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december 14 1994 trumbull county ohio

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just after midnight a series of calls

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was received by 9-1-1 operators these

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reports all involved one thing

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low flying ufos

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the majority of these calls were heard

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by dispatcher roy ann rudolph

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everything from somebody who's casually

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stating they saw something in the air to

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somebody who was hysterical and and

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thought that this was armageddon i mean

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it was very strange

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okay was it just like moving at a slow

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rate of speed it wasn't slowing

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but it was coming down we just kind of

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took it for

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okay this is people being hysterical

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over a weather balloon or this is people

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being hysterical over a plane or a

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helicopter i wonder did you have anyone

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call you about a strange plane or

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airplane or something in the air

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where i was coming down sampson drive i

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don't know what it was i was applying

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saucer what did it look like it was like

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almost like an iridescent color it was

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like a bluish purple

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but because of the extraordinary number

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of calls

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rudolph decided to notify the police of

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liberty township

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the first police unit contacted thought

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that the reports were probably nothing

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to worry about and that a plane was

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probably flying low

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sergeant toby malloro was the first

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officer on the scene i think

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it took a few minutes we kind of laughed

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about it i believe that i was going to

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see uh if anything a plane was landing

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or a plane was low

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and as he proceeded down to sampson

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drive to check out the lights he was

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informed by a man on the street that the

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lights were moving south

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as meloro continued southerly his

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cruiser went dead

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as he attempted to restart his vehicle

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it was engulfed by a bright white light

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from above

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startled and frightened he exited his

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vehicle and stood outside looking up at

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this giant object

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circular in shape and intensely bright

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in the center

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after about 30 seconds the giant object

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started to move away and the thing that

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was very strange was

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there was no sound

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after the object moved out of sight his

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vehicle began to function normally again

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trying to understand what he'd just seen

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he took off in pursuit of the ufo

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melora was unable to keep pace with this

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object he called dispatch informing them

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what it seemed and gave the objects

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direction of flight

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soon the information spread to active

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law enforcement units all across the

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area and reports of the object's

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direction were used to triangulate the

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object you can see a red glow up in the

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this isn't funny anymore because it's

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getting to the point where um i don't

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know whether to believe him or not well

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what was what was was it moving or was

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it just yeah it was growing it was

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moving

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you could see it like up in the air

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blowing and getting further away from me

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people are serious they're very upset

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whatever it was lit up i mean literally

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if you were underneath it

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would be like daylight with red lights

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dispatcher rudolph later stated that at

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least 14 to 15 officers had seen the ufo

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the reports of the object and its

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movements were openly discussed among

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the officers on the police radio

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police dispatch with reports of the ufo

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spreading to adjacent communities called

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the local airport faa control tower and

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asked if they had anything unusual on

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we have a report of some flying object

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in our jurisdiction do you know of

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anything that should be in our airspace

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this time close to the ground all right

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this is not a prank phone call i swear

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you can call me back to verify look at

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the uh

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scope and i go 60 mile diameter of

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youngstown and there is nothing out

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there lieutenant james baker of the

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brookfield township police department

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was one of the officers monitoring the

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fantastic calls

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and he decided to have a look for

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himself

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he climbed up into an abandoned radar

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tower in the area to get a better look

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at this object

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as he reached the top of the tower he

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was shocked at what he saw

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not one but three ufos

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all three objects were in a triangular

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pattern with the middle object slightly

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higher than the two on the side

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also baker stated that the object

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changed colors in unison red yellow blue

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and green

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he reported his observations to the

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other patrolmen on duty i got them right

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here i'm looking at them what the hell

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is it they're stationary i got three of

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them what do they look like i've got

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four discernible colors so i got red

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yellow green and blue and the one just

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was like flashes so if there's those

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planets those guys were talking about

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and they're uh planets with christmas

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lights on

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this is weird

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oh my god i hope that's a plane

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[Applause]

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oh please be a plane oh please

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astronomers have tried to explain away

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the sightings as simple stars that

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appeared to be low in the sky and

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appeared to be changing colors

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clearly the police officer who saw the

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very intense bright light

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very likely saw a fireball a fireball is

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a very very bright meteor that can be

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many times brighter than the full moon i

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think the car

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stalling was just a coincidence had

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nothing to do with this whatsoever it

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obviously had to be involved my crews

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were shutting down there was no problem

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with my car because it started back up

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i was told that it may have been the

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planet mercury it was not the planet

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mercury

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some have theorized that the object seen

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by the policemen of trumbull county was

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a top-secret craft from the youngstown

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air reserve base

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however captain john keytech from the

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base stated that there were no planes or

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experimental craft flying that night

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i can't you know speak for other people

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who say they may or may not have seen

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something

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what i can talk from with authority

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is what happened here at the base and

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what our involvement was and there was

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apparently none

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the policemen of ohio have spoken often

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about what they saw on december 14 1994.

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police cars that inexplicably stalled

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light beams engulfing the vehicles

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one or more structured craft of a nature

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never seen before or since

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the 1994 sightings of trumbull county

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have never been adequately explained

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and as usual leave us with more

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questions than answers i'm not saying

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what i saw was it was a spaceship from

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outer space okay

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what i'm saying is i saw an object that

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was not normal for this area it gave off

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an intense light it shut my cruiser off

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including my radio i lost contact with

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the 9-1-1 center

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and it didn't make any noise it's

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something that i've never seen before

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i've never encountered before

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and i haven't encountered it since

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i do believe that they saw something i

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don't believe that it was a star there

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was something there what i walked away

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from that night was a feeling that this

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was a lot bigger than just a couple

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people saying they saw a light in the

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sky

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and it made us think

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maybe a small place like trumbull county