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)
Columbus · OH, USA
Luminous blue Cloud-Orb spotted over the Sky area of Buffalo NY from Columbus, OH same time as crash of Aircraft
Bloomingdale · OH, USA
it was not moving
Bloomingburg · OH, USA
THE OBJECT LIT UP THE SKY LIKE A SMALL MOON
Tipp City · OH, USA
Triangle object with no lights
Cincinnati · OH, USA
Red lighted object moving over Cincinnati
New Paris · OH, USA
It's happening more frequently now. Although this time I fear it was more of a malicous intent. I am not going to call these sighting
Middletown · OH, USA
3-4 triangular "humming" objects at treetop level in Middletown, Ohio
Loveland · OH, USA
Triangular object flew overhead at about 20 to 30 mph just above the trees!
Dayton · OH, USA
The Department of Positive Out of Body Possibilities
Canton · OH, USA
vertical streams of light, one light began changing colors
Empire and Welsville · OH, USA
me and my dad and my brother seen two bright lights in the sky near WH. samas power plant
Ashville · OH, USA
lights rotating above house above clouds. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights. PD))
Pataskala · OH, USA
Moving as fast as an airplane with a humming sound around 300 yards away.
Kings Mills · OH, USA
Red, blue, and white lights flashing in the sky and didn't move. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius. PD))
Batavia · OH, USA
Pulsing light in South-West Ohio (Clermont County)
Columbus · OH, USA
I saw a white object with a black side in the air in the morning that dissapeared.
Cincinnati · OH, USA
Radiating, pulsating, fiery object observed in the cincinati night sky! ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of Venus. PD))
Wadsworth · OH, USA
((HOAX??)) it was grey and had strange lights on it.
Uniontown · OH, USA
11/10/08 0:30/ Uniontown Ohio/Shape Round/Duration 3 min/Object was 25 ft in diam.,round and viewed from Uniontown Ohio 11/15/08
Madison · OH, USA
Fireball seen by power plant
Bellefontaine · OH, USA
((HOAX??)) i was raccoon hunting in the dark and seen somthing go over top and it let up the woods then it was gone no trace.
Conneaut · OH, USA
floating light over ashtabula county, ohio
Newark · OH, USA
sepreate lights on a back road country road..lumunous beyond anything manmade....electronical and mechanical (engine)failure.....
Waverly · OH, USA
A gigantic flying boomerang with a dozen faint white lights on the front edge of it flying north to south at a tremendous speed,no nois
Uniontown/Hartville · OH, USA
The object was moving very slowly about 100-150ft off the ground forward and backwards and was diamond shaped with 4 lights on it.