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Ohio UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 96 UFO sighting reports in Ohio from 2002 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (11 reports, 11.46% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 19.79% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (21 reports, 21.88% of total).
- 08/10/02 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 4.17% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (45 reports, 46.88% of total).
Ohio UFO Sighting Reports in 2002
This is a sampling of 20 Ohio UFO reports from 2002, 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).
Full Report Text:
green lights changing to blue floor vibrating no objects were seen but a green light appeared through three windows that are not located on the same wall while this happened the floor began to audibly vibrate (a loud whirring sound) the light then changed to blue then stopped i then looked out the window and observed nothing conversation about what that was started seconds later the lights and vibration started again i admit to being a little apprehensive about looking while the lights were still going but as soon as they stopped i looked out the window and saw nothing at this point i had to know so i went outside it was dead silent no cars on the road no one to be seen it may not sound like much but it was more convincing than any of the strange lights i have seen in the sky i felt the floor vibrate it was close question how do you live a normal day to day life when you know for fact that there is more out there what are you suppoosed to do i guess you just keep on breathing that's all.
Full Report Text:
Vienna, Ohio I was driving through Vienna, Ohio when I spotted two somewhat cigar shaped objects hovering in the East. A beam of light appeared to come from one of the objects. They hovered for about six minutes.
The beam only lasted about one minute. Shortly thereafter what appeared to be possibly three aircraft approaching them. The objects almost instantly disappeared.
((FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION BY MUFON/OHIO)) 100 Date: 12/8/02 110 Time: 21:00 130 Sighting City: Vienna 140 Sighting State: oh 190 Description: This case was deemed a possible hoax. The claimants/witneses could not be reached. Investgated by Rick Dell'Aquilla -Assistant State Director for Ohio MUFON George Pindroh - UFO investigator Chuck Eppolito - UFO investigator Email addresses are: Rick Dell'Aquilla - rdell@nccw.
net George Pindroh - [email protected] Chuck Eppolito - e-mail address unknown Case submitted to NUFORC by Donnie Blessing - State Section Director Ohio MUFON e-mail- [email protected] ((NUFORC Note: We express our gratitude to the MUFON investigator, Rich Dell"Aquilla, ASD for MUFON/OH, and to Donnie Blessing, SSD, and William Jones, SD for MUFON/OH, plus the other investigators listed above, for following up on this case.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
I was away for a weekend on a hunting trip when my companion and I retired for the evening. I was in my sleeping bag at 10 pm. I thought I was dreaming, however, my companion told me when he got up the next morning that I was gone and did not see me until Monday (12/9) at about 9am.
I can not account for my physical disappearance. I have a cloudy recollection of a dream. It seemed that I was in a room with two other persons.
One was a man who identified himself as Jake and the other was a woman. The woman seemed disoriented. There was another man present; a small dark figure.
I think he called the other person "gayban". They took me into a room and I recall feeling strange sensations. This is all I can remember.
I did have some strange marks on my neck and chest area. My companion told me I should report this on your site. ((FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION BY MUFON/OH)) 100 Date: 12/08/02 110 Time: 04:30 130 Sighting City: Brookfield 140 Sighting State: oh 190 Description: This case was deemed a possible hoax.
The claimants/witneses could not be reached. Investgated by Rick Dell'Aquilla -Assistant State Director for Ohio MUFON George Pindroh - UFO investigator Chuck Eppolito - UFO investigator Email addresses are: Rick Dell'Aquilla - [email protected] George Pindroh - pindroh@en.
com Chuck Eppolito - e-mail address unknown Case submitted to NUFORC by Donnie Blessing - State Section Director Ohio MUFON e-mail- [email protected] ((NUFORC Note: We express our gratitude to the MUFON investigator, Rich Dell"Aquilla, ASD for MUFON/OH, and to Donnie Blessing, SSD, and William Jones, SD for MUFON/OH, plus the other investigators listed above, for following up on this case. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Gossamer V-shaped object seen from Ohio Around 11:30pm last night (the 27th, EST) I stepped outside to have a look at the night sky. I first caught sight of the planet Jupiter, rather bright and imposing, shining away in the eastern sky. Several winter constellations were also visible overhead and in the south, shining through a thin layer of haze and broken clouds.
It was a rather chilly evening so I decided to leave my telescope indoors and just do some 'eyeball astronomy'. After a couple minutes I suddenly noticed an object midway up in the east (about 50 degrees altitude) moving south. Its appearance was that of broadly V-shaped gossamer contrail, three full moon diameters wide, without any lights or form of illumination.
