UFO Reports from Ohio for 1996

[TASK] UFO SIGHTING INFORMATION DATABASE JANUARY 1996 - PRESENT January 14, 1996 Interstate 275 near Loveland-Indian Hill exit, Loveland, Clermont County, OH; 1:30 A.M. Motorist and passenger observe object hovering in valley near interstate highway. Preliminary information submitted to George Clappison, TASK, but two phone calls later placed to witness were not returned Mid-January, 1996 Day Heights, Milford, Clermont County , OH; Midnight Resident reports brief power surge affecting home sometime in mid-January. Lamps glowed brightly and backyard area of residence lit up with luminous glow for over one minute; said to be as "bright as daylight." Information submitted to Jerry Black, TASK consultant, during monthly "UFO Support Group" meeting February 10, 1996 Rapture Road, Owensville, Clermont County, OH; 10:00 P.M. A 16-year-old Owensville resident videotapes an object that moves closer as he shines a spotlight at it. The odd light moves away when he turns the light off. Strangely, he declares the videotape turns up missing, but resurfaces in July of 1996 when the mother was contacted. Videotape yet to be analyzed. Reported to George Clappison and Charles Stuart of TASK February 11, 1996 Near Interstate 275, Kentonvale, Kenton County, KY; 1:30 A.M. Motorist and passenger observe a "structured object" with lights. Several protruding elements were noted. One witness said to be "freaked out." The object allegedly tilts and turns off. Other motorists observe, and traffic slows. Information, report and drawings of object submitted to George Clappison and Kenny Young, TASK February 12, 1996 Montgomery Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH; 2:00 A.M. Area resident claims to observe odd light hovering over the Media Play department store for a duration before departure path to the east. The witness was furnished with a report form, but it was not filled out or returned. Initial telephone contact made by witness to Kenny Young, TASK March 3, 1996 Radio or TV Broadcast facility, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH; 8:33 P.M. A security guard and his supervisor at a radio and/or TV facility located near an interstate highway places a telephone call to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to report several semi-transparent, self-luminous spheres of light hovering near an adjacent building. The object moves behind the building and reappears on the other side. Wright-Patt telephone operator advises the callers to report the incident to the local police department. Witnesses decline, and submit information to TASK June 27, 1996 Near Route 32, Williamsburg, Clermont County, OH; 2:00 A.M. Several teenagers, while camping outdoors, enter residence to alert parents of object seen hovering over neighborhood. Parent steps outdoors to view phenomenon, observes odd light hovering stationary for 30 minutes. Other lights seen in vicinity. Reported to TASK July 3, 1996 Urbana, Champaign County, OH; 10 P.M. to midnight Three independent witnesses from two separate locations observe a glowing red light traverse sky from north to south. The object was witnessed by a former Air Force officer who operated the Hawk Missile System during the Gulf War. He was trained at Ft. Bliss and had extensive experience in aircraft identification. The witness stated that the glowing red object was surrounded by four F-14 fighter jets. The jets, according to the observer, strangely had no sound as they traveled directly overhead. The red object vanished from sight, but the jets "continued on, as if they were looking for it." Jets said to be equipped with some kind of "HUSH KITS." Witnesses contacted TASK, interviewed, completed report form; other witness located, submitted verbal interviews to TASK researchers July 4, 1996 Paulding, Paulding County, OH; 8:30 A.M. A pilot flying a small airplane over the vicinity spots a 93-foot crop circle in a field. Upon landing, the pilot drives to the site and informs the owners of the property, who in turn contacts the local sheriff's office. The circle had a "swirl" pattern. A team of researchers from East Michigan University take a radiation survey and finds that the circle is radioactively hot, at which time the sheriff cordons off the area with police tape. Dr. Wm. C. Levengood, a biophysicist from Grass Lake, Michigan, presented his preliminary laboratory results from his investigations, and determined that the Paulding circle is NOT MAN-MADE. It was postulated that the circle was caused by PLASMA BURSTS from an atmospheric aberration. For a report on Levengood¦s research and lab results, contact: NANCY TALBOTT BLT RESEARCH TEAM PO BOX 127 CAMBRIDGE, MA 02140 Police report obtained by Jim Donahoe of Equinox, who visited the site; TASK researcher Dale Farmer also visited and documented the site Additional information courtesy of Paul Burrell, MidOhio Research Associates and The Crop Circle Connector c/o Mark Fussel and Stuart Dike July 4, 1996 Middletown, Butler County, OH; 10:30 P.M. Several witnesses observe a glowing red object, said by one