Light over Kettering, OH
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The report, as filed
On 02/24/01 at 11:32 p.m. I saw a difuse, moving red glow in the sky while I was driving
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2001-02-21 → 2001-03-10
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March 17, 2022 · 9:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Kettering, OH
3 bright lights on the appeared on the horizon out of nowhere and at first I thought it was a large aircraft. Then I noticed a triangular shape and lights which were like lights but weren't. They almost glowed instead of projected but still lit up the sky. It was like 3 massive Chinese lanterns but if they were wite. The light in the middle was the dimmer of the 3 and the outside 2 were the brightest. It just slowly hovered it hardly climbed before it started moving. They way it moved was so smooth it didn't look like it was turning or anything. It was moving slow and it was a rotating. Two neighbours who were walking their dogs also saw it. The dogs stopped and took gaze to the craft then the neighbours stopped and just stared blankly at it. The craft kept on moving slowly. At this point my whole family had seen it and some of them just labeled because of its size. As it flew over my house there was no noise at all and for its size it was mental. I could see it in more detail and had this circular looking thing in the middle of the craft that was grooved in almost like a door. It had a red light on the bottom of it which was dim and one on top which was brighter but didn't stand out over the 3 main lights. It went off into the distance and the lights still stood out over the stars. Whilst reporting this it came back at 22:45. It came out of nowhere it just appeared but this time the lights were a lot dimmer and the red lights were flashing. It remained at a slow constant speed then the lights slowly dimmed out (with the red lights still flashing) and it started to do tiny zig zag movements. And disappeared
June 2, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Kettering, OH
Friend and I were coming home from a park where we were taking moon pics. Sky was not dark but mostly twilight. Moon was bright but no Stars visible yet. We kept looking at the moon as we walked and after a minute we saw what looked like a meteor next to the moon. It streaked down for a few seconds just like a meteor but then stopped. The object was still visible as a point of light getting dimmer and brighter as it appeared to hover although I couldn’t say how high it was. I just figured it was very high. Object then slowly meandered about for about ten seconds on a generally north course. Object then came stationary for a second then completely winked out.
November 26, 2017 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Kettering, OH
My boyfriend and I were leaving our home to go grab something to eat, and we stopped to talk to our neighbors, who were outside. As we were talking, I turned to look toward my car and in the sky, about 100 feet about the ground was a triangular shaped craft. Lights lining the edges. Almost translucent looking. No sound, just cruising across the sky. After a few seconds, it faded out and disappeared over our heads. My first and only encounter, and boy was it remarkable. I have no doubt in my mind what I saw. The neighbors saw it, as well, and my boyfriend watched all three of us react to it because his back was to it. It was like watching a sci-fi movie. I’m pretty sure I witnessed an alien craft possibly jumping through portholes or dimensions or something. I can’t stop thinking about it.
October 30, 2016 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Kettering, OH
I went outside at 10:30 pm with my observing chair and 7x50s. It was cloudy in every direction. I swept around the sky three times. I saw two white lights south of my position through my 7x50s. These white lights were just sitting there. Suddenly, these lights began vibrating towards each other. They would move far apart and then come together. All very quickly. Back and forth. Back and forth. Very fast. I said to myself what the hell is this? This can't be. These lights were moving very fast. I put down my 7x50s. I looked up and down the street. All was normal. I looked directly at these vibrating lights. This cannot be. These lights were vibrating very fast. Then bang all stopped. These lights sat still next to each other. Then bang all of a sudden the left light started chasing the right light. This chase moved in closed elliptical orbits. These lights were moving so fast the light pattern that was created looked like a ball of string. This cannot be I said to myself. Finally both lights came to a stop. They sat right next to each other. Now the sky started to clear. This pair of lights started moving together towards my position slowly. They came to a stop just short of my position. The sky was now clear. I said this cannot be. The right side of the sky was filled with pairs of white light. There were about 14 pairs of lights. I said this cannot be. I looked up and down my street to see if I was seeing things. All appeared normal. Then on my left side and way! to the south I saw movement and then looked with my 7x50s. I saw what looked like a big structure moving towards me. It looked like a B-2 bomber but outlined with bright stars. There was a bright star at every apex except the nose. Instead there were two bright stars on either side of the nose. This structure moved with its left wing all the way down and its right wing all the way up. I saw right through this structure and thought I could see the background sky. This structure stopped abreast of the pair of lights on my right. This thing was big. It seemed like it was three times the size of a B-2 bomber. At this point I said to myself what the hell is going on? I then saw a light moving frm my right to my left. It was far off. I used my 7x50s. It was a small triangular craft. The craft was about 10 feet on its side and was self illuminated. Each apex was gently rounded. The craft appeared light brown to slightly yellow. There was a white lens or glass circle in the center of the craft. You could see this white window but it seemed to be lit from the outside. This craft made no noise and there were no marker lights. I do not know what lit up this craft. I watched this craft for several minutes. It disappeared off to my left. I returned to look at the light show. The sky was now completely normal. I have no idea what I saw especially the vibrating lights and one light chasing the other light. Many times over I said to myself I am not going to report this sighting. Then I saw the picture of the lights posted on the NUFORC site dated March 12, 2017, from Tacoma, Washington. My lights looked just like those lights except for pairing and vibrations and chasing. Incident lasted about 30 minutes.
October 7, 2016 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Kettering, OH
Another one appeared from nowhere, shot across the sky and disappeared. They just hover in the sky. 3 of them hover in a straight line. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 2, 2016 · 10:45 PM · UNKNOWN
Kettering, OH
I rolled my trash containers down my driveway to our street at about 6:30 pm or 18:30 hours. After I finished dinner and washed dishes, I took two small bundles of trash down to my trash containers. As I reached the bottom of the driveway I turned left (west) to put my bundles into my trash containers. As I looked up after turning left I was astounded. I saw two gigantic beams of light coming from the sky. The beams of light were aimed at the ground right beyond our neighborhood. From my perspective, the beams made more than a 45 degree slant angle from the sky to the ground. These beams were huge. The width of these beams were about 80 feet and 60 feet in diameter respectively. These beams had very little spread. They were located about 1/2 mile away from my location. The beams were more of a washed out white. The beam edges were very sharp. The beams were very close together. There was a distance of about 20 feet separating one beam from the next. The trees on my left were preventing me from seeing the source of these beams. Then bang both beams were turned off very suddenly. I heard no noise. I saw no craft. I was astounded. I know of no aerial or atmospheric phenomena that can cause such beams. A long time ago WPAFB were testing airborne to ground bright beams. But they were very small compared to what I observed. 50 UAVs could not duplicate what I observed. I did not call local authorities. I did not call Federal Authorities. I did not call WPAFB. I did not call the local paper, radio or TV stations. I did not take a pic.