NUFORC UFO Sighting 197548

Occurred: 1955-10-02 20:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2026-05-08 17:09 Pacific
Duration: approximate 3-5 mins.
No of observers: 8

Location: Baltimore, OH, USA
Location details: We lived between Kirkersville and Baltimore Ohio on Rt. 158 near intersection of Rt. 204 on a farm.

Shape: Cigar
Color: silver
Estimated Size: the length of the house maybe more 30-40ft?
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: it was 90o and basing east to west
Angle of Elevation: 45
Heading: it was stationary it was hard to tell
Closest Distance: maybe 20-30ft?
Estimated Speed: did not see it leave
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Made a sound, Aircraft nearby, Electrical or magnetic effects

The craft was above our house emitting a bright light illuminating a large portion of the yard and made a loud wooing sound.

I was on my way to bed going up the stairs stopped at the landing and looked out of the window I saw the yard was lite up like daylight and heard a wooing sound coming from outside. My parents were watching our new TV when all the sudden the TV exploded blow out the picture tube. My aunt who lived the next farm down from us called on the phone and said there was an object hovering above our house and asked if we were alright. I do not recall if my parents went outside, but I did not . I do know that my aunt ,uncle and grand mother all had a good view. They described it as cigar shaped with lights and what looked like portholes, but my dad said because the were looking from a side view my aunt and uncle could not see the full object, which makes me think he must have gone outside. He said it was round. the object was there for maybe not more than 5mins. The next day all of our neighbors were taking about what they had seen. The Columbus Citizen morning paper had a photo of the object on the front page and conformation from credible witnesses such as the Ohio Highway Patrol and local Sherriff Dept. I was 7years old at the time , but the incident has stayed with me my whole life.

NUFORC Note:

There was a real Ohio UFO event on October 2, 1955. The NICAP/Project Blue Book records show a documented sighting that day described as a "Hovering disc-like UFO observed over a wide area" in Akron and Alliance, Ohio, plus a separate Columbus, Ohio Project Blue Book case from October 2, 1955 that remained unsolved due to lack of information.


Posted 2026-05-11