person to be as big as a baseball held at arm's length. One witness notifies Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. The telephone hireling at Wright-Patt advises the caller to take the matter to the local police department instead. Red object hovers stationary for over 30 minutes before departure path NW. Witness interviewed by TASK investigators Terry Endres and Kenny Young July 4, 1996 Oregon Road, Perrysburg, Lucas County, OH; 11:00 P.M. 28-year-old housewife who lives off Turnpike 80/90 reports an airborne disk with flashing lights fly very low overhead. The lights chased around underneath the object. The bright "chasing lights" could be seen for miles, according to the witness. There were three underneath and one up on the tail end of the object. Viewed from eight to ten miles away, no sound detected. Information courtesy of UFO ROUNDUP, Volume 1 #25 July 5, 1996 Middletown, Butler County, OH; 9:50 P.M. Multiple persons telephoned the police department to get answers regarding a "glowing red light" seen hovering over residential neighborhoods. The red light was also seen from the Carlisle Park Apartment Complex, four miles to the north. The object was photographed and videotaped, and multiple witnesses said a second, smaller object was present. Some claimed the second object "dropped" from the first, while another witness that observed through binoculars stated that the second object "orbited" the first before finally "merging" with it. Some persons contended that the object "shot off" at an incredible pace or "appeared suddenly" over their homes. There were unfounded rumors that a special military plane was seen at the Middletown Airport during the time duration of the event. Several officers with the Middletown Police Department observed the object hovering over the Emergency Room Entrance of the Middletown Hospital for a 45 minute duration. There were over 30 calls to the police department, and rough estimates place the witness tally at greater than 300 persons. (Police report and dispatch audio copies obtained by TASK, as well as video and witness observation reports.) The story hit newspapers the following Wednesday and made national news on AP and USA Today. July 6, 1996 Berne, Adams County, IN; 4:00 A.M. Female motorist dials 911 to report being "followed" by a UFO. There were multiple observers, including police officials and the Mayor of Berne. Two police officers videotaped the UFO, which was described as a "cone/triangle" with red and blue lights. The videotape was submitted to and broadcast by a Ft. Wayne TV station. Information courtesy of Francis Ridge, UFO Filter Center, Mt. Vernon, IN and Jim Donohoe, Equinox July 8, 1996 Scioto Drive, Urbana, Champaign County, OH; 10:00 P.M. One witness reports a UFO seen flying over the Odd Lots department store. The object was described as a self-luminous ball of red light, and was traveling at the speed of an airplane, traversing the sky from east to west, and as big as a dime held at arm¦s length. Terry Endres, Dale Farmer, and Kenny Young, TASK July 10, 1996 US Route 50, Owensville, Clermont County, OH; 12:30 A.M. Three witnesses from Zebulon Park apartment complex witness glowing red light that hovers for over five minutes, silent...no sound. The object pulsates, said to resemble a "blood-red light." Two witnesses were frightened; all three willing to give interviews to researchers. Reported to Kenny Young, TASK July 11, 1996 Middletown, Butler County, OH; 9:55 P.M. Hundreds of persons again report red object hovering over city, dropping "flare-like" particles downward. TASK investigator Dale Farmer is on hand to view and videotape the incident. The Middletown Police Department contacts the Dayton International Airport for assistance. The airport tower operators vectors the pilot of a small airplane into the vicinity. The pilot circles his airplane around the object five times at very close range (as seen on the Farmer video). The object holds its position for nearly one hour before disappearing from sight. Farmer tracks the pilot of the plane back to the Middletown airport, where the pilot informs everyone that the object seen was a very complex balloon device, which was comprised of eight to ten "gigantic, helium-filled balloons" with a sophisticated platform suspended from underneath. Situated on the platform was a cunningly crafted arrangement of flares, which would enable one flare to ignite just as another was about to extinguish. The falling particles seen dropping from the object was the spent flare, as it fell away from the strange concoction. Investigated by TASK, and reported by AP news, Cincinnati Post, and Middletown Journal July 12, 1996 Loveland, Clermont County, OH; 12:00 A.M. Specific location unknown. A female resident places telephone call to 700 WLW and speaks with newscaster Bill Tonis, advising him of a UFO seen at a high altitude. The lights were reportedly rotating around the object in a circular pattern. Tonis contended that the witness sounded sober, and was simply reporting something that she had seen Information courtesy of 