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Kyle Knopp

FPS-85 Space Tracking RADAR Mechanic with the United States Space Force at Eglin AFB and former Lockheed Martin aerospace technician.

Sep 6, 2026

7:17
Would you like to start at the beginning, please, sir?
7:19
All right.
7:20
Well, I guess to really start at the beginning, I should probably tell you my background so it's not just a random person telling you.
7:28
So from 2008 to 2016, I was in the Air Force.
7:34
I served active duty.
7:36
I was a communication navigation mission systems specialist on the specific aircraft of the MC-130H.
7:44
That's not necessarily important, but some of the people might want to see that.

15 MINS LATER

22:23
And what was their reply?
JimmyHOST
9:42
... because you're the closest to it
9:44
...
9:44
NDA didn't matter for me.
9:45
There was no...
9:47
So they called me, Arrow.
9:48
They're like, "Yeah, we're gonna set up a classified secure communication." I don't know how they were gonna do that.
9:54
They never did.

1 HR 14 MINS LATER

JimmyHOST
83:34
Um, what do you reckon then, Kyle? What, what are your thoughts on this case?
38:39
What alerted you to that this thing was there?
38:42
Good point.
38:43
Good point.
38:44
Yeah, I almost missed that.
38:46
I was driving, and I was already one minute late.
38:50
That's why I know exactly it was at 12.01. And I just... literally was coming around so like I said that Bend of that spot and I had it felt like somebody flicked right there and like but inside my head outward and I was like what the is that so I looked up and that's when I saw that triangle of in each corner not touching the corner but close to the corner was an orangish plasma discharge glow and the triangle itself was darker than the night sky that's how I knew There was something there because you could see like the glow was inside each corner, but not touching the right.
39:33
So like the tip was facing the flight line.

1 HR 12 MINS LATER

111:08
yeah
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
0:55
Weird chanting.
0:56
Halfway through, it had stood up on its hind legs and walked the rest of the way.
Ryan SpragueSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
2:38
This is Somewhere in the Skies with Ryan Sprague.
2:54
Before I start, I want to be completely honest with you.
2:57
I'm reading from a script right now.
2:59
My goal is to be as precise and as clear as possible about the details of what I saw, which is why I'm using notes.
3:06
This is like my fourth or fifth time trying to record this, so let's just try to do this in one go.
3:11
Now, back to my story.

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