1 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,000 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,920 In this episode, we're talking about the Trumbull County UFO 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,480 from 1994. That's correct, the 1994 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,080 Trumbull County UFO. This occurred in the state of 5 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:23,240 Ohio on December 14th, 1994. Residents and police in Trumbull 6 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:27,960 County, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified flying object in 7 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,480 the night sky. Residents begin calling 911 8 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,440 around midnight, with one caller describing the object as looking 9 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:39,080 like a fighter plane with a flame coming out of the back. 10 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,280 Police in multiple jurisdictions reported seeing strange objects 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,040 and even chased him. Sergeant Toby Moluro of the 12 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,680 Liberty Township Police Department was one of the first 13 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:54,160 to respond, and his conversation with a police operator was 14 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,400 featured on The History Channel show UFO Hunters. 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,800 Now, a National Weather Service radar operator described the 16 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,200 radar signatures he saw that night, saying I've never seen 17 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:10,640 anything moving so fast. This sighting remains 18 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,160 unexplained to this day. Now, there's a lot of cool stuff 19 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,320 out here about this. I found this other article over 20 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:19,160 at paranormal-witness.phantom.com. 21 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,440 I'll put these over at Kofi, the links for anybody that's 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,320 interested. Thanks to everybody that 23 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:26,120 supports our program over there in Spotify. 24 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,520 Also, don't forget to like follow it on whatever platform 25 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,160 you're listening to. Now this article starts says 26 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:34,840 here they have a little summary of it. 27 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:40,560 It says subject names Roy Ann Rudolph, Toby Malero dozens of 28 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,560 residents of trouble of Trumbull County, Ohio subject location 29 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,840 Trumbull County, Ohio 1994 paranormal experience, mass UFO 30 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,360 sighting It's interesting describing one of these UFOs as 31 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,720 a paranormal experience. I could kind of see that. 32 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,080 Roy Ann Rudolph was a 911 operator in Trumbull County, 33 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:05,000 Ohio and suddenly received an unusual call. 34 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,560 A person called to report what he believed was obviously fire 35 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:11,520 coming out of the back of an aircraft. 36 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:14,960 Within a few seconds after hanging up with him, a mother 37 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,840 and daughter called in to report lights in the sky hanging 38 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,040 silently toward the block they were at. 39 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:25,320 Even the news media were getting reports of these unordinary 40 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,240 flying lights. The calls became too many to be 41 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,320 coincidence or prank, so Roy Anne requested Officer Toby 42 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,520 Melora to go and investigate these reports that she and other 43 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,480 dispatchers were receiving from people. 44 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:43,080 Toby drove to the road where the sightings were going on and soon 45 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,240 a nervous person walking by stopped him in the street, 46 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,960 nearly hyperventilating. He also showed Toby that there 47 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,160 were lights over his house and was asking Toby to study them. 48 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,240 Roy Ann called the local air base to search if they had any 49 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,440 reports of this, but there was nothing within a 60 mile radius. 50 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,920 Toby came across some lights in the distance, but what he found 51 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,880 literally stopped him in his tracks. 52 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,000 Within 1/4 mile of the lights, everything electronic in his 53 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:17,160 vehicle suddenly died, including the radio and ignition. 54 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:22,000 So Toby was out on a road alone. Roy Ann kept trying to call 55 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,280 Toby, but there was no response from him. 56 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,800 She proceeded to direct a couple of cars to investigate Toby's 57 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,280 sudden silence. Toby, however, was face to face 58 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,960 with the light. He could identify a structure 59 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,240 behind the light, but the light was so bright he couldn't see 60 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,760 anything clearly. It appeared to be the size of a 61 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,880 football field and hovered silently over the trees. 62 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,400 While he stood there, it began to move away. 63 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,760 Nothing below this light was affected. 64 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,760 Toby went back as his car suddenly began to run and Roy 65 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,080 Ann continued calling him over the radio. 66 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,000 He reported back in but needed to collect his thoughts. 67 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,280 The radios began going nuts with officers and other jurisdictions 68 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,240 in the county reporting sightings. 