Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the Trumbull County UFO
from 1994. That's correct, the 1994
Trumbull County UFO. This occurred in the state of
Ohio on December 14th, 1994. Residents and police in Trumbull
County, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified flying object in
the night sky. Residents begin calling 911
around midnight, with one caller describing the object as looking
like a fighter plane with a flame coming out of the back.
Police in multiple jurisdictions reported seeing strange objects
and even chased him. Sergeant Toby Moluro of the
Liberty Township Police Department was one of the first
to respond, and his conversation with a police operator was
featured on The History Channel show UFO Hunters.
Now, a National Weather Service radar operator described the
radar signatures he saw that night, saying I've never seen
anything moving so fast. This sighting remains
unexplained to this day. Now, there's a lot of cool stuff
out here about this. I found this other article over
at paranormal-witness.phantom.com.
I'll put these over at Kofi, the links for anybody that's
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you're listening to. Now this article starts says
here they have a little summary of it.
It says subject names Roy Ann Rudolph, Toby Malero dozens of
residents of trouble of Trumbull County, Ohio subject location
Trumbull County, Ohio 1994 paranormal experience, mass UFO
sighting It's interesting describing one of these UFOs as
a paranormal experience. I could kind of see that.
Roy Ann Rudolph was a 911 operator in Trumbull County,
Ohio and suddenly received an unusual call.
A person called to report what he believed was obviously fire
coming out of the back of an aircraft.
Within a few seconds after hanging up with him, a mother
and daughter called in to report lights in the sky hanging
silently toward the block they were at.
Even the news media were getting reports of these unordinary
flying lights. The calls became too many to be
coincidence or prank, so Roy Anne requested Officer Toby
Melora to go and investigate these reports that she and other
dispatchers were receiving from people.
Toby drove to the road where the sightings were going on and soon
a nervous person walking by stopped him in the street,
nearly hyperventilating. He also showed Toby that there
were lights over his house and was asking Toby to study them.
Roy Ann called the local air base to search if they had any
reports of this, but there was nothing within a 60 mile radius.
Toby came across some lights in the distance, but what he found
literally stopped him in his tracks.
Within 1/4 mile of the lights, everything electronic in his
vehicle suddenly died, including the radio and ignition.
So Toby was out on a road alone. Roy Ann kept trying to call
Toby, but there was no response from him.
She proceeded to direct a couple of cars to investigate Toby's
sudden silence. Toby, however, was face to face
with the light. He could identify a structure
behind the light, but the light was so bright he couldn't see
anything clearly. It appeared to be the size of a
football field and hovered silently over the trees.
While he stood there, it began to move away.
Nothing below this light was affected.
Toby went back as his car suddenly began to run and Roy
Ann continued calling him over the radio.
He reported back in but needed to collect his thoughts.
The radios began going nuts with officers and other jurisdictions
in the county reporting sightings.
Reports were coming in from miles off in every direction.
Using the radio reports, Toby triangulated its position,
jumped back in his car and headed off.
An officer in Brookfield climbed a radio tower with binoculars
and got some very good visuals. He was praying it was just an
airplane. Roy Anne called the air base
again. There was nothing on radar
within 60 miles of the Youngstown area.
Roy Anne coaxed an officer to take her out to see the thing.
She was amazed she couldn't hear it and it wasn't moving, but his
presence was massive. While she and the other officer
were examining it, the object suddenly disappeared.
Wow, that's a really cool little excerpt.
They're kind of showing the reaction and the experience of
the dispatcher. Let's go ahead and take a look
at another article talking about this very strange mass sighting
there in Trumbull County, Ohio back in 1994.
Now talking about this Trumbull County UFO sighting back in 1994
I found this article on it's astoria.com titled Trumbull
County UFO. It says a series of unusual
events unfolded on December 14th, 1994 in Trumbull County,
Ohio. Just after midnight on a late
fall night. A series of calls was received
by 911 operators. These reports all involved one
thing, reports of low flying UFOs.
