The UFO they could only see through night vision
A huge V-shaped UFO, visible only through night-vision goggles: former Air Force guard Logan Labby describes a silent encounter over Schriever Air Force Base in 2008—and why the men who watched it chose not to report it that night.
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In this episode, Bill Van Nort explores the view through the goggles, the decision not to report and what presence without communication might mean. Labby later brought his account to Americans for Safe Aerospace and says he spoke with the FBI.
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Chapters
00:00 The UFO only the goggles revealed
00:35 A routine night at Schriever
01:21 The silent V overhead
02:08 Three men. One pair of goggles.
02:56 The report they never made
03:51 What night vision can reveal
04:18 From silence to the FBI
05:11 Presence without an announcement
06:36 Would you make the call?
07:30 Credits and sources
00:35 A routine night at Schriever
01:21 The silent V overhead
02:08 Three men. One pair of goggles.
02:56 The report they never made
03:51 What night vision can reveal
04:18 From silence to the FBI
05:11 Presence without an announcement
06:36 Would you make the call?
07:30 Credits and sources
Sources and further exploration
- Logan Labby interviewed by Ryan Graves / Safe Aerospace Podcast. Source interview: 13 min 49 sec craft; 15 min 10 sec goggles off; 21 min 25 sec lights; 27 min 52 sec reporting decision; 44 min 41 sec ASA and FBI. These are source-interview timestamps.
- Publisher transcript
- Americans for Safe Aerospace
- L3Harris: image intensification
- USAF night-operations training, 2008. Period reference, not this encounter; no source photo reproduced.
- US Army night-vision maintenance, 2008. Equipment context, not device identification.
- Cristina Gomez: additional coverage of Labby's account
Creative disclosure and credits
Original cinematic reconstructions illustrate testimony; they are not archival encounter footage. The light count, size, altitude and duration remain witness estimates. The neighborhood sequence is an imagined possibility. An FBI interview is not identification of the object. Bill's beliefs and interpretation are his own.
Created, presented and narrated by Bill Van Nort. Unknown Origin / EpicB Media LLC. Authorized voice clone and digital host: ElevenLabs and HeyGen. Original imagery/motion: local production, Hailuo 3 Max and Veo 3.1. Original instrumental score created with Suno: The Optical Contradiction; The Report Not Made; It Never Looked Down; The Sky Keeps Its Answer. Established show theme at opening and close. Sound effects: ElevenLabs. Research, development and editing assistance: ChatGPT/Codex; script and production consultation: Claude and Gemini. No third-party interview footage is reproduced.
Strange encounters. Bigger questions.
- (00:00) - The UFO only the goggles revealed
- (00:35) - A routine night at Schriever
- (01:21) - The silent V overhead
- (02:08) - Three men. One pair of goggles.
- (02:56) - The report they never made
- (03:51) - What night vision can reveal
- (04:18) - From silence to the FBI
- (05:11) - Presence without an announcement
- (06:36) - Would you make the call?
- (07:30) - Credits and sources
