An Air Force base in Indiana has become the latest hotspot for mysterious UFOs after residents spotted swarms of fast-moving, glowing orbs in the skies.

Dozens of people in Kokomo, which sits just 13 miles south of Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base, reported seeing hovering flickering lights that vanished into thin air.

'What is that,' shouted one local who filmed the lights. 'I think those are UFOs and I really don't feel comfortable going to sleep tonight.' 

The uncanny sightings, most reported on October 7, echo recent UFO waves near military sites, including Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia where officials reported seeing 'flashing red, green, and white lights' that were 'moving at rapid speeds.'

The mysterious objects in Indiana, however, were shared by civilians online, where experts have weighed in to determine the source.

Some suggested the lights were flares dropped from planes, possibly military craft — but one witness shared doppler weather radar evidence of a 'huge rectangle' UFO with a 'clearly defined vapor shock wave' seen the morning after, October 8. 

No explanation has been publicly provided by US Air Force personnel for the UFOs, which appeared as both reddish-orange orbs that hovered in the sky as well as one white orb that zig-zagged in a fast maneuver. 

'I don't understand what those are,' Christina Sharp said in a TikTok as young children nearby were heard marveling at the glowing reddish-orange lights.

One anonymous local submitted a report to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) on October 8 of what may have been a related event.

The person stated that a brief incursion on doppler weather radar showed what looked like a large rectangle UFO speeding nearby, estimated to be about half as big as Disney World.

'I've seen many easily explained radar anomalies over the years,' the witness said, 'but never a huge rectangle with a clearly defined vapor shock wave and trail.'

'Judging by the image size, rectangle would be approximately 20 miles in length,' the witness added. 

'Compressed vapor trail appears to be in excess of 150-miles long.'

While it's unclear if this bizarre radar return relates to the previous night's wave of strange lights in the sky, several seasoned analysts of UFO videos told DailyMail.com that Kokomo's citizens most likely saw military flares. 

'These look very clearly to be military flares,' said Alejandro Rojas, an advisor to tech start-up Enigma Labs, where he helps investigate witness submissions to the group's growing database of UFO sightings.

'The tell-tale signs,' Rojas explained, 'are the lights being in a row and lighting up and disappearing in succession.'

In addition to the Grissom base to the north, Rojas noted several other USAF bases surrounding Kokomo that may have been responsible for the late night lightshow.

'Kokomo is around 50 miles away from Camp Fort Wayne [Fort Wayne Air National Guard Base],' he added. 

'Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton is also about 150 miles away. These could be from either location.'

Rojas, who served for many years as the official spokesperson for the citizen-led Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), said that he has personally witnessed and videotaped just how eerie military flares can look under the cover of darkness.

'I live in the Phoenix, Arizona area and they often drop these flares while doing exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range,' he said. 'Sure enough they are also often mistaken for UFOs and sometimes the media will call me for a comment.'

Rojas, who has co-founded a new nonprofit to look into 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' UAP Discovery, said the night sky can obscure more obvious signs of flares, like smoke or the aircraft that dropped the flares in the first place.

'Witnesses have argued that smoke can be seen from flares, but that is typically not the case,' he told DailyMail.com. 

'I made this video to show that smoke often can not be seen,' he said. 'My video is similar to most of the ones being alleged to be UFOs. I was about 150 miles from the flares when I took this video.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to the public affairs specialist at the Grissom base and also to the relevant staff with Indiana's Air National Guard.

A public affairs representative for the Grissom base told DailyMail.com, 'Grissom has KC-135 Stratotankers [a large, Boeing-made, aerial refueling tanker aircraft], and they don't have flares.'

The 122nd Fighter Wing of Indiana's ANG, however, did take credit for the flares: 'F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft assigned to the 122nd Fighter Wing conducted night-flying operations on Oct 7, 2024, near Kokomo, Indiana,' said Master Sgt William Hopper. 

'This training regularly incorporates the use of flares and is no cause for concern,' Master Sgt Hopper, the 122nd Fighter Wing's public affairs superintendent told DailyMail.com.

'The men and women of the 122nd Fighter Wing are blessed and humbled to be surrounded by such a patriotic community here in the Hoosier heartland,' the official continued, pointing citizens to the wing's Facebook, Instagram and X profiles.

'Please visit [...] for updates on when to expect future night-flying operations,' MSgt Hopper advised. 'We are proud to serve our community, state, and nation.'

Nevertheless, the 122nd Fighter Wing spokesperson said he had no explanation for the oddly large weather radar event the morning after those flares were dropped. 

'We wouldn't be the right source for any weather-related questions,' Hopper said.

The strange cases in Indiana comes just weeks after new government records surfaced about other UFO waves near military sites, including 17 nights in December 2023 when swarms of UFOs were tracked over Joint Base Langley-Eustis.

These brazen penetrations over Langley — home to at least half the Air Force's F-22 Raptor stealth fighters — led to two weeks of emergency White House meetings.

To date, Langley's mystery UFOs have eluded identification by the Pentagon, police and even NASA's high-altitude research plane, the WB-57F, called in to investigate.

General Glen VanHerck, the commander with North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD), who led the mission to takedown the infamous Chinese spy balloon back in February 2023, described that Langley wave as unlike any other known case.

'If there are unknown objects within North America,' General VanHerck told the Wall Street Journal, 'go out and identify them.'

Senior ex- Pentagon security official Chris Mellon told DailyMail.com last week that the UFOs were 'swarms of smaller craft' released by 'motherships.'

He explained that the episode last December was 'part of a much larger pattern affecting numerous national security installations.'

'Two of the notable aspects,' he said, 'are the fact our drone signal-jamming devices have proven ineffective and these craft are making no effort to remain concealed.'

Mellon told DailyMail.com: 'I make no claims regarding their origin, perhaps many are Chinese drones.'

'[But] in some instances,' Mellon took pains to emphasize, 'it is clear they want to be seen as though taunting us.'