© Doug Johnstone of DenvilleThe first drones appeared in November, 2024, soaring above military bases and Trump's golf course in Bedminster, sparking fears of foreign threats watching American citizens
Along with several sightings of unidentified drones around the secretive Air Force base in December 2024, federal officials now say a 'black cube'-shaped craft was spotted by a nearby airplane less than 80 miles from Wright-Patterson.
Witnesses of the strange object sent their claims to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on December 19, describing how the cube was flying within 500 feet of the plane, which was soaring 16,000 feet above the ground.
This would make it incredibly unlikely to be a commercial drone, since those types of devices fly only a few hundred feet above the ground.
Comment: This is not the first time 'black cube' ufo forms have been reported. From 2015:
The FAA recorded this event in their 'SKYWATCH dataset,' which tracks drone sightings near airports or in restricted airspace.
However, when the FAA originally published this sighting in their publicly visible reports, they didn't include any mention of the object being a black cube.
Thanks to a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, it was revealed that this sighting and the other drone incidents near Wright-Patterson led to a major security response, including temporarily closing off military airspace.
The new documents were released roughly nine months after the first drone swarms were spotted over the East Coast in November 2024.
Hundreds of sightings were made near military bases, residential neighborhoods, and even President Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, sparking fears of foreign adversaries spying on American citizens.
After promising answers about the origin of these large, slow-moving objects once he took office, Trump said on January 28 the mysterious swarms were 'not the enemy' and had been authorized to conduct 'research.'
However, the new documents revealed that federal officials still don't believe what's being told to the public.
© The Black Vault Originals/YouTubeNewly released video by the military revealed unknown drones swarming over Wright-Patterson in December 2024
Just days before the black cube was spotted near Wright-Patterson, four other incidents involving unknown aircraft were reported.
On December 17, three reports were made, revealing how military personnel spotted multiple objects on the base's radar just after 12:40am ET.
Base personnel, who assumed the objects were more drones, never saw the intruders with their own eyes but alerted local police to search.
© WikipediaA section of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
This time, Wright-Patterson security guards were able to visually confirm that the objects were drones swarming around the base. The Air Force tracked the unmanned drones, but no other action was taken.
More than 12 hours later, an aircraft heading in for a landing at Wright-Patterson spotted a silver object just five miles from the base.
Records released from SKYWATCH noted that the crew believed this craft was a drone and recorded it flying at about 3,200 feet above the ground, much lower than the cube.Just three days earlier, air traffic controllers had spotted what they believed was another drone over several sensitive locations at Wright-Patterson on December 14, forcing the base's commander to close the facility until the intruder flew off.
The FOIA request by The Black Vault, a website dedicated to sharing declassified government documents, has thrown Wright-Patterson back into the spotlight, as UFO conspiracy theorists have been focused on this facility for decades.
In July 2025, the US military was compelled to release never-before-seen video of two additional incidents over Wright-Patterson on December 13 and December 16, 2024.
Guards at the base recorded several craft flying slowly around the facility, including a group of 'four quad-copter drones with red and green lights in a tight diamond formation.'
After guards shone their car spotlight on them, they reported that the swarm 'gained altitude and flew away at a rapid speed.'
In another chilling incident, another officer spotted an unknown aircraft descending towards the base, getting within 500 feet of landing before it suddenly ascended and vanished into thin air.
Reader Comments
Fact is, Western military technology is not geared up for drone warfare. Most advanced are Russia and the Ukraine, for obvious reasons. And this includes the radar systems, because most drones cause a radar echo not unlike medium or large birds. Which is why most modern (and fully digital/algorithmic) radar systems block these radar signals out as "noise". Which means no operator ever sees any radar signal until the object is visible to the naked eye.
BTW, this "Texas Ufo cube" imagery looks very fake.