Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about Black cubes over Wright
Patterson Air Force Base. That's correct, Black cubes over
Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Now I was, I followed John
Greenwald Junior on X and he had a tweet about this and pretty
cool research that he's been doing there.
You know, of course, John Greenwald, he's the guy that was
kind of go to source for all this FOIA stuff.
I mean, he just, he just dogs these guys and probably get some
more stuff from the US government releasing anybody I
know of. Anyway, he has an article about
this over at his companion site theblackvault.com and the title
of it says FAA records add black Cube siding to Wright Patterson
Air Force Base. Drone Mystery by John Greenwald
August 11th, 2025 goes on and tells us newly released Federal
Aviation Administration documents obtained by the Black
Vault under FOIA Case 2025 O 4622 add significant new
information to the still developing story about a series
of unauthorized drone incursions at Wright Patterson Air Force
Base WPAFB in December of 2024. Of course, we know we have more
drones recently there in Copenhagen and Oslo.
These records, drawn primarily from FAA Skywatch system,
supplement the earlier Air Force four year release.
That number is 2025 O 1757-F, previously covered by the Black
Vault. And they introduce a striking
new element, the report of a black cube shaped UAS.
There's a new acronym for you, observed at around 16,000 feet.
Imagine being on this Air Force Base and looking up and seeing
this black cube hovering up in the sky, 3 miles up.
It says Skywatch is an FAA operation security platform used
to collect and disseminate reports of suspicious or
unauthorized aerial activity, often related to air traffic
control towers, FAA regional offices, and the domestic events
network. It serves as a central alert
system for potential security risk, with reports often shared
with law enforcement and military security forces.
Too bad they couldn't just post these on New Fork.
Here is a breakdown summary of the events just released as a
result of this case and drawing from the Skywatch system.
The documents themselves, and this is located at the bottom of
this article, go into greater detail.
Goes on down here and says event #1 So let's say we have I think
3 separate events here. Air traffic, this is dated
September 14th, 2024 O 355 hours.
So what, 4 O clock in the morning or something.
Air traffic controllers observed a drone over multiple sensitive
locations on base, including the heart, the hot cargo ramp, the
Southside of Runway SL, the military ramp, and the east side
of the airfield base. Security report of the drones
were turning their lights off and flying past them in close
proximity. The incident triggered no Tams
since NOTAMS. This is for an airfield closure with the
information broadcast on the ATIS.
The closure remained in effect until base leadership met later
that morning. So, well there you go, they see
what four or five of these things flying over the base had
low altitude to the point where they have to close the base
town. Wow, you think that would be
major news in the media wouldn't you?
Event #2 December 17th, 2024 Multiple radar targets, presumed
to be drones, were observed on lower on tower radar.
No visual confirmation was made, but the Riverside Police
Department was notified. Again, a sighting.
Nothing seems to be done about this time though.
Event #3 December 17th, 2024. This is a little bit later.
The second event happened on the 17th at 4:41 in the morning.
Looks like this happened about 1/2 hour later at 4:58.
It says the situation escalated when ZID Center radar detected
between 7 and 17 targets within 40 miles of the airport.
Right. Patterson Security forces on the
ground confirm the objects were drones.
Riverside police were again contacted.
The report categorized the incident as a swarm involving
multiple unmanned aircraft. That's the same kind of thing
that we're hearing about that was happening out there on the
East Coast. These swarms of drones, as I
call them actually, I believe they're just simply UFOs.
And then it has a little excerpt here.
It says event #4 an aircraft under remarks.
Remarks from Skywatch aircraft observed a silver UAS off the
right side while eastbound at 3200 feet.
No, no evasive action was taken. Police Department notified and
then Mor filed. Summary from Cedar View.
Skywatch reported seeing AUS at approximately 5 SE of FFO
unknown type. Silver collar of at 3200 feet
was not a factor. Greene County Sheriff notified
and then this goes on. Now look, they're spying these
things from airplanes and calling the sheriff department
for crying out loud. Event #4 December 17th,
2020418100 hours 08 was at 6:00 in the evening.
