UFO sightings in Ohio
There are 165 civilian UFO sighting reports from Ohio in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1961 to 2013. The busiest year was 2013, with 37 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (49), sphere (30) and triangle (18).
Most reports come from Cincinnati (15), Columbus (11) and Toledo (5), out of 109 places in the state with at least one report.
UFO sightings by city in Ohio
Places with at least three reports. 102 other places in Ohio have one or two.
Recent sighting reports from Ohio
The 100 most recent of 165 reports, newest first. The full set is on the map and in the list view.
Bright light, ship cloaked out on me right in front of my eyes.
Show on map- 27 Oct 2013 · 19:30LorainDiamond· 2 min
8 crafts or whatever, proceeding W to E along Lake Erie shore line, red, silent, with varying speeds, but generally in formation.
Show on map - 25 Oct 2013 · 23:55MilfordSphere· 10 min
6 orange lights moving at high rate of speed
Show on map 75+ red dots in the sky over Dayton, Ohio
Show on mapBlack triangle slowly flew over us, almost silent, and directly changed course, descended into wooded area
Show on mapObjects in sky move at incredible speed
Show on mapI am a local school teacher. This evening I witnessed about 20 large red spherical shapes moving around in the sky . They were spread
Show on map- 18 Oct 2013 · 22:34NorwoodOrb· 15 min
fireballs in sky making different formations.
Show on map - 18 Oct 2013 · 22:34NorwoodOrb· 15 min
Fireballs in sky making different formations.
Show on map the object was a orange firey ball , no sounds
Show on map- 18 Oct 2013 · 20:00Dayton/DrexelSphere· 6 min
White/blue sphere maneuvering around commerical aircraft.
Show on map - 16 Oct 2013 · 20:15AmeliaSphere· 2 s
Flash of light than a fast red light across the sky heading southwest. No tail like a shooting star or comet. Appeared to low and WAY
Show on map - 14 Oct 2013 · 23:00WarrenSphere· 45 s
I seen an bright orange round star ship 10 times the size of a bright star for aprox 45 sec and then it blinked out .
Show on map - 13 Oct 2013 · 20:30RaymondOther· 10 min
UFO, all sorts of colored lights
Show on map A bright orange light split into four, did a strange but precise set of movements, then joined back together and faded.
Show on map- 12 Oct 2013 · 22:05ChandlervilleDiamond· 40 min
Northeastern view of red and green shaped diamond changing flight pattern for the past 25 mins
Show on map - 12 Oct 2013 · 22:05HilliardDiamond· 3 min
Diamond\Top UFO with all red panels.
Show on map - 12 Oct 2013 · 21:45SpringboroOther· 30 s
High altitude orb of ligh breaks into four, which move around laterally, join back together and disappear.
Show on map - 12 Oct 2013 · 21:15MiamisburgOrb· 10 min
Started as a fireball that separated into three hovering objects
Show on map - 12 Oct 2013 · 21:00FranklinOrb· 10 min
Bright white lights one then three then four appeared then all diappeared then reappeared.
Show on map Large orange fireball splits into four fireballs.
Show on map- 12 Oct 2013 · 21:00SpringboroOther· 1 min
Glowing orbs flickering and changing configuration.
Show on map - 12 Oct 2013 · 21:00West ChesterOrb· 1 min
One yellow light that split into four the reunited over Butler County Ohio.
Show on map Bright light splits into 4 and forms shapes, disappears one at a time, above Hamilton Ohio
Show on map- 12 Oct 2013 · 20:00LimaFormation· 10 min
Husband and I witnessed 4 translucent lights moving clockwise then coming together in center and then spreading back out. I have seen t
Show on map Shape shifting Light Orbs.
Show on map- 12 Oct 2013 · 07:17StrongsvilleTriangle· 5 min
Three bright lights in triangle formation over Strongsville/Brunswick area. Moved together almost as if one craft.
Show on map - 11 Oct 2013 · 23:00North CantonOrb· 10 s
Fireball over the Strip.
Show on map - 11 Oct 2013 · 21:00DrexelSphere· 3 min
Blue white streak in sky, 2 orange orbs splitting. seems like it landed.
Show on map 3 fireball type objects close to downtown Cincinnati.
Show on mapGlowing Orange Fireball/Lights Seen at Turpin HS Football Game.
Show on mapCincinnati fire ball in the sky?
