Amazing Trumbull County 911 Police
UFO Chase Recordings
3-22-10
911 Tapes
Trumball County Disturbance
1994
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Data: 1996-99
From the late Kenny Young website.
Kenny was a regular visitor to Sightings on the Radio and contributor
to the Sighitngs website. This great case is presented in memory of
a great UFOlogist and sorely missed friend.
What is the Trumbull County Disturbance?
This incident is a remarkable UFO situation happening in 1994 near
Youngstown, Ohio. The case involved the pursuit of a low-flying object
by numerous police officials from a wide area. One officer approached
the object at close range, saying it 'lit up the ground as if daylight,'
and also declared that the electronic/radio instrumentation of his
patrol cruiser was "shut down" by the object.
When did this happen?
The incident actually began before 12:01 a.m. in the early morning
hours of Wednesday, December 14, 1994. Before midnight, the Trumbull
County 9-1-1 center had already logged several UFO reports from residents
near the Sampson Road vicinity. Curiously, UFOs were reported in the
area the previous evening, as well as two weeks prior.
Where, exactly, did this occur?
In an area within Liberty Township, about 4-miles north of Youngstown,
surrounded by Weathersfield Township to the west, Vienna Township
to the north and Hubbard Township to the east. The happening occurred
near and above the Youngstown Air Reserve Station, where public relations
officers adamently deny the event ever transpired, despite the acquisition
of 9-1-1 police dispatch tapes to the contrary.
How were the 9-1-1 tapes acquired?
Several telecommunicators at the Trumbull County 9-1-1 center read
the 1996 report entitled: "The Trumbull County Disturbance: The
Wrong Liberty," which appeared on the internet. Intruiged by
this account, they researched the case and acquired a date of the
event. Acting strictly as private citizens and not on behalf of the
department, they retrieved the data from the audio tapes stored at
the center. The original tapes were said to have been 'missing,' but
a backup set was located in another storage area.
It can be demonstrated that police departments across Ohio and other
states are more reluctant than ever to associate their departments
or officers with alleged UFO occurrences, and understandably so. Those
armed with the "badge of truth" do not usually relish their
position as the 'middleman' between the U.S. Air Force and the UFO
phenomenon.
"From my information, calls placed from police departments to
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are forwarded directly to secret offices
at the air base that are solely responsible for monitoring the UFO
situation," charges George Clappison, UFO researcher and investigator.
The Mystery Tattler
To bolster his contention, Clappison cites a 1995 source he identifies
only as "a southern Ohio law enforcement official." After
several confidential, tightly controlled meetings with his source,
Clappison was informed that his contact had a UFO sighting while on-duty
about ten years prior. His dispatch office then alerted the air base
of the occurrence. The officer recalled that within days of the event,
he was visited and questioned by several agents from the Cincinnati
offices of the FBI.
The law enforcement official conveyed to Clappison his belief that
the Air Force and various intelligence communities currently monitor
and investigate the UFO situation, despite public denials. According
to the opinion of the informant, the U.S. Air Force monitors and utilizes
the vast resources of police dispatch centers for the collection of
UFO reports.
UFO Reporting to WPAFB
Even when reporting a UFO directly to the Dayton, Ohio, air base,
a phone receptionist taking the call will politely refer the caller
to "report the incident to your local police department."
It is known that certain air emergency situations are held under the
authority of the State Patrol for handling and disposition, and as
the Air Force position illustrates, this authority also extends to
the State Patrol for response and investigation of UFO reports.
One should also consider the curious existence of the strange "SIGNAL
50" code word utilized by The Ohio State Highway Patrol during
radio communications to announce the observation of unknown aircraft.
Reporting Procedures & The LeCI Incident
A heated UFO incident at the Lebanon Correctional Institute occurred
on April 8, 1993 in Warren County, Ohio, in which a glowing red object
hovered for nearly three hours over a state penitentiary. The Warren
County Sheriff's Department and the Ohio State Highway Patrol responded
to the multiple witness event, and calls were placed by the dispatch
office to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, requesting aircraft
identification.