69 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,880 Reports were coming in from miles off in every direction. 70 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,920 Using the radio reports, Toby triangulated its position, 71 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,480 jumped back in his car and headed off. 72 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,960 An officer in Brookfield climbed a radio tower with binoculars 73 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,440 and got some very good visuals. He was praying it was just an 74 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,000 airplane. Roy Anne called the air base 75 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,160 again. There was nothing on radar 76 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,000 within 60 miles of the Youngstown area. 77 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,120 Roy Anne coaxed an officer to take her out to see the thing. 78 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,960 She was amazed she couldn't hear it and it wasn't moving, but his 79 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,080 presence was massive. While she and the other officer 80 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:50,320 were examining it, the object suddenly disappeared. 81 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,320 Wow, that's a really cool little excerpt. 82 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:58,040 They're kind of showing the reaction and the experience of 83 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,120 the dispatcher. Let's go ahead and take a look 84 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,920 at another article talking about this very strange mass sighting 85 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,640 there in Trumbull County, Ohio back in 1994. 86 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,960 Now talking about this Trumbull County UFO sighting back in 1994 87 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,680 I found this article on it's astoria.com titled Trumbull 88 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,400 County UFO. It says a series of unusual 89 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:26,720 events unfolded on December 14th, 1994 in Trumbull County, 90 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:30,040 Ohio. Just after midnight on a late 91 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,520 fall night. A series of calls was received 92 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:38,120 by 911 operators. These reports all involved one 93 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,680 thing, reports of low flying UFOs. 94 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,680 The majority of these calls were heard by dispatcher Roy Ann 95 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,640 Rudolph. Reports mostly related a fairly 96 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:54,040 fast moving unknown object slash lights that seem to be 97 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,120 descending naturally at 1st 911 operators thought the callers 98 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,080 were seeing a balloon, plane, helicopter or other everyday 99 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,960 object, but because of the extraordinary number of calls, 100 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:09,520 Rudolf decided to notify the policemen of Liberty Township. 101 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,560 The 1st Police Unit contacted thought that the reports were 102 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,880 probably nothing to worry about and that a plane was probably 103 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,200 flying low. Sergeant Toby Meloro was the 104 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:26,160 first officer on the scene as he proceeded down Sampson Drive to 105 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,400 check out the lights. He was informed by a man on the 106 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,840 street that the lights were moving South. 107 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:37,280 As Meloro continued southernly on Sampson Drive, suddenly his 108 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:39,880 cruiser went dead. As he attempted to restart the 109 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,160 vehicle, it was engulfed by a bright light from above. 110 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,200 Startled and frightened, he exited his vehicle and stood 111 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:52,000 outside, looking up at a giant object, circular in shape and 112 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,560 intensely bright in the center section. 113 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,760 After about 30 seconds, the giant object moved away. 114 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,240 One of the most striking things about Molaro's sighting was that 115 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,920 he heard not a sound from the UFO. 116 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,080 After the object moved out of sight, the police cruiser's 117 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,640 functions returned to normal. Trying to understand what he had 118 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,480 just seen, he took off in pursuit of the UFO. 119 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:19,760 Melara was unable to keep pace with the UFO. 120 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,560 He called dispatch informing them what he had seen and gave 121 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,280 the object's direction of flight. 122 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,480 Soon this information was related to all active law 123 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,040 enforcement units in the area, and reports of the object's 124 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,440 direction were used to triangulate the object and 125 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,040 enable units to move to its location. 126 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:45,720 Dispatcher Rudolph later stated that at least 14 to 15 officers 127 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,360 had seen the UFO. Their reports of the object and 128 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,760 its movements were openly discussed among officers on the 129 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,120 police radio. Police dispatched with reports 130 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,840 of the UFO spreading to adjacent communities, called the local 131 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:04,720 FAA control tower and asked if they had anything unusual on 132 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,880 their radar. Control Tower stated that they 133 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,400 had nothing unusual on their scope which covered a 60 mile 134 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,640 diameter around Youngstown. Researcher Kenny Young did an in 135 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,200 depth study of the Trumbull County sightings. 