I expected the object to begin to disperse and dissipate as I watched, due to its thin and wispy appearance. It did not! The object continued to move south steadily. I lost sight of it after twenty seconds or so when the object moved behind a bank of clouds in the south.
It made no sound the entire time that I had it in view. Being an amateur astronomer for the past twenty years has given me the opportunity to experience a good amount of sky phenomena. I have never seen anything in the night sky that I didn't have an explanation for - until now! I would be very interested in any and all plausible explanations of the object I spotted.
My only explanation - birds flying south for the winter - was quickly discarded when I witnessed the object move behind the clouds.
Full Report Text:
White Cigar Shape-Daytime I was out video taping chemtrails at 1500 hours and I noticed this cigar shaped object with the sun reflecting off of it. I heard no sound. I moved about as fast as a jet.
I video taped, cut a photo from the video and enlarged the photo. A white cylinder cigar shaped object. There was no trail.
An hour later that day I saw another object in the sky in the same place but this time I heard a jet engine. This second object was just a jet. This was when I realized the first object was not normal.
Full Report Text:
lights during a meteor shower. It was either last November or the November before that when there was a meteor shower.it was the best meteor shower I have seen and when we decided to start going back in the house, I looked to the east and saw 4 lights.
they would light then disappear.they did this one after the other in a straight line going from South to North.it wasn't a meteor because the lights didn't move and it almost seemed timed.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. We have assigned an arbitrary time and date in 2002.
Full Report Text:
A BRIGHT LIGHT WAS MOVING JUST ABOVE THE CLOUDS VERY SLOWLY FROM NORTH TO SOUTH. I WAS WALKING MY DOG, JUST A NORMAL SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD, THE SKY WAS OVERCAST. I LOOKED UP TO SEE WHAT THE SKY CONDITIONS WHERE BECAUSE RAIN WAS FORCAST WHEN I SAW A PERFECT CIRCLE OF WHITE LIGHT JUST ABOVE THE CLOUDS, IT SEEMED TO BE ABOUT 40 FEET IN DIAMETER MOVING DIRECTLY SOUTH AT A SLOW RATE OF SPEED.
SOMETHING WAS JUST ABOVE THE CLOUD DECK, THE LIGHT WAS VERY EVEN AND BRIGHT, YOU COULD SEE THE SHAPES OF THE CLOUDS BELOW IT BUT THERE WAS NO BREAK IN THEM AND THERE WAS NO SOUND AT ALL. THE OBJECT MOVED AT A CONSTANT SPEED AND IN ABOUT 3 MINUTES WAS OVER THE HORIZON. IF YOU LOOK DIRECTLY NORTH FROM WHERE THE CIRCLE CAME FROM YOU WILL BE ON AVON POINT IN LAKE ERIE.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
8 big ligts in sky Me mom mygirlfriend was riding taking her home. And she told me to look up so me and me and mom did and we seen 8 row of lights in the sky . it was to fast to be a plane look to big to be an airplane.
Full Report Text:
At a 4 way stop, looking to my left I saw a image, that I first thought was a blimp coming at me at an angle. Realizing it was extremely windy that morning, and that the craft would have been awfully low for even a blimp in our area, I sat and stared at it. It was in a large bluish gray cloud, and it was a dark grey in color itself.
It traveled slowley, against the wind , coming toward my direction. It stopped, then moved in a downward motion toward the south, stopped and moved back to its origonal position, moved north, and then actually faded out of sight. This appeared over a local farm in my area, over a barn with silos.
It happened less than a 1/4 mile from my position. Even though it appeared in a cloud, it was very distinguishable and formed.
Full Report Text:
slow moving unexplaned craft while on our night walk we saw some kind of craft. it looked like i was seeing the front and part of side as the lights started to curve away. it was as low as a small airplane flys, but much larger.
it was moving south east and dissapered over the hills and tree line. i watch the sky a lot and have never seen anything like this. the night sky was clear and the stars were bright, the lights on the craft were much dimmer than the stars, the speed was slow compared to a jet.
Full Report Text:
White orb descends from the ceiling in my house and disappears. In the fall of 2002 or 2003, I was sitting on my sofa in our family room. My youngest daughter was a teenager at that time.
It was early evening, and she climbed on top of our sturdy solid wooden TV console that was about 5 feet tall. She was acting silly, curling up on her side with her hoodie pulled over her head and face. As I was watching her, one of our cats was sitting on the floor about 3 feet from me just a little to the left in front of me.
