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THE PROJECT MATCH SIGHTINGS: Year 2022
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THE PROJECT MATCH SIGHTINGS: Year 2022
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This report deals exclusively with bonified MADAR anomalies and documented Potential Sightings of Interest, those that we feel are representative of the UAP phenomena. There were a number of interesting sightings that either had too distant connections or had no obvious correlations-in-time to be used in this report. So this is an effort to show accurate results, many times using Multi-Server Verification. This report will be subject to updating. Appropriate explanetory links are provided at the end of this summary. The current INVESTIGATION_STATUS database report showing all these cases and others can be accessed at any time. Finally, any terms used in this report you are not familiar with are explained at the end of this report. Updated 12 June 2024 March 9, 2022 6:38 pm EST. The witness had filed a report with nuforc that a massive black triangle with curve corners, and a red, yellowish, and blue, round set of lights under each side, had been hovering overhead. It was now dark in Harwinton and she turned on their garage light. As she walked down the back stairs to their driveway, she heard a low but deep sound. When she reached the driveway, she looked up and right above her head was a massive black triangle that also extended past their ranch home and just above their roof. Since it was dark outside and the craft was black, she believes she was only able to see the craft because of the lights underneath it and her being underneath it as well. The lights were not blinding, so she could see the entire shape of the craft which hovered and then very very slowly moved completely over her roof, then gone in seconds. She reportedly watched it for a good 2 1/2 to 3 minutes.. She decided to find out where to report, since she'd been unable to get a full nights sleep since the encounter - not through fear but the unbelievable experience she was lucky enough to have. (NUFORC) MADAR Alert Search showed no "code blue":alerts for Connecticut for that day. However, for the sighting time period of 6:38 pm, which converted to UTC was 11:38, MADAR site 151 at Newington, 21 miles east of Harwinton, had a magnetometer spike of 8.62 milligaus at 11:40 UTC. Sighting times can vary while the magnetometer data is documented by computer. The sighting duration was estimated at 2-1/2 to 3 minutes and there was a slight field increase beginning at 11:38 UTC (same as the sighting time) and lasting about 8 minutes. Since the MADAR had not gone into alert mode, the scan-rate was recorded at one-minute "status" intervals rather than one-second alert-mode rate, but the next-highest reading occurred at 11:40:18 which was 8.62 milligaus. The actual highest reading was 9.38 at 11:44:18. The magnetometer had been getting readings of 0.38 to 1.12 milligaus right before all this started. Multi-sensor verification was met with the onboard compass showing a deviation of almost 5 degrees, 2 degrees over the protocol of 3. There was a slight variation in the gyro or accelerometer readings for node 151 as well. Two minutes prior to this event there was a system RECAL which supposedly made the data more accurate and there was a mag spike 5 minutes before the sighting of 5.25 which might be indications the craft entered Connecticut airspace at that time. Six minutes after the sighting began or 3-4minutes after the sighting ended (11:44:18 UTC) the spike of 9.38 milligaus which could have been the craft departing. We were unable to get an FI to check this one out so Fran Ridge conducted the invesigation and obtained a signed report. The documented report leaves no question that an object, of significant size, emitting a low-pitched rumbling sound, was apparently observed at close encounter range, possibly as close as 35' from the observer. MADAR data suggests that site151 at Newington, only 21 miles east of Harwinton, had significant increases in all numbers during the sighting. March 30, 2020, Littleton, Colorado 11:54 pm MDT. The lady worked swing shift at a 24/7 emergency animal hospital in Castle Rock. She lives in Littleton and always takes the Santa Fe Drive home. There was no other traffic on the road at the time. Witness saw the craft to the left, a couple miles away, right over the Roxborough Park area. When she stopped at a traffic light it confirmed the object was actually moving. And when she was on a stretch of highway with no oncoming traffic the object executed a weird turn, dropped suddenly from roughly 500-600 feet to no more than 200' and headed directly for her car. It flew slowly over her car and when it passed overhead she got a very good look at it. The craft was reportedly huge, with a very bright amber light and with different colored lights around it. Witness kept glancing at it...while driving. It didn't look anything like a plane or helicopter. It gave the witness the impression that it knew it was being observed. Witness looked up and clearly saw a round craft with a definite top and bottom. In the middle, was a series of what looked like windows separated by vertical bars. Encased in an amber light the