Central Dispatch.
Yeah, this is, um, the National Weather Service of Muskegon.
I was calling to make sure
that the person that called me was not a hoax.
He was one of our dispatchers.
We've been chasing lights down... all over down that way.
-What do they look like? - I don't know.
We got a report of
something going through the air with lights on it horizontally.
Three to four lights...
going at a high rate of speed up and down and all over the sky.
911.
Um, we were just wondering.
Have you heard anything about these lights that are flickering up here?
It's like a group.
It looks like a string of Christmas lights that's way up in the sky.
No, ma'am.
And we wondered if you'd heard about it.
Not a thing.
You might wanna have someone take a look.
It's different. I've never seen anything like this.
I don't know. It's strange, but it's right out east, southeast.
It's way up.
It's just like a circle
of a lot of different lights flickering.
911.
There's four or five lights, and they're all flashing right in a row
from the top all the way down to the bottom.
-Uh-huh. -It took off real fast.
There was four lights, and they were blinking back and forth.
And there's no way... I mean, a plane is not that wide.
And then it started... And then it went down to three lights.
And then it started to turn around. Like, I mean, it was a circular motion.
Then it started going up and down, and then it went to two lights
and did the same thing.
And now it's one, and it's spinning in a circle.
They're just kinda hanging there.
They came up as a group, then they kind of split.
Weather Service. Muskegon.
Hi, Muskegon. This is Ottawa County 911 calling.
Yeah, how you doing?
Good. You guys have access to a radar there, don't ya?
-Yes, we do. - You do.
You getting anything weird down in the Southern Ottawa County area?
The reason I ask is we're getting a whole bunch of calls
of some strange lights
in the Southern Ottawa, Northern Allegan County
right near Holland City area.
-Strange lights? - Yeah.
We've had about 60 UFO calls.
Oh, jeez! Okay.
I'm sitting here going, "No, come on."
"There's gotta be something more to this."
Yeah.
I'm looking at it in the vertical now,
and there's a large return down there.
It's up about maybe...
Oh, now it disappeared, but it was up about 6,000 feet.
It could have been a plane, but it was pretty big. Wait a minute.
Oh, it moved. Let's see.
There's something big down there. Wait a minute. That's really strange.
Yeah, right down near South Haven.
Okay, it's moving towards the west-southwest,
and it looks like a big blob.
Yeah, that's the way it was explained to us.
Hmm. This is weird.
Looks like it's steady right now.
It's gone up.
I'm getting it now at, um, at about 12,000 feet.
Huh!
Oh, my God! What is this?
They were going together and coming apart.
Yeah, they're... Well, it's... There's three.
They're separated by about... Looks like about 5,000 feet in height.
Hmm.
They're very strong returns.
I mean, they're spiking, so there's something pretty solid.
It's not precipitation or anything, especially up at that height.
An officer in Holland City just sent me a message.
He says, "Can you identify anything further?"
He says, "Looks like three to four of 'em."
I'm seeing three, but they look like a triangle on my scope.
This is strange, yeah, 'cause the officer says it's, uh,
"Green and red lights." It does not look like an airplane.
They come together, and then they separate.
And they just keep doing this all the time.
These are huge returns. I've never seen anything like this.
Not even when I'm doing storms. These aren't storms. They're like...
They're just poppin' up all over the place.
These are all up around between 7,000 and 12,000 feet.
Wow, this is strange.
Okay, they look like they're all moving toward the south, towards Chicago.
They're about over the center of Lake Michigan.
Three of them in a triangle just off the coast of Berrien County.
All right, well, if we get any more, we'll let you know also.
Please do. Thanks a lot, then.
- Okay. Thank you. Bye. - Uh-huh. Bye-bye.
911.
This is a non-emergency,
so feel free to cut me off if something comes in.
And I feel kind of silly calling, but is there any Air Force airplanes
or helicopters flying around in Allegan or Ottawa County tonight?
I don't know if you guys do anything on UFOs at all.
It's not a real emergency. We're calling about them UFOs we saw.
- Mmm-hmm. -They're out there.
They ain't airplanes.
Whoa! Got it! Whoo-hoo!
My gosh!
They're all going against the wind. The wind's 120 knots to the west.