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Five UFO/Alien Sightings From Ohio USA

Article by Joe Dandron                                                 June 19, 2021                                                                  (dispatch.com)

• Humans may not be alone in this galaxy. Ohio – the Buckeye State – has had its fair share of UFO sightings and close encounters. Here are five of the most popular sightings in Ohio lore:

Portage County, 1966 – On April 17, 1966, two Portage County (in northeast Ohio) Sheriff’s deputies stopped at about 5 a.m. to investigate an abandoned car when they saw a UFO come up from behind some trees. They followed the flying saucer across the state line into Pennsylvania during an 86-mile chase that at times reached 100 mph. At one point, a dispatcher instructed the two deputies to shoot the object, but a sergeant countermanded that, saying it could be a government weather balloon. Deputy Dale Spaur said that the object was roughly 40 feet wide and 20 feet tall. “Somebody had control over it,” he said. “It wasn’t just floating around. It can maneuver.” The deputies gave up the pursuit in Conway, Pennsylvania where the UFO hovered, then sped off into the night. Hundreds of people reported seeing the saucer and hearing its steady hum.

Tarlton, 2006 or 2007 – Two women were driving back from Columbus, near Tarlton, Ohio, when they spotted an “entity sitting inside of a silver truck.” The entity was of slight body stature, “almost glowing”. “My headlights are shining on the vehicle because we’re looking straight at it,” one of the women stated. “I felt like something was turning my head, making me turn and as I turned in the opposite direction there was this … it glowed like white power, that’s the only way I can describe it.” “There (were) no eyeballs,” the second woman reported. “Very thin, hairless, bald and so thin … no definition of (nose and mouth). But it was glowing.”

Pickaway County, 1958 – On Feb. 27, 1958, 17 year old Pete Hartinger was on his way to the Pickaway County Fairgrounds when he saw a saucer-shaped object floating over the local feed mill before drifting out of sight. Then something else returned. “A totally different object came back. It was a reddish-orange object, a circle just like the setting sun,” said Hartinger, now in his 80s. “It stopped and hovered in midair … and the top half folded down onto itself.”

South Bloomfield, 2006 – In March 2006, Michael Moore spotted “slow-moving, hovering lights” on his commute to work. The lights traveled low and hovered above a gas station in South Bloomfield, Ohio, about 20 miles south of Columbus, before the UFO shot off into the northeast sky. “I pulled into Speedway since I needed gas and when I got out of my car I saw it hovering almost directly overhead,” said Moore. “The lights were so bright that the glare prevented me from seeing an actual shape of the object.”

Canal Winchester, Circleville, 2019 – On June 13, 2019, an anonymous witness saw a “white light and oval in shape …heading east”. It was in view for less than five seconds before disappearing. Then in the early morning of November 15, 2019, he saw a similar object, also oval shaped and white near the intersection of Routes 674 and 22. He watched the object nearly land, but emit no noise at all, before disappearing.

 

From Roswell, New Mexico, to Circleville, Ohio, UFOs and aliens have been part of American myth and legend for some 75 years.

The U.S. government last year released three videos of UFO sightings by Navy pilots — one from 2004 and two from 2015. Later this month, a Pentagon task force is expected to deliver a report to Congress on what government officials now call “unexplained aerial phenomena.”

The report may suggest the possibility of Chinese or Russian spycraft, or it could confirm thousands of conspiracy theorists’ suspicions: Humans may not be alone in this galaxy. Or not.

The Buckeye State has had its fair share of UFO sightings and close encounters. Here are five of the most popular in Ohio lore:

1. Portage County, 1966

On April 17, 1966, two Portage County Sheriff’s deputies stopped to investigate an abandoned car about 5 a.m. near Ravenna, Ohio, about 144 miles northeast of Columbus.

According to a report from The Beaver County Times in western Pennsylvania, the two deputies saw a UFO come up from behind some trees and chased the flying saucer from Ohio across the state line into Pennsylvania during an 86-mile chase that at times reached 100 mph.

At one point, a dispatcher instructed the two deputies to shoot the object, but a sergeant countermanded that, saying it could be a government weather balloon, the story said.

