2020-07-09 - Between Sardinia and Winchester, OH - Disk

Giant, 15-20 mile, disc-shaped cloud disturbance with a smaller, but significantly size disc emerging.

Dear Mr. Davenport, I was driving home, East, on Ohio SR 32, and I know that it was 8:41 pm when the incident began because I have a clock in the center of my dashboard. It is important to note for you, sir, that this area was about 50 miles south by south-east of Wright-Patterson AFB as the crow flies. I was driving under clear, blue skies with the sun in my rear view still 5-10 degrees above the western horizon. Off to the East, some 30-40 miles directly in front of me, the entire eastern sky was filled with a storm front of continuous, towering, thunderheads of bright white clouds, highly illuminated by the bright sun in the clear sky behind me. Myself, having flown for business numerous times via commercial airlines, I could see that these thunderheads extended up several thousand feet for which I believe an airplane would have needed to fly at about 38,000 feet to remain in the clear as from my own past experiences flying through and above these type storms. Slightly south of due East, one thunderhead significantly exceeded all the others in its altitude because there appeared to be a significant and massive disturbance within this particular cloud. I can only estimate, but to the best of my ability, I truly believe that this disturbance measured at its center and in its rotation to be some 15-20 miles in diameter. And this disturbance also extended itself to the very top and center of this cloud, as the cloud seemed to be ejecting a thin, circular translucent vapor in a smaller circle, perfectly center above the main disturbance beneath and no more than one-fourth to one-sixth the diameter of the main disturbance. And it did not appear to be any natural air or storm-front rotation from wind shear as the rotation was to perfect to be completely natural.

Nor did it seem to be generated by the storm front itself as the rest of the front and the other thunderheads were moving in a smooth pattern toward the East by East-Southeast. The swirling cloud genuinely appeared to outline the form of a massive, disc shaped object which seemed to use the trailing edge to conceal itself just in front of the opaque whiteness of the concealing cloud cover. This swirling continued with this thunderhead for at least 15-18 miles as I now chased after this leading storm. I was driving right at 70 MPH attempting to close in on the disturbance. I cannot say exactly why, but I was certain that I was about to see something significant or perhaps even spectacular emerging from this cloud of concealment. And then I saw it! Not the 15-20 mile diameter object I had hoped to witness, but instead a flat-grey disc above the storm front, but just to the right of the smaller, upper disturbance. This disc had climbed out of the main disturbance and wa! s climbing very slowly at about 30 degrees above horizontal. The disc was not perfectly parallel to the horizontal, but if one were to draw a straight line through the disc, from edge to edge, I would estimate that the straight line would be almost exactly 30 degrees to the horizontal. And then, the disc leveled off, and seemed to be moving with the cloud in the same relative position and direction, but now out of its concealment. Also, Mr. Davenport, as I stated previously, I had several encounters with disc-shaped objects in the skies when I was younger, the last time being when I was only 17. I am 55 now, and in all those previous encounters, the disc was bright silver in coloration, as though it were made of polished stainless steel or bright, new, silver aluminum. This disc, however, is the first I have ever seen which appeared to be flat grey, what I might call automotive, primer grey. And even though it was not the 15-20 mile disc I had hoped to see, this disc ! was nonetheless, at least five times the size in diameter as c! ompared to any jetliner I have ever seen. I grew up here and have lived here my entire life about 65 miles south by southeast of Wright-Patterson AFB. I have attended the Dayton, Ohio airshows numerous times, and I have had a fascination with the skies since I can remember. As a child it was not uncommon to count 12-14 jetliners in the visible skies here in southern Ohio at any one time on a clear day. And I have also witness those same planes flying over and above similar clouds, given me a relative perspective I can easily recall from memory. So, when I state the relative size, I speak with some confidence. The time I witnessed the actual, flat-grey disc was for no more than 3-4 minutes. I was trying to get to an are about 2-3 miles east of Winchester, Ohio, where I might exit my car and video it with my camera, unobstructed from trees and power lines. Unfortunately, as easily as the disc emerged from the cloud and from concealment, remaining perfectly horizontal now, it m! oved back into the cloud cover. This whole time, the larger disturbance too, had also continued, just in front of the trailing edge of the cloud. I think I also need to note here that the cloud was bright white when I first noticed the disturbance, but as time went by, this massive cloud changed color from bright white, to light orange, to amber, to red, to lavender and finally to the dark grey of an active storm front. I could so no lights through the cloud, nor did I see any lights on the flat-grey disc at any time during the encounter. I can only attribute, by logic and reason, the change in coloration of the cloud to the setting sun behind me. Now, this disturbance also slowly dissipated until the trailing edge was just as smooth as the other clouds beside it within the storm front. I shall attempt to draw up an illustration of my experience while it is still fresh in my memory, but it may take me a few days or up to week to get it to you, sir, as I have a full wo! rk load at this time. Thank you for recording my ramblings, a! nd good luck in your quest for truth!