middle section with the windows was turning with flashing colors of pink, green and white lights. "It looked like a spring form cake pan with rotating windows in the middle, or maybe an air filter. Definitely didn't look aerodynamic." Duration; a few minutes. At the time of this sighting, the MADAR site at Elizabeth, Colorado, node 34, was spewing out some interesting numbers. Mind you, there were 5 MADAR sites in Colorado, but node 34 was the closest, less than 30 miles as the crow flies to the southeast. The spreadsheet indicates various forms of activity beginning after an important pretimed recalibration at 5:50:19 UTC which converts to 11:50 pm Mountain Daylight Time. Three minutes after the RECAL, with magnetometer readings of 0.75 milligaus the readings began to ramp up. Four minutes prior to the sighting the numbers jumped to 8.25, then 10.5, then began to decrease to 3.75 and 5.25 before settling down to pre-sighting numbers of 0.75. MUFON case disposition: Unknown UAV; CMS No. 121928. April 10, 2022; Clarksburg, West Virginia 1:57 am. EDT. The two witnesses were traveling home from an evening out and saw a huge cigar-shaped craft emitting a sort of rainbow colored light arrangement. The craft hovered approximately 30 feet off the ground. As the couple approached in their vehicle it seemed to notice their presence and shined a bright bluish green light directly at them. The craft didn't seem threatened by their presence, but apparently it was aware of them being there. After possibly 3-5 minutes the craft shot up to a few hundred feet and took off in a northeasterly direction. No sound was heard as it propelled itself forward, but a low audible buzz or humming sound was present while it was hovering in front of the witnesses. As the primary witness looked back down, a second craft seemed to appear out of nowhere. It slowly crept up the hill to the same spot the previous craft had been spotted. This one didn't appear to notice them, however the witness' fiancé and vehicle appeared to capture its interest. Being as she was pregnant with their second child, primary witness was very concerned. The craft shown a blueish green light in what seemed to be a sort of quadrant scanning sequence carefully examining the vehicle and its occupants (not sure if this was in regards to the initial encounter or the second encounter) who was afraid to make any harsh movements he remained still and refrained from making any movement. After approximately 10 minutes the craft shot up in similar fashion as the first and and disappeared in the same direction. The rate of speed the craft leapt forward with was unimaginable, gone so quickly that the speeds weren't possible to estimate. Once the craft were gone the witnesses began to travel back to their home and realized that at least 2 hours had passed between leaving their previous destination and their home. Once home they quickly showered due to a worry of possible contamination and his fiancé being pregnant. Male witness hasn't felt right since the incident. (NUFORC). There were no code blues (full alerts) listed in the MADAR Alert Search, but extremely interesting spikes were found in the status rate one-minute field data on node 192 at Weirton. Clarksburg is 82 miles SSE of the Weirton site. In Universal Time Code 1:57 am is 05:57:00. The reported time of the spikes are 05:56:18 UTC (7.5 milligaus) and 5:57:18 UTC (6.75 milligaus). There is definitely a two minute spike period in the magnetometer's field readings. There was also Multi-Sensor Verification in that the compass heading change varied from 156.28 degrees to 160.62 over those same two minutes. The tracer dot placed on the MADAR map also showed a Cambridge, Ohio MADAR site to 85 miles to the NW of Clarksburg, but node 137 was NOL (not online) at the time. Conclusions: This, by itself, is a major close encounter case that, with two hours missing time, appears to be an abduction. Reluctance of the witnesses to an official investigation for something of this nature is not surprising, but it must be stated in their defense, they DID file a report, with witnesses names, with NUFORC on April 12th, two days after the incident. At the time they DID check the box for investigation. What they DON'T know is that a MADAR site less than 80 miles to the north was spewing very interesting numbers. About 8 minutes before the sighting there was a spike on the magnetometer of 10.5 milligaus. The impression one gets (based on Operation Foal Eagle) is that the MADAR site picked up the craft entering West Virginia airspce, probably somewhere in-between Clarksburg and Weirton, then the craft idled down and projected a blue-green disabling beam during a stalking phase prior to abduction. April 10, 2022; West Palm Beach, Florida At 2:00 pm EDT. A white tic-tac-shaped object was reported by a witnesses to be speeding past an aircraft, spotted against the blue sky background. The object produced no noticeable noise at that range and left no visible trail. Witnesses noticed that the object was very far off in the distance as it passed behind the clouds and drifted in a straight line until it was out of sight. Comparing the speed of the object with the nearby aircraft, it made it appear the airplane was moving at a snail’s pace. The primary witness