136 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,680 His request for Freedom of Information Act documents 137 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:27,160 regarding the case was denied. Denied. 138 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,520 Why would you deny it? I mean, it's simply a UFO, and 139 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,679 if UFOs aren't real, then wouldn't the FOIA request for 140 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:40,280 these documents show that he interviewed officers involved in 141 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,200 the case and was confident that they were telling the truth? 142 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,960 Yet why would all these police conspire together to lie about a 143 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:48,920 UFO? Lieutenant James Baker of the 144 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,240 Brookfield Township Police Department was one of the 145 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,760 officers monitoring the fantastic calls and decided to 146 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,440 have a look for himself. He climbed up an abandoned radar 147 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,120 tower in the area to get an optimum look at the object. 148 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,120 As he reached the top of the tower, he was shocked at what he 149 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:13,640 saw, not one but three UFOs. The three objects were in a 150 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:17,520 triangle pattern with the middle object slightly higher than the 151 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:20,960 two on the side. Also, Baker stated that the 152 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,600 object changed colors in unison, red, yellow, blue, and green. 153 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,680 He reported his offer his observation to the other 154 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:35,000 patrolman on duty. Astronomers have tried to 155 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,480 explain the sighting as simple stars that appear low in the sky 156 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,160 and appear to change colors. Yeah, because that happens all 157 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,960 the time. Of course, this does not explain 158 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,560 the malfunction of police vehicles, lights engulfing them 159 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:51,480 or objects moving across the landscape being chased by 160 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,280 policemen. Some have theorized that the 161 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,120 object seen by the policemen of Trumbull County was a top secret 162 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,200 craft from the Youngstown Air Reserve base. 163 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:06,120 However, Captain John Keita from the base stated that there were 164 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,800 no planes, experimental or otherwise, flying that night. 165 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:14,000 The policemen of Ohio have spoken often about what they saw 166 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,960 on December 14th, 1994. Police cars that inexplicably 167 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:23,400 stalled, light beams engulfing their vehicles, one or more 168 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:28,280 structured craft of a nature never seen before since the 1994 169 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,360 sightings of Trumbull County have never been adequately 170 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,720 explained by conventional flying objects. 171 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,760 And that is a really good article written by, I think it 172 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,080 says here, BJ Booth, if everybody could write this 173 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:45,600 clearly and condense the story and put the facts out there like 174 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:47,560 this guy did, man, that would be great. 175 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,840 That was a very fine piece of an article there. 176 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,280 Thank you very much for posting that. 177 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:53,800 Let's take a look at another one here. 178 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,280 This is really, I think, a fantastic mass sighting with 179 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,040 multiple law enforcement officers, and it just doesn't, I 180 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:10,120 think, get the publicity and it's not out there in the way 181 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:11,960 that it should be. Let's take a look at another 182 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,960 article here. This article I think brings kind 183 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,440 of a different perspective to this whole sighting. 184 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,800 It looks like A blog. It's militarybruce.com. 185 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,720 I'll have the links at Kofi. Some of these kind of articles 186 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,000 and sites that are a little bit off the beaten path that can 187 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,920 really bring some interesting insight to this. 188 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,480 Articles by a gentleman named Bruce Forsyth. 189 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:39,320 Title says Watcher in the Sky. Was the abandoned Brookfield Air 190 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,280 Force Station the site of a UFO encounter? 191 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:45,080 And it's articles dated October 2022. 192 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,400 It says down at the end of a closed Rd. a series of ghostly 193 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:53,800 looking empty buildings set silently crumbling and slowly 194 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,080 being consumed by the elements and wildly growing vegetation. 195 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:02,320 This collection of buildings once played an important role in 196 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:06,840 the defense of North America. Formerly known as Brookfield Air 197 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,440 Force Station, the US Air Force established it as a general 198 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,080 surveillance radar station in April 1952. 199 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,720 Brookfield AFS was one of several radar stations across 200 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:25,080 America that were established in the early 1950s by Air Defense 201 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:30,240 Command, renamed Aerospace Defense Command in 1958. 