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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.
3,827 entries
October 11, 2014 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Fairlawn, OH
My son first noticed the lights. He thought they were stars in a row. I noticed they were moving slowly. 5 orange balls, all in a line, moving slowly from north to south. Then a 6th ball came up and got in line. They went higher until they just flickered out. We thought they may have been lanterns drifting up but these were too high, too uniform. All the same distance apart, moving in the same direction at the same speed.
October 11, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Lorain, OH
3 slow floating lights glowed orange and flickered. Saw night of the 10th and 11th. Over the marina.
October 9, 2014 · 11:17 PM · CHANGING
Clifton, OH
While standing outside, my friend and myself were smoking and talking, we hear trees moves around the campus library. Long story short, I see a flash go across the street so fast I didnt beleive it. Another flash came from another direction. at an park across the street from campus the flashes are kind of low, I see something move like a body or little people something. The flashes or whatever took off in the sky, (vertical). Afterwards, this is weird, a large amount of birds came flocking from the trees, and about 15 minutes passed.
October 8, 2014 · 6:30 AM · FLASH
Batavia, OH
At 0630hrs I observed a red light flickering fast, almost like a strobe. It was covering a lot a ground in a quick amount of time. Moving directly over the blood moon, left to right.
October 7, 2014 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Xenia, OH
I am a person who has seen, countless UFO sightings over the years, and am curious if anyone happened to have seen the extremely large wedge shaped object that flew over Xenia Ohio, back in October 7, same night as the moon was said to have been seen larger than usual, due to its closeness to the earth at that point. I can state it's merely 1 over well over 100 ufo sightings I've had throughout the years. and felt I should ask if it'd been seen by others. That object I can not see how anyone could miss cause it was slow flying and nearly the size of the moon was in the sky. orange in coloration. This thing was just massive. It countinued over the city until it disppeared slowly above some clouds.
October 1, 2014 · 9:55 PM · LIGHT
Fort Jennings, OH
I saw an orange light approaching from the South, traveling North for approximately 3 miles. It was not a helicopter or a plane. I lost sight of it as it passed directly over my car. It was approximately 1,000 feet in the air, and maybe 10 to 20 feet wide. There were no wings. The shape was somewhat like an upright cylinder with half a semi-circle on either side.
September 29, 2014 · 7:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Sheffield Lake, OH
I was on my deck overlooking Lake Erie and a craft that was totally silent approached grom the east at a low altitude. It was moving like a hang glider or parachutist would move except it was moving directly sideways. As it approached it looked redder and redder and appeared to be on fire. It wentbpast me slightly then stopped and hovered. I was afraid to run for my camera but bolted to get it. When I returned it was in the same location but going straight up quickly. I got 2 shots, it moved faster and almost disappeared going straight up. I ran for my husband in the front yard who was talking to a neighbor and we all saw it continue to go straight up. It hovered higher up and started to send out large red beams in different directions for a few minutes and then it disappeared still going straight up. My neighbor and I saw a new object or the same one appear in a different location right over our heads and then it moved north and then straight up like the previous object. It too sent out some red beams and then while ascending in a straight line up disappeared.
September 28, 2014 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
In far distance west of Columbus, two lights appeared to be descending rapidly toward where the sun had just set. The lights converged and became one light, then fading out more and more, with two lights appearing again. Then two more lights descended rapidly on the same trajectory. The lights became less bright as the first two lights had done. My impression is that the objects were descending vertically, but then quickly transitioned to a horizontal flight path, and at a very high speed continued westward. It will be interesting to read whether others saw this in states just west of Ohio. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 28, 2014 · 6:00 AM · CIRCLE
Worthington, OH
One fast moving orange red ball very small switched directions 3 times then convergerd with another.craft? And split in oposit directions then dissapeard
September 27, 2014 · 10:55 PM · SPHERE
North Canton/Jackson Township, OH
First seen 5 globes of orangish lights, ballon like floating.. A couple got very close to one another. They seemed to be floating across the sky in a single file pathway. Moving west to east. A few mins after the first 5 globes I seen 3 more appeared and floated in the same flight path as the others. Objects from my view were approx. an inch circumference. They were different distances apart from one another. And seemed to travel until I could no longer see them. They seemed to almost flicker with light. No sound at all was heard.
September 27, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Blacklick, OH
My neighbor and I saw four lights traveling in a single line coming from the north heading west over or around the Columbus airport, no sound, not blinking. The lights were about 1 to 3 minutes apart and all faded out when they reached the same spot. The sky was clear, no clouds. About 2 months ago witness the same thing, but only one object this time.
September 27, 2014 · 4:00 AM · DIAMOND
Massillon, OH
At approximately 4:00am–7:20am EST in Massillon, Ohio I witnessed (4) pentagon shaped objects hovering in the sky approximately 2 miles away from my location There were four total objects; the one I primarily filmed was located 243 degrees SW approximately 2 miles away at 10-20k feet. The second object was located at 4 degrees north same altitude as primary object. Third was 151 degrees SE and Forth 159 degrees south. Third and fourth objects were apparently one mile off the ground on the horizon. The objects hovered only moving about one mile west during the three hours twenty minutes I observed the objects. Objects appeared to be a diamond or triangle shape until I zoomed in with my camcorder and observed a honeycomb / pentagon shape with circulating Blue and white light patterns. Objects were visible during night and daylight until 7:20am EST when I was no longer able to see object due to increasing day light.I recorded 40 minutes of video during the night until dawn.