Wright-Pat denied having any experimental aircraft in the vicinity,
and furthermore stated that they had no radar track of the unknown
object, which, according to a statement given by Commander H. Lake
of the adjacent Warren Correctional Institute, was "presented
to the Warren County Sheriff's Department by his shift supervisor
upon their arrival."
Despite denials by the LeCI or WCI prison offices and the Ohio Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation that any internal documentation
of the event exists, H. Lake stated emphatically, "I don't know
what they're talking about. A report does exist because I wrote the
report myself."
Presently , public relations officials at Wright-Patt contend that
they have no documentation available regarding any incoming calls
from the Ohio State Highway Patrol regarding the April 8, 1993 UFO
incident at LeCI. However, FOIA Manager Paul Cassidy stated that "if
a phone call was indeed made to this base, there should be SOME kind
of documentation SOMEWHERE, whether it be in the form of a log entry
or scribbled notes."
To the contrary of WPAFB public relations department, O.S.P. log entries
acquired by UFO investigators revealed that several calls were indeed
placed to the Dayton, Ohio, air base. Dispatchers at the Ohio State
Patrol and Warren County Sheriff's Office even confirmed that Wright-Patt
had been alerted by utilizing a special, confidential phone number
that gives them direct access to the high-tech air base. When asked
for the number to be released to researchers, each respective office
refused to disclose it, saying it was a restricted line, and not releasable
to the public.
It can be said with certainty that this writer did hear and detect
abnormal aircraft activity above the Cincinnati region in the form
of jet engine sounds which were heard constantly from around 4:15
A.M. until daybreak on the night of the incident. The jet sounds were
deep and powerful, unlike common air traffic heard frequently above
Cincinnati. Not until the evening news later that day did this writer
learn of the events at the Lebanon, Ohio, prison, upon which time
the heavy droning sound of the jet noise was recalled.
Event From The Past...
There is a healthy historical precedent for UFO mix-ups between Ohio
police agencies and UFOs, with the U.S. Air Force always having a
distant and uncertain role in the drama.
Case in point: at 4:50 A.M. on April 17, 1966, two sheriffs deputies,
Dale Spaur and Wilber L. Neff, were advised by the Portage County,
Ohio, Dispatch Center to investigate a low-flying UFO reportedly headed
in their direction. The twosome watched as the glowing object approached
their position, illuminating the roadside.
"It's about fifty feet across, and I can just make out a dome
or something on the top, but that's very dark," Spaur yelled
into his microphone. "The bottom is real bright, it's putting
out a beam of light that makes a big spot underneath. It was overhead
a minute ago, and it was as bright as day here."
The dispatcher advised Spaur and Neff to keep the UFO in sight, as
a car with camera equipment had been sent out. Soon, the twosome were
racing along Route 14 at ninety miles per hour.
Other police officers soon joined the chase. Wayne Huston of East
Palestine, Ohio, witnessed the UFO pass his location at more than
80 miles per hour, and also joined the chase. "It was a funny
thing," he later said, "but when the object got too far
ahead of us it appeared to stop and wait."
One police officer later recalled that he had seen two jet-fighter
aircraft being followed by a bright object shaped like a football.
The vehicular pursuit took multiple police officials on an eighty-five
mile journey into Pennsylvania before the object allegedly shot off
at great speed and disappeared.
Radar Operators at the Pittsburgh airport control tower advised the
Conway Police Department that they had picked up the UFO on their
radar screens, but later denied this.
Police chief Gerald Buchert of Mantua, Ohio, claimed that he photographed
the object, but was told by the United States Air Force not to make
the pictures public.
The official Air Force conclusion was that Spaur and the others had
been chasing the planet Venus.
Months after the drama, Deputy Spaur was found in hiding by a reporter.
Working as a painter, Spaur lived in poverty residing at a seedy motel.
He had resigned from the police force, and had been divorced from
his wife. "If I could change all that I have done in my life,"
he said, "I would change that night we chased that damned saucer."
Given the sad but true public belittlement of UFO witnesses by the
Air Force, the news media and the debunking celebrities, it is understandable
why police officials such as those involved in the LeCI Incident and
the Portage pursuit are reluctant to talk about their full knowledge
of these events.
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