stated in the report form that the time of the sighting was 2 AM. The investigator is convinced that the witness’s sighting time was actually 2 PM. ["spotted against the blue sky and next to a plane"]. (UFOS Northwest). The MADAR site 76 at Royal Palm Beach, Florida, 11.8 miles west of the sighting location at West Palm beach, showed a noticeable spike in magnetometer field readings at the time of the sighting. The reading was not high enough to trigger an “alert”, but was significantly higher than samples taken prior to and subsequent to the anomalous readings. Two minutes prior to the sighting time given, the field reading was 1.5 milligaus. One min before the sighting the number had increased to 8.25 and peaked sometime during the next 60-second data line to 9.75. If the MADAR had been triggered, the datalines would have been 1-sec in duration, but the field readings did not reach or exceed the 30 milligaus threshold. There was multi-sensor varification from the onboard compass which showed changes of almost 3 degrees.The low point was 162.72 degrees 1 min after the sighting time of 2:00 pm or 18:00:19 and the high point of 165.66 , 3 min prior and back to 165.5 at 2:04 pm or 18:04:19 UTC. MADAR Alert Search also showed a full-scale "code blue" alert at node 91 at Sanford, Florida, 156 miles north of sighting coords, indicating possible UAP activity in the region. NUFORC printout also shows numerous reports of UAP and MADAR hits, and this specific correlation at West Palm Beach is very interesting. The witness saw the object for just a few seconds but it is highly probable the craft was in the air a lot longer, and MADAR data suggests somewhere between 1 and 2 minutes, It is speculation on my part after looking at the printout that the craft might have entered Florida airspace at 17:55 (6.75) and possibly exited somewhere between 3 and 8 minutes subsequent to the sighting time (6 milligaus at 18:03 UTC and 7.5 at 18:08 UTC). May 15, 2022, Oregon City, Oregon Time: 9:05 PDT (not 9:05 am as shown in NUFORC). Husband and wife, both 65 years old, were getting ready to retire for the evening and the wife was looking out her sliding glass doors and saw a strange object over the trees to the south. It was strange enough that she called her husband to take a look at it. At the time, they were not wearing their glasses, so their vision was not optimal. At one point, they both went to retrieve their glasses and put them on to see better, but by then the object was moving off to the north. Investigator was told the wife’s unaided vision is a little better than the husband’s. The object had first appeared to their south, over a row of trees that are about 75 feet tall and about 100 feet from the witnesses’ location. It paused briefly as it passed over a high voltage power transmission line, then moved toward the witnesses. Object was described as round, and a bright, fiery orange color. At one point the object rotated upward, and like the name "Spaulding" on a basketball, the side facing them moved up on the sphere and they observed a triangular pattern of round lights on it. At nearest approach, angular elevation was about 45 degrees, apparent size was about 2-1/2 inches at arm’s length, and the distance at closest approach was about 75 to 100 feet. Estimated altitude was about 100 feet above ground level. No sound was heard even though it was a very quiet, peaceful evening. The location is in the country, away from traffic noise. The witnesses,mature, very ordinary people, felt sheer amazement and puzzlement about what they were looking at. The husband is retired, and worked as a landscaper for a private college in Portland for 30 years. Duration of sighting: about 2 to 3 minutes. Investigated by MUFON, disposition unknown aerial vehicle. MADAR DATA: Although there was no code blue alert until the next day (which would have been the 16th), the printout for Site 66 at Portland, Oregon, 13 miles to the north, shows conspicuous readings at the exact time of the Oregon City incident. The data shows spikes in the magnetometer reading during the two to three minutes the object was observed. The readings, one minute apart in milligaus varied from 2.25 to 8.25, 3.0, then up again to 7.5 and back to 3.0. If the MADAR site had gone to full alert, the device would have ramped up to once per second. The onboard compass varied from 119.77 degrees to 118.02 to 120.4. The compass variation was almost 3 degrees, which satisfies MSV (multi-sensor verification). The most important datalines are the minutes 4:07:18 am to 4:08:18 which converts to 9:07 and 9:08 pm. This is only guessing but it looks like the UAP had entered Oregon airspace right before the wife saw the object in the south, idled down, then moved again. At first the craft did not seem be disc-shaped because it was never described as flat at any point in the narrative. After talking with the witnesses we were able to determine that the object was actually spherical, like a basketball, and slowly rotating, the words "tilted vertically" not being a good choice. This also cleared up the original claim that some features were displayed as it turned in the upward rotation. The object hadn't moved upward, it had "rotated" upward, displaying the triangular pattern of round lights. The