Description

Location:

Dayton, OH.

Date of sighting:

July 19, 2023

Time of sighting:

5:31 PM EST (GMT -04:00)

Duration of sighting:

45 seconds.

Number of witnesses:

2 confirmed, possibly more who were driving southbound in local area.

Descripton of sighting:

At 5:31 PM, July 19, 2023 observed a shiny, flat metallic disk flying overhead. It was approximately 300 feet in the air, and a few hundred feet to my right (heading southbound, so to the west.) Object flew with no rotation or fluctuations at a 200 degree bearing, view of object lost for only seconds then object disappearing.

I was driving to my house at the remarked time, and called NUFORC on my way home, because this was very, very obviously not a plane, drone, or balloon. From my perspective (the drawing in the second image), both the top and bottom of craft were visible. I lost view of object for approximately ten seconds before pulling into a vantage point, *and* standing on top of my car - object completely gone. Immediately went home to check national radar data with absolutely nothing flying overhead in local area. Was flying directly away from Wright Patterson Air Force Base area.

After double checking radar, I told my family and then drew a mock image - shortly after which, my sister received a delayed text from her friend (who has no service, but saw the object overhead at the same time) with the first attached image. She's 13 and witnessed it as well, halfway across the city - managed to take a picture of it with the fourth image attached for context.

Her account:

Anna was standing outside in a field near WPAFB when she saw it with her mom behind her, looking the opposite direction. She sat there and watched it, took a picture of it. She turned around to tell her mom to look at it - didn't run into the house, just turned her back to tap on her mom's shoulder. Turned back around and it completely disappeared. There were clouds that day but really far off/thin ones, it was fairly clear outside.

Anna contacted my sister with no knowledge that I had seen the object as well. She had simply witnessed it and decided to ask my sister about it with the attached conversation in image four.