TruthSeekers NEWS Magazine Issue 2, 2016 | Page 10

TruthSeekersNews.com Seeker - issue 2 Ohio’s UFOs Has Logical Solutions By: Melody Dareing A new video of a reported UFO over Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, in May set off a new round of speculation regarding objects spotted in the Midwest skies. A couple called news agencies and UFO teams alleging they captured a strange object on cell phone video over the base on May 25. Both local and national news stations covered the story. SecureTeam 10, which investigates UFOs and other strange anomalies in the skies, investigated the alleged sighting, with team member Tyler Glockner stating two separate witnesses reported the same sighting around 9:45 p.m. The video went viral after the group posted it. However, others like astrophysicist Joseph Childers and UFO investigator Tom Wertman, who is the Ohio state director for MUFON, said they believed the video was a hoax. Wright Patterson officials told local media the base had no connection to the object reported. Part of the dilemma about researching Ohio UFOs is the history. Wright Patteron AFB is entrenched in UFO stories because it was the home base of the infamous Project Blue Book, a quazi­ secret government agency created specifically to document and investigate UFO cases. There are 12,618 documented cases of strangeness from 1947 to 1969 in the records of Project Blue Book. Some, including Wertman, said there are actually just as many reported UFO cases over Lake Erie in Cleveland. There are several theories on this, with UFO expert John Ventre stating large bodies of water seem to be a common denominator in at least half of the UFO sightings. Speculations among UFO believers are these waters could hide a base camp for aliens. Wertman offers simpler explanations: air traffic and Chinese lanterns. 10