evidence is compelling that a UAP was observed at Oregon City, and at the same time 13 miles to the north at Portand, MADAR site 66 documented spikes in its data. May 15, 2022; Surprise, Arizona 11:54 pm MST. A total lunar eclipse, also known as a "blood moon" was being observed by a witness laying on his back on a trampoline, talking on his cellphone to his girlfriend. He had just gotten off the phone at about 11:54 pm, and continued looking upward when he observed a triangle shaped object, also described as a boomerang, which seemed to drop straight down to an altitude above the clouds then move off to the north until it could not be observed due to the distance away from the witness. He continued laying down looking up when he believes three minutes went by when another triangle object of the same size dropped down and moved north the same as the first one. A third one triangle shaped object dropped down but was considerably larger in size. The first ones were similar in size to the jets he observed two-three times a week, but the third one was 20-40 times that size. And it had the appearance of what is described as a re-entry burning effect on the bottom of the object. Not as dramatic as a rocket re-entry but some "heat" signature could be seen as the object dropped down in the same area as the previous two triangles. Only this larger object emitted a "glittery orange color for a short period of time". The witness also stated the larger triangle moved off to the north but did turn at a slight angle, and the others moved more in a straight line. Finally, a fourth triangle, similar to the first two dropped down then moved north of the witness. All four triangles were silent and moved at a high rate of speed. Known jet fighters in the area would be considered as moving like snails compared to the objects he described. There were no light sources on any of the objects. What can best be described as the objects were attempting to use some form of cloaking as they entered and traversed. After the sightings his cellphone had a black screen and had to be rebooted. Estimated total time involved was 12-15 mins (NUFORC submittal. Interview by CCO*). Using the specific time given by the witness for when the four objects appeared to be cloaking (as he originally described it) at 11:54 (6:54:19) the nearest node, MADAR site 201, also located in Surprise, AZ, was checked for data. According to the printout, the field reading raised slightly to 3.38 (col. 4). However, the compass (col.3) moved over 11 degrees! Over an 9 minute period both field and compass varied, especially the first 6 mins. The sighting lasted from 11:45 to 11:55 pm. Dr. J. Allen Hynek often referred to "high strangeness" cases, sometimes where somebody would report something that a lot of other people should have observed and reported, but didn't. This event seems credble, along with the witness, also being articulate and credible in describing the event. Several unusual factors make this case stand out from other triangle reports. Without further information, media or military releases concerning this event, this case is closed and listed as an Unknown/UAP event. That would be the case if there was no MADAR data, but that data is what led us to investigate this case in the first place. 5:05 pm EDT. The object in the photo was just hovering in mid air, unlike any vehicle or object on earth and not affected by the wind. The witness stated that If you look at the image, below the object you can see air that looks oddly affected by the object, like a desert heat movie effect. The object did not move in the small time they viewed it, as they could not just stop their vehicle on the bridge. There was absolutely nothing else around it or attached to it so it makes no sense as to how it could just be hovering thousands of feet in the air. The object is apparently too large to be a drone. (NUFORC) At the specific time of this reported sighting there was an ongoing spike in the magnetometer reading of 5.62 milligaus that began 3 mins prior with an ambient of 0.38, ramping up to 3.38, then 5.62 for two minutes. However, ttere was no direct MSV with the onboard compass. At any rate there was a bigger spike of 10.88 milligaus 4 minutes after the onset of the event that would be technically interesting if the UAP applied power upon departure at that time. No duration was given in the nuforc entry but investigation could have shed light on that aspect. What we DO have though is a photo that is reminiscent of the Trindade photo of 1958. Contact information was obtained from NUFORC, but witness, who requested he be contacted, has not been available for interview. July 9, 2022; Spencerville, Indiana At 4:30 pm EDT the primary witness and his wife were in a boat on their lake. Their 9 year old son had fallen from his ski close to the shore, and as they were picking up the ski they had to stop the boat. The witness looked up in the clear blue sky to the right over the tree line and saw a white round object traveling from right to left (E-W) at a high rate of speed. The object was traveling faster than anything he had ever seen and couldn't have been visible over a minute or two. It travelled the entire length of the sky and then disappeared. They had seen airplanes in the sky prior to