An Air Force base in Indiana has become the latest hotspot for mysterious UFOs after residents spotted swarms of bright, fast-moving orbs in the skies.
Dozens of people in Kokomo, which is just 13 miles south of Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base, reported seeing floating flickering lights that vanished into thin air.
“What is that?” shouted a local who filmed the lights. “I think they’re UFOs and I really don’t feel comfortable going to sleep tonight.”
The strange sightings, most reported on Oct. 7, echo recent surges of UFOs near military sites, including Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, where officials reported seeing “flashing red, green and white lights.” that they were “moving at rapid speeds.”
The mysterious objects in Indiana, however, were shared by civilians online, where experts stepped in to determine the source.
Some suggested the lights were flares launched from aircraft, possibly military ships, but one witness shared Doppler weather radar evidence of a “huge rectangle” UFO with a “clearly defined vapor shock wave” seen the next morning, 8 October.
Red swarms of ‘walking’ UFOs, along with a bright white, fast, zigzagging UFO, have terrified and confused residents of Kokomo, Indiana, this October.
US Air Force personnel have not publicly provided any explanation for the UFOs, which appeared as both. reddish orange orbs that floated in the sky, as well as a white orb that zigzagged in a rapid maneuver.
“I don’t understand what those are.” Christina Sharp he said in a TikTok as nearby toddlers could be heard marveling at the bright reddish-orange lights.
An anonymous local sent a report to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) on October 8 of what may have been a related event.
The person claimed that a brief foray into Doppler weather radar showed what looked like a large rectangular UFO speeding nearby, estimated to be about half the size of Disney World.
“I’ve seen many easily explainable radar anomalies over the years,” the witness said, “but never a huge rectangle with a clearly defined vapor shock wave and trail.”
“Judging by the size of the image, the rectangle would be approximately 20 miles long,” the witness added.
“The compressed vapor trail appears to be more than 150 miles long.”
While it is unclear whether this strange radar return is related to the wave of strange lights in the sky the previous night, several experienced UFO video analysts told DailyMail.com that citizens of Kokomo likely saw military flares.
An anonymous witness who submitted a report to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) witnessed a puzzling and potentially related event: a brief glimpse on Doppler weather radar (above) of what appeared to be a large rectangular UFO speeding nearby, estimated at approximately half. as big as Disney World (20 miles long). The radar UFO was seen the next morning.
“It seems very clear that these are military flares,” said Alejandro Rojas, an advisor to a technology startup. Enigma Laboratorieswhere he helps investigate witness submissions to the group’s growing database of UFO sightings.
“The telltale signs,” Rojas explained, “are the lights that are in a row and come on and disappear in succession.”
In addition to Grissom Base to the north, Rojas noted several other USAF bases surrounding Kokomo that may have been responsible for the nighttime light show.
“Kokomo is about 50 miles from Camp Fort Wayne (Fort Wayne Air National Guard Base),” he added.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton is also about 150 miles away. These could be from anywhere.
Rojas, who served for many years as an official spokesperson for the citizen-led Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), said he has personally witnessed and videotaped how eerie military flares can look under the cover of darkness.
While it is unclear whether the strange radar return is related to the wave of strange lights in the sky the previous night, an experienced UFO video analyst told DailyMail.com that citizens of Kokomo likely saw military flares: Alejandro Rojas, advisor to a new technology company Laboratorios Enigma
“I live in the Phoenix, Arizona area, and they often set off these flares while doing exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range,” he said. “Indeed, they are also often confused with UFOs and sometimes the media calls me to make a comment.”
Rojas, co-founder of a new nonprofit to investigate “unidentified aerial phenomena” UAP discoveryHe said the night sky can obscure more obvious signs of flares, such as smoke or the plane that dropped the flares.
“Witnesses have argued that you can see smoke in the flares, but that is usually not the case,” he told DailyMail.com.
“I made this video to show that smoke often can’t be seen,” he said. ‘My video is similar to most of those that are supposed to be UFOs. I was about 150 miles from the flares when I took this video.’
DailyMail.com has contacted Grissom’s base public affairs specialist and will update this article if he responds.
The strange cases in Indiana come just weeks after reports emerged of UFO swarms near military sites, including 17 nights in December 2023 when swarms of UFOs were tracked over Joint Base Langley-Eustis.
These brazen penetrations over Langley, home to at least half of the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, led to two weeks of emergency meetings at the White House.
To date, the mysterious Langley UFOs have eluded identification by the Pentagon, police and even NASA’s high-altitude research plane, the WB-57F, called in to investigate.
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), who led the mission to shoot down the infamous Chinese spy balloon in February 2023, described the Langley wave as unlike any other known case.
“If there are unknown objects in North America,” General VanHerck told the Wall Street Journal, “go out and identify them.”
Chris Mellon, a former Pentagon security official, told DailyMail.com last week that UFOs were “swarms of smaller craft” released by “motherships.”
He explained that last December’s episode was “part of a much broader pattern that affected numerous national security facilities.”
“Two of the notable aspects,” he said, “are the fact that our drone signal jamming devices have proven to be ineffective and these craft are making no effort to remain hidden.”
“In fact, in some cases,” as Mellon was at pains to emphasize, “it’s clear that they want to be seen as making fun of us.”