- In the days after taking a number of unusual rumors and
odd reports of strange activity from the northeastern Ohio area in the
last week of September, UFO sighting reports have continued. While future
updates are pending on a report that North Olmsted police officers have
taken a sequence of unusual UFO photographs, a female talk-show radio host
from Case Western Reserve University has reported having several
photographs
of a two tube-shaped or blimp-like objects seen in the Cleveland area
surrounded
by approaching jets. One of the objects reportedly 'vanished' while under
observation. Evaluation of these photos are pending.
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- Separately, incoming UFO sighting reports were received
by the Cincinnati UFO Hotline at a frequency and rate that was felt to
be of some surprise; one report of a female caller claiming two witnesses
to mutli-colored, lighted objects visually spied near Westfield, Indiana
in late September. Another caller reported three witnesses to an object
near Tiffin, Ohio, while other callers reporting unusual activity in
Southern
Ohio along the I-75 corridor from Dayton south to
Springboro/Franklin.
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- At 10:22 p.m. on Thursday evening, Oct. 7, 2004, a female
caller to the Cincinnati UFO Hotline (513-588-4548) sought to report
unusual
lights seen near Springboro, Ohio. The witness was contacted around 10:30
p.m. and said that the sighting took place around 2-hours earlier, about
8:30 p.m.
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- She said that while riding as a passenger in a car near
Springboro, Ohio, driving on Clearcreek / Franklin Road and crossing a
bridge over Interstate-75, she looked to the south in the vicinity of
Middletown
and spotted 1 very bright light. She sid this was a huge light, yellowish
orange in color and composed of two smaller lights inside of the bright
light. The object hovered for what she thought could have been two minutes
with no motion detected as she observed it. She said the driver did not
see the object nor did she mention it until the object 'dimmed out' and
vanished completely.
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- "I should think that other people saw this,"
she said, while adding that it was seen over I-75 to the south of her
location.
The object was seen clearly and estimated to be lower than an airplane.
There were no trees obstructing her view and the object was seen out over
the open highway, causing her to believe there would be other
witnesses.
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- The witness thought to have seen the same thing about
a month ago in the same area, and at that point gathered some information
online about earlier sightings near Springboro.
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- "This was some kind of huge light and it wasn't
a plane," she said. "plane lights just don't 'go out' and the
lights were much larger than lights on a plane.
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- The witness said that she lives near the Wright Brothers
Airport and easily recognizes airplane headlights.
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- A second report of UFO activity from the Southern Ohio
area was received by a man from the Dayton, Ohio area.
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- A retired policeman contacted the Cincinnati UFO Hotline
(513-588-4548) to report a UFO sighting. The 51-year old officer, who had
spent 21-years on force, called to report observing a red and blue light
source that had appeared in Dayton, Ohio skies at least 2 nights in a
row.
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- The object was first seen beginning early during the
morning of October 4 around 2:30 a.m., first observed to the east of his
residence. The officer said that the object held a fixed position in this
same location until at least 4:30 a.m. when he quit watching, having gone
to bed. The officer said that again the next morning (Oct. 5th), the object
had reappeared in the same place and at that point, he guessed it to be
a star.
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- However, the officer said that on the third morning of
October 6th, the object was not there in the same location at the same
time of day, nor was it there last night or this evening. He affirmed that
he has been looking in the same place at the same time of day.
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- The retired officer lives on east end of Dayton, the
object was viewed on the two consecutive nights in the eastern skies from
2:30 a.m., viewed near the WHIO TV tower on Wilmington Pike, to the east
of his vantage point.
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- He characterized the object as a blue and red light
source
that held an estimated 400 foot elevation. The object seemed to flicker
like a star, but was lower than any other star and much larger. He said
it almost appeared to rotate. He attempted to view the object through
binoculars
on the second night but could not ascertain any detail, guessing it to
be holding position at some distance.
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- On Sunday, October 10, a man near Ft. Wayne, Indiana
videotaped something in the sky The object, according to UFO researcher
Roger Sugden, had a sound explanation. It was an airplane. However, an
Assistant Professor of Geosciences as IPFW and an astronomer at the Ft.
Wayne Astronomical Society weren't so sure, offering quite different
explanations.
Those stories can be viewed at the following links:
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- http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/
- usworld/news-article.aspx?storyid=25686
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- http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.
- asp?s=2416065&ClientType=Printable
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- October 11, 2004
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- 'UFO' Spotted Near Fort Wayne
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- Fort Wayne - A resident here got out his video camera
and caught an object moving through the sky at a high rate of speed on
Sunday.
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- Brandon McBroom used the family videocam to tape a
strange
looking object in the Sunday sky. He pulled over in the Croninger
Elementary
parking lot and pointed the camera north-northwest.
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- WANE-TV took the tape around town Monday to the experts.
"That's not a meteor. It's too slow," said Roger Sugden,
Assistant
State Director with Mutual UFO Network. "High altitude aircraft. If
you've seen them at sunset, they're pretty far away. People don't know
what they're looking at. You'll see a white line that's moving real slow,
that's the contrail and in front is the aircraft."
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- But Christopher Crow, Assistant Professor of Geosciences
at IPFW, thinks this is a meteor. "Whatever that is, it's coming
down at a very fast speed. That's what's causing it to heat up - the
friction in the atmosphere to the point where it's creating plasma,
giving
off flames," said Crow.
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- "My first inclination is it's not a meteor,"
said Chris Highland, who is from the Fort Wayne Astronomical Society. His
opinion is different from the other two. "I'm more inclined to think
this is space junk, like an empty booster or a fuel tank," said
Highland.
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