The catalog
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
September 14, 2014 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Cleveland, OH
Saw something strange afterwards: a whitish orb falling softly and silently to earth. It appeared to land only a couple of blocks away.
September 14, 2014 · 12:25 AM · UNKNOWN
Aurora, OH
I was walking on the sidewalk heading north in my neighborhood. It was approximately 00:25 on 09/14/2014. The sky was clear with many stars visible. The houses here are spaced apart with some lighting on the houses and driveways and no street lights in the area where I was standing. I noticed three reddish lights in a triangular formation in the northern sky seeming to rise and with a brighter light than the stars. They continued to rise until they were no longer visible. There were no contrails or sounds. As soon as they seemed to dim then disappear another two appeared which were in a vertical orientation. These too rose into the sky and then dimmed and disappeared. I used my phone to video these and while dim I think provide a decent image. I am a current airline pilot and I have never seen anything like this.
September 12, 2014 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Pickerington, OH
I saw triangular shape lights configured like the Big Dipper. Then they changed formation to a triangle, then all disappeared. Then they were all gone. There was a car in front of me who recorded the sighting on their cell phone. I pulled along side their car to ask if they saw what I saw and could explain it they were mystified as I.
September 9, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Martinsville, OH
Tuesday evening on September 9th, 2014, at approximately 9 P.M., I was outside walking my two dogs, when I looked up and saw a large bright orange/red orb floating slowly in a horizontal line. It looked like it was on fire and continued to move across the sky for about 5 minutes. A helicopter came into my view from the southwest at 9:05 P.M. and the orb seemed to burn out and disappear. The helicopter then flew in the exact path of the orb. The whole thing was very strange.
September 5, 2014 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Morrow, OH
Large stationary triangular shaped object - fluorescent orange lights on each corner.
September 5, 2014 · 6:00 AM · CROSS
Columbus, OH
Friday morning the sun was just beginning to come up; there very few clouds and the sky was just beginning to turn blue. There were no other stars visible anymore so it caught my eye that there was a very large, very bright star off to the Southwest in the sky. Except when I looked closer at it, it was flickering incredibly fast between mostly white, but also blue and red. The lights flickered for the duration of the event. It then occurred to me that the shape was not regular for a star and rather than a dot, it was a long cross-like shape. At first it appeared stationary, but then I found a place to view it where I could set it against a stationary object in the foreground, and observed it was actually moving. It listed to the left, or right, sort of randomly and moved slightly downwards several times. Movement seemed random, just sort of listlessly floating around, and then it started rising up. As it rose, it became slightly more dim and moved up very, very slowly, appearing as if it were moving away from the earth at a very acute angle of ascent. We live near an airport, so I see and hear planes coming and going all the time, and this did not appear to be a plane. The flashing lights were reminiscent of a police siren, and it was far too far away and/or small to be a plane. I observed it with binoculars, but could see no increased details. Eventually, after twenty to thirty minutes of slowly moving away and up it became too faint to view and by then the sun was up enough that we lost sight of it. It continued moving in a Southwesterly direction for the duration of the event in an area of the sky that lies south of the airport I am near. Flatmate claimed to hear sounds, but I did not hear anything, and other aircrafts were regularly flying overhead, into and out of the airport to the east.
September 5, 2014 · 1:14 AM · LIGHT
Uhrichsville, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 4, 2014 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
North Royalton, OH
We saw a triangle shaped craft, with white lights along both sides and red lights along the back of the craft. The lights were not blinking. It hovered for several seconds above some tall trees before heading north towards Cleveland. There was no sound heard. We contacted the local Police and they had no other calls regarding this craft. I am confused as to whether it was some type of drone or a UFO? It was exciting either way !
September 4, 2014 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Canal Winchester, OH
It was the size of a large stadium, 3 stories tall. Triangular in shape with lights at the 2 back corners. Would have thought it was a stealth fighter but it was very large, flying low, slow and seamed to be cruising at a low altitude not taking off or landing in my view. Flew east to west and the Columbus airport is NW and the air base is south west. Flew between the two airports. Couldn't have landed at these two airports do to its size, but was flying low below the radar, so to speak.
September 2, 2014 · 10:30 PM · DIAMOND
Logan, OH
It went across the night sky like a airplane at a constant speed the turned a sharp left. travels a short distance, then turned agin, a 180, traveled a short distance. then acellerated like a shooting star leaving a trail behind it then it was gone I saw my first ufo when I was ten living I canton i saw what loohed like a acorn on its side leaving a smoke trail with my aunt in1965 I later in life found out that it was the keckburg pa craft ive witnessed several ufo in my 60 years of life
September 2, 2014 · 9:02 PM · CROSS
Akron, OH
09/02/2014 UFO sighting? or strange aircraft Saw a bright light at high altitude moving north west, about heading 350-355 degrees. The object was very high, and at first I thought it was a satellite. When the object appeared at 80 degrees to my viewing angle, I'm 5'11 1/2", facing about 5-7 degrees compass heading. As soon as I saw the bright light, it went out; that confusing me for a satellite. I noticed what appeared to be possibly a very faint small green light and very small faint red light very close together, perpendicular to a line heading in the direction of 350-355 degrees. Very faint, very close together. The strange thing was, NO sound, No contrail, and the light I saw appeared twice as large as the object, as referenced to the closeness of the red and green lights. It moved SE to NW across the sky in about 7 seconds before I could no longer see any light of the object. Sky clear, unlimited visibility. Just saying. Ex-USAF(Capt-Navigator), Ex USAR(major) logistics, armour, and Operations Analyst, age 64. This is only the second time in my life that I have seen something I could NOT identify. Thank you
September 1, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Parma, OH
Very weird and it just in a few seconds it just flew away northeast so fast. I was shocked to see this with my girlfriend next to me in dismay Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 31, 2014 · 10:00 PM · CYLINDER
Brunswick, OH
Bright orange light moved from the southeast sky above us across toward the north. It was bright orange. An elongated circular shape. Heard a slight sound a couple of times. Moved too fast to be a chinese lantern. My boyfriend has a video.