and just after this incident, but nothing was travelling anywhere near the speed this was. He had pointed to the object in the air and his son said that he saw the same thing. As his wife looked up she HAD also saw the object as well. The object probably had been at about 10,000' and about a mile out. 1-2 mins. The primary witness just happened to be the owner and operator of MADAR site 81 at Spencerville. The MADAR-III dataprobe had not gone into alert mode because the shield or threshold was set at 34 milligaus, 4 points higher than the default setting, and about 9 milligaus higher than the erecommended setting. But looking at the data from the spreadsheet for site 81, one minute prior to the sighting (watch can be 1 min off) the magetometer recorded a notable spike in the geomagnetic field reading of 15.38 milligaus. The object was too slow and trajectory too horizontal and flat to be a daylight meteor. Object was too fast to be an aircraft, and no sound was heard. There were no noticeable features such as wings, vertical stabilizers, etc. The FMO (fast-moving object) was visible for 1-2 minutes according to the primary witness. Since the dataprobe never went into alert mode the data is in 60-second datalines and the spike occurred during the 14th minute, suggesting the sighting was less than two minutes. Therefore the object's high performance status might have been the cause. The spike was at 19:14:19; estimated sighting time was 19:15. However, there was no MSV (multi-sensor verifiation) with the onboard compass, but the object was moving so fast it may have not been able to distort the compass field long enough to affect it. This was either an uncanny coincidence or a documented UAP/MADAR correlation. Another way of looking at the data on the spreadsheet, during the 18 minutes shown, the highest reading was 15.38 and dead center at the time of the daylight visual sighting by no less than three witnesses. August 6, 2022; Franklin, Indiana 7:27 pm EDT. The lady reported that she had observed a doughnut shaped craft moving over her yard under excellent visibility conditions. She was in her backyard along with their two dogs. Her son was in his bedroom, her fiance was dozing in their room. The sky was clear and reportedly stunning, with gigantic thunderheads south of them and a bright moon. In the west the sun was going down but the view was absolutely clear, birds were still singing. Beautiful evening, very still and peaceful. She decided to water all of of their potted plants and fill the birdbaths despite a chance of rain. As she walked to the rear of their property, she saw an object moving over their neighbor's trees. It was about the altitude of a private plane, maybe a bit lower, and she could see it very clearly although she had no idea what it was and her brain was just trying to make sense of it. It was a black and thick round disc, looked metallic but not shiny. Graphite came to mind. It moved slowly, silently and *deliberately*. It floated with intent. It came over the trees like a frisbee, but then turned on its side like a wheel, and she could see a hole in the middle, like a doughnut. It kind of undulated when it turned to its side. She was transfixed and everything was just silent for many minutes. Suddenly she came to her senses and she ran as fast as she could to the house to grab her phone from the charger. She ran back out trying to get her phone started up and pull up her camera. By that time the object had turned due north, oriented like a frisbee again, and had moved with high speed away, to where she could not find it in her camera viewfinder. Then it was a speck, then gone. Side note: the dogs made themselves scarce, she did not notice them near her or any interaction between them at that time. (NUFORC) 10-minutes, approx. Twenty miles to the north of Franklin is site MADAR site 21 at Indianapolis. The data from that site shows that the dataprobe had a system recalibration at exactly 23:30:20 UTC, or 7:30 pm EDT! Right before that, at 23:27:18 UTC (9:27 pm) site 21 had a significant spike of 11.25 milligaus during that minute. Unfortunately there was no variation or MSV (multi-sensor verification) with the onboard compass. The only thing that comes to mind as a possibility for the sighting was a drone, but there was no sound ever reported from the object and when it turned at right angles and the "doughnut hole" appeared a drone would have "peeled" towards the observer. and lost altitude, The MADAR correlation would have been too much of a coincidence, the highest magnetometer reading on the page.Last but not least, since this would have been a "probe" of some sort, the parent craft could have been anywhere near Franklin or Indy and there were a couple of spikes of 7.5 milligaus at 23:23:18 UTC and 23:25:18 UTC preceding the event. After the sighting she was flooded with adrenaline and realizing she'd seen something she'd never ever expected to see. She then had an overwhelming feeling of foreboding and uneasiness, and thought to herself, "I hope it didn't see me watching it'. She then went inside and told her son, who then pulled up a number of YouTube videos, photos, of "black doughnut UAPs". They were exactly what she had seen over her yard, although she had no knowledge of that shape prior