03x02 - Something in the Sky

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Central Dispatch.

Yeah, this is, um, the
National Weather Service of Muskegon.

I was calling to make sure

that the person that called me
was not a hoax.

He was one of our dispatchers.

We've been chasing lights down…
all over down that way.

- What do they look like?
- I don't know.

We got a report of

something going through the air
with lights on it horizontally.

Three to four lights…

going at a high rate of speed
up and down and all over the sky.

911.

Um, we were just wondering.

Have you heard anything about these lights
that are flickering up here?

It's like a group.

It looks like a string of Christmas lights
that's way up in the sky.

No, ma'am.

And we wondered if
you'd heard about it.

Not a thing.

You might wanna have
someone take a look.

It's different.
I've never seen anything like this.

I don't know. It's strange,
but it's right out east, southeast.

It's way up.

It's just like a circle

of a lot of different
lights flickering.

911.

There's four or five lights,
and they're all flashing right in a row

from the top
all the way down to the bottom.

- Uh-huh.
- It took off real fast.

There was four lights,
and they were blinking back and forth.

And there's no way…
I mean, a plane is not that wide.

And then it started…
And then it went down to three lights.

And then it started to turn around.
Like, I mean, it was a circular motion.

Then it started going up and down,
and then it went to two lights

and did the same thing.

And now it's one,
and it's spinning in a circle.

They're just
kinda hanging there.

They came up as a group,
then they kind of split.

Weather
Service. Muskegon.

Hi, Muskegon.
This is Ottawa County 911 calling.

Yeah, how you doing?

Good. You guys have
access to a radar there, don't ya?

- Yes, we do.
- You do.

You getting anything weird down
in the Southern Ottawa County area?

The reason I ask is
we're getting a whole bunch of calls

of some strange lights

in the Southern Ottawa,
Northern Allegan County

right near Holland City area.

- Strange lights?
- Yeah.

We've had about 60 UFO calls.

Oh, jeez! Okay.

I'm sitting here
going, "No, come on."

"There's gotta be
something more to this."

Yeah.

I'm looking at it
in the vertical now,

and there's a large
return down there.

It's up about maybe…

Oh, now it disappeared,
but it was up about 6,000 feet.

It could have been a plane,
but it was pretty big. Wait a minute.

Oh, it moved. Let's see.

There's something big down there.
Wait a minute. That's really strange.

Yeah, right down
near South Haven.

Okay, it's moving
towards the west-southwest,

and it looks like a big blob.

Yeah, that's the way
it was explained to us.

Hmm. This is weird.

Looks like it's
steady right now.

It's gone up.

I'm getting it now at, um,
at about 12,000 feet.

Huh!

Oh, my God! What is this?

They were going together
and coming apart.

Yeah, they're… Well,
it's… There's three.

They're separated by about…
Looks like about 5,000 feet in height.

Hmm.

They're very strong returns.

I mean, they're spiking,
so there's something pretty solid.

It's not precipitation or anything,
especially up at that height.

An officer in Holland City
just sent me a message.

He says, "Can
you identify anything further?"

He says, "Looks
like three to four of 'em."

I'm seeing three, but
they look like a triangle on my scope.

This is strange, yeah,
'cause the officer says it's, uh,

"Green and red lights."
It does not look like an airplane.

They come together,
and then they separate.

And they just
keep doing this all the time.

These are huge returns.
I've never seen anything like this.

Not even when I'm doing storms.
These aren't storms. They're like…

They're just poppin' up
all over the place.

These are all up around
between 7,000 and 12,000 feet.

Wow, this is strange.

Okay, they look like they're all
moving toward the south, towards Chicago.

They're about
over the center of Lake Michigan.

Three of them in a triangle
just off the coast of Berrien County.

All right, well, if we
get any more, we'll let you know also.

Please do.
Thanks a lot, then.

- Okay. Thank you. Bye.
- Uh-huh. Bye-bye.

911.

This is a non-emergency,

so feel free to cut me off
if something comes in.

And I feel kind of silly calling,
but is there any Air Force airplanes

or helicopters flying around
in Allegan or Ottawa County tonight?

I don't know if you guys
do anything on UFOs at all.

It's not a real emergency.
We're calling about them UFOs we saw.

- Mmm-hmm.
- They're out there.

They ain't airplanes.

Whoa! Got it! Whoo-hoo!

My gosh!

They're all going against the wind.
The wind's 120 knots to the west.