Show on map- 11 Oct 2013 · 19:20North CincinnatiOrb· 10 min
Some sort of fireball came down from the sky very rapidly soon to turn into 3 flying disc that where lit up (clearly not stars) they se
Show on map - 10 Oct 2013 · 20:00DrexelSphere· 5 min
Yellow/orange, sphere/circle that flew across night sky ,slow speeds then simply vanished , had no blinking lights, was not an airplane
Show on map - 10 Oct 2013 · 19:00RittmanOrb· 1 min
Fast moving white light.
Show on map - 2 Oct 2013 · 21:00CantonOrb· 3 min
1 Yellow/Orange Flying Fireball over Canton, OH, USA.
Show on map - 2 Oct 2013 · 20:00MiddletownOrb· 30 s
I listen to Coast to Coast Radio......I have heard you talk many times about the Orange Balls......I saw one tonight.....and watche
Show on map - 27 Oct 2012 · 22:05EnglewoodSphere· 1 min
Orange glowing ball in sky Englewood, Ohio.
Show on map 10-27-12 Springfield Ohio 5 witnesses saw 12/15 red/orange objects moving thru sky with no noise in same path.
Show on mapOrbs in a circle and star like objects
Show on map- 27 Oct 2012 · 21:05FranklinSphere· 3 min
Two large red lights over franklin ohio moving then vanished.
Show on map 12 to 15 Orange, red lights over Spfld.Ohio confuse onlookers Sat. 27 2012
Show on map- 24 Oct 2012 · 22:45GlenfordOther· 3 min
Light in the sky
Show on map - 23 Oct 2012 · 20:00McarthurSphere· 2 min
Saw two orange/yellow lights (orbs?) in the sky dimmed came back disappeared shortly
Show on map - 22 Oct 2012 · 17:30BataviaSphere· 1 min
Orange/Red Spheres seen by four people in Southwest Ohio
Show on map Large colorful rapidly flashing ball of light in eastern Cincinnati, OH.
Show on map- 21 Oct 2012 · 23:30ClevelandDisc· 2 min
As I was driving my friend home we both saw what appeared to be an airplane on I-90 East towards Cleveland.
Show on map As I was heading north on interstate 71 my daughter noticed a amber colored light in the sky... at first it was heading straight in our
Show on map- 18 Oct 2012 · 20:50Bay VillageSphere· 10 min
While taking an evening walk, I noticed a pair of two orange objects flying NNW in the sky below the cloud cover.
Show on map - 16 Oct 2012 · 22:00WoosterRectangle· 30 s
Huge, quiet object over central Ohio
Show on map - 27 Oct 2011 · 21:30WillardTriangle· 20 min
Triangle shaped craft flying in circles, then landed in woods and lit up an area appx 200 yards
Show on map Dark colored object moving fast.
Show on map- 24 Oct 2011 · 22:30Oxford/HamiltonOther· 10 min
Bell shaped object follows drivers in Ohio.
Show on map - 24 Oct 2011 · 21:00OxfordOrb· 2 h
Slowly moving object in night sky seperates, comes together and changes colors in Ohio
Show on map - 22 Oct 2011 · 21:15West MiltonOrb· 30 s
A bright ball of light slowly moved across the sky for 30 seconds and disappeared.
Show on map - 13 Oct 2011 · 15:00WilmingtonOther· 4 s
Long black flying shape for 3 to 4 seconds!
Show on map - 10 Oct 2011 · 23:00WaynesvilleTriangle· 2 min
Flying triangle by Waynesville, Ohio
Show on map - 10 Oct 2011 · 21:00LakewoodOrb· 1 min
Orange light flies overhead and turns black as it passed silently.
Show on map 2 Glowing spheres over Cincinnati
Show on map- 22 Oct 2010 · 18:47PerrysburgOrb· 30 s
UFO spotted following planes.
Show on map - 22 Oct 2010 · 08:00ReadingOther· 10 min
Four Objects in a diamond shape doing some type of flying formation and hover.
Show on map A line of 5-6 red lights moving slowly, not making any noise passed over us. Could not tell if the lights were connected to anything.
Show on map- 15 Oct 2010 · 21:15CedarvilleOther· 3 min
Large stationary aerial object hovering in the night sky
Show on map On 10/13/10, while driving, I saw an unusual nonblinking, stationary light over Cincinnati.
Show on map- 10 Oct 2010 · 03:00EuclidSphere· 3 min
2 objects blinking red and white, disappeared into the sky, after hovering around sky for 3 minutes.( over lake erie
Show on map - 1 Oct 2010 · 20:45BrunswickTriangle· 10 min
Triangle craft with bright light changes colors and moves like helicopter.
