Ohio UFO Sightings in 2001

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My sister was taking photos of a new pond that was constructed on my brother's property located approximately 1.5 miles out of the Salem city limits. She didn't see anything at the time, but when she got the pictures back from being developed on December 31,2001, a saucer shaped object could be seen in one of the photos.

This object was in the foreground with a tree line as the background. I scanned the picture as a jpeg file (it will be emailed to you). I have a print of the picture.

I can make you a print if you would like one.

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Triangle hovering near freeway. Heading I-70 East in darkness with the headlights on and westbound traffic as heavy as the eastbound side from a distance of about 6 miles, I saw a bright light that appeared to be siting still on the westbound side of the highway. The closer I got to it, the more it looked like two lights.

When I was nearly beside it, it seemed to be about 1500 to 2000 feet up and just sitting still. While going past it, I lowered my window with the radio turned completely down, and I heard no sound. I could barely see the shape of a triangle.

In the front, two lights were noticeable, one at one corner, and one at another. A third light was observed at the back (apex) that was much dimmer. It was not a helicopter, as I am an EMT who has been around them before and know their sounds.

I had my Cb radio on and didn't hear anyone else saying they saw it. Visibility was clear and stars could be seen in the background. With the thumb out, this object was about the size of my thumbnail.

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cylider shaped object over Toledo OH Observed object traveling on almost a due west to east course, almost directly overhead. Object appeared to be at height of 30-40,000 feet at a speed comparable to an airliner. Object traveled on straight course, no vapor trail.

Object sixe about 1/3 of airliner, bright white, no wings, tail or other details appeared. When almost directly overhead, a commercial airline passed on a east to west course about 3-5 miles to south, appeared to be a simlar altitude. Was definitely not meteor or satelite sighting, brightness did not fade in or out.

As amateur astronomer, I ahve seen all these. Sky was clear, no clouds, bright.

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Red flashing lights on loud large hovering thing which stayed in the sky for over an hour At approximately 2:00 AM we heard what sounded like some sort of aircraft that was extremely loud with a rumbling sort of sound. I looked outside and saw something in the sky with red flashing lights. It wasn't really moving.

Mostly, it was staying in one place(almost hovering). We went outside;occasionally this thing would move a little(one direction or the other). It was dark.

It was hard to make out the actual shape this thing was. The lights weren't really in a uniform pattern. The lights were flashing in a zig-zaggy formation.

Neighbors came out because they also heard the LOUD rumbling noise. We talked about the possibility of it being a helicopter. However, it did not sound or look like a helicopter.

And it stayed around, for at least, over an hour. A couple of cars had also pulled over down the street. They were also looking at this thing.

In checking with the Police, no helicopters were dispatched at that time. We have no idea what it was! We didn't see it go away because we came in the house due to being spooked.

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3 friends and i saw 2 triangular crafts appear from the northwest sky. at 11:10 pm 3 friends and myself were walking home after a high school basketball game. my friend noticed one large triangular craft moving from the northwest sky at a slow rate of speed.

we watched this for around 1-2 minutes and another craft appeared from the same area. these crafts had red and yellow lights on what appeared to be the underside. the hovered overhead for 20-30 seconds and made their way southwest and dissapeared.

we stayed in the area for 10-15 minutes but didn't see the crafts again.the time now was 11:25-11:30.

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Offset "X" Formation Below Mars I observed approximately 14 objects moving from east to west just below Mars. These objects were in an offset "X" formation, moving from east to west at a speed just a bit slower than satellites i've observed in the past. Approximately 5 seconds after first noticing the objects, they quickly vanished.

Their color was a light amber and were pinpoint in appearance. I'm a lifelong amateur star gazer.

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Dark object flying around sky. I was sitting in my bedroom watching tv when I noticed a flash from outside my window. I got up to check it and I could see nothing for about 2 minutes.

I saw another flash to the east. It took me a while to notice that the stars there were disappearing in order like something was flying over them. The thing looked about as big as a private jet.

I got my sister and she agreed that it was not a normal aircraft. I watched the thing for about a half hour, and it flashed about every 2 to 5 minutes. It flashed at about 11:10 and then seemed to fly straight up into the sky.

It disappeared. The whole event seemed to occur about a half mile south of my apartment. I sent an image that I captured with my digital camera.

((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witness is describing the re-entry event that occurred at approximately 2120 hrs. (Mountain) on Saturday, December 01, 2001. Please see following URL for details: .

