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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