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Analysis of Cincinnati, Ohio UFO Sightings in 2008
We analyzed all 6 UFO sighting reports in Cincinnati, Ohio to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "rectangle" (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- February was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 33.33% of total).
- Friday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 11/07/08 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 16.67% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (3 reports, 50.00% of total).
UFO Reports in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2008
These Cincinnati, Ohio UFO reports from 2008 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).
Full Report Text:
Radiating, pulsating, fiery object observed in the cincinati night sky! at approximately 6:30 pm on friday november 7 i witnessed as what can only described as an unidentified flyng object. It appeared to be a a huge radiant object in the distant that remained stationary for at least 20-25 minutes, my wife witnessed the object as well and the object was subsequently recorded on video. i could not positively discern the exact shape of this object but if i were to make a reference point, it resembled the vehicular object depicted in the 1st superman movie that brought superman from krypton to earth, i say that not to sound hoaxy but merely as a description.
i reside southern ohio (cincinnati) and the object appeared in the southwestern portion of the horizon. it was a pretty clear nite and this object was clearly no celestial body based on the way it behaved. at times it appeared as giant pulsating ball of light.
i noticed a lot of manmade aviation activity in the proximity of this object. this is clearly visible on the tape i made. i called a friend over the phone who resides not too far and he along with other witnesses observed similar activity.
after about 25 minutes the object simply diminished in the distance to where it was no longer visible. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Venus. PD)).
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12 ovel objects flying east to west orange and red at a slow speed then vanished UFO sighting in Cincinnati Ohio On Friday night October 10th my girlfriend and I were coming home after seeing a movie near Hyde Park. I was driving on Hershel Avenue in Hyde Park when I looked up and saw three orange and red objects that were round in the sky. I said to my female friend “what is that.
” A few seconds later another one went by and another one followed closely behind. My female friend said “stop the car I want to get out.” With that I looked to see if there was a car behind us but nobody was on the road.
She got out and I also got out looking in the general direction of the objects. There was no sound as they flew by. They appeared to be 50 or 80 thousand feet in the sky and flying a low speed.
The sky was clear and there was a moon with no wind. The objects were moving from the east to the west. We got back in the car and drove west.
In the distance we could still see the objects forming a circle and following each other in sequence. They continue to glow a orange/red color and were spinning yet not moving very fast. As we headed down Erie Avenue towards Hyde Park Square we could still see the objects then they vanished.
When I got back to my female friend apartment we got out of the car and went down to the street level. I looked to the east and saw one more object coming our way. The object was smaller than the rest but had a red and orange glow.
There was no sound as it flew overhead at a slow speed. Then a second later after it passed it vanished. We went into her apartment and called Lunken Airport but they didn’t see anything or heard of any reports.
Then we called local news stations, District Two Police and the Cincinnati Enquirer. All the news agencies said they never heard of anyone else seeing anything. I called the UFO Center to report my sighting and Mr.
Peter Davenport answered the phone. He told me to write down what we saw and we both needed to file a separate report to this agency. Then Mr.
Davenport said see if there is anything on the news about your sighting or if anyone else saw it. The next day I looked in the papers, and looked at all the local news and there were no reports. In Hyde Park there is an observatory not far from where we first spotted the objects.
I fired an email to the head person there and they respond saying they had guests in the observatory that night but were looking in the direction of the moon. The gentleman said that there may have been a meteor shower going on at the time or what we saw may have been space junk. I have seen a meteor shower before, but the meteor past very fast overhead.
I never seen anything that was red and orange that looked like a ball of light flying a low speed. It was very weird. So far nobody has seen anything to my knowledge or nobody is saying anything.
We live about 60 miles south of Wright Patterson Air Force Base, 10 miles from Greater Cincinnati Airport and 5 miles from Lunken Airport. We could not hear any sound from these objects so therefore they were not aircraft related. We both saw them and I must say it was very interesting.
Full Report Text:
cigar shaped UFO Saw a cigar light metal shiney in color craft about 2000 - 3000 ft up thought it was a plane at first because we have a airport somewhat close. After a minute or 2 I noticed that it wasn't moving. The craft was just hovering.
As I was watching it it just shot away at a high rate of speed. It was so fast I almost couldn't react to it.
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low flying, slow moving retangular object making a low rumbling noise. Driving down Kemper Road (a small road running between two neighborhoods) at approximately 11:45 p.m.
, three friends and I heard a low rumbling noise. We looked up and saw a flying object. It was flying lower to the ground than an airplane or helicopter should.
It was moving very slowly. It was rectangular in shape and had lights on all 4 corners. The lights were what looked like to be a mixture of orange and purple.
The rectangle also had a funnel shaped object on top, sort of like a funnel to a tornado siren. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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Black Flat Object with a Luminous Light hovering in the sky. We were exiting a resturant in a plaza. We saw this retangular flat object that was levitating in the sky.
It was not that high up. At first we thought it was a balloon or a bird. As we looked closer we all saw that the object was in deed a flat retangular shape with a luminous circle around it.
It kept swaying back and forth in an upward motion. At first it was hovering over the same spot but then it continued to get higher. This went on for about two to three minutes and it disappeared.
We actually could not believe what we were seeing. I typically do not believe in this type of stuff but there is NO other explanantion for this object. The fact that it was dark outside and we could see this black object floating in the air, leeds me to believe that this was something of a different nature.
I do not know if this was indeed a UFO, but it was not normal whatever it was. Please, I am not crazy. There were 3 of us, completely sober, who all witness the same exact object and motions.
I did try to take a picture of the object. Only if you hold the carmera a certain way can you see the "glow" of the object. It was a white circle around it.
My flash on the camera would not work so I guess the black object did not come through. I just really want some type of explaination as to what this was? Have others reported this type of object before? I am freaked out right now.
Full Report Text:
Dark object falling rapidly downward from the sky with bright orange flames emanating from it On Monday, February 11, 2008, I was driving home. I was going down Interstate 71 south, and then turned on to Ronald Regan Highway, traveling Westbound. Less than one minute later, at almost exactly 2:01 a.
m. I saw an object falling from the sky. It was nearly straight ahead of me and a little to the left, so I would estimate it was in the West-Southwest direction of the sky from where I was located.
The object was falling very rapidly so I only saw it for about 3 or 4 seconds. It was falling at an angle from right to left, at about 7 to 8 o’clock (as if looking at a clock handle). There were bright orange flames coming off the object.
The object itself was really just a dark spot, but it looked like a dark oval (judging from the flames coming off of the sides essentially); I could only see the flames coming off of it. What really surprised me is how bight and orange the flames were. I have seen meteor showers before, and this looked nothing like a meteorite that I had seen before.
The size was very large, and it looked like something was on fire and just falling out of the sky. I did not see if it made it to the horizon, as there were trees to the side of the highway. I sped up in my car trying to make it past the trees on the left to the next clear spot where I could see closer to the horizon, but that took about ten seconds and by that time the object had disappeared.
Cincinnati, Ohio UFO Sightings From 2008 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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Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Cincinnati, Ohio UFO Sightings From 2008 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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February | 2 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Cincinnati, Ohio UFO Sightings From 2008 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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Friday | 3 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Cincinnati, Ohio UFO Sightings From 2008 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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11/07/08 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
10/10/08 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
03/15/08 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
06/11/08 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
02/11/08 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Cincinnati, Ohio UFO Sightings From 2008 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 | 3 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
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