F r e q u e n t--U F O--V i s i t a t i o n s--T o--D a v i s - B e s s e
N u c l e a r--P o w e r--P l a n t--(O a k--H a r b o r,--O h i o)
by Ron McGlone and Phyllis Budinger
It is known that UFOs frequent nuclear power plants. In my (Phyllis) UFO files, I noted the “whistle blower” on the Pentagon files, Luis Elizondo, reported UFOs are often observed “…in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, either ships at sea or power plants”. Our own Davis-Besse in Oak Harbor Ohio (near Port Clinton) is no exception.
My late husband and I own a condo on the shores of Lake Erie about 35 miles east of Toledo. The shoreline curves to the northwest where we have a direct view of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. It’s about 4-5 miles “as the crow flies”. Our son, who has been living in our condo for almost two years, has told me he occasionally sees strange lights at night by the power plant. About 50 miles to the north is another nuclear power plant which services Detroit.
Our son has been telling me about seeing unknown objects (always by the power plant) ever since he's been living there. Usually he sees two or sometimes three, and always early morning ca. 5:00 a.m. or so, because that's when he gets up for work. I happened to be there on November 18, 2017, and my son woke me up and said: ”Get up mom, it’s out there!” Only one was there this time, and it appeared to be on the surface of the water. The lighted object became very bright and then dimmed down. The brightness lasts about a minute, then it darkens for somewhere between 5-10 minutes. When there are two or three, one appears to be at the water's surface, and the other(s) are high up and stationary and also brighten and dim, but not in unison with the surface UFO. (One will brighten when the other is dim etc.) On November 18th the lake was extremely rough with waves rapidly rolling in, and most of the boats are out of the water at this time of the year.
Our son saw one again on December 9th doing the same thing. The lake was calmer this time. He has seen them when the lake was frozen. This time he did look through some very high power binoculars which are on a tripod which we had aimed at the cooling tower. He saw just light and no definition. I left a bunch of questions for him the next time he sees them. I want to get the timing on the brightening/dimming down with the surface UFO and compare to the brightening/dimming of the stationary/hovering UFO(s). Also, I want to document the frequency of the visits. And, I have a bunch of other questions. I have no explanation for these.
Ron McGlone, our Chief Field Investigator, presents a report of a sighting at the same Davis-Besse plant on October 29th around 3:30 a.m. (CMS report: 87710). The witness’ report of the incident follows (edited for clarity) and also the results of his investigation. So others are also observing this phenomenon.
The witness report:
“I was visiting family in Oak Harbor, OH on October 29th, 2017 for a Halloween party. They live very close to the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant. I was driving past the plant on my way home to Columbus at around 3:30 a.m. and noticed something floating up and down above the reactor.
I pulled off and got out of my car, it did this for maybe 3-4 minutes before it flew up about 50 feet and seemed to just slowly hover over the buildings. There were 6 lights, 2 at each corner, a white and blue light side by side in each corner. The blue light would brighten when the white light would dim and vice versa. It did this for a few minutes then it just shot up and away at a 45 degree angle and was so fast it looked like a streak of blue light I heard no noise except for this pulsing vibrating sensation in my ears until it shot away.”
Ron’s Investigation:
I was unable to make contact with the witness, but did speak with the head of security at the plant. The security guy did seem somewhat interested, but also seemed quick to dismiss it as probably a hobbyist with a quadcopter drone. Being a drone pilot myself, I don’t believe the object was a drone.
I’ve found it very difficult or stressful to fly one at night in an unfamiliar area, and/or risk crashing into a power line or something. There’s also the thought if your drone did go down inside a nuclear power plant, you may face prison time for an act of terrorism. I’d doubt you’d get your drone back anyway.
Other reasons why I tend to rule out the drone theory was the weather that early morning. There was a directional wind change from WSW-West at 7-8 mph which may have its own challenges, and I would think a drone operator would really stand out as being suspicious standing near a power plant at 3:00 in the morning. I also failed to find any typical drone manufactured to have the type of lighting array as described by the witness, most outdoors type drones use the red/green colors, typical of aircraft.
During my investigation, I did speak with someone that lives within distant sight of the power plant, which told me of seeing strange lights in the sky on several occasions. The security guy did mentioned there’s a 16,000’ no fly zone at the plant and at the time of the report there were no known aircraft with transponders anywhere near the area.
Tom Wertman informed me (Phyllis) that there are other recent events near Port Clinton. These occurred recently (January 26, 2018 and January 28, 2018). It is documented in CMS file: 89890. It is currently under investigation by Jim Phipps. These witnesses had two sightings.”
Witness report: First sighting: January 26th 2018 6:54pm
“I was standing in my parent’s driveway when I witnessed a very bright glowing circle/oval to the NW heading in my direction. It reminded me of something I caught on video during the summer that ended up disappearing from my gallery. It was actually the exact same thing I had seen during the summer. The thing I first noticed was that there were no lights blinking, so I knew it wasn't a plane or helicopter. It was just a bright white glow as if a star had come down from space and was instead low in the sky and on a straight path. The second thing I noticed was that as it got closer, everything was silent. My parent's house is in a very quiet area. There is no sound whatsoever. The thing moved like it was almost just floating along. It was much lower in the sky than any plane would ever be in the area. In the video, the thing moves straight past the moon, headed directly for a star. When I say "and it's going" at 58 seconds, it almost unnoticeably changes direction and ends up passing between the moon and star instead. Near the end of the sighting I was watching the object in the sky and noticed that my phone was still accidentally capturing the bright star the object had passed by. I looked away from the object for a few seconds to try and adjust my phone to continue capturing the object and within that time the object had in some way disappeared. It was just gone. There was no cloud cover. It was like it hit a delete button and was immediately gone”
Witness Report: Second Sighting: 1 hour drive away from first sighting January 28th 2018 6:14pm
“I was driving west on the highway when my child said "hey that looks like that thingy we saw at Grandma's!" It indeed did. It was a bit different experience, because rather than being pitch black dark in a quiet area, it was sunset in the city. It was moving north to south right out in front of us. No blinking lights again, and low. I managed to get a bit of video but when the thing went behind the clouds it NEVER came out the other side. The clouds weren't large or anything either. It would have taken maybe 5-7 seconds for the thing to pass through to the other side. It behaved in the same way, looked the same, no sound, just a bright glowing star-like, low flying object. I will send the second video by email to an area investigator.” (There is a video of this event.)
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