State Report
UFO Sightings in Ohio
6,933 sightings on record from 1947 to 2023, drawn from the National UFO Reporting Center databank.
Total sightings
6,933
Share of US total
3.23%
Peak year
2013
690 reports
Top shape
Light
1,237 reports
Years active
76
Sightings by decade
reports / decadeTop shapes reported
all-timeLatest 20 sightings
most recent on record| Date | City | Shape | Duration | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-20 | Norwalk | sphere | About 30 minutes viewed i | Strange orb, light with blue and white lights, hovering in air, looking like it’s separates in the two or three lights... |
| 2023-12-07 | Columbus | orb | About 4 minutes | Another glowing white orb passing over my house |
| 2023-12-04 | Lorain | sphere | approximately 6 mins | A Semi Transparent, White Colored, Luminescent Spherical Cloud circled directly above my home before disappearing... |
| 2023-11-19 | Painesville | changing | 5 minutes | 11 objects all the same changing shape and color flying in multiple directions before vanishing. |
| 2023-11-19 | Grand River | changing | 15 minutes | Spotted at least 11 objects move in sporadically going in multiple directions |
| 2023-11-15 | Massillon | changing | At least 35 minutes | There would be one,then 2 more appeared,they then would grow in brightness and move away from each other at different... |
| 2023-11-06 | Canton | circle | Momentarily | I took a picture of our deck & backyard. |
| 2023-11-01 | Cambridge | changing | 7-9 minutes | Object changed shape, color, height, direction. Would morph, brighter, dimmer. Sighting ended as it spun and seemed to... |
| 2023-11-01 | Cambridge | changing | 5 minutes | Object very bright, changed shape and colors, height, direction |
| 2023-10-24 | Deshler | light | 10 seconds | Bright rectangular light on the ground |
| 2023-10-22 | Middletown | orb | Aprox. 4-5 seconds | I witness a circular grouping of faint orbs. |
| 2023-10-22 | Bellbrook | orb | One minute | 3 orb-shaped white/silver objects that joined as one |
| 2023-10-18 | Cleveland | circle | 4 hours | Bright circle in the sky. |
| 2023-10-15 | St clairsville | orb | 3 minutes | There was green objects going at insane speeds going side to side up and down like nothing I’ve ever saw before. |
| 2023-10-12 | Waynesfield | triangle | 5 minutes | Huge, triangular craft, bright strobing lights down each side |
| 2023-10-10 | Marietta | cigar | 3 min | My wife and I saw lights in a craft coming out of a Mexican restaurant in Marietta Ohio. |
| 2023-10-10 | South Amherst | orb | 3 minutes | An unusually bright orb of light floated stationary in the sky and darted away in an instant at an incredible speed |
| 2023-10-10 | Homeworth (south of CX) | other | 10 seconds | Very large dk grey object in sky north of my position approximately 1-1.5 miles N. Insight 10 sec, pulled onto side rd... |
| 2023-10-04 | Fairborn | orb | About 90 seconds | It was moving across the sky then it just disappeared. |
| 2023-10-02 | Elyria (possibly) | triangle | 54 minutes | Ring video of a possible craft flying upward |