NUFORC Sighting 43213

Occurred: 1994-07-01 23:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-03-28 08:48 Pacific
Duration: 30 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Goshen, OH, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Fleet of UFOs over Goshen, Ohio...Summer 1994

First off I must say that I wish I had reported this a long time ago, I would have if I knew how to go about it. I'm reporting it now because I really would like to know if anyone else has seen anything like this in Goshen before or since. Would love to compare notes. Anyway... here's the story.

It was about 11:30 at night on a clear starry night in late summer. My girlfriend at the time and I were driving down ST. RT. 28 heading out of Goshen towards Blanchester. Just to give you a better image of where we were, Goshen is farmland and out past the town it becomes a long stretch of road with forest and fields pretty much everywhere you look.

My girlfriend was asleep in the passenger seat when I noticed a very bright row of white lights in the sky ahead and off to my left. These lights were bright enough and just about the right height that I at first passed them off as stadium lights until I remembered that we had already passed the high school about 10 minutes before.

Not being familiar with the area I woke up my girlfriend and pointed to the lights to see if she knew what it was. She, like myself, was clueless. Both of us kept our eyes glued to these lights as we drove further down the road. At the distance we first noticed it... we didn’t notice any deviation in the brightness of the lights or any movement from the object until we got closer. At that point we could see a sort of oscillating effect to the lights that made it look as if they were rotating around the object. When we noticed this, honestly I began to get a bit excited. I had always heard about UFO's but had never seen one and the thought of seeing one was a rush. But even then I wasn’t planning on tracking this thing down... I was interested but not THAT interested. That is until I was getting really close to my turn off and realized that my route would take me right by the field this thing was in. So it looked like we were going to get a closer look at this thing after all.

I took a left onto Shiloh road... I think that's the name of the road. However after turning left the object was on my right hand side about a football field away and few hundred feet in the air (guessing on the distances). Just after turning off we saw a little gravel driveway near a broken down barn that went a short distance into the field. Both our curiosities were really peaked at this time so we pulled in, shut the car and radio off and watched.

What we saw was amazing, the object was so dark that all we saw was the lights that ran around its perimeter, we couldn’t make out a shape yet, but watching its maneuvers was enough. It would sit horizontal with its lights seemingly rotating around it, extremely bright but not so much you could look at it. Then, its lights would dim down and stop “rotating”, it would shift from horizontal to a roughly 30 degree angle and shoot straight up in the sky and back down again in a matter of seconds but in a different spot within the field. It would then settle fully horizontal and its lights would return to how we first saw them. At no time did this craft seem to notice or care we were there, there were times when it would move that it would come close enough that we could hear a pulsating humming sound coming from it.

All in all, we stayed and watched this for about 1/2 an hour and never did either one of us have a sense of fear, we felt totally safe (whether we were or weren’t). While we sat there though, we noticed several other object at varying distances all pulling the same kind of maneuvers, bringing the total to about 8 UFO's in that area. We really got the impression that they were searching for something or practicing maneuvers? Who knows.

Finally we decided to leave before we pushed our luck. On the drive home my girlfriend noticed that one of the objects was moving in our general direction. Not so much following as we had a good idea that the direction it was going would take it really close to her home. Her Dad happened to have a good set of binoculars so when we got there we ran back outside with them and took a look up as it went by. What we saw was a dark triangle with 4 lights, 3 in the corners and one larger one in the center each having a yellowish/white light underneath. In fact the picture of the Triangular UFOs from Belgium look almost identical to what we saw.

So there's my story, I would love to hear from anyone that might have seen anything similar. Granted this was 10 years ago, but I'm betting that if anyone else saw this it would have stuck in your mind as much as it has mine.



NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2005-05-24

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