The majority of these calls were heard by dispatcher Roy Ann
Rudolph. Reports mostly related a fairly
fast moving unknown object slash lights that seem to be
descending naturally at 1st 911 operators thought the callers
were seeing a balloon, plane, helicopter or other everyday
object, but because of the extraordinary number of calls,
Rudolf decided to notify the policemen of Liberty Township.
The 1st Police Unit contacted thought that the reports were
probably nothing to worry about and that a plane was probably
flying low. Sergeant Toby Meloro was the
first officer on the scene as he proceeded down Sampson Drive to
check out the lights. He was informed by a man on the
street that the lights were moving South.
As Meloro continued southernly on Sampson Drive, suddenly his
cruiser went dead. As he attempted to restart the
vehicle, it was engulfed by a bright light from above.
Startled and frightened, he exited his vehicle and stood
outside, looking up at a giant object, circular in shape and
intensely bright in the center section.
After about 30 seconds, the giant object moved away.
One of the most striking things about Molaro's sighting was that
he heard not a sound from the UFO.
After the object moved out of sight, the police cruiser's
functions returned to normal. Trying to understand what he had
just seen, he took off in pursuit of the UFO.
Melara was unable to keep pace with the UFO.
He called dispatch informing them what he had seen and gave
the object's direction of flight.
Soon this information was related to all active law
enforcement units in the area, and reports of the object's
direction were used to triangulate the object and
enable units to move to its location.
Dispatcher Rudolph later stated that at least 14 to 15 officers
had seen the UFO. Their reports of the object and
its movements were openly discussed among officers on the
police radio. Police dispatched with reports
of the UFO spreading to adjacent communities, called the local
FAA control tower and asked if they had anything unusual on
their radar. Control Tower stated that they
had nothing unusual on their scope which covered a 60 mile
diameter around Youngstown. Researcher Kenny Young did an in
depth study of the Trumbull County sightings.
His request for Freedom of Information Act documents
regarding the case was denied. Denied.
Why would you deny it? I mean, it's simply a UFO, and
if UFOs aren't real, then wouldn't the FOIA request for
these documents show that he interviewed officers involved in
the case and was confident that they were telling the truth?
Yet why would all these police conspire together to lie about a
UFO? Lieutenant James Baker of the
Brookfield Township Police Department was one of the
officers monitoring the fantastic calls and decided to
have a look for himself. He climbed up an abandoned radar
tower in the area to get an optimum look at the object.
As he reached the top of the tower, he was shocked at what he
saw, not one but three UFOs. The three objects were in a
triangle pattern with the middle object slightly higher than the
two on the side. Also, Baker stated that the
object changed colors in unison, red, yellow, blue, and green.
He reported his offer his observation to the other
patrolman on duty. Astronomers have tried to
explain the sighting as simple stars that appear low in the sky
and appear to change colors. Yeah, because that happens all
the time. Of course, this does not explain
the malfunction of police vehicles, lights engulfing them
or objects moving across the landscape being chased by
policemen. Some have theorized that the
object seen by the policemen of Trumbull County was a top secret
craft from the Youngstown Air Reserve base.
However, Captain John Keita from the base stated that there were
no planes, experimental or otherwise, flying that night.
The policemen of Ohio have spoken often about what they saw
on December 14th, 1994. Police cars that inexplicably
stalled, light beams engulfing their vehicles, one or more
structured craft of a nature never seen before since the 1994
sightings of Trumbull County have never been adequately
explained by conventional flying objects.
And that is a really good article written by, I think it
says here, BJ Booth, if everybody could write this
clearly and condense the story and put the facts out there like
this guy did, man, that would be great.
That was a very fine piece of an article there.
Thank you very much for posting that.
Let's take a look at another one here.
This is really, I think, a fantastic mass sighting with
multiple law enforcement officers, and it just doesn't, I
think, get the publicity and it's not out there in the way
that it should be. Let's take a look at another
article here. This article I think brings kind
of a different perspective to this whole sighting.
It looks like A blog. It's militarybruce.com.
I'll have the links at Kofi. Some of these kind of articles
and sites that are a little bit off the beaten path that can
really bring some interesting insight to this.
Articles by a gentleman named Bruce Forsyth.
Title says Watcher in the Sky. Was the abandoned Brookfield Air
Force Station the site of a UFO encounter?
