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Ohio UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 246 UFO sighting reports in Ohio from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (56 reports, 22.76% of total).
- March is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (44 reports, 17.89% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (57 reports, 23.17% of total).
- 03/05/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (13 reports, 5.28% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (100 reports, 40.65% of total).
Ohio UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Ohio UFO reports from 2020, 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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Wished Upon A Shooting Star Had looked up in time to see it enter the earths atmosphere and leave mist have fly through within a second, it was cool i had asked GOD to see proof of Extra-Terrestrial life and it presented itself!.
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MADAR Node 64.
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Line of lights in western sky above Columbus, OH At around 7:45 PM on 12/4/2020 in Columbus, OH, near the area of Morse Rd. and I-71, two of us witnessed a line of lights to the west. They appeared about the size that Venus appeared at the same time, and seemed to be a little less bright, or at least more yellow to the color.
No other structure could be seen associated with the lights. They appeared to be almost perfectly, equally spaced from each other, forming a perfectly straight line staring from lower left to upper right, making roughly a 45 degree angle with the horizon. This is a rough estimate, but I would say they were located maybe between 15 and 30 degrees above the horizon.
As far as distance from where we were standing, it was very hard to gauge, but my best guess would be between a few miles to maybe 50 miles. The person I was with pointed them out to me, and we watched them for about a minute, as they appeared to be moving slightly towards us, then slightly north, maintaining the same ! formation the entire time. Then, just as they appeared to move north, they started to fade out and not be visible anymore, starting with the lights at each end of the line.
It almost appeared that they were turning and the lights were no longer facing us, but they did not reappear as I observed for about 20 minutes afterwards, so I think they just faded/turned off. The movement was not along the direction of the line, but was perpendicular to the line. The movement was also very slow, in fact I was not even sure that the line was moving at all until it moved slightly to the north.
I read your requests to not report the SpaceX Starlink satellites, and I don’t believe that is what I saw. I looked it up afterwards and did find a number of stories referring to people sighting these strings of lights. However, the ones I saw appeared to be cloud-level, not moving along an orbital path, and the angle in relation to the ground would not make sense for where they were in the sky, but I can not completely discount this possibility.
My friend suggested a group of drones, but I can not really see that as the formation remained equally-spaced and along a line for the entire encounter. The weather conditions were fairly calm at the ground, but even so they would have to be pretty high-end to keep such a tight formation. I am generally a skeptic of such sightings (not a non-believer though), but the location in the sky, the formation, and the pattern of movement all leave me with no solid explanation at the moment.
I have a degree in physics, so I am generally aware of the possibilities outside our planetary sphere, and I have spent plenty of time stargazing, so this really did make an impression on me to start looking this far into it.
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There was a big circle of lights in the sky. There was one in the middle of 8-10 lights that was a little brighter than the rest. When I looked up it looked like an alinement of planets in a galaxy of how straight they were.
It looked like it was gonna be the end of the world. The lights would blink and than one half of the lights would turn off than turn on than the other half would do ye same and than the lights would slowly go away one by one after about 7-10 minutes. You could see a big circle shaped ship behind the lights.
It would rotate clockwise but the one main beige red light wouldn’t move position but you could tell it was rotating.
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A stationary object was seen apparently hovering with red flashing lights and white stationary lights it did no move for a half hour.
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My dogs ran away and i was hollering with my flashlights. I saw a helicopter fly by and then the helicopter circled over twice so I started to record. There are 4 fireballs to my southwest.
One of them went up and then all four went down. There weren2 witnesses with me and whoever was in the helicopter.
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MADAR Node 36.
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MADAR Node 107.
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With the Covid situation it has forced the couple to shop in much different ways than normal. They were looking for a farm market to see if they had any vegetables. As the man and his wife were on an out of the way road, mid afternoon, he sighted something about 800 foot off the ground, oval and very shiny, with the sun reflecting off of it, slowly moving up and down.
He asked his wife if she was seeing what he was seeing and she confirmed that she also saw it ahead of them. As they drew closer and had a better view of it, the shape was almost a perfect elongated oval, they could not see if there were any lights on it because of the reflection of the sun. As they approached the object it made a slight wobble and shot straight up and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
His wife had always been a non-believer of such things but never kept him from his interests. Now, she said, "I always thought you were crazy, but I can't argue with what I saw." At 3! :45 pm, the sun was setting in the southwest, clear sky, very little wind , no one else in the area (farm country).
