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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
September 1, 2022 · 9:09 PM · DISK
Wheelersburg, OH
It was flashing red and green lights it was mostly gray too and it was shocking to us.
August 31, 2022 · 10:11 PM · LIGHT
Vandalia, OH
Was star gazing and noticed a few stars moving, wasn’t sure if it was a plane then it changed direction, then slowly moved in a zig zag fish like pattern. Never seen a star moving and definitely never seen an object change direction at that height. You couldn’t tell the difference from the moving light and a star besides the movement
August 28, 2022 · 9:32 AM · CIGAR
Toledo, OH
Small black cylinder no wings no tail fin. Seemed to be sitting still at airliner cruising altitude, over Ohio.
August 27, 2022 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
New Albany, OH
8 spheres fixed in the sky and 2 off to the right as I was driving home on 161 around New Albany area. They did not move and i tried to watch them as long as i could but i was driving . I did see them behind me for a few seconds. Guessing they were few hundred feet up. Each was a glowing orb type thing. They did not look very big but I really can’t tell
August 25, 2022 · 11:30 PM · CHANGING
Byesville, OH
See 2 ships hovering like stars 1 white other light orange multiple crafts flashing white and red not much higher than tree lines they stop in air for long time flashing red mimic stars and go out completely and reapear same place. The number of crafts at night are more than I can count. The 2 I mentioned at top are 3 times larger and brighter than evening star and come up in same place and stay same place and also go out and on
August 24, 2022 · 9:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Wilmington, OH
Three amber lights spinning slowly, made a full rotation then individually turned off. Very bright
August 24, 2022 · 8:40 PM · UNKNOWN
Wilmington, OH
Fiance observed strange lights that appeared and disappeared and asked me what it was and to grab phone. I have video. These lights would show up randomly and different spots at times almost touching then separated then moved northeast. I'm a police officer here in Wilmington and I've been working here for 16yrs and never seen this. My father was in the air force and I'm very familiar with jets and military aircraft. These did not appear to be normal. Also I've seen meteor showers this does not appear to be that either. These hovered stationary and then almost touching then separated. What's strange is that about 15min later while we waited for them to appear we observed 3 flashing lights evenly spaced out heading north that may have been jets. We have the video recorded of these lights. I've added screens hots of the video and also shortened video clip but I have original video unedited on phone as well. At times they were in total darkness then show up. At one point you will see 2 or 3 then one disappears and a split second later it's next to the other one.
August 24, 2022 · 3:30 PM · EGG
Gallipolis, OH
I am a private pilot, I was flying a Cessna 150 around one afternoon and I spotted a gold colored UFO shaped like an egg over the runway at Gallia/Meigs airport in Gallipolis , Ohio. It was around 1000 ft. above the runway just hovering there , I tried to get a pic but it was rough air and bumpy that day, I couldn't fly the plane and take a pic at the same time. I decided to head toward the UFO and get a closer look, I was at 1700 ft and when I started to descend toward the UFO, it took off at a high speed to the North away from the airport.
August 24, 2022 · 3:16 PM · SPHERE
Columbus, OH
I saw this same ORB / UAP back in late June of this summer (2022). It had the same characteristics: hovering, remaining stationary, dropping down considerably, then going back up to remain stationary. I had a very high powered pair of binoculars with me and zeroed in on it. Although the video is not great, I can confirm it was a white/ light silver tic tac like object with no wings, and absolutely no sound. It looked exactly like what we are all seeing recorded lately. Eventually in just disappeared right before our eyes. I also have video of this sighting.
August 23, 2022 · 9:46 PM · CIRCLE
Circleville, OH
I was leaving Columbus heading down state route 23 going to Jackson Ohio. Before I got to Circleville I saw 3 lights in the sky. About 10 times bigger than a bright star. They had a washed out yellowish glow to them. I thought it was just bright stars or a good night for stars until they all shut off at the same time. I thought it was weird but just kinda shrugged it off as helicopters. Until I seen it again. So I just grabbed some food in Circleville and was on my way to Chillicothe then I saw them again! The very left lower one turned on first almost like it was signaling the others to turn on. So the other 2 turned on for a few seconds all then all of a sudden the 2 on the right (not the signal light) started shooting out 3-4 other equal sized lights! Both of them! Them the lights they shot out turned off and then a few seconds later they all shut off. I was freaking out I called my fiancé then the UFO report agency. They couldn’t do anything over the phone but I tried my best to record it. My phone case makes it fuzzy and there is a lot of light pollution being on the high way so I couldn’t get good quality but when I was recording the signal light (very left) turned on. At this point I was in Chillicothe so the lights being a plane or cell tower was out of the question. Also it stayed pretty in line with stars so I drive about 45 minutes and they were still in the same spot! But as I was saying the left one turned on and for a few seconds it stayed on then it flickered for a few seconds acting like it was trying to get the other attention but nothing. Them about 4 minutes later it turned on the the middle one turned on for a few seconds but the third did not appear. They shut off and that was the last I seen of them.