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Bright blue light in Columbus Nov 26th 2001 My husband is a truck driver and last night at or near 1am in Columbus a bright blue light lite up the whole inside of the truck only for a second then was gone, he didnt think anything of it til about 3 other truck drivers were talking on the cb and were asking what it was, he said it was too bright to be a car light and was gone too fast to see what it was. only that the light was so bright that it almost blinded him.

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THE WINTER OF 2001 I WAS DRIVING AT APPROX 11.30 PM, ON A STATES ROAD OUTSIDE OF TROY HEADING HOME I LOOKED UP AND SAW A FAIRLY BRIGHT LIGHT ABOUT 100 FEET ABOVE A CORN FIELD AS I DROVE THE LIGHT APPEARED STATIONARY AND SILENT, CURIOUSITY DICTATED I PULL OVER, I SAT FOR ABOUT 5 MINUTES STRAINING TO HEAR ANYTHING, AS IT WAS LATE AND VERY DARK I COULD NOT MAKE OUT THE SHAPE OF THE OBJECT BUT IT NEVER MOVED AND NEVER MADE A SOUND THE NIGHT WAS DARK AND VERY QUIET, AFTER 5 MINUTES I WENT THE FURTHER HALF MILE HOME AND LOST SIGHT OF THIS THING AS MY HOME WAS BEHIND A LINE OF TREES, I DO NOT BELEIVE IN UFO'S BUT THIS WAS WEIRD, I AM NOT AN AVIATIN EXPERT BUT HAVE SPENT THE 40 YRS OF MY LIFE AROUND MILITARY JETS ETC UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL INCLUDING HARRIERS, THIS THING WAS NOT A JET , HARRIER NOR A CHOPPER, IT IS ODD HOWEVER THAT SOOOOO MANY SIGHTINGS ARE PROVEN TO BE RIGHT AT OR NEAR NOT JUST MILITARY INSTALLATIONS BUT INSTALLATIONS WHICH ARE KNOWN FOR TESTING AND RESEARCH IN THE AVIATION FIELDS ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Giant black aerobie floats over SW Ohio! I'm a restaurant manager from SW Ohio, 30 years old and no one has ever called me crazy. I came home from work on a blustery overcast fall day, I layed down on my couch which from that angle has a view of the sky above me. I saw against the clouds, a black circle sillouette.

It moved steadily east-ne, seemingly just under the clouds. I jumped up to call my wife to look, but it had gone out of view behind the trees. The best I can estimate, the cloud cover was a half mile high and the object was 2-3 degrees wide and looked like a thin flat washer.

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STRANGE LIGHTS IN EASTERN CLEVELAND,OH SKIES OVAL OBJECT IN EASTERN SKY FLAHING INTERMITENT BLUE WHITE RED ,YELLOW LIGHTS OCCASIONALY FROM TIPS.

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This is what I would call my part two of an event that happen on 5/31/01. A coworker and myself saw the same burnt orange objects in the northeastern sky at 18:29pm est. I have saw this befor and it was the same as I first discribed it then.

We first saw a single burnt orange light in the northern sky. It was there only about 20 seconds or so then went out. Then in about a minute it was visable slightly left of it first location.

After about 3 min's, we saw one,then two, and then three objects in the northwest. Same shape,color,and brightness. We were shocked.

I was more than he because I thought that I would never see this again. The sky was crystal clear and no moon was visable. Objects were about at 45 degree's from horizon.

There were jets in the area but at a much higher altitude. Or so they seemed. No sounds were heard.

Just a regular night. I have been watching the sky since I was a small boy and I have never saw anything like this. ((NUFORC Note: Please see other reports for same date.

PD)).

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A formation of amber-colored lights sighted multiple times along St. Rt. 188 near Ringold, Ohio On the evening of the 15th of November, while on my way to Circleville, Ohio, I glanced out of my drvier's side window and saw a formation of three, amber colored lights, strung out in a row in the sky, though they only lasted a few seconds, before they blinked out one after another.

This was at the intersection of State Route 188 and State Route 674, going up a hill towards the small berg of Ringold. Puzzled by what the objects were, I continued driving down Rt. 188 for about four or five minutes before the objects reappeared in the middle of a cirrus cloud.

This time, the objects were in the formation of a triangle, except that there was a fourth light off to the right side. Again, they only lasted for a few seconds in the sky before they dissappeared, only to return, in the same formation, minus the extra light to one side about two minutes later. This was the last time I saw them, though I continued to keep an eye towards the sky for a few minutes until I reached the city limits of Circleville.

