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)
Cambridge · OH, USA
MADAR Node 137
Bellevue · OH, USA
My friend and I are both deeply affected by this experience
Marysville · OH, USA
Strange lights over Central Ohio. ((NUFORC Note: "Starlink" satellites? PD))
Pataskala · OH, USA
Multiple objects appeared from dark sky and tracked behind each other. ((NUFORC Note: "Starlink" satellites? PD))
Westerville · OH, USA
20-30 lights moving in a straight line over Westerville, Ohio. ((NUFORC Note: "Starlink" satellites? PD))
Girard · OH, USA
Two crafts flew over a residential area and suddenly disapeared without any obstruction of view from a very short distance.
Lordstown · OH, USA
Black Triangle Sighted near Lordstown, OH on evening of 11/26/2019
Toledo · OH, USA
Strange rotating lights in the sky. Followed what seemed like source but in middle of woods.Also airport is not in the same direction
Dover · OH, USA
4 round red & orange lights in the sky
Maineville · OH, USA
Multiple white objects (up to 5) randomly appearing/disappearing in the northwest sky....
Ravenna · OH, USA
Saw a light changing color, blue, copper color, green, red. Heading NW. Moving very fast. Was not flashing like an aircraft. Light was
Pandora · OH, USA
Fast moving bright blue light spitting fireballs behind it.
New Philadelphia · OH, USA
I was traving in the car with my daughter heading north on I 77. As it got closer to me, I noticed its circular shape, resembling a whe
Brookfield · OH, USA
Bright object in sky hovering for hours
Laurelville · OH, USA
MADAR Node 98
Laurelville · OH, USA
MADAR Node 107
Findlay · OH, USA
Very bright non-blinking large light sitting in same spot for a few minutes maybe a few hundred feet up and disappeared as I was watchi
Columbus · OH, USA
A Person Moving thru the sky
Carroll · OH, USA
MADAR Node 89
Columbus · OH, USA
Black rectangle craft, green lights
Cambridge · OH, USA
MADAR Node 137
Defiance · OH, USA
Five white lights that merged into one
Carroll · OH, USA
I saw a high altitude airplane going overhead. A white cylinder shaped object flew behind it. ((anonymous report))
Carroll · OH, USA
I was outside and I looked up at a high altitude airplane and as I was watching it go overhead, this cylinder shaped, all white object
Hilliard · OH, USA
White Light in the Sky