August 31, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Dayton, OH
I walked out on my front porch saw saw a bright light reflecting from my blk truck I looked up and saw a bright fireball in the sky really close yelled for my girlfriend we watched it fly north until out of sight. Lasted about 5 min… Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
August 31, 2014 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Dayton, OH
Saw an orbital sphere traveling at a fast rate of speed going northwest and slowed to a hover below the clouds. It was illuminated with red, green and blue flashing lights. It moved quickly and hovered, appeared to be lowering and then moved to the east and disappeared past our view in tree line. The object didn't appear to make any sounds. We did take a short video of part of the even, but the video only caught the last minutes of the event, as we didn't have a cell phone nearby and watched from backyard Jacuzzi before we got out and went inside to grab a phone and go out front to video.
August 30, 2014 · 9:05 PM · FORMATION
Dayton, OH
Cluster of five white lights, after a few seconds, two disappeared. They reappeared a few seconds later. All 5 were there briefly again, then they disappeared altogether.
August 30, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
West Chester, OH
Driving home on 8/30/2014 from Monroe, Ohio, after a birthday party was on interstate I-75 North. I looked to the western sky and seen some lights I asked my wife and kids to look and they also seen them. We watched 3 light on the far right side of the formation moving together to the north. They stopped after going so far and reverse direction from where they came from and stopped like as they were forming a certain formation. The formation was like a check mark, and all of a sudden one light disappears and then another now there is 1 then the lights come back on (like a light switch) then there was 5 lights. the length was very long unlike no plane or hot air balloons they moved too quickly. My wife and kids were freaked out and let it be known my don’t believe in ufo’s but even she says she can’t explain what we saw.
August 30, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Monroe, OH
In Kroger parking lot in Monroe, my fiance and I witnessed a formation of orange, glowing, triangle-shaped crafts hovering in sky over Middletown in distance. Triangles first hovered in arrow shape and glowed. Some went dark, others glowed brighter, then the others appeared again. While they glowed in and out, they moved into different formations, including an arc shape. Then some went dark. The others went dark and they totally disappeared.
August 28, 2014 · 5:00 AM · FORMATION
Columbus, OH
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 25, 2014 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Tarlton, OH
A triangle shaped light formation slightly orange in color and a small amount of flickering was seen moving across the skies above Logan Elm high school moving north at which point it began to move east and west erratically before appearing to speed away from the earth at a very fast rate until it disappeared Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 25, 2014 · 8:35 PM · FIREBALL
Massillon, OH
While riding my bicycle along the towpath in Massillon, Ohio, August 25, 2014, at 20:35, I witnessed what at first looked like an orange fireball to the east moving north. The object glowed and seemingly pulsed for a few moments but then went black. It was still visible, so I continued to watch. After a few minutes it started glowing again and then went black again. Soon after that, I lost sight of the object, but curiously what looked shooting star flew in the direction of where the object had been. About 10 minutes later, as I approached my home, I witnessed another object that was bright white in color flying slowly but somewhat erratically, again in the eastern sky. I lost track of this object quickly because of tree cover. Here is a link to the video of the first object that I captured on my iPhone 5. Unfortunately I stopped filming before the shooting star appeared. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7SLiKNydxM&feature=youtu.be
August 23, 2014 · 9:25 PM · LIGHT
Tallmadge, OH
Sitting in the patio area of a local restaurant, I observed 4 orange/ white lights appear randomly in the N/NE night sky. The lights appeared quickly, randomly moved in various directions in relatively close proximity to each other. Simultaneously, the lights flew off in various directions at a rate of speed it takes to blink an eye. Immediately after the 4 lights disappeared, two lights appeared in the same location at the same time. The second two lights were the same color, orange strobing to white. The two lights strobed a minute or so then shot off to the west at the same time at unbelievable speed.
August 23, 2014 · 8:52 PM · LIGHT
Columbus, OH
Was standing outside talking to my mom & some neighbor kids. One of the kids said look a meteor. I looked up, it was moving way to slow to be a meteor or any kind of object falling from space. I popped my camera phone into action and recorded about 1:19 worth of video. No sound, no flashing or beacon type lights, no mechanical sounds. The two lights balls just moved slowly down. One object cut off its lights but you could still see some type of outline which was hard to see. The second ball of light went black as well. I lost contact.
August 22, 2014 · 10:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Greenville, OH
Was going to my vehicle to go home, when me and my girlfriend looked into the eastern sky above the fairgrounds o see a orange flashing diamond/pyramid slowly hovering above moving north to south direction took a picture of it almost before dis appeared behind tree line of the campers the picture looks to be of it splitting into 2 triangles before disappearing