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Ohio UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 107 UFO sighting reports in Ohio from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (13 reports, 12.15% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 14.02% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (20 reports, 18.69% of total).
- 08/05/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 5.61% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (44 reports, 41.12% of total).
Ohio UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Ohio UFO reports from 2021, 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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Multiple red spheres/ovals, some in triangle formation Around 6:35 PM as I got in to my car leaving Men's Warehouse at Easton Mall in Columbus, I noticed multiple bright red lights (approx 20 total) moving across the sky coming from the West, moving Southeast. I hung up with my mother whom I was talking to when I noticed the lights and starting filming at 6:39 PM. They were moving at a moderate pace and appeared to be moving in the same direction.
A few of them were clustered in triangle shapes and one of them came close overhead but was not illuminated. The shape was about 50 feet above me, it was a dark gray oval and made no sound, my camera could still pick it up against the dark sky. My original video was too big so I had to lower rez to 185 MB, I have a 452 MB version if needed.
I looked to see if there were any holiday festivals or light shows tonight and was not able to find anything in my area. Found out Chinese New Year isn't until mid Feb 2022 and the oval shape seemed inconsistent with Chinese lanterns.
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Look like 1 or 3 crafts from North traveling south in tight formation. Seemed to bob up and down as they traveled. Using a night vision camera I was able to capture on video 1 or possibly 3 objects in tight formation traveling from the north going south and it seemed to bob up and down as it traveled.
((NUFORC Note: Source of report corrects the time to 23:45 hrs. PD)).
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Stange lights Was driving southbound when I saw strange lights get very bright in a rectangular pattern and disappear. I found it odd but kept driving south. About 10 minutes later a very bright light appeared with 3 to 4 more lights moving in various patterns seemingly around the main bright light.
Both incidents only lasted a matter of seconds.
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What I thought was a shooting star bounced and sped away in a different direction faster than it was moving before I was walking to my house from my car and I looked up at the sky. After a few seconds I saw what looked like a shooting star. I’ve seen many shooting stars before so I know what they look like but after a second I realized it was moving in a weird way.
The star was moving along a slight curve instead of a straight line. It direction it was moving also seemed unnatural but was almost unnoticeable at first glance. It looked like it was at more of an airplane leven than a shooting star level in the sky.
Before I was able to process that something was off, the star took a sharp dip and seemingly bounced in the shape of a check mark and quickly sped off in a direction away from me and the light disappeared with it.
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Several blinking lights We were coming home on our road and spotted several small blinking light across the sky. They were moving around in the sky. We have lived in this rural area and have never seen anything like it.
Then there was a larger one that seemed closer and was bigger. If you look close you can briefly see smaller lights blinking around it also.
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4 different UFOs. Perceived through a hunch? I'm a freelance artist. Been living here for 30 years.
A few military installations are nearby. Lots of C-130s. Back in '92, there was a mass sighting in my county.
A police chase was the focal point of it. In the afternoon preceding these events, I was outside doing chores and having a smoke. The wind was powerful and was blowing a range of clouds all about.
There's a clearing across from my home, andI was admiring the way the shadows were moving. Then, the shadows parted in such a way that it looked manufactured. I thought to myself, "Man, seems like good cover for UFOs n such.
" when the weather is wild. I went out to have a cigarette later that day. Facing North, I see some sort of aircraft rising at a steep angle, obscured by what trees remain from the housing developments.
It turns left, heading south. It remained hard to make out until it passed out of my periphery; lots of trees. It was indeed triangular in shape.
No sound, no lights, same color as the sky. A mix of streetlights and moonlight. Crystal clear night.
I went inside to get mittens and returned moments later. I lit another cigarette and gazed up at a satellite that happened to cut right along my roofline. Totally normal, save for the orange ball bouncing about it.
It felt playful; mocking the satellite it seemed. Those two events took about 20 minutes. No more than 10 more minutes pass when I see a brilliant white light coming from the East way above me heading West.
Then, it dropped suddenly, hundreds if not thousands of feet until it was tugged back upwards, as if on a fishing line. It began to bob and drift out in front of me(facing North). It was triangular in form, one prominent strobing light on the "back" of it.
Like a game of Pong, bouncing back and forth. The shape of the craft was triangular, reminiscent of a futuristic race car to me. I could perceive no sound.
It drifted off back East, and up a forested hill. The next night, 2 AM. I'm having a smoke.
I gaze up to the left. I see the shade of an aircraft, one red and one white light. I think nothing of it.
That is until the lights jettisoned off in opposite directions, and the craft carrying on through the dark.
