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)
Centerville · OH, USA
Black Triangle craft with lights on all corners and it made a humming sound
Avon Lake · OH, USA
slaughterhouse 5 revisited
Canfield (OH/PA border) · OH, USA
Observed a black saucer shape in the sky just above the horizon.
Cleveland (approaching) · OH, USA
Near miss - a UFO shot out from under our MD-80 and made a ninety degree turn off our right wing.
Hudson · OH, USA
as told to me at my job right after the sighting, My friend gail was traveling to work on route 91, into hudson,ohio. She was a ovel cr
Dayton · OH, USA
small light in the sky, not blinking, below high clouds, and traveling VERY fast...
Cincinnati · OH, USA
IT was a large circular motion of lights in a stationary position.
Streetsboro · OH, USA
Rumbling Sound
Piqua · OH, USA
It was covered with a misty glare.
Cincinnati · OH, USA
At about 10:30PM, I was on westbound I-275 and Highway 128 when a Huge EGG or Top shape object was right above my vechile moving north.
Springfield · OH, USA
looked like a plane but alot fatter and shorter... lotes off lites on the bottom of it and it was hovering on the side on rt 4 in sprin
Grove City · OH, USA
Triangle arrangement of lights were witnessed above road. Also, there was at least one red flashing light on one of the sides. It was a
New Philadelphia · OH, USA
Light moving irratic in the sky.
Somerset · OH, USA
Three cresent red glows in a triangular formation, S.E. traversing 40-45 degrees in 4-5 sec. below Orions Belt.
Aberdeen · OH, USA
Approx 3:00am 0n 3/29/00 the following opbervations were observed by myself while observing the Pleadies star cluster in northern sky.
Fredericktown (Outside of) · OH, USA
I saw two bright white objects in the night sky swoop down and out of the horizon.
Columbus · OH, USA
Was it a dream or was I abducted?
Wilmington · OH, USA
i was driving down st rt 73 south three miles south of wilmington.i saw a black triangle ahead,just above the horizon.i saw another one
Athens · OH, USA
Witnessed silvery white cylinder travel across sky and then vanish.
Vandalia · OH, USA
What at first appeared to be stars, were not. The UFO's (numbering at least 75 in number) had definitive patterns and actions.
Bellefontaine · OH, USA
After we ( my girlfriend and I ) got done skiing at the Mad River Mt. walking back to my car, I look up in the sky and see two red obje
West Manchester · OH, USA
Flashing white light approx. tree top level.
Columbus · OH, USA
Yesterday, 1/20/00 at exactly 6:00p.m., I observed a "green meteor"? falling from north to south in Columbus, Ohio. My wife and son an
Fairborn · OH, USA
There were intensely bright lights about the height of stadium lights in a place where no stadium existed.
Alliance · OH, USA
It was dark about 10:00 PM on a saturday me, my 12 yr. old brother, and my bestfriend (I'd like to keep our names a secret b/c "they" m