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)
Dayton/Fairborn · OH, USA
Blue/green light 1:49AM Dayton, OH circular
Hamilton · OH, USA
Several (10-15) objects spread far apart hovering over Cincinnati area facing SSW. Flashing multi-colored (red, white, blue.
Brecksville · OH, USA
Huge Triangle, Brecksville, OH. Could see inside the lowered "glass" room.
Boardman · OH, USA
Golden flying triangle shakes under rain clouds until finding an opening in the clouds and turned upright and disappered quickly!
Hilliard · OH, USA
Light in upper atmosphere that vanished. No trail. ((NUFORC Note: Probable overflight of International Space Station. Anon. PD))
Reading · OH, USA
A bright orange fireball with a faint blue tail came up from the eastern horizon. As it flew over our house it it started to fade.
Liberty Township · OH, USA
Fireball appeared in the sky falling towards the earth, then it got bigger and flashed from white to green vanishing over a house.
Lewis Center · OH, USA
Thinking at first was either a balloon or then based under the unusual movement of the object we were thinking drone. ((anonymous))
Pataskala · OH, USA
Silver object seen by 2 witnesses.
Beavercreek · OH, USA
On a Sunday afternoon our family and three of my daughter's friends where playing volleyball at the community park behind our house ,I
Vermilion · OH, USA
photograph of object in sky 2016.
Jacksonville · OH, USA
2 side-by-side green lights moving super fast and were super loud.
Columbus · OH, USA
I went outside to smoke a cigarette and as usual I look up at the sky and something that caught my attention,I saw a bright light just.
Columbus · OH, USA
12 bright lights following each other over Columbus.
Huron · OH, USA
((HOAX??)) Red and green lights flying low over Huron High school. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Franklin Furnace · OH, USA
Lights in the sky.
Cincinnati · OH, USA
On Sunday, March 20th 2016 at approximately 11:20 am, I was leaving my house to take my usual exercise walk around the neighborhood. As
New Lexington · OH, USA
I tried to enter the time in the correct box but it would not allow me. But the sighting took place at 9:20 P.M. or 21:20 P.M. Military
Elyria · OH, USA
((HOAX??)) There were three shapes with blinking lights northwest of where I was standing.
Medina · OH, USA
Very different colored orb the color was yellowish orange maybe a small amount of red it stayed in place about 3 mins then went west.
North Canton · OH, USA
Single orange, elliptical object, hovering.
Akron · OH, USA
20-30 multicolored fast moving orbs seen over Akron, Ohio.
Pataskala · OH, USA
Green fireball with a tail that looked like sparks falling towards earth 6AM
Columbus · OH, USA
On 71 southbound near the Budweiser plant. A green flash lit the entire sky behind the clouds sort of like heat lightning except it's
Columbus · OH, USA
Over the South side of Columbus, Ohio.