to her sighting. She considers herself an open minded individual. She is a mom of two nearly-grown sons, age 57, holds a bachelor's degree, is involved with community events and sits on a board for a local nonprofit, and started her own small business in the arts during the pandemic. At first, the interview suggested the time of the event was 7:24 - 7:26 in that range, and that is a closer guess. The CCO tried to get a idea of how she knew the event time and she advised it was 7:30 when she entered her house at that point she noticed the time. The event duration was not 10 minutes as she states in the NUFORC report. In her words time kinda stood still and it seemed like ten minutes. From the interview the CCO thinks it was at the most a one minute event and he was being way generous. He thinks 7:27 pm would be more of an exact event time based on the interview. August 18, 2022; Louisville, Kentucky 6:36 pm EDT. A very good friend of one of our MADAR ops had a UFO sighting. He was at his son's house in Louisville and the UAP was over a nearby airfield. He noticed a Cessna Citation leaving Bowman Field, then noticed the object about 45-degrees up. It was described as a semi-opaque 'tumbling' cube about 1/4 mile or less from him, and about half the size of the Cessna and heading northward. It had been travelling on a track a bit behind, but parallel to the Citation. He had no idea how fast the object was moving. He later estimated that his part of the sighting lasted 6.5 seconds as the UAP flew upwards, entered a cloud and was out of sight. He didn't report it but checked with air traffic control both at Bowman Field and Louisville International Airport, and they reported nothing unusual..Louisiville just happens to house MADAR site 206 and there was a definite spike in the magnetometer reading, 3 minutes prior. At 6:33 pm EDT the reading was 9.75 milligaus. The compass heading was almost 247 degrees but was at 243.41 at 6:35 pm. For MSV (multi-sensor verification) we consider at least 3 degrees to be significant but they should best occur at the same time. Reports of cubes are becoming more interesting due to recent reports of FA-18 pilot encounters off the east coast. The cube in our report does not appear to be a Cessna-towed advertizing gimmick due to its ascent. This was a very short (6.5 sec) observation, and then the tumbling cube ascended into a cloud and disappeared in a northerly direction. There can be a minute discrepancy between reported times and the documented UTC times on the MADAR spreadsheets, but it doesn't appear that we have a direct cause and effect correlation as one would desire. However, the ascent of the object was not indicative of a powered maneuver that should affect the magnetometer in this case. What IS interesting is that 2-3 minutes before the reported time of the sighting there was a spike of 9.75 milligaus, and this could indicate the object had entered Kentucky airspace. August 28, 2022; Louisville, Kentucky 04:15 am EDT. The witness observed the object (see drawing) for less than 20 seconds hovering above his home and then traveling northeast very slowly approximately 300 ft up. Object had a slight humming and sucking sound associated with it. Object was round on the bottom and he was nearly directly below it. Object's lights were yellowish/orangish/redish with four very dim white lights all emitting light from underneath object. The four white lights were hexagon shaped and the center of object was a large hexagon shape with the orange/yellow/redish color emitting light from there, all lights were steady, no blinking.The large center hexagon shape had bright yellow colored railing similar to what's found on a bow of a boat, appeared to be an area to walk out onto and observe below? The entire object and lights appeared to be under shallow water changing the shape very slightly yet still very visible. Witness had been totally freaked out ever since his sighting and was totally frozen as the object passed over him and his home. Never a true believer in aliens or UFOs prior to this sighting and always scientifically minded. he knows what he observed and considered all possible explanations, both his mental clarity and other obvious explanations. Nothing man-made that he is aware of could do what he observed. Emitting nearly zero sound, zero heat, and essentially hovering and traveling slowly in a straight line without wings. He has asked a few neighbors if possibly they observed as well but to no avail. And he was very emphatic that this was not a drone! There are other tidbits he has left out from his experience if needed, but that's pretty much what he observed. If he had to put a guess on size he would say 60 to 80 feet, round shape, with many hexagons underneath the object. (MUFON CMS 124872) At the time of the sighting at Louisville, Kentucky, 4:15 am EDT (08-28-2022 08:15 UTC) , the MADAR site (also in Louisville), node 206, showed a significant spike in the magnetometer field reading. This actually occurred at 8:14:18 UTC, possibly due to an allowable one minute error in time pieces. The magnetometer reading changed from 4.5 to 10.5 milligaus. A smaller spike of 8.25 milligaus preceded this three minutes before the sighting. Also, a significant variation in the onboard compass