202 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:35,320 Think about that thinking about Aerospace Clear back in 1958 as 203 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,040 an early warning direction system against an attack by 204 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,960 Soviet bombers. On at least one occasion in 205 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:49,400 1994, long after Brookfield AFS had closed and its radars 206 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:54,440 dismantled, there was an alleged UFO sighting near the abandoned 207 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:59,840 radar station in Canada. 3 early warning radar lines were 208 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:04,400 established, the Pine Tree Line, the Mid Canada Line, and the 209 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,720 Distant Early Warning Line, some of which were manned initially 210 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:13,640 by US Air Force personnel before being turned over to the Royal 211 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,080 Canadian Air Force. Information at all stations was 212 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,600 relayed to the North American Air Defense Command NORAD 213 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,880 headquarters at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado and 214 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:28,880 RCAF Station North Bay in Canada. 215 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,280 Initially, the station functioned as a ground control, 216 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:37,120 intercept, and warning station. Members of 662 Aircraft Control 217 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:42,440 and Warning Squadron, 662 AC and WS would guide interceptor 218 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:46,360 aircraft toward identify intruders picked up on the 219 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:52,680 units, an FPS and an FPS 5 radars that monitors the skies. 220 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,840 As a radar station, Brookfield AFS had a brief life. 221 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,760 Due to defense budget reductions, the US Air Force 222 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:06,200 decided to transfer 66 two AC and WS to Oakdale AFS in 223 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,320 Pennsylvania and reduce Brookfield's functions, 224 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:13,520 including their ground air transmitter receiver site to gap 225 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,720 filler radar site for Oakdale. The purpose of the gap filler 226 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,760 radar sites situated between each of the main stations was to 227 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:26,280 fill in holes and coverage areas and detect any aircraft that 228 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,720 were flying too low for detection by the main stations. 229 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,400 Most of them were unmanned with technicians attending 230 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,000 occasionally for routine maintenance. 231 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:41,600 Thus, Brookfield AFS closed on November 1st, 1959 with the 232 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:46,560 small section fenced off for a small gap filler radar tower and 233 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,040 control building. The remainder of the property 234 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,240 was turned over to Trumbull County, who established the 235 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,560 Trumbull County Nursing Home facility using the former Air 236 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,080 Force buildings. So that gives you, I think a 237 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,840 much more complete idea of what's happening. 238 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:03,680 Some of these articles talk about an Air Force Base there. 239 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,600 Well, it was what was leftover of an Air Force Base. 240 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,000 This is kind of a smaller radar installation. 241 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,240 And now you can see why the FOIA requests were denied. 242 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,440 They didn't want people. They probably didn't want the 243 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,560 Russians or the Chinese knowing the capability of the radar, 244 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,160 that they could just pick up everything through there. 245 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,480 And they also may not have wanted the public to know about 246 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,080 these three very large UFOs traveling through that area. 247 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,680 So what? Where these UFOs were sighted at 248 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,400 was over a former Air Force Base. 249 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,640 The gap filler radar remained in operation until June 1968 when 250 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,520 it was shut down. Brookfield's Gator site remained 251 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,800 in operation until the early 1980s, and then it was closed 252 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,240 and the site abandoned. OK, wow. 253 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,320 So maybe there was nothing there. 254 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:54,080 Around this time, the nursing home also closed. 255 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,400 With no tenants to take over the buildings, they were left 256 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,120 vacant. Their property was used 257 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,120 occasionally for police training exercises. 258 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:04,560 Oh my goodness, it's got some pictures here. 259 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,960 It does look derelict. Gozlana says. 260 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:13,520 The UFO sighting of 1994. On December 14th, 1994, at 261 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,920 around midnight, the Trumbull County 911 Center logged several 262 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,360 UFO reports from residents near the Sampson Rd. vicinity in 263 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,800 Youngstown, southwest of Brookfield. 264 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:29,440 Two weeks earlier, UFOs had also been reported in the area. 265 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:34,760 So this was a regular UFO wave. A low flying object was seen and 266 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,520 tracked by numerous police departments over a wide area, 267 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,120 including Brookfield Police Department in Brookfield 268 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:47,040 Township. 