The following mini-report was hastily written up by me in early 2003, after I personally observed
some peculiar aircraft flying overhead, while taking an outdoor coffee and candy bar break at my then
workplace.
I have shared this with a few close friends over the years, and have received much worthy
speculation back. With most UFO sightings, final determination of what's going on is often impossible, because
unlike other unusual phenomena such as psi or some claimed haunts, UFOs happen, then depart forever, and little
is left to speculate on except the memory or anecdote.
The event written about here is probably the oddest of the perhaps four times in my life I have
ever seen an aerial object or light that I couldn't classify firmly. It certainly is the only daylight sighting
of an odd nature that I have ever had.
I truly do not have any conclusive idea as to what it was that my good friend Geoff and I watched
on that bright cold winter's afternoon in 2003. I shall leave it to the reader to speculate further...
Possible UFO sighting:
21 January 2003
12900 Eckel Junction Road
Perrysburg, Ohio
Time 15:00 EST
Weather: Very cold, dry, clear, and sunny. Temp = about 15F. Light snow on ground.
I was standing just outside of the eastern door of our building with Geoff Rich, admiring the
sunshine and taking a short work break. We were in the midst of discussing solar module performance in
wintertime, and were marveling at the clarity of the sky. Geoff made the initial comment about "what are
those?" I looked up, and saw at a point nearly overhead, six very high objects moving through the sky in a
northeasterly direction. They were indeterminately whitish silver, and did seem to glisten. Very small to the
eye, resembling the size of a commercial airliner seen at full cruising altitude. However, they were moving
swiftly in an irregular formation. Meandering and chasing each other, and occasionally criss-crossing each
other's paths. This gave the impression of something smaller and lower than an airliner. Geoff first thought
they were fighters, like F-16s. However, they did not resemble a fighter plane shape, appearing to be more
like simple wings or perhaps half-moon shaped. No tail sections. No sounds were heard, and there were no
contrails seen. Other jets at various altitudes were mainly seen with contrails, though one coming in to the
Toledo airport was low enough to not have one.
As the first set of six faded into the low altitude whiteness, we saw another two of the same
shaped objects following the same course into the northeast. Again, shiny silvery white, with occasional
glinting.
Finally as those two faded, one final "straggler" proceeded on a more northerly course than
the preceding eight. This one, we both noticed, would occasionally dodge right or left, and slow down to an
almost-stop. None of the nine, however, ever turned or wheeled around like birds. Only meandering and dodging,
but never turning.
Geese or gulls at a very high altitude? Possibly, although the movement, speed, and color
just did not seem to fit well. If they were birds, they were gliding, as no change in shape of the object was
noted, as might be expected from flapping wings.
General shape of the small, high, objects