In my line of vision, while watching my daughter, a solid bright white ball of light appeared about 2 feet from the ceiling. It proceeded to descend at a steady, but slow enough pace, to observe its size to be between a volleyball and a basketball. The descent lasted about 3 feet before it disappeared about 2 feet from the floor.
My daughter never saw it because her head and face were covered, but her cat was staring where the ball disappeared about 2 feet above the floor. For years, I just assumed it was supernatural, but I've been reading more about these types of orbs possibly being extraterrestrial. I live in Ohio where frequent UFO sightings have been reported.
It's interesting to think that it could be extraterrestrial. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date above is approximate.
PD).
Full Report Text:
On the local news in Tucson they showed film footage of a UFO over a big city, I think Cleveland but am not sure. It was cigar shaped and they clearly called it an unidentified object in the sky. It was definitely moving.
Since then I have heard nothing. Have you received any report? ((NUFORC Note: Report alludes to footage captured over Albany, NY, by a FOX 23 television cameraman. PD)).
Full Report Text:
This object had what seemed to be headlights flashing different colors at the center ofwhat appeared to be a disk-shaped object. On either side of the panel of colored ligghts, we saw a series of white lights. It seemed that orange-gold beams shone from the left and right edges of the craft.
The craft hovered over the malls at exit 2180 on I-70. The craft appeared to remain stationary for about 8-10 minutes, then began to rise and move in a south-west direction. In a brief time, it had climbed so high and move so far to the southwest, we could no longer see it.
Full Report Text:
behind the clouds and high speeds involved. 4 circuler objects behind the clouds. Would meet in center then would go off into four circular directions leaving a trail.
They would return to the area again and pause for approx. 10-15 seconds and repeat same procedure over. This lasted approx.
2-4 minutes and they then started to do same circular pattern but instead of returning to area (middle) they left in four different directions. Very excessive speed was involved with each movement. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that advertising lights would be the first possible explanation to be elimated, in this case.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Triangle Hovers over town for 6-8 minutes At 8:20 i picked up my 2 children 4 miles east of Galion, ohio. From that distance heading west I observed a large orange/yellow pulsating ball of light on the horizon (which is obscured by trees). I continued to notice movement of the light slowly from 10 degrees in both directions moving left to right.
By the time I entered Galion and stopped at the light in front of Police? firehouse (6-8Minutes) the object was hovering one block to the north. across the street form the Catholic school. It was hovering in place for a good 45-60 seconds, no more thaqn 150-200 feet off the ground.
From one block away, and as low as it was, it simply appeared as a long rectangle with 3 bright white lights and one orange/yellow pulsating light as the second in the column on the rectangle (it was facing east). I t began to undulate or wobble slightly and began moving slowly to the east ( im still sitting one block away at a light looking up and to the right). When it crossed the street, perpencicular to the way i was facing (west), i turned north and traveled to the next block, turned to follow to the east, went over the overpass and by the time i reached the apex of the overpass, the object was at least 5-7 hundred in the air and from behind and underneath this "rectangle" from one block away and 150-200 feet off the ground was actually a triangle witht the 3 white lights at the points and the orange/yellow pulsating light was in the center.
There were very dim twilight columns of light on the underbelly of the craft. There was no sound from this thing. It was the length of the church which is over 200 feet long and had to be 150 feet wide.
Full Report Text:
Large octagon blue lights on rim red center light hovers over downtown Cincinnati thursday October 10. I am reporting this for my friend, the witness, who has no internet at the moment. he says that thursday night, between 8 and 9 pm he was on his way home from work.
He works and lives in downtown Cincinnati. On his way home some women asked him if he saw the UFO, which he he then looked up in the sky and saw the object. He said it was shaped like a stop sign, (octagonal), had a red light in the center and blue lights on the rim.
He said one of the rims was extended off of the object, which he saw move into place, so the object was then symmetrical. He said it was fairly high up in the sky, and he said it seemed there was a haze around it, making the lights "dim". or not as bright.
He said it was large, the size of a dinner plate in scale to his extended hand. He said there were multiple witnesses, and when he got home neighbors from his apartment building were told and they went out and saw it as well. He said he also told a police officer in the Kroger store who ignored him and thought he was a "crazy".
Full Report Text:
While driving close home I saw the lights in the sky. Not moving shaped like a tapole. Arriving home I ran in for my camera made two pictures and four of the lights are visible.