1 Brookfield Police officer reported that he climbed 269 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:52,320 atop the old Gap Filler Radio radar tower at the former 270 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,520 Brookfield AFS to get a better view of the alleged UFO. 271 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,800 Now that makes sense. See, nobody else talked about 272 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,000 any any of these articles, but this blog writer here points out 273 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:08,000 that the radio tower that this cop has reportedly had climbed 274 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:13,079 to to to view the UFOs was actually a tower that was used 275 00:17:13,079 --> 00:17:17,240 at the former AFS. This old Air Force Base there, 276 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,680 which is now abandoned. Not even there. 277 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,319 So maybe these UFOs are just flying over to check out if it's 278 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:26,760 still there, who knows. In the end, there was no 279 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,560 official confirmation of what was actually spotted in the sky 280 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,360 that night. It wasn't the first time there 281 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:36,200 were unconfirmed UFO sightings in this part of Ohio. 282 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,720 That's interesting. And one such incident happened 283 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:45,960 on 17th of April 1966 when 2 sheriff's deputies, Dale Spauer 284 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:51,760 and Wilbur L Neff, were advised by the Portage County Dispatch 285 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:56,680 Center to investigate a low flying UFO reportedly headed in 286 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,160 their direction. At one point, the two deputies 287 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:06,280 were traveling along Route 14 at 90 mph, chasing the lights in 288 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,960 the sky. Spire reported to his dispatcher 289 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,760 of the object they were chasing. Quote It's about 50 feet across, 290 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,120 and I could just make out a Dome or something on the top, but 291 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:19,120 that's very dark. The bottom is real bright. 292 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:22,880 It's putting out a beam of light that makes a big spot 293 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,240 underneath. It was overhead a minute ago and 294 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,240 it was bright as day here. There you go, This thing's 295 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:32,240 flying overhead. It's putting out this very 296 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,600 intense bright light illuminating the people 297 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,360 underneath. This is almost 30 years before 298 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,160 the 94 sighting. Others who reported seeing a UFO 299 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,520 that night were Wayne Houston of East Palestine Police 300 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,560 Department. Boy, that sounds familiar, 301 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,200 doesn't it? Is it Palestine or Palestine? 302 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,600 Isn't it where that train derailed at? 303 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:55,360 And Police Chief Gerald Butchert of Mantua Village Police 304 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:59,520 Department, who also took photos of the alleged UFO photographs. 305 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,680 Chief Butcher stated that the United States Air Force Base 306 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,680 told him not to make public. Oh, excuse me. 307 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:13,360 So they took pictures, but they were told by the fellows at the 308 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,280 at the Air Force Base up there not to make them public. 309 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,880 Wow. Nothing conclusive was ever 310 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,880 found. And despite photographs that 311 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:24,800 were taken by various people of this alleged UFO, the official 312 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:28,400 Air Force conclusion was that Spower and others had been 313 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,200 chasing the planet Venus. Yeah, because Venus has got a 314 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,680 Dome on top, right? Deputy Spower would later advise 315 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,280 investigate a reporter that the that the alleged UFO he and 316 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,000 Deputy Neff had been chasing that night ruined his life and 317 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,520 career. Well, classic deep personing of 318 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,960 these guys. Several months after that 319 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,080 fateful night, now former Deputy Spower was working as a painter, 320 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,880 divorced from his wife and living in poverty and a shabby 321 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,400 motel. If I could change all that I 322 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:00,560 have done in my life, he said, I would change that night. 323 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:04,120 We chased that damn saucer. Wow. 324 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,480 Today the former Brookfield AFS has abandoned and says with 325 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,320 buildings in a severe state of decay. 326 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,800 Most of the buildings remain, but the radar towers are long 327 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,160 gone, leaving only the foundations of at least one of 328 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,720 them. Roofs and floors are collapsing, 329 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,040 the the concrete is deteriorating, and the buildings 330 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,320 are slowly being overtaken by vegetation. 331 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,600 In September of 2012, the property was sold to a private 332 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,360 entity. It is patrolled by the police 333 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,840 and is not open to the public. The owners are not friendly to 334 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,520 trespassers. A radio transmitter for WTNX is 335 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,920 the only thing still active on the property. 