UFO Sightings in Ohio
4,176 UFO sightings reported in Ohio since 1947, peaking in 2013 (363 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 4,176
- Span
- 1947–2022
- Peak year
- 2013 (363 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1947–2022 · peak 2013 (363 reports)
Top cities in Ohio
Columbus
1956–2021 · peak 2013 (30 reports)
Cincinnati
1955–2022 · peak 2013 (17 reports)
Cleveland
1947–2021 · peak 2004 (9 reports)
Toledo
1954–2021 · peak 2013 (9 reports)
Dayton
1959–2021 · peak 2021 (11 reports)
Akron
1956–2022 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Canton
1956–2020 · peak 2013 (8 reports)
Garrettsville
2004–2022 · peak 2020 (23 reports)
Cambridge
1966–2022 · peak 2020 (18 reports)
Youngstown
1969–2022 · peak 2020 (7 reports)
Springfield
1974–2020 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Chillicothe
1982–2020 · peak 2007 (4 reports)
Fairborn
1999–2019 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Hamilton
1952–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Mansfield
1965–2022 · peak 1973 (4 reports)
West Chester
1992–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Newark
1976–2021 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Medina
1977–2021 · peak 2013 (6 reports)
Delaware
1977–2020 · peak 2003 (6 reports)
Massillon
1995–2020 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Newark · OH, USA
A strange light flashes in the sky and the lights reflect a dark circular object before it disappears completely
Tiffin · OH, USA
Shining object stationary in the sky over Northwestern Ohio.
Jenera · OH, USA
Rounded triangular object with green lights on the sides and a white blinking light on the back. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Columbus · OH, USA
White and Yellow shiny starlike object moving irrationally and gracefully
Lancaster · OH, USA
ABOUT TWO HOURS BEFORE SUNSET, I LOOKED STRAIGHT UP AND SAW TWO VERY BRIGHT SILVER BB OBJECTS THAT WERE MUCH HIGHER THAN JET AIRCRAFT T
Grove City · OH, USA
really freaky night!!
Toledo · OH, USA
Faint blurred distant points of light traveling through the sky in Toledo, Ohio
Wauseon · OH, USA
Here is the entry directly from my astronomy journal which I wrote that night. I was driving to my parents’ house from my apartment in
Lakewood · OH, USA
Two sets of flashing lights over lake Erie in Cleveland.
Akron · OH, USA
sphere crosses night sky
Oberlin · OH, USA
Lights coming together to form a moving formation.
Maumee · OH, USA
Blue lights in a trianular shape southwest of Maumee, Ohio
Kent · OH, USA
On 4/16/08, I saw a fast moving circular object with colored lights moving across the sky and then seemed to zip-zag out of sight.
Rootstown · OH, USA
All three of my dogs never barked again.
Heath · OH, USA
red strobing star looking object ,disappeared & reappearing in different spots in the sky
Dublin · OH, USA
Traveling to the 270n to 161e ramp a triangular shaped black aircraft flew down to about 150 feet above my car. The craft stopped in mi
Lorain · OH, USA
I was behind my house, having a cigarette on the patio around our pool. I casually looked in the sky as I normally do, and noticed a ve
Morrow · OH, USA
A very bright white light high in the sky flashing very slowly in 5 second intervals moving North then gone.
London · OH, USA
Quite large red rectangular object in the northeastern sky that moved at a VERY rapid speed away from.
Powell · OH, USA
Small Cigar shape object seen traveling a fast rate of speed.
Circleville · OH, USA
5-6 strange "Phoenix" lights in a row west of Chillicothe.
Batavia · OH, USA
Cincinnati Nature Reserve UFO
Bowling Green · OH, USA
at first i thought that they were ballons but they flew from the east heading west against a 10 mph wind!
Cincinnati · OH, USA
low flying, slow moving retangular object making a low rumbling noise.
Lagrange · OH, USA
solid beams of light coming from sky allmost laser like..