September 26, 2014 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Medina, OH
While taking my dogs outside I noticed a light in the sky above the tree line in front of my parent's house on Huffman. While I stood watching it I noticed that it would move slowly up then down, stop, then move left to right slowly stopping again. I stood out there for about 15 mins till' I asked my mother to come out & watch it. She agreed that it was unusual then went back inside. When 30+ mins had past from when I first noticed the light, & still continuing to do the same movements I called the Medina Police Dept. About 15 mins later & missing my driveway about 3-4 times the officer pulled up, by then the light had moved below the tree line so he was unable to see it. He took my report, said it was probably someone's drone then went on his way. A week or so after I saw a similar light in the back yard, but since I didn't post asking if anyone else in Medina was witnessing the same thing I don't have a date & time. I didn't contact the police dept the second time after seeing how they pretty much took it as a joke the first time. This was not the first time I had experienced lights like this in Medina, when I was in high school I was driving on Marcs Rd & pulled over in the subdivision on the corner of Marcs & Fenn & sat for awhile watching the same movement till it disappeared.
September 22, 2014 · 10:22 PM · OTHER
Hillsboro, OH
At 22:22 while standing on front porch, we saw a bright round object that looked like a fireball without a tail approximately 1/4 to 1/2 the size of the moon or a better comparison would be an actual basketball about 15ft above you. It was Bright orange/red. It traveled in a north east direction at an extremely fast speed. We thought it may be some type of aircraft crashing. We waited but there was no signs of impact or noise associated with what we saw. We contacted local law enforcement and after they checked surrounding counties stated that there were no reports of a crash or any reports of military activity. Afterwards at 22:55 we saw another object with the same description but traveling in a south west direction with the same starting point as the first sighting. We looked up various web sites to see if there were any kind of meteor showers for our area of vision and there were none listed. We then called the NUFORC hotline.
September 21, 2014 · 1:30 PM · CHANGING
Riverside/Fairborn, OH
Bright silver object, looking as though it had wings on either side, however, when it hovered for about 1 minute and when doing so, it changed shapes with a reddish triangle coming from the bottom of the object. It twirled while hovering and when I circled the block to get a picture of it, the object took off, heading north/northwest and then disappeared.
September 20, 2014 · 9:20 PM · CIRCLE
Lancaster, OH
A small circle shaped orange light moved across the night sky. The craft moved forward for about 5 minutes, but then stopped in the middle of the sky for about 3 minutes just before moving faster towards horizon for 2 minutes until it then disappeared. One of the witnesses claimed it also appeared to be on fire, or engulfed in smoke.
September 20, 2014 · 9:01 PM · OTHER
Maineville, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hoax?? PD
September 20, 2014 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Garfield Heights, OH
Me and my sister were sitting in the backyard talking and a bright white and blue light appeared in the sky. The blue was in the middle of the ball MIXED with white. It zoomed past us in the sky and (like a basketball) it dunked into the clouds and disappeared. We were so freaked out last night.
September 18, 2014 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Vienna, OH
Saw a Large triangular shaped object with amber triangle lights. It hung in the sky, and then another one showed up. Then the first one descended rapidly into the woods. Aint no airplane.
September 18, 2014 · 9:30 PM · CHANGING
Kingston, OH
Traveling south from Kingston to Chillicothe on OH ST RT 159. Six helicopter sized (perspective) lights appeared staying stationary. Only two showed at first flashing twice on an off by themselves alternating. Then the other four lit from the closest to the furthest. An swiftly changes from there upward U shape to a triangle, before disappearing all together. The pulses of lights or lights were comprised of multiple individual lights. Slight variants of white yellow and orange appeared. These were the only lights visible in that area the light pollution of Chillicothe floods out the stars to a certain height.
September 18, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FLASH
Bainbridge, OH
My wife and I were camping at Paint Creek State Park, Ohio and shortly after dark on Sept 18 (appx 9:30 pm) I noticed lights descending in the distance (toward Hillsboro, Oh). There was one lighted object and then immediately below another exactly the same light and then that was followed by three more immediately below the first two. After that we observed flashing white lights above those and then saw the flashing lights in various areas of the night sky to the north and south of the first sightings and then the flashing lights were in the sky to the north, south and then to the east and then to the west moving at incredible speeds (I would estimate at least mach 3 to mach 4). I have never seen anything like this before. I have worked in the aerospace industry for more than 25 years and have never encountered anything even close to this.
September 18, 2014 · 7:50 PM · OVAL
Tipp City, OH
At about 7:50 pm on 09/18/2014, we witnessed an oval shaped silver grayish craft in the sky moving very awkwardly in an up an down then half u turn and then took off really fast. I see planes all the time as well, as helicopters, and it was nothing like either. This was seen in the north east Dayton area.
September 18, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Streetsboro, OH
So, I tossed it away in mind like maybe it was a tower that I just don't remember was there. But, I kept looking out at it and all of a sudden the flashing lights stopped and other sets of dimmer lights came on and the whole thing took off quickly behind the trees.
September 14, 2014 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
New Bloomington, OH
I was facing a second story window in my home, when flashing lights appeared suddenly. The lights were blue and red, looking very similar to the top of a police car. The lights were close together and probably about a mile away. I couldn't make out a particular shape. I was waiting to hear something, sirens, a helicopter perhaps? I heard nothing. The object was hovering a few seconds, then began flawlessly falling down. It fell smoothly in a matter of seconds, and disappeared behind a tree line. I got up and looked out the window down at the tree line, and I saw nothing at all. No flashing lights, no noises either.