I reported the event to the local MUFON of Ohio affiliated that night (the monthly meeting of the group had been my intented destination for the evening) ((NUFORC Note: Please see associated report from Ribolt, KY. PD)).

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((NUFORC Note: The reports NUFORC received from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey for this date probably can be ascribed to the Northern Lights, aka the aurora borrealis. The following report is from Space Weather News, to who we express our appreciation. PD)) Space Weather News for Nov 6, 2001 http://www.

spaceweather.com A solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetic field at 0150 UT on Nov 6th (8:50 p.m.

EST on Nov. 5th) and triggered widespread auroras. Observers as far south as central California have reported vivid Northern Lights.

Sky watchers everywhere, even at middle latitudes where auroras are rarely seen, should be alert for Northern Lights while the geomagnetic storm is underway. Visit SpaceWeather.com for details and updates.

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Two objects seen in sky; one oval with dim lights at front and rear, second traingular with pairs of dim lights at the tips. At 10:07 pm. I was taking my dog out, I was facing north with a less than full moon to my right.

I heard a strange repeating sound, very softly "deedle.deedle.deedle.

deedle". When I looked up I saw two faint dots of light movind from east to west. When my eyes adjusted you could see the two points of light were attached to the tips of a dark oval shaped object.

I watched the object move from about ten o'clock to two o'clock in the sky, then lost it in the light of my light pole. I went inside to call a friend that lives close by and went back outside. While outside I was facing south, with the moon over my left shoulder.

I was telling my friend about the first one when a three pairs of lights forming a triangle on angle came over my left shoulder and moved to the south east. With the light pole behind me I watched this one disappear about thirty degrees over the horizon. The only reason you could see the bodies of the objects is that they were darker than the surrounding sky.

After seeing this I spoke exitedly to my friend, we both observed three aircraft in the western sky. The southern most turned out to be a plane, the other two hung in the sky to the west. You could see the colors of normal aircraft lights.

My friend said he could hear the blades of the helicopter.

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Last night in my sisters back yard I video tape a large yellow/ white looking star, I have seen this star many times before, We have many hours of video on these "stars" or " lights " we have watched them for 2 months. last night was the second time i've tried using the camcorder. As i focused in on the yellow light i could see what looked like two seprate lights, then i was able to see some kind of image, it was dark in color, when we viewed the tape it looked as though it was a large object, could not tell what the shape was, but we counted 3 other lights on this " object " the two lights look like they could be 2 windows with the bright light shining through.

i went outside to get more footage of this object, but the light turned into a ball, or round object, it looked like it had wire wrapped around it, i could see the image i had seen earlier, i know this was the same object i taped a few minutes before, becuase it was in the same area, it just moved up higher in the sky. we also viewed 6 triangle formations in differnt parts of the sky, ((NUFORC Note: We suspect the witnesses were looking at a star, but that is a guess. PD)).

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Saw a big triangle hovering silently over busy state rte. and then after It "watched" traffic for a bit, it sped off to the southwest F The craft was triangular and had a cockpit with what appeard to be small windows all of the way around the craft and each "wing had a small white light on the end and it appeared to be watching traffic below. It was hovering silently above a phone tower.

Everyone stopped to look at it and after a minute or two it moved off to the southwest at such a rapid speed that there was no way of catching it. It was gone over the horizon FAST. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

PD)).

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Me and my friend saw a pulsating red light that deployed a smaller red light that fell towards the ground. My friend and I were going to go out and look for UFOs one night. We doubted we would see anything but we went out anyway.

It was cold. Probably around 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. We were about to go in when I saw a pulsating red light to the East.

I pointed it out to my friend and he thought it looked odd too. We knew it was a UFO when we studied its movement. It would speed up and then slow down as if it had brakes.

Not like a regular airplane. Then right before we lost track of it. It deployed another smaller red light and it fell downward.

It was amazing. I had never seen anything like it before. We were so distracted by the "probe" that when we finally looked up back to where the ship was before, it was gone.

It was very astounding. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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I was actually staying up all night trying not to go to sleep 2 fireball shaped ufos they were zig zaging all over then lights started to flash as if they were talking in morse code. they flew some more and bam they were just gone instantly you must remember I was half asleep but I saw what i saw. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

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I walked home about 8:00 when i saw about 20 teardrop shaped things. I was walking home from my friend's house, walked around the corner and saw a lot of red glowing teardrop shaped things.they disapeared somewhere behind the woods and i ran home.