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July 22, 2022 · 10:25 PM · CIGAR
Dublin, OH
While walking our dogs, we paused at the school’s practice field to take a look at the stars. I pointed out what I thought was the Big Dipper to my husband. We were talking about it and also noticed several passenger places (we’re about 30 miles from CMH airport). We then noticed what looked like, upon first glance, a meteor entering the atmosphere. We quickly realized it couldn’t be a meteor or shooting star because it was moving too slowly at a nearly 90-degree angle towards the earth. (It was moving at a much slower rate than the planes.) We also noticed what looked like an elongated, cigar-shaped, faint outline following the orangish-light. We started walking in its direction to try to get a better look and we could clearly see an outline that would form a massive, cigar-shaped object. After a minute or two of watching it, it appeared to slow down even further and it flashed a rapid succession of 6-8 consecutive lights in a perfectly straight line (there did appear to be greater separation between the first and second light, then the next few were perfectly spaced and then another space before the next light). This further solidified that we had the shape/size correct as the lights were spread out across the midline of the object, across its entire length, which was hard to determine, but we’re guessing was at least 1,000 yards long. After the lights lit up, they quickly flashed off. The object appeared to hover in its place and slowly pivot to be horizontal (parallel to the earth). It then either disappeared behind a cloud line or simply disappeared. It did not appear to fly off.
July 22, 2022 · 1:30 AM · CIRCLE
Portsmouth, OH
I was in my hot tub and this was my first sighting.
July 21, 2022 · 9:46 PM · CIRCLE
Dayton, OH
The UFO was seen around 9:46 PM EST. It was low to the ground which would break the FAA Rules of how low you can be to the ground. The aircraft was seen going at very high rates of speed. The aircraft was only about 80 - 100 feet off of the ground. It was circle and it was sliver.
July 15, 2022 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
COLUMBUS, OH
I was looking south from my balcony in NE Columbus, Ohio in the late evening on either Thursday July 14 or Friday 15, 2022 (sorry I can’t be more specific) and saw a light rise from behind the tree line that is about 150 yards away. (At the time I assumed the light would have been several miles away, possibly as far as CMH airport, or even closer to downtown, but on reflection I think it could have been a smaller object closer to the neighborhood.) It rose slowly about 60 degrees from my line of sight and then dropped maybe 10 degrees to where it remained stationary for 15-30 minutes (it might not have been that long, but it seemed like an unusually long time for a random light). As it hung there, the light pulsed about once per second, first a kind of bright candy apple neon blue and then a neon mauve/bright red, then blue and then red again and so on. This pulsing was mechanically regular and didn’t pause as far as I could observe. Except for a couple of dashes into the apartment to inform my disinterested roommate, I didn’t take my eyes off the thing for several minutes, until I was distracted by an aircraft closer to my building moving from east to west which I made out to be a helicopter at a fairly high altitude for this neighborhood (usually we see cop choppers pretty close range). As the aircraft moved off to my upper right I looked back to find the light and couldn’t locate it, but then I saw a light (not necessarily the same one) moving at a moderate regular speed at something like a 45 degree angle into the northwest, almost as if to rendezvous with the helicopter, and then as far as I remember it blinked out. That’s it. It didn’t move in any classic “UFO” manner, it was very regular and methodical looking and not unusually quick. If I had to guess, it was a drone of some sort and my reaction at the time was just sort of “huh,” but I’ve been mulling it over since then wondering if it would reappear but I haven’t spotted it. I spend a lot of time outdoors at night trying to make out the stars and enjoying the moon when it’s out and I’m pretty used to the comings and goings of aircraft here, and this behavior was a first. I don’t really suspect it’s anything unexplainable but I don’t know who to contact to satisfy my curiosity about this one. I hope I’m not wasting your time but if I can get an explanation for this it’s definitely worth my taking the time to write this up. Thanks!