336 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,320 No future plans for the use of the property have been 337 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,480 announced. He's got a bunch of pictures 338 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,920 here. Yeah, what a dilapidated mess. 339 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,120 Just think of all your tax dollars that were wasted on 340 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:56,240 that. Excellent, excellent article. 341 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:01,200 Very appreciative for Bruce Forsythe for posting that. 342 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,160 Let's take a look at one more and kind of wrap this up. 343 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,360 It always amazes me how these sightings, you know, you read 344 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:11,520 the headlines, you think OK, it's a one off thing, but they 345 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,040 always seem to be tied into something else or a lot of times 346 00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:17,120 they are. This as a sighting seems like an 347 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:22,200 area that has been visited many times and you have at least 2 348 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,600 cases in 1966 and 1994 where law enforcement have observed the 349 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,720 craft pictures were taken in 66, but still we're told nothing to 350 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,000 see. Move along. 351 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:34,920 Let's go ahead and take a look at this next article. 352 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:38,800 I just wanted to throw this last article in. 353 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,120 It's food for thought. Now remember this Trumbull 354 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:46,160 County UFO, December 14th, 1994. And then of course, we had the 355 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,920 earlier sighting in 1966, and it sounds like kind of general 356 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,920 stuff going on there in between. Well, remember there's a pretty 357 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:59,120 famous case out of Michigan that happened back March 8th, 1994. 358 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:03,760 So Michigan 1994 in March. And then Ohio, I don't know, 359 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,400 maybe what, 100 and 5200 miles away, maybe less later on in the 360 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,800 same year, December 1994. A lot of similarities here I 361 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,880 think. This article is from woodtv.com, 362 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,560 written by Henry Erb. Title says UFO report, 363 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,680 Vindication for man who tracked 1994 sighting on radar. 364 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,560 This is one that we have done before in the podcast at pretty 365 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,520 in depth a couple times. You can go back and take a look 366 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,400 if you like it, says Grand Rapids, MI. 367 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,640 Jack Bouchong was sure he was going to lose his job. 368 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,680 It was the night of March 8th, 1994. 369 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,720 Working at the National Weather Service, Bushong Radar was 370 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,040 lighting up with stuff he'd never seen before. 371 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,600 He was on the phone with an Ottawa County emergency 372 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:50,320 dispatcher who was looking for help identifying lights in the 373 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,960 sky over Holland. Holland is in South Central 374 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,120 Michigan. There, the dispatcher was 375 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,360 getting a lot of calls. Police officers were calling in, 376 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:01,920 too. When Bushong found out his phone 377 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,360 call had been recorded. Bushong said he was really 378 00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:09,000 scared and lost sleep over it. He fretted about what people 379 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,800 were going to say about what he was seeing on his screen. 380 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,320 Just that people think you're a kooky, said. 381 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,240 Or that you're lying or not credible. 382 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,600 I'm supposed to be a scientist and a skeptic. 383 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,240 Bushong was seeing images on his radar that corresponded to what 384 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,680 people were calling in from the ground. 385 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:33,560 He had to control his radar by hand to 0 in on the sky South of 386 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:37,200 his station in Muskegon. Oh my, what is that? 387 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,080 The recorded dispatch call captured him saying in a 388 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:44,280 startled voice. Once he had zeroed in, he said 389 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:47,600 he went through his mental checklist about all the weather 390 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:51,760 phenomena and technical glitches he knew about, and what he was 391 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,880 seeing didn't fit any of them. He saw what appeared to be solid 392 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:00,120 objects coming together and coming apart, moving about 20 393 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:04,160 miles in each jump, he recalled they were hovering, then 394 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,880 jumping, hovering and jumping. After watching them for a while, 395 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,760 they appeared to be forming a wide triangle that moved out 396 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,920 over the lake, he said. They look solid. 397 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:18,560 Despite his worry about losing his job, Bouchon went on to a 398 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,760 promotion and a move to a bigger weather station, a forecasting 399 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,760 and warden, and eventually retirement. 