July 7, 1947🇺🇸Sighting
Historical

Columbus, Ohio: Five Ohio State students see three metallic ovals in triangle formation

At 7:45 p.m. on July 7, 1947, five students on a practice baseball field at Ohio State University in Columbus saw three metallic oval objects fly silently east in a triangular formation.

Date
July 7, 1947
Location / Country
Type
Sighting

Background

At 7:45 p.m. five students on a practice baseball field at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, saw three metallic oval objects flying swiftly and silently overhead in a triangular formation. The objects seemed to be about 10 feet in diameter and flew east over the Olentangy River. They were out of sight within 10 seconds. The sighting was reported in the Springfield News-Sun on July 8, 1947, and is listed in Ted Bloecher's report on the 1947 wave. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.