward and disappeared. A few seconds later, the original orb also disappeared. I watched but it did not reappear. The event lasted until 9:48p.m.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 7, 2015 · 9:30 AM · RECTANGLE
New Waterford, OH
I looked up at the sky and noticed a strange object. It seemed to be a metallic silver rectangle shaped craft. It was heading southeast, it had no wings or lights. It was just simply a silver rectangle in the sky. As I was driving, I’m not sure if it was moving or stationary. I observed it for less than a minute.
May 6, 2015 · 10:30 PM · OTHER
Goshen, OH
Husband looks at stars off back deck of our house while smoking approx. 10:30. Saw object we had seen a previous year. It was like looking at a star, but bulkier, and on and off lights. It constantly moved very fast: up, down, crossways, very fast, but always in same general area, and mostly straight lines. A bare tree in our vision line gave us way of judging scaled distance it would move. We've seen it twice this week, and once a couple years ago. We aren't looking for unusual objects, just hard not to see it. We see it with our eyes, no special equipment, as if viewing stars, etc. My husband did use his binoculars once and could see the lights more vivid. My poor description would simply be a star with bulky shape and lights and constantly shooting in all directions, very rarely disappearing from sight. Watched approx. 1/2 hr, but was still very active. We suspect a "twinkling" star, or a planet. PD