Two are very visible and show the shape. No noise,and I'm sorry to say that I did not continue to watch them. I have the negitives if you are interested in them.
((name and telephone number deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: We will request copies of the photos. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Round, red, green, bright white object I am telling this to you after a friend told my husband and I what he saw. He is still in shock. The most important factor is that he has this on video camera.
We have seen the event and it is real. Our friend was sleeping and had a bright light in his living room wake him up. His house was shaking.
He looked out and saw a round, mushroom shaped craft. It was white, with green , red, blue and black in the center. He felt the center had a hole in it.
The object was shaking his house and he held the camera and filmed it while it was in his neighborhood. He filmed it as it flew up and away. Amazing! He is now in the process of making copies and doesn't know what to do next.
I looked on this list and saw that several other people in the same town our friend lives in have seen this exact, or a similar object. We have it on tape and will proceed with showing it to someone soon. Thanks!.
Full Report Text:
Light's in the sky As I was waiting to start my shift I was sitting on te dock watching the planes flying over head into cincinnati northen KY airport, mind you they have a flight line that is east to west, that puts them right over my place of work. Nothing was going over head at the time because planes make noise, then I just happen to look up looking north east and I saw two bright lights for about 5 to 10 secound's, but I heard no sounds like a plane would make then they just went away, also it was a clear night! star all over the place this was my first time ever seeing something like this. ((NUFORC Note: There was an Iridium flare at 19:57 hrs.
on this date, but it would have been in the western sky. Pleas see: http://www.heavens-above.
com/flaredetails.asp?SatID=24872&lat=40.234&lng=-81.
344&alt=345&loc=West+Chester&TZ=EST&Date=37526.99809077&Mirror=2 The ISS would have been visible, as well, but at approximately 21:04 hrs. Please see: http://www.
heavens-above.com/passsummary.asp?lat=40.
234&lng=-81.344&alt=345&loc=West+Chester&TZ=EST&satid=25544&Date=37523.6666666667&Mag= PD)).
Full Report Text:
looked like a star during full daylight--cloudless day. seemed high up, not really moving much i was driving back from lunch. beautiful, cloudless sky, little or no wind.
in the northern sky i saw what looked like the front (bright white) headlight of an airplane. then the light seemed to "shimmer" as if it was maybe the reflection off of some shiny metal. but it kept "shimmering" and more brightly than i think metal can shimmer.
i was very close to my office so i was able to not wreck my car as i watched it. i stopped in the parking lot and watched it for a solid 5 minutes. when it was not "lit", it seemed to be grayish.
i can't tell you it was a sphere, but it was round. it was almost straight overhead for the whole time. one of the reasons i kept looking at it (aside from the brighness in full daylight) was i was thinking that if it was an airplane, why wasn't it moving? if it was a helicopter, it's WAY higher than i've ever seen one fly.
it also really looked round. it actually looked like a bright star when i first saw it. of course when i got back to the office there was no one around.
no smokers or anything.
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2002 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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Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 11.46% of all reports |
Circle | 11 reported sightings | 11.46% of all reports |
Disk | 10 reported sightings | 10.42% of all reports |
Light | 10 reported sightings | 10.42% of all reports |
Sphere | 9 reported sightings | 9.38% of all reports |
Oval | 8 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Other | 6 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 1.04% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.04% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 1.04% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.04% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.04% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2002 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 | 19 reported sightings | 19.79% of all reports |
September | 16 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
August | 15 reported sightings | 15.63% of all reports |
October | 8 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
June | 7 reported sightings | 7.29% of all reports |
February | 7 reported sightings | 7.29% of all reports |
January | 6 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
May | 5 reported sightings | 5.21% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 5.21% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2002 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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Thursday | 21 reported sightings | 21.88% of all reports |
Friday | 15 reported sightings | 15.63% of all reports |
Wednesday | 14 reported sightings | 14.58% of all reports |
Tuesday | 12 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Monday | 12 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Sunday | 11 reported sightings | 11.46% of all reports |
Saturday | 11 reported sightings | 11.46% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2002 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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08/10/02 | 4 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
08/01/02 | 3 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
09/06/02 | 3 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
07/26/02 | 3 reported sightings | 3.13% of all reports |
07/31/02 | 2 reported sightings | 2.08% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2002 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 | 45 reported sightings | 46.88% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 22 reported sightings | 22.92% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 13 reported sightings | 13.54% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 7 reported sightings | 7.29% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.21% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 4 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
All Ohio Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2002
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Ohio, in 2002
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Ohio
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Ohio.