July 15, 2022 · 2:20 PM · OTHER
Columbus, OH
We were coming home and my son jumped out of the car as soon as we parked bc he saw something. I was able to see a shiny object at first but as I was taking pic and video I couldn’t see it anymore. My son (4yo) was able to see it continuously. He called it Sonic’s ring. And he asked afterwards why it didn’t fall. I would like to hear what experts in this field thinks. I am not a UFO enthusiast and would be happy to hear that this can be identified. I googled possible explanations. The space station came up but didn’t cross at this time and the shape does not match. Curious to your thoughts.
July 13, 2022 · 2:45 AM · TRIANGLE
St. Louisville, OH
Wednesday July 13th 2022 There happened to be a Very bright full moon this night. Later after research I learned it was the biggest super moon of 2022. The moon at 2:44 am only looked like a very bright full moon, setting in the western sky. I was driving North on Ohio State Route 13/ Mt Vernon Rd. The time was 2:44 I was just outside of St. Louisville, Ohio. I had both driver and passenger front windows rolled down ¼ of the way and was on the phone with my Wife. We weren't talking, we remained in silence just keeping each other company, each knowing the other was on the other side of the phone was enough to keep her content. I was coming up to where a cemetery and a few houses appear to pop out of the few mile stretch of flat fields. Directly across from the cemetery is a house only 50 feet off the road, front door facing the cemetery across from it. The property has a row of trees running down it's yard separating it's view from the field on one side, which was the side furthest from me. I suddenly noticed two colored lights through the trees which had thick dense foliage and stretched across the front yard of the home I was coming up on. One light was red and the other light was green. The first thought that popped into my head was " I don't ever remember there being a cell phone tower right there, and certainly not that close? " I grew suspicious and curious as the next several seconds passed and I came closer to passing the row of trees which blocked my view. Just as I finally passed the row of trees, I quickly turned my head to my immediate right (directly East) and "parked" in mid air, was a black metallic (similar to the black reflective surface of obsidian) craft with sharp angles. The angle of what seemed to be the nose of the craft was the longest and noticeably sharpest straight angle which pointed slightly down facing the south west. The nose looked like the pointed end of a slice of a "pie shaped" chunk of cheese. The green light was glowing from the side that faced me and the red light was glowing from the opposite side. The bright light that the full moon reflected completely lit up the area and exposed the craft. I was shocked and excited at what I was looking at. It was approximately 30'-40' long and approximately 20'-30' wide. It was practically resting motionless and completely silent on top of the tips of the tree tops that the "craft" was "paused" above. The black craft was right over top train tracks to that had trees that ran along either side of them. Based off my intuition the craft seemed to be "hiding" in the corner of a field surrounded by trees in the backside which bordered the railroad tracks. Just on the other side of the trees that ran perpendicular to the railroad tracks ( the row of trees that ran down the edge of the yard the house sat on, I described earlier) was the back corner of the 1960s ranch style home, a mere 25 feet away. I include these details to open the possibility of the importance/purpose of the presence of the craft, or rather, whoever was operating the craft may have had. Another possibly important detail is the fact that there is a quarry and large water source on the other side of the railroad tracks opposite of the me and the road I was driving on. When I spotted the UFO I personally feel like I may have caught it "off guard" or "surprised" it. When I came to a dead stop in the road it lifted up, and quickly rotated itself 180°. The craft was so close that I lost sight of it, the roof of my truck blocking my view. I looked forward and made sure I wouldn't cause an accident in the road since I was "dead stopped" on a 55mph state route. Approximately 4 seconds had passed. I quickly looked back to catch another glimpse of the craft. I spotted it in the sky in the distance and I once again lost site of it. After studying google maps and looking for land marks and distance scaling to figure the distance the UFO had covered within the 4 seconds I lost sight of it. I estimate it was approximately ¾ of a mile away. It had traveled ¾ of a mile within 4 seconds. That is 675mph or 990ft/s. The coordinates I initially spotted the craft was, 40.155908,-82.424408.