An aircraft on approach reported seeing a silver drone
approximately 5 nautical miles southeast of Wright Patterson at
3200 feet. The pilot took no evasive
action. FAA called the assurance later.
Log coordinates placing the object within the Dayton area
consistent with the Wright Patterson region.
Well, there you go. Spot in 1-6 spot in this one
storm at 16,000 feet. Spotting another one at 3200
feet. Event #5 December 19th, 20241845
it says. So this is about a day later,
this time around 6:45 PM. It looks like the most unusual
case came from an aircraft westbound at 16,000 feet near
Appleton VOR, roughly 70 to 80 miles northwest of Wright
Patterson. The crew reported a drone
passing beneath them by almost 500 feet and described it as a
black cube. FAA Quality Assurance assigned
coordinates to the siding, placing it well east of the
base, but it occurred within the same week as the other
incursions and was documented in the same skywatch data set.
Now that's a strange one. I mean, we got a, an airplane
crew or an airline crew or something calling this thing in
and saying, hey, you've got this giant, apparently large black
cube drone. That's the code word now.
Drone flying toward Wright Patterson located within the
drone sightings near airport reports located at the FAO site.
The sightings above described as a black cube is listed.
However, the description of it being a black cube was removed
or intentionally not included. Well, how about that controlling
the narrative right at the very point of origin goes on down and
says the earlier. The earlier aircraft records
documented numerous sightings by security forces person personnel
of multiple drones over areas A&B of the base, some flying in
formations and performing rapid altitude changes.
Many were described as turning lights off, maneuvering in ways
consistent with evasion, and in some cases appearing over
sensitive areas like the flight line and base gates.
However, the black cube sighting did not appear in the Air Force
release. So there we have the Air Force
just deciding to not include the description of the aircraft of
the UFO that was spotted. Now let's not call that thing a
black cube. That might just bring a little
too much heat on us. Goes on down and says the FAA
records now confirm that during the same operational window,
pilots and controllers were also logging high altitude, unusually
shaped drone activity, broadening the scope of what was
occurring in their region's airspace.
So they're catching it from pilots visually seeing it on
their radar, maybe even look at the window and see it.
People on the ground, the security personnel are seeing
it. People and air traffic control
are seeing it. This thing, these things are
being spotted by people all over the place at the same time and
they're catching it on their radar.
The FAA data mirrors many of the Air Force incident points, but
adds radar swarm data. So you have the data, aircraft,
pilots, reports and precise coordinates were available.
So they've got these things, they got them locked down to
exactly where they happened. They've got eyewitness reports
and they've got radar data. I mean, what more could you
want? The coordinates from the
December 17th silver drone sighting place it within the
Wright Patterson airspace vicinity, while the December
19th black cube coordinates are further east, but along a flight
corridor that could connect to the operational area around the
base. During that week's security
incidents. We'll imagine that while most of
the December 2024 events involve drones at altitudes that could
be considered typical for of a hobbyist or small commercial
system, the Black Cube report at 16,000 feet raises questions
about capabilities far beyond those of standard small UAS
operations, whether connected to the Wright Patterson incursions
directly or is it a separate high altitude event altogether.
It's inclusion in FAA Skywatch report during the same security
surge is notable. Well, of course, I think these
things have just gotten to the point where they're just so in
your face that even if the FAA has to start to recognize it.
Together the Air Force and FAA FOIA releases now establish that
multiple confirmed incursions occurred over and around Wright
Patterson in 2024, including swarms at a base at a base
closure and no Tam airfield closure were directly tied to
drone activity. So apparently somebody saw
something, otherwise he wouldn't have closed the airport now, now
would they? That FAA radar detected up to 17
simultaneous targets within 40 miles and that a rare pilot
reported sighting of a black cube drone at high altitude was
documented during the same period.
These details expand the public record and offer new leads in
understanding the scale and sophistication of the aerial
activity that prompted Wright Patterson's partial shutdown.