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Tic-Tac blue light comming from bottem mid of craft/fallen angel celestial supernatural spiritual being Thursday November 12th 2020 6:58 p.m. eastern time.
siding interstate 71 in Ohio at the Mason Montgomery exit. First bright lite coming from slitly from the south, to big to be anything ive ever seen. first thought it was a meteor burning up in the atmosphere.
Light dimed and i saw a Tic-Tac blue light comming from bottem mid. of craft/fallen angel celestial supernatural spiritual being. Took pics with phone as i was taking the ext.
last i saw. it changed directions (west) and was gone.
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Black triangle, row of amber lights on the back and one red blinking light centered underneath I'm a truck driver and on the early morning of November 12th I saw an unidentified flying object. Around 03:45 am along I-70 heading east off to my left I saw an object, triangular in shape. Around the Huber heights area in Ohio approximately 200 feet off the ground flying in a NE direction towards Springfield Ohio.
It was black in color on the back a row of lights amber in color went from left to right all across the back. On the underside dead center was a single red light that was flashing. It was about 500 meters off to my left north of I-70 at that distance it was massive.
No apparent sound, I was traveling at 65 mphi estimate it was doing maybe 80 to 90 mph. About 5 minutes before it was out of view, I had no safe place to pull over in my truck to get my phone out. On the bottom edges were faint white lights the length of all 3 sides.
I couldn’t estimate the size but it was massive. I'm prior military and I know that was no plane currently in our air force or civilian inventory.
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I was working my food delivery job and I just got finished dropping off my last delivery I was about to pull out but as I stopped I looked left to traffic, but something inside me almost wanted to look up and I looked exactly at what seemed to be a stationary object clearly visible with the suns rays reflecting off of it, it was approximately 15,000-20,000 high, I could tell because all of airliners would be higher than what I perceived this aircrafts height to be. Anyways one second elapses of me staring at the object and it was almost as if the object knew I saw it and it bolted off it bolted off opposite of Lake Erie it also left a trail because of how fast it traveled, the light from the aircraft was floating in the air I was at awe of how beautiful it looked then in an instant it was gone like it moved south west and had different things to do. This was my first official UFO sighting all my other sightings were coincidences and easily explainable phenmenon but it was a feeling as if I knew I saw something spectacular.
The color of the craft was a reflective white looking object almost looked like a star but it wasent because it wasent a self sustaining light you could tell because when it flew away the light that it was reflecting dissipated as-well indicating it could’ve been using the lights from the city to charge up its vehicle real quick and then flew away when it had charge.
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bright satellite moving to the southeast ejecting a bright flash I went out around 6:15 AM to look at the stars and planets. It was just before dawn, the eastern sky was a lovely orange when I noticed a bright light moving is a south easterly direction. The elevation was an estimated 60 degrees when I first noticed and about 30 degrees when I took my eyes away.
This appeared to be because of the direction and not a loss in elevation. There were no blinking lights visible, appeared to be higher than planes normally appear, was fast but not unbelievably fast, and made no sudden turns. The only odd thing was that as it moved away and near the end of my sighting it looked like something ejected up from the object.
It appeared as white streak of light flashing straight up for a fraction of a second and disappeared. I wear glasses and guess it was an imperfection in those or atmospheric illusion. I checked NASA for the position of the ISS and when I looked that path was south of me and the position when I was east of Florida.
It certainly could be the ISS but did not do the math for something traveling 25,000 miles an hour. I guess the path to the southeast was close to what I witnessed. My bet in on the space station but hope it is something weird.
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Yellow / Orange pulsating disk moving E to W at 10k foot. My neighbor and I were outside. I saw object coming from the East moving towards the West.
Object had no red, green or strobe like an airplane. No sound either. It was around 5-10 thousand feet in the air.
It was moving slow about 200 knots then slowed down almost to a complete stop above both my neighbor and I. It then continued West and speeded up then it vanished. I have been watching the sky since I was 10 years old.
I am 58 now. I own 2 advanced telescopes. I have NEVER seen a UFO until yesterday.
I have seen in the past Apollo, Apollo- Soyuz, the space shuttle, ISS all time, countless asteroids and countless satellites but NEVER anything like this pulsating orange / yellow object in the sky. I also have it all on video.
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MADAR Node 64.
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Boardman Ohio. As we drove down glenwood ave about 200ft in the sky was a triangle shaped craft that had lights on each corner and one in the rear middle. this craft was about 80ft wide and sounded like a traditional jet.
We stood right under it and it was amazing.
