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A massive cluster of unknown flying objects was spotted near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, a military installation long rumored to be linked to UFO activity.
Witnesses near the Ohio base captured the craft on April 8, showing a silent triangle of glowing lights moving in perfect formation before splitting apart mid-flight.
The lights appeared to drift slowly downward, flickering, pulsing and changing brightness individually as they hovered in the night sky.
Reports described the sighting as having ‘no sound, no standard navigation lights, movement unlike any known aircraft, drone swarm or satellite.’
The video was reportedly taken from Rainbow Lakes, a 60-acre outdoor recreational retreat in Fairborn, about four miles from the base.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) has drawn renewed attention in recent months, as its research laboratory was previously led by retired Major General William Neil McCasland, who disappeared earlier this year.
McCasland, 68, went missing from his New Mexico home on February 28, reportedly leaving with only hiking boots and a .38-caliber revolver.
He led the Air Force Research Laboratory from May 2011 until his retirement in 2013, a facility long associated in UFO lore with alleged materials recovered after the 1947 Roswell incident.
WPAFB leads development in aerospace technology, advanced materials, sensors, human performance and AI.
The Daily Mail has contacted WPAFB for comment on the video.
The clip has flooded social media, where users are debating whether the lights are extraterrestrials or parachutists with flares.
One user on X claimed the lights were ‘non-human intelligent orbs,’ while another user on Reddit shared: ‘This is exactly what it looks like when parachuters have flares attached as they’re falling.’
‘I agree that is what this looks like. A free-fall team, whether it be military or civilian, gets into their final descent stack after their chutes have already deployed,’ a Redditor shared.
‘My issue with this is that the cloud ceiling is super low. If this is a training jump, this low a ceiling would cause it to get pushed or canceled.
‘Obviously, it is hard to get an ideal grasp on everything since the video is short and in low light. That said, it looks like we lose visual on the flares intermittently as they pass through the clouds.’
Another Redditor joked, saying, ‘They’re coming for more scientists,’ likely referring to McCasland, who managed the Air Force’s $2.2 billion science and technology program along with additional customer-funded research.
The retired general is said to have left his home on foot in February, but authorities have yet to locate any clues for his whereabouts.
Because several of his personal items were left behind, investigators are trying to determine whether he left voluntarily or encountered trouble shortly after leaving his home.
A 911 call, capturing a police dispatcher speaking with his wife, Susan Wilkerson, was released earlier this month, in which she can be heard saying that her husband ‘had planned not to be found.’
‘He’s left his phone. He changed his clothes into… I don’t know what. I think he’s on foot. All of our cars and bicycles are in the garage,’ Wilkerson said approximately three hours after McCasland disappeared.
‘He turned it off and left it behind, which seems kind of deliberate because he’s always got his phone. He has a smartwatch. I don’t know if that’s with him or not,’ Wilkerson continued in audio obtained by the Law&Crime Network.
McCasland did not take any of his wearable devices or prescription glasses, leaving without any way to trace him.
His name became associated with UFO topics after the 2016 WikiLeaks release of emails from John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
In the emails, musician Tom DeLonge, founder of Blink-182 and the UFO-focused To The Stars Academy (TTSA), referenced McCasland multiple times, claiming he had advised him on disclosure matters and helped assemble an advisory team.
DeLonge also suggested on a podcast that he was being advised by McCasland and several named and unnamed insiders to carry out a slow disclosure of UAP information to the American public from US government or contractor sources.
He claimed that the US government and contractor groups already possess free energy technology, sometimes referred to as zero-point energy, that could make conventional energy sources obsolete, stating: ‘One inch of air could power the US for hundreds of years.’
DeLonge suggested that TTSA was being restrained from releasing all the information government insiders had provided, but that the organization sought investment from private sources to develop this technology for energy and aerospace purposes.
He further stated that TTSA expected to create a working anti-gravity craft, and the company’s SEC filing noted that its aerospace division is ‘dedicated to finding revolutionary breakthroughs in propulsion, energy and communications.’
An email tied McCasland to Wright-Patterson, alleging he oversaw the lab where Roswell materials were supposedly sent and scheduling emails showed a planned meeting with DeLonge, Podesta, and someone signing as ‘Neil McC,’ consistent with McCasland.
These claims come from DeLonge and have not been confirmed by McCasland or official records.
There is no public evidence that he participated in UFO crash retrievals, reverse-engineering of non-human technology, or classified extraterrestrial programs.
His documented work focused on advanced aerospace research, which has fueled speculation about experimental propulsion and unidentified phenomena in defense circles.