Wow, that is really something. And then he's got these letters
here that he got back from the government bodies FOIA.
He's got the he's got the drone listings that I just read to you
listed here. Really cool stuff and great work
by John Greenwald. I mean, can't tell how much we
appreciate all the hard work this guy puts into this stuff.
A beautiful website actuallyitscalledtheblackvault.com.
I'd highly recommend it if you're not familiar with it to
go over there and check it out. That's where I found this
article at. And let's go ahead and try to
dive into this just a little bit deeper and see what else has
been being said about this. Now, just for reference, if you
look this up, if you look this up on the map of Wright
Patterson Air Force Base, it's down near Dayton.
It's kind of in the southeast South Central part of Ohio.
If you go to Wikipedia, it tells us Wright Patterson Air Force
Base is a United States Air Force Base and census designated
place just east of Dayton, OH and Green and Montgomery
counties. It includes both Wright and
Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wright Field
and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot.
Patterson Field is about 10 miles northeast of Dayton.
Right field is about 5 miles northeast of Dayton.
So big place. The host unit at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base is the 88th Air Base Wing, assigned to
the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and Air Force
Material Command. The 88 ABW operates the
airfield, maintains all infrastructure, and provides
security, communications, medical, legal, personnel,
contracting, finance, transportation, air traffic
control and weather forecasting. This does all kinds of stuff
there apparently Goes on down here a little bit, talks about
some of the history of the field.
This looks to me like, like a pretty massive operation,
actually. A lot of research, a lot of cool
stuff being done here. Yeah, no doubt about it.
If if these things were from some other country or some other
wherever, you can see why they'd be there.
It says that UFO studies and sightings project sign Project
Grudge in 1949, Project Blue Book in 1952 was WAFB ST2.
Intelligence investigations have Unidentified Flying Objects
reports that began in July of 1947.
In 1951, the Air Technical Intelligence center ATIC began
analysis of crashed Soviet aircraft from the Korean War.
In March 1952, ATIC established an Aerial Phenomena Group to
study reported UFO sightings, including those in Washington,
DC in 1952. By 1969, the Foreign Technology
Division and its predecessor organizations have studied
12,618 reported sightings. 701 remain unexplained when the Air
Force closed its UFO investigations and in a 1968
report concluded that there seems to be no reason to
attribute the unexplained sightings to extraterrestrial
sources without much more convincing evidence.
Yeah, the FTD sent all of its case files to the US Air Force
Historical Research Center. Sure they did, which transferred
them in 1976 to the National Archives and Record Services in
Washington, DC, which became the permanent repository for the
project. Sign Grunge Blue Book records.
In a 1988 interview, Senator Barry Goldwater claimed he had
asked General Curtis Lemay for access to a secret UFO room at
Wright Patterson Air Force Base. And an angry Lemay said, not
only can't you get into it, but you don't ever mention it to me
again. Yeah, Lemay was kind of a big
deal. I mean, he was like the guy, I
think the kind of designed the whole bombing strategy in World
War 2. Probably not.
Somebody really wanted to mess with Technical Air Base, the
Army forces, Technical Air Base says.
And he goes on, talks a little bit about some of the research
and studies going on down there. Look, this is an enormous place
and right the kind of the heart of the beast as far as a lot of
these faults, in my opinion, faults UFO narratives that have
been generated go quite strange, then maybe ironic that they
would be plagued by these UFO incursions.
I went ahead and went to New Fork and just thought I'd look
up a couple sightings that may have happened around the same
time as these reports. This first one that we're
looking at was dated January 11th, 2025 SA couple months
after these so-called drones reported.
It says duration is 10 seconds. Observers one location date in
Ohio, so it's right near there. Location details near the
intersection of Interstate 70 and Interstate 675.
Shaped triangle 6 white lights estimated approximately the size
of a Boeing 727 viewed from land direction from viewer 11:00 to
3:00 Angle evolution 45° closest distance approximately half a
mile. Estimated speed approximately
100 mile per hour. Lights on object reverse
triangle shape approximately 800 feet above the ground with five
solid lights and one strobe light.
