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)
Medina · OH, USA
Two orange glowing objects, 5 minutes apart.
Dayton (Drexel Area) · OH, USA
Two faint blue spheres flying opposite of each other in high altitude.
Morrow · OH, USA
Orangish/red sphere seen by two witnesses in southwestern ohio
Loveland · OH, USA
Strange orange glowing lights in the sky late at night. ((NUFORC Note: Japanese HTV-4 craft flying close to the ISS? PD))
Jackson · OH, USA
2 round fireballs moving south
Jackson · OH, USA
Two fireballs on the horizon.
Englewood · OH, USA
Orange fireball.
Oxford · OH, USA
We saw 3 circular, white, fast moving lights moving high up in the sky.
Jefferson · OH, USA
Orange, spherical light moving erratically.
Ravenna · OH, USA
Orange sphere hovering looked almost like fire
Sylvania · OH, USA
Sylvania Sighting behind McCord Junior High.
Massillon · OH, USA
Fireballs over Massillon, Ohio that formed a triangle and took off.
Stow · OH, USA
Big bright light that didn't move then dimmed into two littles lights and moved away and disappeared.
Cleveland · OH, USA
3 white orbs over Lake Erie.
Reynoldsburg · OH, USA
Yellowish orange ball of fire travelling across the sky
Gahanna · OH, USA
Orange lights over the night sky in formation. Close without any noise moving slowly then fading away
Garfield Heights · OH, USA
Silent raspberry color object that has the ability to disappear .
Canton · OH, USA
2 orange fireballs in Ohio.
Findlay · OH, USA
Red orange blue flashing sphere followed by another moving slowly from south to north.
Columbus (northwest part) · OH, USA
Clear sky 9pm-Red Object traveling faster then any plane i ever eyewitnesses in the NE sky 35-40 secs. before " blinking out"
Marysville · OH, USA
In ENE Ohio night sky, white/orange/red light dropped at a hooked angle within a split second, white trail behind and disappeared.
Dublin · OH, USA
Red light 1 blinking
Nimishillen · OH, USA
I was walking my dog when a light with no sound was coming straight at me, I turned my flashlite on it stopped and looked at me !
Sebring · OH, USA
We saw multiple triangles and a few disks. Some had flashing lights, some had bright solid lights. One had red arrows that blinked an
Springfield · OH, USA
Fireball inside a vertical triangle.