Show on map - 26 Oct 2009 · 18:00StreetsboroTriangle· 2 min
On 10/26/2009 saw flat, triangular silver colored aircraft making loud motor noise flying low over my house very near Ohio Turnpike
Show on map One star-shaped object. I thought it was Venus, being the brightest of the night stars. ((NUFORC Note: ISS?? PD))
Show on mapGrey Disk accelerates at incredible speed
Show on map- 19 Oct 2009 · 01:30DaytonOrb· 10 min
A bright white light over Dayton that danced around the sky at incredible speeds
Show on map - 1 Oct 2009 · 20:30BeaverOrb· 3 h
a white light moving in a circle.
Show on map - 26 Oct 2008 · 19:50Spring ValleyDiamond· 4 min
very bright diamond shape light hovered 100 feet in front of me near Spring Valley Ohio
Show on map - 25 Oct 2008 · 22:00MarionTriangle· 1 min
A triangular craft sighted in Marion, Ohio was flying west leaving a deep bass coming from the sky.
Show on map Bright White Sphere at I-270 and 23 on the south end travelling at an incredible rate of speed
Show on map- 22 Oct 2008 · 05:29PomeroySphere· 5 s
The object was green with bright contrail, it moved at incredible rate of speed north to south at aproximateley a 45 degree angle.
Show on map White-blue lights over Columbus, Ohio
Show on map- 20 Oct 2008 · 18:30GreenfieldOther· 15 min
Boomerang ,points upright, in Greenfield, Ohio
Show on map - 17 Oct 2008 · 23:15WadsworthOrb· 5 min
I winessed a light traveling from east to west in the lower southern sky of N. E. Ohio
Show on map - 16 Oct 2008 · 19:35AvonDisc· 5 min
Oblong UFO with red/white lights (Elyria, OH)
Show on map - 10 Oct 2008 · 23:15ColdwaterSphere· 1 min
spherical in shape, orange flames coming from the bottom, completely silent, moved fast and also hovered.
Show on map 12 ovel objects flying east to west orange and red at a slow speed then vanished
Show on map- 1 Oct 2008 · 01:00BryanCigar· 2 min
It was cylinder shaped and had lights all around it. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Show on map - 26 Oct 2007 · 23:52HilliardBoomerang· 20 min
The object was flying about 300 feet above my home around 11:45 PM on the night of Friday October twenty-six, 2007. The object was
Show on map - 25 Oct 2007 · 02:50DefianceTriangle· 30 s
Triangular craft silently moving through the air above me and past me.
Show on map UFO sighted on Oct 20, 2007 8:30 pm near downtown Cincinnati
Show on map- 1 Oct 2007 · 17:10GranvilleSphere· 2 min
Hovering bright white light turns horizontally mid-air and becomes silvery dome-shaped object
Show on map - 1 Oct 2007 · 00:02DaytonDisc· 5 s
UFO seen in Dayton, Ohio near Huber Heights
Show on map - 21 Oct 2006 · 22:45SouthbloomingvillOther· 20 min
3 very high flashing things moveing about quickley in sky.
Show on map - 10 Oct 2006 · 23:00LyndhurstOther· 5 min
This is a follow up to my Feb. 16th, 1995 report. This past Tuesday, my wife and I AGAIN heard the same loud, rumbling roar that we he
Show on map - 2 Oct 2006 · 00:16AmeliaOther· 2 s
Frisby-like sound outside of window around midnight.
Show on map - 22 Oct 2005 · 20:08NelsonvilleTriangle· 20 s
Bright light sailing in sky.
Show on map - 20 Oct 2005 · 20:00MontvilleOther· 40 min
Six coned like objects,with bright white lights floating in the Montville sky.
Show on map - 15 Oct 2005 · 08:30OxfordDisc· 1 min
Oval silver flashing Object flying SE over Oxford, OH on a clear morning
Show on map flashing red sphere
Show on map- 1 Oct 2005 · 21:30LaurelvilleOther· 5 min
Very slow moving object that made no sound.
Show on map - 1 Oct 2005 · 01:10Cuyahoga FallsOther· 7 s
V-shaped object seen in sky of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Show on map - 27 Oct 2004 · 20:00MansfieldOrb· 30 min
Many lights of different brightness combine, get brighter and disperse.
Show on map BLIMP TO RECTANGLE TO SQUARE OVER I-77 IN BRECKSVILLE, OHIO
Show on map- 24 Oct 2004 · 23:30PomeroyOrb· 1 min
Flash in the sky ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
Show on map - 24 Oct 2004 · 23:27NaCigar· 5 s
Bright flash lightens up night sky, object fires across sky at unbelievable speed… ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))
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Where these reports come from
Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.