Ripley, Ohio: Many callers report strange lights over southern Ohio and Kentucky

Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. many people over a wide area of south-central Ohio and northern Kentucky phoned police to report strange lights in the sky. A husband and wife watched a fiery orange object near Ripley, Ohio, for 20 minutes; Charles Fite and Bill Adams in Aberdeen, Ohio, saw several lights to the north in a “T” formation; a man in Tollesboro, Kentucky, reported 8–10 objects in a group that blinked out and reappeared at three-minute intervals. An airport operator in Jackson, Ohio, received two calls describing a group of red lights moving erratically in the northwestern sky, and Terry Howard, between Waverly and Chillicothe, Ohio, videotaped a group of glowing objects at about the same angle of altitude as the moon. Ohio UFO investigators suspected that the sightings resulted from military maneuvers by the Ohio Air National Guard. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.