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There was lights all around them which were bright, they were just hovering at first and when they took off it seemed quick. While driving home we saw two objects with lights all around them in the sky. They were just hovering in one spot at first.
One ended up circling around the other and then they took off in the direction between West/East. They were fairly close to the ground as well. Their speed was fairly quick.
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This morning I was in the kitchen making coffee looking out of my kitchen window I saw three metallic objects that look like birds at first like birds because I know the birds are going south in the winter. However, these were the shiniest birds, no wings, they were glimmering in the sunlight. Hhowever these were metallic football shaped, and the shiniest things in the sky they kept shimmering and reflecting sunlight as I noticed they were moving in tight alignment.
As they moved out of the plane of my view they aligned into like a three object triangle and as the object starting getting more distant, and at a certain point it didn't stop, it seemed hesitate and then it shot straight up and into the sky of what little left I could see it was just like a really fast blur. It was moving in a south east direction.
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Bright object that changed shape with protruding poles was observed over Bainbridge, Ohio for 5 minutes by several individuals. 10/31/20 @ approximately 14:30 hrs granddaughter asked about a star in the sky above our farm. Upon looking at the object with binoculars I could see what appeared to be craft emitting a white/silver light with two thick black downward protruding pole and with a third pole that crossed at the bottom of the two downward poles but was extended further out to the port side.
The body of the craft slowly and repeatedly cycled between the shape of a diamond and a circle during the entire time of the event. The body had well defined edges and I never had any visual obstruction or blurring caused by the light during it's shifting. It appeared to be at an extremely high altitude with a moderate velocity.
Two other aircraft (airliners) were in the vicinity at the time but were well below it's altitude and they both had different headings. I immediately check online at website FlightAware.com which showed only the two scheduled airline flight already mentioned.
This we! bsite doesn't show military flights. The objects approximate location was 39°13'58.22"N 83°10'28.
67"W with a heading of approximately 100 degrees. Altitude appeared to be in excess of 50k. My point of observations would of been about 10-12 miles west of these coordinates.
The sky was clear and sunny, temperature was in the low 50's and the sun would of been to my back during the siting.
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It was a little bit scary and definitely not like anything I’ve ever seen before. I have a 15 second video, it was most definitely not a drone or a smudge on the lens.
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 56 reported sightings | 22.76% of all reports |
Circle | 27 reported sightings | 10.98% of all reports |
Sphere | 15 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
Other | 11 reported sightings | 4.47% of all reports |
Triangle | 10 reported sightings | 4.07% of all reports |
Disk | 10 reported sightings | 4.07% of all reports |
Fireball | 10 reported sightings | 4.07% of all reports |
Formation | 9 reported sightings | 3.66% of all reports |
Oval | 9 reported sightings | 3.66% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
Cylinder | 5 reported sightings | 2.03% of all reports |
Rectangle | 4 reported sightings | 1.63% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 1.22% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 1.22% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.22% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.41% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.41% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.41% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2020 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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March | 44 reported sightings | 17.89% of all reports |
July | 30 reported sightings | 12.20% of all reports |
August | 28 reported sightings | 11.38% of all reports |
January | 24 reported sightings | 9.76% of all reports |
February | 21 reported sightings | 8.54% of all reports |
October | 21 reported sightings | 8.54% of all reports |
May | 17 reported sightings | 6.91% of all reports |
April | 15 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
September | 14 reported sightings | 5.69% of all reports |
June | 14 reported sightings | 5.69% of all reports |
November | 14 reported sightings | 5.69% of all reports |
December | 4 reported sightings | 1.63% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 57 reported sightings | 23.17% of all reports |
Saturday | 55 reported sightings | 22.36% of all reports |
Wednesday | 35 reported sightings | 14.23% of all reports |
Sunday | 32 reported sightings | 13.01% of all reports |
Tuesday | 28 reported sightings | 11.38% of all reports |
Friday | 22 reported sightings | 8.94% of all reports |
Monday | 17 reported sightings | 6.91% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2020 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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03/05/20 | 13 reported sightings | 5.28% of all reports |
08/08/20 | 7 reported sightings | 2.85% of all reports |
03/07/20 | 7 reported sightings | 2.85% of all reports |
07/18/20 | 6 reported sightings | 2.44% of all reports |
07/04/20 | 5 reported sightings | 2.03% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 100 reported sightings | 40.65% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 40 reported sightings | 16.26% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 39 reported sightings | 15.85% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 35 reported sightings | 14.23% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 17 reported sightings | 6.91% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
All Ohio Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Ohio, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Ohio
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Ohio.