July 12, 2022 · 8:08 PM · UNKNOWN
Sebring, OH
I was experimenting with metals and crystals for a personal hobby, a great area for minerals. I heard firstly, 2 military craft fly over head. They do this so often it begins to be a benchmark of your day. So I still watch them if I’m able, so as they are traveling the space and possibly time, as you all call it, did a unknown impressively quiet craft make its way thru the very line of sight of mine. So I actually had enough time to watch and record a small video. Also I’ve taken still screen shots and out them through the ringer to try and find a shape. To no avail. I watched until I couldn’t see it, and even longer still.
July 10, 2022 · 12:10 AM · SPHERE
Franklin, OH
I saw a red glowing light, which I thought was a missile of some kind. It was flying rapidly from the direction of Germantown, Ohio in a Southeast direction toward Cincinnati, Ohio. It stopped at a certain point and stayed there. I ran in to notify a facebook friend to try and get a witness, but it was gone when I ran back out. I’m living in the most Western part of Franklin, Ohio, in Franklin Township. That’s all I know except that it was all red and not travelling in a perfectly straight line, but first straight, then it turned Westward and came to a stop. It was there and stopped for about 30 seconds before I thought to get a witness.
July 7, 2022 · 8:30 PM · DISK
Huron, OH
One witness claims she saw red and green blinking lights. I believe they were a steady blue light and potentially white lights with red light circles blinking in a clockwise rotating fashion, the lights appeared to be similar to traffic lights grid structure. Also, there may have been a yellow hue to the air around the object. The band with lights covered most of the depth of the object and the rest seemed to be dark grey. This was undeniably bright with daylight still out.
July 3, 2022 · 8:57 PM · EGG
Tipp City, OH
This is a 2nd part of the first report that I submitted earlier and the purpose is to upload additional pictures. 2 pictures that shows flying object small are the original pictures I uploaded in the first report. There are 2 additional pictures with flying objects enlarged. When I saw it, I took pictures with my smartphone and it has a good image resolution. I could enlarge the object and still have a resonable image resolution so I'm adding them here. The shape of the object looked like changing its shape. I cannot tell if the object was changing its shape or it looked like changing shape because it was rotating. In this photo, if looks more like egg shape being expanded. Please note that this is 2nd report that report the same incident from the first report. For the description of sighting incident, please look the first report in this National UFO reporting center database with the sighting date of 8:57pm July 3rd, 2022. and the location is Tipp City, OH.
July 1, 2022 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Lancaster, OH
I was leaving a friends house when I noticed a green light slowly pulsing low in the western sky. At first, I thought it was just a plane but after a minute or so of watching it, I realized that it was not making any noise and was setting stationary in the sky. I got in my vehicle and drove approximately a third of a mile through the neighborhood and stopped when I found a safe spot to pull over. When I exited my vehicle, I realized it was emanating a white light underneath and was almost directly above me. After standing there looking at the object for a few seconds, I was overcome by an unusual sense of uneasiness and got in my car and left the area. As I was driving away, I saw it again, still setting in the same area about ten minutes later, but as I was on a busy highway, there was no safe place for me to pull over and observe the object further.
June 30, 2022 · 9:35 AM · CYLINDER
Mansfield, OH
I was up on a rooftop doing my morning exercises and looked up and saw this object way above the planes that were flying over at 40000' and that was moving fairly quickly from the West East direction and then then as it approached the sun it disappeared
June 28, 2022 · 3:41 PM · FORMATION
Columbus, OH
Looking directly straight up into the clear blue sky with a few cirrus clouds, I originally spotted (3) white round objects ‘dancing’ erratically around one another overhead, at cirrus cloud level. I was able to capture 2 of the objects in photos and video and witnessed this event for nearly 2 minutes with my 20/15 vision. Please be sure to view in high-resolution in a completely dark area with eyes fully adjusted to the lighting to view maximum visual detail. Additional photos are available. Video and images captured using a Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G.
June 24, 2022 · 10:33 PM · CYLINDER
Strongsville, OH
Saw craft make hairpin U turn in mid air and fly towards another plane, and then go dark.
June 23, 2022 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cincinnati, OH
There were 6 circles forming different shapes and movements. 5 of them were always moving and the one stayed back. They formed a V shape and then an upside down v. They also formed a box shap and kept moving in almost a snake pattern. Watched for about 5 min. Left for 2 seconds to get my son and they were gone.