August 23, 2022 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Chillicothe, OH
We (two bus loads of conference attendees) were watching the show around 9 PM (right when it got dark) and 3 bright lights (luminescent like nothing i have seen in the sky, much brighter) appeared out of nowhere moved horizontally to the right and just hovered silently, it did drop suddenly again at one point maybe 20 feet. It's hard to tell how long it was but the lights all appeared to be connected to one object, like oval shaped. It possibly could have been 30' long and was less than a mile away and was not far from the ground. It was definitely not a drone (too big, too quick, too silent) it was not a meteor. It was nothing like any of us have seen before. It hovered almost like it was watching the show (and us)(fake gunfire, flames, bright lights etc were going on). It hovered for a few moments and then zipped off as quickly as it had appeared (blurred lights) The show was going on so it possibly could have been making noise that we didn't hear, but no way it was a plane, too low to the ground. One member of my party said they saw planes near it. I saw lights off to the side but was too transfixed on the object trying to figure out if it was part of the show and going to come closer and land in the theater. Couldn't take a picture as flash is not allowed in the theater and it just had turned dark. There were 4 of us from my home State that I know saw it. Probably other attendees saw it too although most might have been looking down at the show. We didn't say anything to anyone but talked about with each other for hours after and the next day so it was noteworthy and unusual….. Possibly UAP?
August 20, 2022 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Cincinnati, OH
My wife first seen the light, she sent for my attention. What we seen was a bright ball of white light that would become visible, move in an upward short straight line then vanish, then reappear in it’s original location and repeat. The time varied between when the light would become visible again, sometimes a few seconds to a couple of minutes. The last time we seen it, the light showed up in a completely new location and sped fast in a straight line completely disappearing. The ball of light left no tracer or tail behind it as it vanished or during its performance. I’m not sure if this was two crafts. As we all sat at the end of our driveway waiting for it to return, I noticed a new ball of light over some trees, in a new location in the sky. This time the light would get bright, much brighter than originally, then vanish and reappear in a new spot over the trees. This happened around 5 times. I don’t know if this was the same or 3 separate objects. We sat on the driveway for 20 or so minutes watching the sky waiting for them to return. Nothing that we noticed showed back up. The sky was clear of clouds and it was dark enough to see many stars.
August 19, 2022 · 9:41 PM · LIGHT
Carey, OH
13 weird lights came up from behind the tree line, the all slowly came up then went across the sky slowly until they each disappeared. I have a few pictures of them, I used night mode on my phone which requires me to hold it still for 3 sec to get a perfect picture, I was shaky though so it's not a perfect picture, some of them disappeared before I could get my phone out.
August 18, 2022 · 7:30 PM · OVAL
Leavittsburg, OH
I witnessed a translucent oval shape in the sky. What made me notice it was symetrical angles within the cloud. It was as if it was blocking the cloud, if not for that you would never have known it was there. It appeared to be almost camouflaged. It was in the sky for approximately 50 minutes. It seemed to be stationary.
August 15, 2022 · 1:25 PM · CROSS
West Chester, OH
While driving onto Eagle Ridge Drive from Muhlhauser Rd at roughly 1:25 pm on 8/15/22, I noticed a white, Cross shaped object floating near the cloud line (although not directly near any visible clouds). After observing the object seemingly drifting north for a few seconds, the object vanished into thin air. I moved my head and glasses while in the car to make sure the object was not just glare, and the object appeared too large and too high up to be a balloon (if my height estimate was correct, it would be roughly house-sized, although this was hard to judge based on the duration of time I saw it, as well as the lack of any additional reference points). The object also appeared to be too “solid” to have been a cloud, and I don’t know of any birds or aircraft that just vanish from sight instantly. I have never seen anything like this before in my life, and had I not been driving at the time, I would have attempted to get a picture/video, although once home, I drew a rough sketch for reference.
August 13, 2022 · 9:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Doylestown, OH
I just saw circling lights in the clouds. Possible it was from a rotating spotlight but it appeared to be coming from within the clouds. It wasn’t consistent and would come and go.
August 13, 2022 · 1:30 AM
Cleveland, OH
Although this is not a sighting, it is somewhat unusual. This morning, between 1:30am and 3:30am, a very audible mid-range tone was in the air with no identifiable source. I posted it on our local social media group at the time and immediately, others, who were evidently awake, responded saying that they heard it too. I had also called our Cleveland police non-emergency number to report it and strangely the police operator, who said she lived across town from me, had heard to too on the way to her 2:00am shift. No accompanying lights or other indicators. The tone suddenly stopped here at about 3:30am. Although someone in my neighborhood posted that they had heard it beyond 3:30am. Everyone is wondering what the source of that tone was.