400 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:28,520 He said the NWS treated him well, even though some 401 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,560 individuals criticized him and dismissed what he saw. 402 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,440 So he clammed up about it. I kept my mouth shut, and I 403 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,720 learned that pretty quickly. He said he wasn't the only one. 404 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:42,000 There has been considerable national reporting about pilots 405 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,040 and other credible seeming people deciding it's better to 406 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,520 keep quiet about such sightings. The long time government 407 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,520 approach may have contributed to that. 408 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,160 It dismissed UFO sightings as common stuff people just weren't 409 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,480 seeing right. After a number of sightings in 410 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,760 Michigan in the 1960s, then US Representative Gerald R Ford of 411 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,480 Grand Rapids wrote a letter calling for congressional 412 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,160 investigations and demanding the government stop misleading the 413 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,760 public. It took more than 50 years and 414 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,720 efforts by later members of Congress who demanded the 415 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,800 intelligence community produce a report and make it public. 416 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,080 That happened this summer. In the report, the government 417 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,000 admits that people have seen things that nobody can explain. 418 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,280 It even released video by U.S. military pilots. 419 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,320 For Bhushan, the release of the report was like ringing a bell. 420 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,200 It got him talking again. It has everything to do with it. 421 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,880 He said he's now thinking about writing a scientific paper about 422 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,800 what he saw on the Lakeshore in 1994. 423 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,520 He said what he saw on radar looks a lot like what military 424 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,160 pilots have reported seeing. I guess I've been waiting for 425 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,040 this medication, he said. Which I didn't think I was going 426 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,320 to get all my life. He was going to just let what he 427 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,240 saw die out. But now with the basically 428 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,000 military coming out and saying the same thing I saw 30 years 429 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000 ago, I can finally say to people, I told you so. 430 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:05,600 Bouchon said the 1994 sighting had a lasting impact on others 431 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,440 who saw it, among them Holly Graves and her family. 432 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,600 They were among the 911 callers watching slowly rotating lights 433 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,920 from their from their front yard. 434 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,200 It was like Christmas lights. She recalled. 435 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,480 The incident on the Lakeshore got a lot of media attention. 436 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,400 Graves said some people were interested in what she saw, but 437 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,440 others were hurtful. She kept her kids out of school 438 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,400 for a while. They just went through a really 439 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,440 hard time, she said. They know what they saw, but 440 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,600 it's like everybody still laughed at them. 441 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,360 People forget that EU in UFO stands for unidentified, meaning 442 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:40,120 Nobody knows what the phenomena are. 443 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,440 That's never stopped people from speculating. 444 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,240 Sometimes they chew sides and even get nasty. 445 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,280 They accused us of being in the backyard, smoking, smoking weed, 446 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,600 doing drugs with our kids, Graves said. 447 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,160 Man, how her now adult children don't want to talk about the 448 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,120 sighting. It's different for Graves. 449 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,560 I'm glad my family got to see it, she said. 450 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,320 I really am. It's like once in a lifetime. 451 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,600 It's an experience I'll take to my grave with me. 452 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,440 Nearly 30 years later, it still moves her. 453 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,680 I wish everybody to see it, she said. 454 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,280 I do. I wish everybody would see it 455 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,720 because it was the experience of a lifetime. 456 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:17,800 Very cool. You have these similar 457 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,400 sightings. First, the ones here in Michigan 458 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,120 that we've talked about before, and then just look at that just 459 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,880 a few months later in December, you have these mass sightings 460 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,480 occurring over Trumbull County, Ohio, which may or may not be 461 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,480 connected with this abandoned Air Force Base there. 462 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,320 Really interesting stuff. What I like about these old 463 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,800 sightings and these old accounts. 464 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,000 It does seem like there's kind of a pattern that emerges of 465 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,280 these things not only just showing up, but maybe showing up 466 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:52,480 and doing a little Recon on us. Until next time, this is UFO 467 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:53,680 warning over and out.