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Approximately 3 dozen lights traveling in a line. Lights slowly traversed most of the sky, followed by multiple other objects. My eldest daughter was visiting my in-laws with several of her siblings, when they spotted approximately 3 dozen lights flying across the sky in a tight, linear formation.
Other lights circled around the formation in every direction. She took two, short videos of the event. Then, after the formation of lights disappeared in the distance, another cluster of lights appeared about 10 minutes later.
Before she could shoot video of those lights, they shot off in every direction at a high rate of speed. None of the objects made any noise. Some of the lights travelled in rapidly changing directions, and when they dispersed, it was nearly instantaneous.
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String of lights moving from southeast to northwest Star lit night. I was looking at venus and jupiter. I saw what looked like an interrupted contrail illuminated by the stars.
Looking closer it was a series of lights moving in unison. I snapped a picture and tried to video, but the lights just disappeared. The picture shows the lights in a line You can blow the picture up to see it better.
I didn’t want to change the original by blowing it up myself.
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object more than 1,000' long x 20'wide, straight row of lights in a pattern of dots and dashes down the spine object more than 1,000' long x 20'wide (maybe more it was immense), straight row of lights in a pattern of dots and dashes down the spine (but not exactly a dot dash pattern just closest I can describe to the pattern), approached then hovered over us. Strange mechanical (?) noise above. Lights slowly went out from one end to the over, shape disappeared with the lights.
Noise is still on going as I type. We have a large outdoor patio with a 12' tall stone wood fired oven decorated across the dome of the oven with Christmas lights in a white diamond pattern. It has attracted aerial drones, small personal planes and the like before, but we've never seen anything like this.
Just trying to cook pizza for dinner.
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I have pictures moving west to east in a line across toward my house look like Chinese lantern Was out in front yard smoking the line of things came west to east not down got over my driveway and disappeared I took three pictures on phone.
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Our family saw a bunch of lights, maybe 20 in a straight line traveling across the sky from south to north. It lasted about 30 seconds Straight line of lights faded after about 30 seconds. Also saw a jet plane fly very low , lower than usual under the trail of lights.
I have video from a cell phone if needed.
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I was shooting a simple 49 second video of myself playing electric guitar in my back, at 11 seconds into the video the object appears. At first I thought it was an anomaly in the camera lens caused by the sun. However, the objects movement is totally independent of the cameras movement.
The object appears only 11 seconds into the video. (My wife and I did not see the object while we were shooting the video, it only appears on the recording). You can view the video on youtube, simply search Ray Benich 2021 Back Yard Man (with UFO).
I jokingly put "with UFO" in the title. However, after several views, and after noticing that the dogs begin to howl only when the object appears, I had second thoughts. I fully realize how extremely busy you guys must be, therefore, I thank you in advance for your time.
If I don't hear from you I will assume it was nothing important.
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((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. PD)).
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MADAR Node 64 .
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At 20:00 hours my husband and I were Traveling down the highway when just above the tree tops we saw a triangle craft. It had a bright yellow light at the top a door than two sets 3 each of White lights. The car started acting funny after that our check engine light came on and it said reduced engine power check traction control.
The check engine light is still on today.
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 13 reported sightings | 12.15% of all reports |
Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 10.28% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
Formation | 5 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
Unknown | 5 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
Circle | 5 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Star | 2 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 1.87% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2021 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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August | 15 reported sightings | 14.02% of all reports |
October | 14 reported sightings | 13.08% of all reports |
November | 12 reported sightings | 11.21% of all reports |
December | 11 reported sightings | 10.28% of all reports |
June | 10 reported sightings | 9.35% of all reports |
April | 9 reported sightings | 8.41% of all reports |
September | 8 reported sightings | 7.48% of all reports |
January | 7 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
May | 7 reported sightings | 6.54% of all reports |
March | 6 reported sightings | 5.61% of all reports |
February | 5 reported sightings | 4.67% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Wednesday | 20 reported sightings | 18.69% of all reports |
Friday | 19 reported sightings | 17.76% of all reports |
Thursday | 19 reported sightings | 17.76% of all reports |
Sunday | 16 reported sightings | 14.95% of all reports |
Saturday | 12 reported sightings | 11.21% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 10.28% of all reports |
Monday | 10 reported sightings | 9.35% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2021 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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08/05/21 | 6 reported sightings | 5.61% of all reports |
12/03/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
08/26/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
10/17/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
10/06/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.80% of all reports |
Ohio UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 44 reported sightings | 41.12% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 18 reported sightings | 16.82% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 15 reported sightings | 14.02% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 11 reported sightings | 10.28% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 11 reported sightings | 10.28% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 8 reported sightings | 7.48% of all reports |
All Ohio Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Ohio, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Ohio
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Ohio.