And it's articles dated October 2022.
It says down at the end of a closed Rd. a series of ghostly
looking empty buildings set silently crumbling and slowly
being consumed by the elements and wildly growing vegetation.
This collection of buildings once played an important role in
the defense of North America. Formerly known as Brookfield Air
Force Station, the US Air Force established it as a general
surveillance radar station in April 1952.
Brookfield AFS was one of several radar stations across
America that were established in the early 1950s by Air Defense
Command, renamed Aerospace Defense Command in 1958.
Think about that thinking about Aerospace Clear back in 1958 as
an early warning direction system against an attack by
Soviet bombers. On at least one occasion in
1994, long after Brookfield AFS had closed and its radars
dismantled, there was an alleged UFO sighting near the abandoned
radar station in Canada. 3 early warning radar lines were
established, the Pine Tree Line, the Mid Canada Line, and the
Distant Early Warning Line, some of which were manned initially
by US Air Force personnel before being turned over to the Royal
Canadian Air Force. Information at all stations was
relayed to the North American Air Defense Command NORAD
headquarters at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado and
RCAF Station North Bay in Canada.
Initially, the station functioned as a ground control,
intercept, and warning station. Members of 662 Aircraft Control
and Warning Squadron, 662 AC and WS would guide interceptor
aircraft toward identify intruders picked up on the
units, an FPS and an FPS 5 radars that monitors the skies.
As a radar station, Brookfield AFS had a brief life.
Due to defense budget reductions, the US Air Force
decided to transfer 66 two AC and WS to Oakdale AFS in
Pennsylvania and reduce Brookfield's functions,
including their ground air transmitter receiver site to gap
filler radar site for Oakdale. The purpose of the gap filler
radar sites situated between each of the main stations was to
fill in holes and coverage areas and detect any aircraft that
were flying too low for detection by the main stations.
Most of them were unmanned with technicians attending
occasionally for routine maintenance.
Thus, Brookfield AFS closed on November 1st, 1959 with the
small section fenced off for a small gap filler radar tower and
control building. The remainder of the property
was turned over to Trumbull County, who established the
Trumbull County Nursing Home facility using the former Air
Force buildings. So that gives you, I think a
much more complete idea of what's happening.
Some of these articles talk about an Air Force Base there.
Well, it was what was leftover of an Air Force Base.
This is kind of a smaller radar installation.
And now you can see why the FOIA requests were denied.
They didn't want people. They probably didn't want the
Russians or the Chinese knowing the capability of the radar,
that they could just pick up everything through there.
And they also may not have wanted the public to know about
these three very large UFOs traveling through that area.
So what? Where these UFOs were sighted at
was over a former Air Force Base.
The gap filler radar remained in operation until June 1968 when
it was shut down. Brookfield's Gator site remained
in operation until the early 1980s, and then it was closed
and the site abandoned. OK, wow.
So maybe there was nothing there.
Around this time, the nursing home also closed.
With no tenants to take over the buildings, they were left
vacant. Their property was used
occasionally for police training exercises.
Oh my goodness, it's got some pictures here.
It does look derelict. Gozlana says.
The UFO sighting of 1994. On December 14th, 1994, at
around midnight, the Trumbull County 911 Center logged several
UFO reports from residents near the Sampson Rd. vicinity in
Youngstown, southwest of Brookfield.
Two weeks earlier, UFOs had also been reported in the area.
So this was a regular UFO wave. A low flying object was seen and
tracked by numerous police departments over a wide area,
including Brookfield Police Department in Brookfield
Township. 1 Brookfield Police officer reported that he climbed
atop the old Gap Filler Radio radar tower at the former
Brookfield AFS to get a better view of the alleged UFO.
Now that makes sense. See, nobody else talked about
any any of these articles, but this blog writer here points out
that the radio tower that this cop has reportedly had climbed
to to to view the UFOs was actually a tower that was used
at the former AFS. This old Air Force Base there,
which is now abandoned. Not even there.
So maybe these UFOs are just flying over to check out if it's
still there, who knows. In the end, there was no
official confirmation of what was actually spotted in the sky
that night. It wasn't the first time there
were unconfirmed UFO sightings in this part of Ohio.
