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Ohio UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 4,446 UFO sighting reports in Ohio to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (803 reports, 18.06% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (568 reports, 12.78% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (845 reports, 19.01% of total).
- 11/16/99 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (40 reports, 0.90% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (363 reports, 8.16% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (2,208 reports, 49.66% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Ohio
These Ohio UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Caught a round glowing white object on my Blink doorbell camera that seemed to be lowering in orbit on an arc toward Earth:S to N Camera caught the image for about 5 seconds of total video but could have been happening longer as my camera was set to take multiple shots an hour at the time of the video capture. It seemed almost completely round. Glowing bright white.
Moving from Southern Sky toward Northern Sky in an arc toward the ground(?)/lower horizon Could have been a satellite or plane but I have never caught anything like it before.
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UAP was silent and not visible in real time. Dogs did not react. Noticed when reviewing photos with iPhone 14 Pro Max "Live Photo" Walking dogs early afternoon.
Weather conditions were windy with partly cloudy sky (Humilis Cumulus low clouds 2,000 - 3,000 feet which indicated elevation of UAP). Temperature in 70s and climbing. Tornado Watch issued until 7:00 PM.
Otherwise nothing unusual noticed. I take multiple iPhone pictures during our daily dog walks and review on iPad (larger screen) when we return home. Today (4/17/2024) on one of the pictures I noticed an anomaly in the sky.
Initially it appeared to be a silver ball. On closer examination it looked more like a bell. iPhone “Live Photo” option (15fps for 3 seconds) revealed an object moving at an incredible rate of speed from right to left (South to North).
It was impossible to witness in real time (335 milliseconds). K9 and human senses were incapable of detecting object. Without the camera/video technology built into the iPhone, I would have been unaware this event happened literally in front of our faces.
Received positive feedback from three Law Enforcement Officers and one Retired USAF Special Forces Veteran.
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I saw a white light that faded to red then disappeared I was looking at the moon and I noticed there are 5 planets that are really visible. Out of the corner of my eye I think I see another planet. As I turn to look at it I realize it’s not a planet but more of a spotlight.
Like someone was pointing a white beam at me. Then it started to move and it faded to red. Then it faded into nothing.
I couldn’t see it. So I pulled my phone out to see if it was a satellite. There’s nothing even close to it.
I consider myself a backyard astronomer. I know constellations, I can name multiple starts in the sky, I know what a satellite looks like when it flies overhead. I’ve never seen something like this.
I came in and my wife told me I had been outside for a while. Maybe 5-8 minutes. I thought I had only been outside taking the dogs out for maybe 2-3 minutes.
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White circle moving from south to north, suddenly turns 180 degree, then zig zags, then shoots straight up out of sight. I was sitting in my back yard looking up into the sky. I noticed what I thought to be a satellite or space station traveling from south to north.
As I passed the moon, it turn 180 degrees, and goes back south. Then it starts to zig zag back and forth. Then heads strait up out of sight.
This all took between 5 to 10 seconds.
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Looked like a comet I saw a white light I was looking to the west the thing was to the north of the sun. It didn’t appear to be moving but was shaped like it was. I see jets all the time making streaks in the sky but whatever this was wasn’t making any streaks.
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Cross shaped object with orange lights broke apart. Cross shaped object about 11inches by 6 inches, with bright orange lights, flew around the yard and landed in the grass. I was standing in the window and it flew up to the window.
It zipped all around the yard. It broke off into two pieces. This went on for about 15 minutes.
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Tilting moved backwards and then disappeared in distance a green oval craft no lights sort of disklike tilted towards us and then zoomed backwards and disappeared completely not fading into the distance.
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Sighting during totality of eclipse Was sitting in back yard watching the eclipse with my mom and when it went totallly dark took glasses off and looked around the sky. I first saw one quiet white light orb to the bottom left of eclipse. Then noticed a plane on other side flying by and under eclipse and another white light orb appeared first above the chem trail of the plane flying by and then flew under the chemtrail and we could see the plane still flying past it.
Trying to watch both orbs at different sides of the eclipse. When the light came back on in the sky as eclipsed revered directions they disappeared!.
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Group watching the eclipse from the back of a park model witnessed this. We saw a black spherical object move across the sun extremely high rate of speed with no sound. There were 2 fighter jets prior and the fighter jets I could hear the sonic boom when they hit the thrusters.
