Triangular Object With Spotlight Operated Inside US Nuclear Plant Airspace for Two Hours — NRC Documents Reveal 22 Incursions
FOIA-released Nuclear Regulatory Commission records confirm a triangular UAP carrying what appeared to be a large spotlight conducted sustained operations inside the protected airspace of Susquehanna Steam Electric Station in Pennsylvania in October 2022. NRC documents sent to AARO detail 22 total drone and UAP incursions at US nuclear facilities across a five-month period.
The FOIA Documents
Liberation Times has obtained Nuclear Regulatory Commission records detailing drone incidents at US nuclear facilities between September 2022 and February 2023 — documents the NRC forwarded to AARO under FOIA. The release covers 22 drone-related incidents at five nuclear power stations. The most significant cluster: eight incidents at Susquehanna Steam Electric Station in Pennsylvania in just over a month, and nine at Columbia Generating Station in Washington state over three months.
The Triangular Object With a Spotlight
The standout incident occurred on 3 October 2022 at Susquehanna. The report describes at least four drones entering the airspace from multiple directions — three appearing to be quadcopters, and a fourth described as larger, triangular in shape, and apparently carrying a large spotlight. The object operated inside the plant’s protected airspace. The interaction lasted over two hours.
A prior incident on 26 September 2022 at the same plant involved eight drones entering the airspace simultaneously, lasting two hours and 45 minutes. Multiple approaches from multiple directions on multiple occasions is not random activity — it is systematic reconnaissance of a nuclear facility.
In consultation with the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission… the number of reported incidents, and descriptions thereof, of unidentified aerial phenomena or drones of unknown origin associated with nuclear power generating stations.
— FY2022 NDAA — congressional mandate for AARO/NRC coordination
The Nuclear-UAP Pattern
The documents represent the civilian nuclear infrastructure equivalent of what Robert Salas documented at Malmstrom AFB in 1967. The pattern across seven decades is consistent: structured craft with unconventional flight profiles operating in the airspace of nuclear weapons and nuclear power facilities. At Malmstrom, ICBMs were disabled. At Rendlesham, beams were directed at a nuclear weapons storage area. At Tehran in 1976, an Iranian F-4’s weapons systems failed at lock-on while approaching a UAP. Now triangular objects are conducting multi-hour operations inside the protected airspace of civilian nuclear power plants.
The NRC is legally required to report these incidents to AARO. AARO is legally required to include them in annual reports to Congress. Whether those reports have been produced, and what they contain, has not been publicly disclosed.