A triangular shaped craft about the size of a Boeing 727 flew
over Interstate 70 just north of Dayton, OH at 3:20 AM.
It was very low, approximately 800 feet high.
The pointed end was travel was trailing and the flat edge was
leading. Its speed was around 100 mile
per hour. At first, I did not think much
of it, but as I got closer and could make out the shape, it was
very unconventional for an aircraft.
I was hoping to see other reports of it here since it is a
fairly populated area. Yeah, funny how these things can
fly over and then nobody even notices them.
Yeah, so here you have two months after the FAA reports
these multiple drone incursions over Wright Patterson.
People still seeing stuff. Here's another one.
This was dated January 10th, 2025.
S again a couple months after the a month after these first
reports come in from Wright Patterson.
It says approximately 9:35 PM local time, duration 10 minutes.
Observers too, including an aviation expert.
Location Waka Bonita, Ohio location details observed from
inside my home and outside while looking up.
Shape unknown Color black Estimated size approximately the
size of a car viewed from land. Closest distance about 250 to
300 feet above the ground. Estimated Speed close harder to
estimate, but appeared to be about 25 to 30 mile per hour.
Possible explanation Drone lights on object That evening,
my partner and I were watching a movie when she noticed a craft
approaching from the West, heading east and a straight
line. The craft appeared to hover for
a few minutes before it began moving in our direction.
We noticed red and green lights on the craft and as it came
closer over our home, we ran outside to watch it as it passed
overhead very slowly. The craft made no noise
whatsoever. That sounds like a drone to you.
We checked a flight tracker to confirm it was not a registered
aircraft at the time. It was a few 100 feet above us
and flew east in a straight line with no deviation.
About four days later we noticed two more craft in the distance
intersecting each other, one moving N the other South.
I believe what we saw was part of the drones reported across
America over the past few months.
Again, the craft that passed overhead made no noise or motor
sounds. It appeared very large as
indicated by the distance between the blinking green and
red lights, but it was moving much slower than a standard
aircraft. Strange how Ohio didn't get any
attention during that whole East Coast drone situation back here
last year. This sighting does have a pretty
good picture with it in a short video.
It's December 28th, 2024, 7:50 PM local time, so just right in
the same exact time frame as the rest of the stuff that we're
talking about in theblackvault.com location.
Urbana, OH Shape, rectangle color red, white, and green.
Estimated size Approximately the size of a car viewed from land.
Direction from viewer multiple directions Angle of elevation
45° at least 200 feet above the ground.
Estimated speed Unknown lights on object left a trail or
changed color does look like a trail.
You can see here. In this photo, I witnessed at
least 15 large drones with flashing lights and coordinated
patterns at night, with some appearing to spray substances.
Isn't that great? On the 9th of December 17th and
December 28th, I documented at least 15 large drones flying
over my neighborhood. Each drone was equipped with
flashing lights on its wings and a white light at the front, with
some also featuring a white light on the tail.
Because of these observations occurred at night, the bodies of
the drones were not visible. However, based on the
positioning of the lights, I believe the drones had a
rectangular shaped structure. From their dimensions, I
estimate their size to be approximately that of a car.
Doesn't sound like a hobby drone to me, especially when you got
15 of them at a time being spotted.
The drones exhibited coordinated flight patterns, moving in
multiple directions across the sky.
Their lights, red, white, green, and occasionally blue, appeared
to facilitate communication between the drones.
This is evident in the video recordings where multiple drones
can be seen interacting. Additionally, some of the drones
appear to discharge a substance into the atmosphere, a detail
clearly visible in the accompanying video evidence and
that it is to support this report.
I have chronologically dated the video recordings and compiled
them into a single video for convenience.
The compilation clearly shows the patterns of movement, the
communication like behavior of the lights, and the instances
where certain drones appear to spray a substance into the sky.