August 8, 2022 · 11:45 PM · FORMATION
Cincinnati, OH
Saw another pair of unidentified crafts, this time dark, at night. No lights. Silent. Just quickly gliding by east to west around 11:45pm. Roughly shaped like bird or boomerang, black against sky, unmoving shapes-- no flapping, could not be owl or bat. Not crow or buzzard. Actual size unknown but I got the impression they were the size of really large birds. However did not fly at all like a bird, even in glide. They scared me. But not right away. They glided by 50 to 200 feet up impossible to know really, they took about 3 or 4, maybe 5 seconds to get out of my view. The sighting was so fast it was over before I could even really think. Instead of jumping up and trying to follow them visually I just sat there kind of confused. Like, what was that? When I finally did stand I realized I could have watched them for 2 or 3X longer. They were flying close formation and hugging the backyards, not going down the main drag nor my parallel street, but in-between. Medium high clouds, full moon but moon wasn't in my view yet. I cannot find an exact match for what I saw. I was out back watching for satellites. Saw spooky batarangs instead. Actually it was hard to make out any real distinct shape other than wide wings, short/no body. Creeped me out much worse than my daylight white orbs of mufon case 56662.
August 7, 2022 · 3:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Lebanon, OH
The best way I can describe this in real life phenomena would be if an airplane attached a large tv to its tail and was showing some random patterns of blinking, twinkling, shimmering lights. Kind of like the Ironman plane in Spiderman Homecoming how it has the lights attached to the fuselage to camouflage it. The light pattern all seems to be together on an object and not separate from whatever it was being projected from. They were a warm type of white lights, many different sizes, some shimmered, some blinked and they all seemed to be projected on something oriented vertically. I naturally went to FlightAware to see what was in the sky and there was an Air France flight moving in the same direction at the same time. I used to live under a flight pattern for CVG when I lived in Cincinnati, Mt. Healthy specifically so I have seen a ton of planes in my life and a lot of satellites. I have no idea what I saw early this morning.
August 7, 2022 · 12:04 AM · SPHERE
GROVE CITY, OH
I was watching TV when suddenly the room brightened drawing my attention to the window where it was quite bright outside (not quite like daylight, but much brighter than it should have been for around midnight). I could see a single spherical object that was bright like the sun just above and distanced just beyond the tree line behind my house. At first I was sure it was the moon, but there was no detail to it, just a bright, glowing, orange orb. I approached the window and turns out the moon was higher in the sky and further to the left of my window and was a partial moon, appearing white, not like this radiant, orange ball. This was something else. I began taking pictures with my phone, which unfortunately were not very clear with condensation on the window and my lack of experience with the photo options on the phone. It started very, very bright and slowly began to fade in intensity and drop down below the tree line over the course of about 7 minutes. I did not hear any sound coming from it. There is an empty field beyond the treeline behind our house so I can't explain what it was.
August 4, 2022 · 11:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Gahanna, OH
My neighbor and I were sitting on our patios and talking. I saw him looking above my shoulder, turned around and saw a triangular shaped craft with 5 lights protruding out from it. From where we were, it appeared to be headlights, and the craft moved in the direction the lights were shining. The middle beam appeared to be the longest, with the rest down each side stair stepping down the body of the craft. It moved from one area to another and disappeared into the clouds. About 30 seconds after it disappeared, we saw a plane in the opposite direction, and could hear it and see the flashing lights. The triangular craft made no noise.
July 31, 2022 · 9:59 PM · LIGHT
West Lafayette, OH
While star gazing,we saw this object for not the first time.was bright and moving steady across the sky until I ran out of time to record but it eventually disappeared in the distance but no sound was ever made.
July 26, 2022 · 9:31 PM · OVAL
Chagrin Falls, OH
My wife and I notice a big object in the sky. Thought at first it was a star but it kept getting brighter then fading repeatedly. As we were looking at that object, two smaller white orbs traveled toward the larger one at a high rate of speed. One of the orbs moved up and around the other. At the same time the main larger object got brighter then faded out. Minutes later we noticed several planes in the immediate area. I was able to capture it on my phone’s video. When you zoom in on the larger object, it appears to have a black circle in the middle. I have never seen anything in the sky behave that way and have no idea what it could have been.
July 25, 2022 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Sandusky, OH
Came into my room after using the bathroom and looked out the window to notice a very bright light hovering in the sky. After standing and observing I started recording and trying to observe with binoculars. After that, I noticed two more lights towards the bottom of the water horizon but they were aligning in a triangle form. I then ran outside with my girlfriend to record and called my parents. After getting outside, there were only two lights left with the large one at the top becoming so bright it illuminated the water below it all the way to the beach. The craft was first observed out towards Cleveland and cleared a space from there to cedar point in what seemed like under a minute. The second craft at the bottom then disappeared only leaving the largest one. I then observed the large craft through the binoculars to which I noticed 6 lights that didn’t flicker like a plane. It looked like a cigar but was horizontal instead of vertical. After observing the shape and color the craft disappeared over cedar point.