One of the Portage County deputies, Dale Spaur, told reporters then that the object was roughly 40 feet wide and 20 feet tall by his estimation.

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Famous 86-Mile UFO Chase in 1966 Still Defies Air Force ‘Explanation’

October 18, 2018                     (timesonline.com)

• Early in the morning of April 17, 1966, a pair of Portage County, Ohio, sheriff deputies had stop to investigate an abandoned vehicle on the side of the road. Suddenly, Deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur “Barney” Neff heard a humming sound and looked around to see a giant UFO rising from behind some trees and then hovering over them with a bright light surrounding them.

• The deputies described the bright UFO as being about 40 feet wide and 20 feet tall. “The lines of the object were very distinct,” Spaur later told reporters. “Somebody had control over it. It wasn’t just floating around. It [could] maneuver.”

• The UFO flew eastward and the deputies followed in their patrol car. Meanwhile, Police Chief Gerald Buchert was traveling in his patrol car nearby and heard their radio call. He raced home to get his camera and snapped three photos of what he described as “two table saucers put together.” (see image above of the two deputies and the police chief, and a photo below of spacecraft taken by Buchart)

• The deputies chased the UFO for 86 miles from Ohio into Pennsylvania at speeds of more than 100 mph. When the deputies’ patrol car had to slow down for bridges, the UFO seemed to slow down to wait for them, and then it would speed up again with the patrol car. They stopped at a gas station where they met another policeman, Frank Panzanella. Then they saw three fighter jets in pursuit, and the UFO ‘shot straight out of sight’.

• Hundreds of people also reported seeing the shiny saucer in the sky and heard the steady, faint humming sound.

• The director of Project Blue Book at the time, Maj. Hector Quintanilla, came down from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton to investigate. Quintanilla first said that the UFO they saw was actually a satellite. Then he said it was the planet Venus. Quintanilla also stated that radar hadn’t indicated anything peculiar, and that no fighter jets had been dispatched. Finally, he claimed that Buchert’s photos were grainy and inconclusive. Case closed.

• The officers were forced to recant their stories and to refuse to discuss it. Deputy Spaur, however, never backed down from believing he saw a UFO. As a result, he lost his job and his marriage. Spaur later said, “If I could change all that I have done in my life, I would change just one thing. And that would be the night we chased that damn thing. That saucer.”

 

It’s 5 a.m. April 17, 1966, when two Portage County, Ohio, sheriff deputies stop to investigate an abandoned vehicle along a road near Ravenna.

Deputy Dale Spaur gets out of his car, while Wilbur “Barney” Neff remains in his.

“He hears this strange humming noise, so he turns around and sees this giant UFO,” said Brian Seech, co-founder of the Center for Unexplained Events. The unidentified flying object rises from behind the trees and hovers above them, the ground drenched in bright light.

What transpires next will be an 86-mile chase at speeds of more than 100 mph that will take the deputies — and a few more — on a harrowing ride from Ohio to Pennsylvania.

For law enforcement officers, the bizarre trek won’t end in Conway, Pa. It will follow them for the rest of their lives. This close encounter marks the fourth installment of The Times video series, The Parajournal, by award-winning videographer Gwen Titley.

                  photo image taken by
            Police Chief Gerald Buchert

Initially instructed by their dispatcher to shoot the object, Spaur and Neff are told to stand down by Sgt. Henry Shoenfelt who wonders if the two have found a government weather balloon. About the same time, police Chief Gerald Buchert, who was on patrol in nearby Mantua, hears the deputies’ call about lights in the sky. He races home to get his camera and snaps three photos of what he describes as “two table saucers put together.”

When the UFO zips away toward the east, Spaur and Neff give chase.

Spaur later would say that from the ground, the object looked like the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide and 20 feet tall.

“The lines of the object were very distinct,” he told reporters. “Somebody had control over it. It wasn’t just floating around. It can maneuver.”

Seech said the chase slowed down near Rochester. The cars got “tangled up in a mess of bridges,” according to Spaur.

Spaur would later explain, “When I came out from under the bridge, it came down and waited for us. Just as though it knew these two cars were following it.”

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