All videos were recorded on my iPhone 14 Pro have also included
a photo highlighting a trail left after a drone sprayed a
substance in the sky. These drones have been observed
on multiple occasions, underscoring the need for
further investigation into the purpose and operations.
Yeah, but what do we get? Nothing to see here and move
along. There you go.
The same thing they're reporting on the air base.
People around that area are reporting the same exact thing
happening. Here's a setting from December
14th, 2024. Same time frame.
Location. Canfield, OH, Seen from home in
Canfield, OH, that looks like it happened about 2:30 AM.
Shape. Other unlit craft approximately
the size of a small airplane. View from land direction from
viewer. Northeast angle of elevation
45°. Approximately 50 to 100 yards.
Estimated speed. Crescent shaped crafts were
moving slowly, Orbits were moving quickly.
Possible explanation of drone. Yeah, sounds like a drone.
Huh? Characteristics or a haze around
object emitted. Other objects made a sound.
I was at my home in Canfield, OH, and kept hearing what
sounded like low flying loud airplanes overhead.
This happened repeatedly from midnight onward around 2:30 AM.
After hearing it several times, I decided to go outside and see
what was happening. I turned off all the properties
exterior lights to improve visibility and brought a 13,000
aluminum flashlight with me. I continue to hear the craft
flying overhead. That's when I noticed a Crescent
moon shaped craft with no visible lights flying above it
appeared to emit small fast moving orbs that look like
miniature shooting stars starting off in multiple random
directions. I used my phone to check if a
meteor shower was coming because of the orbs I kept saying.
Also, I continue to hear the louder Crescent shaped craft.
Though it was difficult to spot without marker lights.
I observed actual shooting stars for the meteor shower which were
clearly larger and obviously more distant than the orbs being
emitted from the craft. Later I discovered that someone
in New Jersey reported the same incident around the same time on
Reddit. This is clear.
There's clearly something very unusual happening here.
There certainly was. And it seems to me more and more
like it was connected to that Air Force Base because a lot of
these things were around Air Force bases.
I want to look at a couple more sightings here before I wrap up
before I wrap up this kind of on the ground witnesses of these
drones that that happened here in December 2024, these black
cubes over Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
This next sighting happened December 12th, 2024, 8:40 PM.
It says direction 10 to 15 seconds.
Observers to Wadsworth, OH corner of Main Street and State
Street shaped triangle collar. Dark nighttime sighting,
approximately 10 foot wide viewed from land direction from
viewer to my right angle of elevation 45° closest distance
approximately 200 feet, hundreds of mph when it departed Possible
explanation drone. Does that sound like a drone to
you? Going from just kind of hanging
out there to zipping away at hundreds of mph?
I don't think so. Characteristics Lights on
object. I would like to report a
sighting of a triangular shaped UFO that my 12 year old daughter
and I just witnessed in Wadsworth, OH.
The craft had three lights and appeared to be about 10 feet
wide. It was hovering over a house as
we were driving home from my daughter's dance class.
I jokingly said there's a UFO and then we realized that it
actually was. The craft turned away to the
right and I quickly turned the car onto State Street to follow
it. As soon as we rounded the corner
it made a full half spin and shot off in the darkness.
Within about two seconds it was completely out of sight.
I should mention that I was a skeptic until this experience.
It was both cool and scary at the same time.
Yes, I do know that feeling. This last local site that we're
talking about is dated December 12th, 2024, 7:15 PM Local time
and duration 20 seconds. Observers 2.
Alliance OH shaped triangle, color unknown.
Approximately the size of a car viewed from land direction from
viewer E angle of elevation 25°, approximately 350 feet for the
closest distance. Very slow and stable and I think
maybe a drone. Well, here we go with the drones
again. Lights on object.
My partner and I both observed what appeared to be a large
triangular object approximately the size of a vehicle, flying
extremely low and slow with no sound.