700 WLW Radio July 18, 1996 US Route 50, Owensville, Clermont County, OH; 3:50 A.M. Area resident places phone call to Clermont County Sheriff's Department advising them of a UFO that is hovering in field adjacent to residence. Object is described as a glowing red light. Upon arrival of patrol cruisers, the object reportedly lowers into the foliage and its glow extinguishes. After patrol cruiser departs scene, the object lifts again to its previous position and its luminosity returns. The resident again calls Clermont County Sheriff's Department, whereupon they dispatch three patrol cruisers to the scene. The object again reportedly lowers into the foliage at the approach of the patrol cruisers, where they spend nearly 15 minutes searching and scanning the field with their spotlights. Sheriff's office said that no department official had placed any "anomalous observation." According to the resident, the object did not reemerge again until 45 minutes after the second departure of the patrol cruisers. She did not call again. The object remained visible for an extended duration, hovering in place until it allegedly "winks out." Only one known witness to event. Reported to Kenny Young, TASK, who confirmed two phone calls made by witness to Clermont County Sheriff¦s Department July 20, 1996 Dayton, Montgomery County, OH; 11:00 P.M. A W.Va. family watching a movie at a drive-in reported a strange formation of seven or eight colored lights shoot across the sky, flying at approximately 40 degrees above the horizon. Their appearance was said to have been like street lights in a very heavy fog. Traveling in a "V" formation at a very high rate of speed, much faster than commercial or known military aircraft. Estimate that their total time of over-flight to be three to four seconds, flying from north to south. Information courtesy of UFO Roundup Volume 1 #25 July 28, 1996 Hamilton Avenue, North College Hill, Hamilton County, OH; 7:00 P.M. One witness reportedly observes two oblong, silvery, disc-shaped objects, hovering one over the other in the vicinity of Hamilton Avenue before sudden departure path, one to the south and one to the north. The objects, according to the witness, "did not appear to be airplanes." Witness resides in Mt. Healthy. Reported to Charles Stuart of TASK August 9, 1996 Kemp and Billymack Roads, Elida, Allen County, OH Another crop circle is found, this one in residential neighborhood. The formation measures 46 feet, 6 inches and is located in a field of timothy grass. The circle was spotted by a helicopter pilot, and the area residents had no knowledge of its existence prior to its reportage. Investigated by George Clappison and Roger Olson, TASK, additional information courtesy of a Mr. Wilson and The Center for Crop Circle Studies, and reported to East Michigan University. August 24, 1996 Forfeit Run Road (Colerain township),Hamilton County, OH; 11:00 P.M. A bright object allegedly observed by a machinist employed at the Simmons Corporation. The witness watches the object in the sky. Six photographs taken from a fixed-focus 35 mm camera, resulted in 6 images on 2 filmstrips. After careful analysis, TASK. researchers speculates that the images on the photographs are actually those taken of the moon. TASK is not certain as to the intent of the witness. Weather conditions: clear sky, temperature 80 degrees, moon visible. Photographs submitted to TASK October 10, 1996 Woodville Pike (Goshen township), Clermont County, OH; 7:30 P.M. A police official employed within the Clermont County region was contacted by phone regarding an alleged UFO sighting on Route 727 at 10 P.M. The officer, whose identity TASK will not disclose, advised that he had personally witnessed a "funky green light" (his words) earlier in the evening. When asked if he thought it could have been a UFO, the officer stated that he "had never seen anything like it before in his life." The officer was reminded by the caller of routine Airborne Express traffic which approaches and departs from Wilmington Airport, twenty-five miles to the north, but remained very silent and did not express any opinion. Officer added that the object disappeared from view as he drove into a clearing. Acquired by TASK October 10, 1996 S.R. 727 (Goshen township), Clermont County, OH; 10:30 P.M. A woman claimed that a UFO hovered "half a telephone pole high" over the roadway, and was "pretty close" to her car. The object was said to be an oval-shaped light, and no aircraft engine sound could be heard. The woman advised family members of the event, which was said to involve three witnesses in two different automobiles. TASK has made repeated attempts to contact the witness who told family members of the event (The family members contacted TASK.). The woman is regarded as an uncooperative witness, as she refuses to speak with TASK investigators regarding this, and has not answered or returned three phone calls. Acquired by TASK., deemed insufficient data for analysis October 15, 1996 S.R. 68 (Bellfountaine & Kenton), Hardin County, OH; 11:00 P.M. An area resident reports three