That's interesting. And one such incident happened
on 17th of April 1966 when 2 sheriff's deputies, Dale Spauer
and Wilbur L Neff, were advised by the Portage County Dispatch
Center to investigate a low flying UFO reportedly headed in
their direction. At one point, the two deputies
were traveling along Route 14 at 90 mph, chasing the lights in
the sky. Spire reported to his dispatcher
of the object they were chasing. Quote It's about 50 feet across,
and I could just make out a Dome or something on the top, but
that's very dark. The bottom is real bright.
It's putting out a beam of light that makes a big spot
underneath. It was overhead a minute ago and
it was bright as day here. There you go, This thing's
flying overhead. It's putting out this very
intense bright light illuminating the people
underneath. This is almost 30 years before
the 94 sighting. Others who reported seeing a UFO
that night were Wayne Houston of East Palestine Police
Department. Boy, that sounds familiar,
doesn't it? Is it Palestine or Palestine?
Isn't it where that train derailed at?
And Police Chief Gerald Butchert of Mantua Village Police
Department, who also took photos of the alleged UFO photographs.
Chief Butcher stated that the United States Air Force Base
told him not to make public. Oh, excuse me.
So they took pictures, but they were told by the fellows at the
at the Air Force Base up there not to make them public.
Wow. Nothing conclusive was ever
found. And despite photographs that
were taken by various people of this alleged UFO, the official
Air Force conclusion was that Spower and others had been
chasing the planet Venus. Yeah, because Venus has got a
Dome on top, right? Deputy Spower would later advise
investigate a reporter that the that the alleged UFO he and
Deputy Neff had been chasing that night ruined his life and
career. Well, classic deep personing of
these guys. Several months after that
fateful night, now former Deputy Spower was working as a painter,
divorced from his wife and living in poverty and a shabby
motel. If I could change all that I
have done in my life, he said, I would change that night.
We chased that damn saucer. Wow.
Today the former Brookfield AFS has abandoned and says with
buildings in a severe state of decay.
Most of the buildings remain, but the radar towers are long
gone, leaving only the foundations of at least one of
them. Roofs and floors are collapsing,
the the concrete is deteriorating, and the buildings
are slowly being overtaken by vegetation.
In September of 2012, the property was sold to a private
entity. It is patrolled by the police
and is not open to the public. The owners are not friendly to
trespassers. A radio transmitter for WTNX is
the only thing still active on the property.
No future plans for the use of the property have been
announced. He's got a bunch of pictures
here. Yeah, what a dilapidated mess.
Just think of all your tax dollars that were wasted on
that. Excellent, excellent article.
Very appreciative for Bruce Forsythe for posting that.
Let's take a look at one more and kind of wrap this up.
It always amazes me how these sightings, you know, you read
the headlines, you think OK, it's a one off thing, but they
always seem to be tied into something else or a lot of times
they are. This as a sighting seems like an
area that has been visited many times and you have at least 2
cases in 1966 and 1994 where law enforcement have observed the
craft pictures were taken in 66, but still we're told nothing to
see. Move along.
Let's go ahead and take a look at this next article.
I just wanted to throw this last article in.
It's food for thought. Now remember this Trumbull
County UFO, December 14th, 1994. And then of course, we had the
earlier sighting in 1966, and it sounds like kind of general
stuff going on there in between. Well, remember there's a pretty
famous case out of Michigan that happened back March 8th, 1994.
So Michigan 1994 in March. And then Ohio, I don't know,
maybe what, 100 and 5200 miles away, maybe less later on in the
same year, December 1994. A lot of similarities here I
think. This article is from woodtv.com,
written by Henry Erb. Title says UFO report,
Vindication for man who tracked 1994 sighting on radar.
This is one that we have done before in the podcast at pretty
in depth a couple times. You can go back and take a look
if you like it, says Grand Rapids, MI.
Jack Bouchong was sure he was going to lose his job.
It was the night of March 8th, 1994.
Working at the National Weather Service, Bushong Radar was
lighting up with stuff he'd never seen before.