It had three lights, one white, 1 green and one red, but it did
not appear to be moving like any aircraft we have ever seen
before. Well, imagine that that's that's
kind of a common theme that we're getting with these UFOs
that were spotted in December of 2024 over at Wright Patterson
Air Force Base there. So I just want to finish up with
this report at the time about the local news covering this.
We know there's a bunch of UFOs being spotted there, not just on
the base, not just the ones that the FAA reported that
Greenwald's gotten a hold of, but also local people in this
area are seeing all different kinds of of things, But the
underlying theme seems to be people calling them drones.
Now, the black cubes are the ones I find super interesting,
but to me, these things are just changing shape as they go along.
I found this over at wdtn.com. Wdtn.com they got a nice little
video of it too, but it says drone sighting shuts down wpafb
for hours Friday by Whitney Williams, Adrian oglesby and
Trey brown dated December 16th, 2024 Dayton, OH An unexpected
security concern over the weekend shut down Wright
Patterson Air Force Base for hours over the weekend.
A spokesman for the 88th Air Base Wing confirmed that drones
now there you go. They insist on calling these
things drones, but none of them have been properly identified or
spotted flying over and near the campus on Friday, shutting the
base down for four hours. The shutdown ended early
Saturday morning. We are taking all appropriate
measures to safeguard Wright, Patterson and the residents,
said Robert Pertman with the 88th Wing.
You know, our units continue to monitor the airspace and are
working with local authorities to ensure the safety of, again,
our base personnel, facilities and assets.
The drones spotted were small, unmanned and did not disrupt
operations on base, according to reports.
Well, I don't really agree with that because if you shut the
airport down, then I would say that yes, they did disrupt
operations. Their presence has raised
security concerns, though it is not clear if these sightings are
connected to the potential car size flying drones reported on
the East Coast. I just read multiple reports
here from that area where people are seeing car sized drones.
Absolutely they are in that area.
The topic of drones and concerns over their use is 1 being
discussed across the country. As of October 24th, there are
nearly 800,000 drones registered nationwide.
We need to know who's behind it, said Florida State
Representative Mike Waltz. The administration has
repeatedly assured people that they are safe, said Minnesota
Senator Amy Kluchebar. However, one, we need a briefing
for the members of the Senate to figure out what's going on here.
2 we need more transparency. The Aviation Administration is
of the belief that these incidents are becoming so
frequent that more strict rules on drone usage are necessary.
The FAA is also advocating for tougher penalties for those who
break usage laws. Well, First off, just take one
down. Then in a statement obtained by
Two News, Congressional Congressman Mike Turner said the
following quote. I have been personally briefed
by Wright Patterson Air Force Base leadership.
Well, I've not taken a whole lot of stock in that, to be honest
with you. Yeah, some really strange stuff.
And it it's good, I think, to come back and look at this stuff
sometimes a few months after it happens, when people have had
time to call in their own personal reports and see that
something is going on there. And whatever these things are
just a total disregard for our safety.
A total disregard for the fact this is a a United States Air
Force Base. And the idea that some random
person could be allowed to fly these drones over this thing
without recourse from the the federal government is kind of
shocking to me. To me, this would almost be like
right up there. I don't know if you'd call this
an act of war, but certainly it's endangering our security.
And why weren't these things shot down?
And why weren't the media doing a better job meeting with people
and talking to some of these folks that report to New Fork
about these sightings that are happening all around the Wright
Patterson Air Force Base there? But anyway, again, thanks to
John Greenwald for his good work and bringing some of the stuff
to light. And it just matches up so
perfectly with what people are on the ground saying.
I don't know how people can and say, well, we've resolved this
and there's nothing to see there when we have radar images, when
we have military and civilian flight pilots seeing these
things, reporting in real time, reporting to FAA, reporting into
the local police, reporting to the Sheriff's Department.
And then we have military and security on the ground and we
have private citizens on the ground seeing these things.
I mean, how many people have to see these things for society to
wake up and say, well, I think these things might be real and
to quit just kind of throwing this blanket over there and
saying, oh, well, this is just some unknown drone operator that
doesn't work for me. Hope you enjoyed the program.
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