UFO sightings between 11:00 P.M. and 11:30 P.M. The witness alerted Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and subsequently advised TASK afterwards The first sighting took place about three miles north of Bellefountaine on Rte 68, where a bright red light centered between two white lights was observed. An additional white light was also noted, which made a triangular shape with the other white lights. The red light was centered in the triangular pattern, and detached from the main object and allegedly descended slowly to the ground for over a 5-minute duration before "extinguishing." The lights on the main object remained constant as it moved slowly and soundlessly while flying at or below the altitude of a small airplane. Ten minutes after this sighting, the witness reported a bright red light similar to the previous red light, and to the north of the original location. Five minutes later on Rt. 68 near Kenton, a third sighting happened in which an object very similar to the first was visible, but, without the red light. She also believes this to be the same object. The object was last seen low in the sky near the Kenton airport The witness placed a telephone call to this airport, but there was no answer. A phone call made by TASK to the Hardin County Sheriff¦s Department revealed that a separate area resident had telephoned the dispatch office at 9:00 P.M. to advise of "low-flying aircraft." Officials at the airport advised that "touch and go" training maneuvers were conducted earlier in the day, but were called off at dusk, and furthermore stated that the exercises were conducted by a certified flight instructor, and did not violate airspace regulations by flying low over homes. October 16, 1996 Flaugher Hill Road (Aberdeen), Brown County, OH; 8:30 P.M. Two witnesses, husband and wife, observed a brilliant flash that lit up the surroundings, followed by an aerial phenomenon described as an "orange-ish light" that appeared and disappeared, then reappeared in a different part of the sky. The object seemed to "stall out and hover," and was visible to the north of their location. The Brown county resident volunteered that he had "never seen anything like it before" in his life, and stated that he felt certain "something big is going on." The wife was reported in "near hysteria" by the event, and advised that a phone call was placed to the Brown County Sheriff¦s Department and also to the Brown County Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol before 10:00 P.M. on October 16 regarding the incident. Dispatchers at these agencies curiously stated that there was no record of such calls were placed to their facilities on the date in question during telephone inquiries made on Friday and Saturday, October 18 and 19. Information acquired from second-hand sources before contact with witnesses made October 16, 1996 Ripley, Brown County, OH; 8:37 P.M. Two persons contacted by telephone from above family, step outside and also observed an orange object that allegedly changed shape. Initially seen as a bright orange-red light (more reddish), the object appeared from an area in the direction of Manchester, Ohio, and was also said to "appear and disappear." Also noted were numerous other aircraft that were flying about the area. The husband placed call to a Bethel resident (Clermont County) and advises them of the matter. The object was said to appear as three to four lights in a straight line, and two or three lights in a diagonal line, forming a "T" shape. At one point, the lights separated and moved off in divergent directions. October 16, 1996 Jackson, OH; Specific time uncertain Area resident observed a red fireball traversing the region during the night and reported the observation to MORA. Information acquired by Jim Donahoe of EQUINOX and MORA October 16, 1996 Outside of Chillicothe, Ross County, OH; 8:45 to 9:00 P.M. Multiple witnesses observe an aerial phenomenon in the skies above Ross County, which is north of the Brown County region. A Chillicothe radio station, WKKJ 93.3 FM, received dozens of phone calls regarding the event, where it was the topic of conversation the following day. The Ross County Sheriff¦s Department also was advised by numerous area residents. An officer was sent to investigate. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was alerted of the situation by the Ross County Dispatch Office. An area resident recorded several minutes of home video footage of the phenomenon, which was described as an object that would "appear and disappear." It was also described as an object with "lights rotating around it in a circle." The camera operator stated to TASK researchers that he had to wait for a duration with his camera so that the object would "reappear." The videotape was subsequently acquired by a Channel 10 News from Columbus, Ohio, and broadcast on the Thursday and Friday night newscasts. Information also acquired and researched by Bill Jones of MUFON and MORA _1996 TASK [|]Unusual Research Main Page | TASK | TASK Database [|]

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