He was on the phone with an Ottawa County emergency
dispatcher who was looking for help identifying lights in the
sky over Holland. Holland is in South Central
Michigan. There, the dispatcher was
getting a lot of calls. Police officers were calling in,
too. When Bushong found out his phone
call had been recorded. Bushong said he was really
scared and lost sleep over it. He fretted about what people
were going to say about what he was seeing on his screen.
Just that people think you're a kooky, said.
Or that you're lying or not credible.
I'm supposed to be a scientist and a skeptic.
Bushong was seeing images on his radar that corresponded to what
people were calling in from the ground.
He had to control his radar by hand to 0 in on the sky South of
his station in Muskegon. Oh my, what is that?
The recorded dispatch call captured him saying in a
startled voice. Once he had zeroed in, he said
he went through his mental checklist about all the weather
phenomena and technical glitches he knew about, and what he was
seeing didn't fit any of them. He saw what appeared to be solid
objects coming together and coming apart, moving about 20
miles in each jump, he recalled they were hovering, then
jumping, hovering and jumping. After watching them for a while,
they appeared to be forming a wide triangle that moved out
over the lake, he said. They look solid.
Despite his worry about losing his job, Bouchon went on to a
promotion and a move to a bigger weather station, a forecasting
and warden, and eventually retirement.
He said the NWS treated him well, even though some
individuals criticized him and dismissed what he saw.
So he clammed up about it. I kept my mouth shut, and I
learned that pretty quickly. He said he wasn't the only one.
There has been considerable national reporting about pilots
and other credible seeming people deciding it's better to
keep quiet about such sightings. The long time government
approach may have contributed to that.
It dismissed UFO sightings as common stuff people just weren't
seeing right. After a number of sightings in
Michigan in the 1960s, then US Representative Gerald R Ford of
Grand Rapids wrote a letter calling for congressional
investigations and demanding the government stop misleading the
public. It took more than 50 years and
efforts by later members of Congress who demanded the
intelligence community produce a report and make it public.
That happened this summer. In the report, the government
admits that people have seen things that nobody can explain.
It even released video by U.S. military pilots.
For Bhushan, the release of the report was like ringing a bell.
It got him talking again. It has everything to do with it.
He said he's now thinking about writing a scientific paper about
what he saw on the Lakeshore in 1994.
He said what he saw on radar looks a lot like what military
pilots have reported seeing. I guess I've been waiting for
this medication, he said. Which I didn't think I was going
to get all my life. He was going to just let what he
saw die out. But now with the basically
military coming out and saying the same thing I saw 30 years
ago, I can finally say to people, I told you so.
Bouchon said the 1994 sighting had a lasting impact on others
who saw it, among them Holly Graves and her family.
They were among the 911 callers watching slowly rotating lights
from their from their front yard.
It was like Christmas lights. She recalled.
The incident on the Lakeshore got a lot of media attention.
Graves said some people were interested in what she saw, but
others were hurtful. She kept her kids out of school
for a while. They just went through a really
hard time, she said. They know what they saw, but
it's like everybody still laughed at them.
People forget that EU in UFO stands for unidentified, meaning
Nobody knows what the phenomena are.
That's never stopped people from speculating.
Sometimes they chew sides and even get nasty.
They accused us of being in the backyard, smoking, smoking weed,
doing drugs with our kids, Graves said.
Man, how her now adult children don't want to talk about the
sighting. It's different for Graves.
I'm glad my family got to see it, she said.
I really am. It's like once in a lifetime.
It's an experience I'll take to my grave with me.
Nearly 30 years later, it still moves her.
I wish everybody to see it, she said.
I do. I wish everybody would see it
because it was the experience of a lifetime.
Very cool. You have these similar
sightings. First, the ones here in Michigan
that we've talked about before, and then just look at that just
a few months later in December, you have these mass sightings
occurring over Trumbull County, Ohio, which may or may not be
connected with this abandoned Air Force Base there.
Really interesting stuff. What I like about these old
sightings and these old accounts.
It does seem like there's kind of a pattern that emerges of
these things not only just showing up, but maybe showing up
and doing a little Recon on us. Until next time, this is UFO
warning over and out.