A report of a June 26th, 2011 UFO came to MUFON today. A bright white light in an unnamed Ohio town was watched at 11:30 PM from the witnesses porch. It appeared to come straight at their direction from around 1000 feet in the air. No images or video were given.
"My husband and I were standing on our back patio at 11:30 p.m. EST when I noticed to the west a single light, slowly heading towards us approximately two miles away. After watching it approach our direction for a couple of minutes; I asked my husband if he noticed any flashing lights coming from it and he confirmed he saw no flashing lights either. There also was no sound coming from the object. We both watched it for another couple of minutes until it was just north of our location. It appeared to be about 500 -1000 feet above the ground. The light then quickly shot up and ascended in the sky until it disappeared."
The National UFO Reporting Center received a report of a June 12th, 2011 sighting of a glowing orange light moving slowing and with out sound over Lafayette Ohio at around 10 PM.
Orange light traveling south at approx. 40mph directly over Lafayette, Ohio, at about 500'.
The light shifted to a SE direction at about the position of the railroad track in the center of town.The orange light did not change color or intensity as it approached and passed.
This report was submitted to the UFOs Northwest website and interested me greatly because I live only a few miles from the area, and I was in that part of the county on the same day, only a few hours earlier. I contacted UFOs Northwest's William Puckett and he was kind enough to provided me with the contact information so I could possibly arrange an interview and find out more about the sighting. I have requested an interview or at least an email question and answer but as of yet have not received a reply. I offered to keep their identity's a secret. As of this writing, it has been 6 days since I sent them an e-mail. That is fine with me. Perhaps they don't check their e-mail as regularly as I do.
All of that aside, I did manage to go to the area of the sighting and take some photos and video. We parked and made photos in the best location for our car so that it was out of the way. I do not know the exact location of the initial sighting, but we were pretty much in the center of the small stretch of road. We then plotted the course of the alleged craft and its pursuit of the witnesses.
Here is the full report of the episode as it appears on the UFOs Northwest website, unedited. The time was 11:30 PM and was on a rural area of Prospect Ohio.
My fiance and I were driving around the night of June 06, 2011. We live in a rural area. We came up behind what appeared to be a slow moving vehicle with it's hazards on. As we got closer more lights came on surrounding the object and appeared to pulsate. At first I thought it was a tractor (due to the rural area), but as we got closer I listened for an engine and it was completely quiet aside from my own car. We were roughly 20 yards away and could see something walking back and forth around it. As we watched you could see underneath it as if it was floating. When we got close it picked up speed and headed down the road so we turned off onto another road. As we reached the end of the road (a good 5 mile stretch). I looked in my rear view mirror and it was following behind us quickly gaining speed. We turned off and sped home and that was the last we saw.
Maybe they just like the variety of landscape, the or the unpredictable weather, but for whatever reason, reports of UFOs, real or hoaxed, continue to come from the buckeye state and according to the Examiner UFO website, this current wave dates back to September 2010. The Mutual UFO Network or MUFON, is a reporting data center for UFO reports. They also conduct investigations of mysterious objects. They have put Ohio at a level 5 for its UFO activity. I suppose that is high, as a level four seems to be lower than a five.
A brief list of the strange events begins with September 23rd, 2010 at Canal Winchester on route 33 in Fairfield & Franklin counties when a driver saw a multi-colored, egg shaped object flying at around 200 feet off the ground. They slowed and pulled to the shoulder of the road to watch it. It flew with out wings and the lights 'encompassed' the entire object, changing from white to red. The object was believed to be less that 4 feet in diameter. Full report.
On October 9th of 2010, a limo driver delivered a wedding party to their destination and looked up to see a 'huge' black saucer hovering in the skies over Huntington Beach Park in Bay Village, located next to Lake Erie. The lake has been the place of many UFO sighting for many decades. He watched it for about 10 minutes. He sat in the limo for a bit to rest his eyes and when he looked again, the object was gone. Full report.
A silent object in the shape of 'Z' hovered over a soccer game in Howland Center in Trumbull County on October 12th, 2010. It hovered for about 3 minutes and had multiple witnesses. It then emitted a white faint beam of light and then the object and its beam simply disappeared. Full report.