The object was completely silent.
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2 fast moving gray objects (like 2 curved inverted v's) flying nw to se direction 3-27-24 Outside with my dogs for a smoke at appr. 9:56pm ET watching the ISS flying over. I was facing north looking up as the ISS was going from NW to E.
After I lost sight of the ISS I turned to the east to look for the moon and star constellations as it was a crystal clear sky. Looking up and eastward I spotted 2 medium in color gray objects shaped like an inverted v but with more curved angles, not sharp like a v. They were side by side moving extremely fast and with no noise nor lights.
The sighting lasted for about 5 to 7 seconds. The color was like a flat medium gray color, no shine no glare.
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Spotted silent key like objects in sky Traveling south east to north west. Crossing the big end of the Big Dipper. Shaped like a two dimensional key and color barely discernible from the night sky.
Three dots length wise in center of objects. One end wider than other, larger end was the forward moving end. Completely silent and moved at a fast rate of speed.
Two objects were noticed at the same time and heading in same direction before completely disappearing.
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I was walking from parking a truck I looked up admiring the night sky when something caught my eye 2 orb like objects I knew they weren’t airplanes they where moving faster than one but slower than a shooting star. They where 2 objects moving at the same exact speed.
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Seen as I exited my car after returning home from work. It appeared due east of my location with a orange hue. I thought it was Mars at first.
But I saw no stars. How can I see Mars and yet no stars? I watched it for approximately 2:00, didn't see any movement or other changes. So I went inside and started talking online with my fiancee about what I saw.
She suggested that I use a telescope to look at it. I had a pair of binoculars and went outside to look at it again approximately 15:00 later. When I looked at the same spot in the sky, it was not there.
I looked around the sky and didn't see the object nor did I see any stars still. I went back inside and enlarged the photo I had taken twice and was very surprised to see something with straight lines and a geometric shape. Today I was watching a video on YouTube that was released several years ago taken from a navy plane off of the coast of California by Navy pilot, Commander David Favor.
I took a screen shot of the UAP in the video and was struck by the similar shape of what I saw to the object in the navy video.
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Pulsating orb that disappeared out of nowhere Flying pulsating white orb on right from fairport harbor beach.
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Unexplained light flying over sky My daughter came downstairs telling me she saw a shooting star out her window. The way she described it: “a large, slow bright star with other smaller stars coming off the tail of it” sounded different to me. I was able to look at my front door camera and see this light start coming from in between the 2 houses.
It seems to change direction at one point early on. As it’s flying, you can periodically see a “tail”. It also seems to elongate at the end before going out of screen.
At that time, you hear 2 bursts of sound on the audio which may be wind or propulsion, can’t be certain of that.
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White metallic capsule flew over very fast, being chased by Apache helicopter. 10:50am White capsule flies south/southwest at about 3,000 foot. Moving very fast, as fast as a jet.
Very steady straight line. No glow to it this time, just very clear (white capsule). It was flying sideways.
10:52am Apache fighter helicopter flies over going in that exact direction, chasing it. I was taking the trash out and did not have my camera. The last one I saw was December 7, 2023.
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High Speed Object, no flashing, no sound Night Sky NNW to ENE I normally check out the night sky when clear from my back yard. Tonight, very clear, Crescent moon and Jupiter nearly in cusp. Beautiful view even with my 7X50 Binoculars.
At 7:10 finished looking at Moon, Jupter, and turned directly OVERHEAD to Big Dipper stars, focused enough for major star clarity. Object came into view suddenly from NW travelling to SE at extremelly high speed. No shooting star, not starlink, and appeared as sort of a grouping, somewhat chevron or triangular.
No sound, no visible emission, seemed to pulsate but too high to tell. I watch aircraft constantly and satelittes, etc. This path, NW to SE and the speed, crossed sky in less than 2 minutes, seemed unusually fast.
Sorry, I had no equipment set up for photo, but was sure must be satellite of some sort. But nothing shows up. Nearest Airport CAK (Canton/Akron), 10 MILES NNE of my location (approx).
No sudden change of direction, but the speed and odd lighting configuration caught my eye. My Coordinate location of viewing was approximately 40.76568N, -81.