June 23, 2022 · 2:00 AM · CROSS
Lancaster, OH
Mid June my boyfriend and I saw a craft with white and green lights in the shape of a cross shoot across the sky and One direction then change direction swiftly and shot across the sky in that direction and disappeared there was no noise coming from it and it was so far away
June 19, 2022 · 2:20 AM · UNKNOWN
Senecaville, OH
We were sitting around the campfire when I looked up and said, “what is that in the sky?” We all saw a ring of light that looked like it was coming from some sort of glowing object in the sky. The ring of light looked like a round cloud at first that was hollow in the middle. The glowing object started to move and the ring of light followed it. As the glowing object in the distance started to move, the ring of light in the sky shifted with it and looked more like an oval. Then, quickly, seemed to retract into space, because it just got farther away until it disappeared from our sight. My cousin’s husband works in the aircraft industry and he said it wasn’t a plane or a helicopter, but hadn’t seen anything like it before. He also said that there were no flight paths scheduled above us at that time of the early morning. My cousin, her husband and I all drew a picture of what we saw because we were all so confused and had never seen anything like it. We each drew our own description away from each other so we couldn’t see each others drawing. I’m attaching it to this report.
June 16, 2022 · 5:42 PM · DISK
Lore City, OH
Was not visible until I reviewed the 11 second video I had taken of lightning hitting the ground in the field close by.
June 8, 2022 · 5:27 AM · LIGHT
Pickerington, OH
I seen around 12 round lights hovering over the road to my south. While driving west bound on 70 at the rt 256 exit . All lights was in line with a slight pitch. They was not street lights they was about 100 feet or so above the street lights. I had to look a couple times because it was definitely something I never seen before and drive this road every day same time. Traffic was light but every body slowed down i was thinking are they seeing this also. Would like to add it was very foggy at time however was definitely different looking..
June 6, 2022 · 2:30 PM · DISK
Chillicothe, OH
I was driving around back country roads during the Summer of 2022. I basically awoke at a school bus turn around on one of those roads. I remember the daytime seeming as if it were during a Solar Eclipse. It was like I just woke up and was in a clear type of what I’ll call a ship. There was some type of writing on what I assume was a screen in the front of the ship to the left side. I felt as if my vehicle was suspended in the air and I didn’t hear audio of someone saying, “ if you’re going to go, go now.” It was more like feeling it but only hearing it in my head. So I basically drove out of a ship that again, I could not see. Ever since then, I’ve been able to communicate with some people telepathically or hear their thoughts. I know how this sounds but, I assure you it’s the truth.
June 4, 2022 · 10:42 AM · SPHERE
ashtabula, OH
Circular/orb shape with a faint white glow, almost ghostly looking like the Glow may have been coming through the clouds. this glowing light repeatedly moved back and forth from left to right like a ping pong but seemed like it stayed within/behind the cloud. The light itself looked as if it was moving or changing shape while moving from left to right. 2 other faint glowing lights flew in very fast from behind where I was standing one from the left and the other from my right side in the sky joining in with the one the one that was in the sky in front of us.
June 3, 2022 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Eastlake, OH
I took two photos one was regular which showed the three dots but they seemed to multiply after taking the photo then the second photo was in night vision which seemed to illuminate a bunch of stuff around the lights that looked like clouds but there were no clouds in the sky because all the stars were visible.
May 31, 2022 · 10:14 PM · CHANGING
Berea, OH
Object comes into view flying super low around the trees. The white object moves erratically while changing shape and colors. In this recording, I am looking south but the object is moving east to west. There was only 1 object and I was the only person outside to catch it. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
May 31, 2022 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Medina, OH
A very very bright Venus like object in the northern sky. It was a beautiful and warm night and the sky was clear and we were looking at the big dipper and I was showing my wife and friends on one of my star apps where the north star was located As we all looked at the north star suddenly a very bright star like light appeared. It was stationary for approximately one minute and then disappeared. Not a plane! not a planet or star!