On October 13th 2010, a father and son saw a cigar shaped object hovering over Belmont avenue at Lewis Center. They spotted and then drove under the object that was around 150 to 200 feet off the ground and was about the size of a bus. They saw what looked like white lights or windows illuminated from the inside. It made no sound. The father noticed that the lights from the nearby business signs lit-up a little, as if form an electrical charge. After looking away for a moment during the course of their drive, the object disappeared. Full report.
October 17th, 2010, for two hours, an Ohio family watches as four UFOs emerge from a 'black hole'. The first UFO was a set of lights in a triangle formation. It was silent, "It's white lights were diffused almost as if a cloud was in front of it but there was no cloud." It moved 'like a hummingbird', "It was very fast and extremely large compared to the moon." Ten minutes later something that looked like a shooting star but was actually two circles 'hooked together'. It was red and white. Then another object appeared 'from out of nowhere'. It was round, with three lights with 'jagged edges' and followed the flight path of the first object. After 20 minutes, a boomerang shaped object emerged from nowhere. It had a transparent, almost invisible quality to it. No location of these sightings was given. Full Report.
On October 27th 2010 a bright light in the shape of a triangle changed into a 'fuzzy ball' while it passed over an Ohio home. No location was given. Full report.
November 23rd, 2010, Austintown Ohio, Mahoning county, a fiery oval object was seen at two separate locations. Full report.
On January 4, 2011 Cleveland. A security guard caught 3 images of a lights spinning above a building. Full report
MUFON database image of UFO above Cleveland building
The Cleveland May 5th sighting got a lot of attention from national media by way of MSNBC and their coverage, stating that Cleveland had a total of 29 UFO sightings in 2008 alone!
May 9th, 2011 Cheviot Ohio, Hamilton county, a slow-moving, foot-ball shaped UFO about the size of a car, moved over a home. As the multi-lighted object moved away, a second mystery object followed it. "I would say it was about 150 feet above the house. It was far too close to be a plane or helicopter and there was absolutely no sound." Full report.
Those are just some of the highlights of the MUFON reports for Ohio in the last 11 months.
I found some sightings that I missed in my own backyard, so to speak. So without further delay, here are a list of very recent Ohio UFO reports.
First, lets start with the best; June 6th, 2011, the sighting of a craft and an entity in Marion county in the village of Prospect, at around 11 O'clock at night. A man and his fiance saw what they thought was a tractor. The closer they got, they saw that the lights were pulsating and someone was walking around outside of it. The 'tractor' however was hovering above the ground. The occupant must have climbed inside the craft, because they drove closer to it and it began to move away. The craft seems to have double-back and began to follow them with increasing speed. Then they lost sight of it.
A few days earlier, also in Marion, on May 30th, 2011, at around 5 AM, two bright lights were seen moving at a height too low for conventional aircraft. The lights moved toward and over the observers into the sky. The lighst seems to twinkle and turn yellow and orange and then blended into the star field above, fading away. Unfortunately, the report does not say if it was in the county or in city of Marion. The same day at 4 AM in Harrison Ohio, near the Ohio boarder near Cincinnati, two bluish white lights were seen moving in unison in a 'U' type formation.
On the same day, May 30th 2011, there were three other sightings in different parts of the state! At 10 PM in Minster Ohio, which is north of Dayton, a mother and daughter saw 3 to 4 orange glowing oblong objects that rose higher and higher until they completely vanished from sight. These same lights were seen at the same time, only some 25 miles away in Piqua Ohio, flying at a slow speed in the east. The husband and wife reported that there were about 5 objects glowing white and orange. The lead object shot off and disappeared. "The two following the leader did the same, while the fourth turned upward and west, revealing a steady red light" it disappeared as well. The last light headed west and vanished. These reports were all made to the UFOs Northwest website.
I made a short video that sums up the reports that I received with the picture and the video evidence.
Something has been going on in Ohio, I just wish I knew who they are and what they are doing.
After all of the Ohio UFO reports that came to this site within a three week period, I decided to take the video & photographic evidence along with some of the reports and make a very brief video blog of the event. See links below for more of the details surrounding these sightings.