46664W. Can't seem to find any data showing another object. No fire, spin, or anything, and probably wouldn't have picked it up without my binoculars.
Sky was clear, air temp 30dgF approx and calm. Even very high flying aircraft passing over make distant sound (usually after passing) and am very familiar with aircraft lighting configuration. Any case.
It was unusual. Figured you guys might be able to locate my exact spot and figure if it was a Satellite. Surely no falling debris, no trail, flame, flicker etc.
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Slowly traveling from west to east with a halo around it. Perfectly clear evening, then just stopped hovered white plume then disappear Craft was traveling from west to east. Had a halo surrounding it about the size of a pencil’s eraser.
Object just came to a complete stop hovered long enough for me to get a picture. A white plume increased around it and then disappeared in an instant.
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Star suddenly moved at high rate of speed I saw a star in the northern sky that suddenly became brighter and brighter. As I watched, it suddenly darted to the left and flew away, at a rate of speed much higher than any aircraft, and disappeared. It was much higher up than any airplane.
The entire observation only lasted 1-2 seconds.
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Caught on my Google nest camera. Happened at 9:16pm and now at 4:54am Last night at 9:16pm I submitted the pictures and recording. Now at 4:54am it happened again.
I figured out how to save the Google Nest video. Moves super fast. Very difficult to obtain a screen shot.
Attaching the video. Like last night the object comes from the East and flew towards the West. Then, it came back.
West to East. See video.
Ohio UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 803 reported sightings | 18.06% of all reports |
Circle | 467 reported sightings | 10.50% of all reports |
Triangle | 435 reported sightings | 9.78% of all reports |
Fireball | 357 reported sightings | 8.03% of all reports |
Sphere | 311 reported sightings | 7.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 286 reported sightings | 6.43% of all reports |
Other | 274 reported sightings | 6.16% of all reports |
Disk | 239 reported sightings | 5.38% of all reports |
Oval | 197 reported sightings | 4.43% of all reports |
Formation | 139 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Changing | 119 reported sightings | 2.68% of all reports |
Cigar | 110 reported sightings | 2.47% of all reports |
Cylinder | 93 reported sightings | 2.09% of all reports |
Rectangle | 76 reported sightings | 1.71% of all reports |
Flash | 68 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
Diamond | 61 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Egg | 37 reported sightings | 0.83% of all reports |
Chevron | 36 reported sightings | 0.81% of all reports |
Teardrop | 32 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
Cone | 27 reported sightings | 0.61% of all reports |
Orb | 23 reported sightings | 0.52% of all reports |
Cross | 18 reported sightings | 0.40% of all reports |
Star | 6 reported sightings | 0.13% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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July | 568 reported sightings | 12.78% of all reports |
October | 502 reported sightings | 11.29% of all reports |
August | 497 reported sightings | 11.18% of all reports |
September | 477 reported sightings | 10.73% of all reports |
June | 425 reported sightings | 9.56% of all reports |
November | 388 reported sightings | 8.73% of all reports |
May | 282 reported sightings | 6.34% of all reports |
March | 269 reported sightings | 6.05% of all reports |
April | 262 reported sightings | 5.89% of all reports |
December | 238 reported sightings | 5.35% of all reports |
February | 224 reported sightings | 5.04% of all reports |
January | 212 reported sightings | 4.77% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 845 reported sightings | 19.01% of all reports |
Friday | 635 reported sightings | 14.28% of all reports |
Thursday | 624 reported sightings | 14.04% of all reports |
Wednesday | 614 reported sightings | 13.81% of all reports |
Sunday | 591 reported sightings | 13.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 555 reported sightings | 12.48% of all reports |
Monday | 480 reported sightings | 10.80% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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11/16/99 | 40 reported sightings | 0.90% of all reports |
07/06/13 | 20 reported sightings | 0.45% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 17 reported sightings | 0.38% of all reports |
10/12/13 | 13 reported sightings | 0.29% of all reports |
03/05/20 | 13 reported sightings | 0.29% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 2,208 reported sightings | 49.66% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 668 reported sightings | 15.02% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 631 reported sightings | 14.19% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 338 reported sightings | 7.60% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 261 reported sightings | 5.87% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 238 reported sightings | 5.35% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Ohio
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Ohio.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Ohio
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Ohio