heading, 246.61 to 243.38 (over 3 degrees MSV prtotocol) occurred during the 1-2 minute period. This case was investigated by MUFON and declared an unknown. The drawing that was provided is one of the best, most detailed, we have ever seen. The MADAR data suggests that the magnetometer spike was associated with some event during that 60-second period on Node 206's spreadsheet and the spike was the highest reading ion the entire page. As much as we detested the sometimes pesky and untimely "recalibration" during some UAP events, this time the recal was early enough (at least 6 minutes) so as not to skew the numbers, so the values are considered reliable. (Recal has since been removed from the printouts). The exact distance between the sighting event and the MADAR site was not calculated, but would have been of more interest had the UAP gone into some dynamic maneuver and the MADAR site had gone into full alert. The threshold setting on most of our nodes is set at a 30 milligaus to avoid false alarms. August 28, 2022; Cairo, Kentucky 8:45 pm CDT. The lady was driving home from work and noticed something flying above the road, very low, flying towards her. Initially she thought a plane was trying to land on the rural section of highway she was driving on. At this point she was a panic looking for somewhere to pull off the road to attempt to get out of the way of some sort of possible crash. This object then turned and faced her with 2 headlights similar to a car. It was not small. At this point it crossed over the road in front of her. It was hovering very low almost like a large military helicopter and she could see and feel the presence of whatever this large object was but couldn’t hear it. It proceeded to hover over the top of her vehicle and then disappeared. She never saw it in her rear view or side mirrors and was very shaken up and proceeded to call her husband. At this point she was about 8-10 minutes from their home. Her husband, concerned about her safety at this point, went outside to their front yard where they had a visual in the direction she was coming from, about 5 miles of mostly crop fields. He proceeded to tell her he could see something flying in the sky very fast and erratic almost just appearing on different sides of the sky. She decided to stay on the phone with him as she was very shaken up and believed whatever was flying low to be something dangerous and continued to head towards home. When she got to about three minutes away from ther house her husband, still on the phone, stated the object had turned and faced towards their home. He said it had very bright light that appeared to be headed straight towards him at a very fast speed which then disappeared. He said as it approached it appeared to get faster, larger, and brighter. This was not a drone. This object was larger than a car and hovering very close to the ground. When she got safely home they did not go back outside. She checked the news but nothing had shown up and have had no other reports. She works as a registered nurse and her husband is a pharmacist. The sighting lasted about 10-minutes. (nuforc) No code blues were listed but checking with four nearby MADAR sites 20+ miles to the north, in the southern Indiana, the nearest site was directly north of the witnesses at Evansville, Indiana. That node is 153 and measures.21 miles as the crow flies. When we ran data printouts of all four sites the most interesting turned out to be 153. Since there was no code blue the scan rate was at the regular "status" rate of one dataline per minute. The witness reported the sighting began at about 8:45 pm. Allowing for at least a minute error in time pieces the MADAR data documents a small spike two minutes later at 01:47:18 UTC. The reading was 7.88 during that minute after two minutes of 2.62. Not a lot but 7.88 was the highest reading on the page and right after a system RECAL. Even the RECAL is suspicious occurring right at 8:45 pm! And the compass heading change was over the 3 minute MSV (multi-sensor verification), going from 188 degrees to over 191 during that same minute. Also of note, site 119 at Mt. Vernon, Indiana, NW of the sighting location at Cairo had a spike at 01:40:19, 5 minutes before the reported sighting which could indicate the craft entered Indiana/Kentucky airspace then headed SE. This would suggest the craft flew past the driver who was heading south, got in front of her, turned around and put its headlights on her, then headed further south. But no one was able to contact the witnesses so we'll never know the directions in this case. The basic ingrediant for a good correlation is a good UAP sighting and this invoved two witnesses. Documentation from the primary witness shows that the sighting at Cairo, Kentucky began at around 8:45 pm and lasted about 10 minutes. There are four MADAR sites in the Southern Indiana / Southern Illinois Array across the Ohio River 21 miles to the north but 115 was too far to the NW at Norris City, Illinois tgo use in our analysis. The nearest site had the most compelling readings both on the magnetometer and the onboard compass. All this suggests the activity was probably the result of a UAP. September 4, 2022; Montara, Caifornia 15:30 hours PDT. While travelling North on Highway 1 (Cabrillo Highway) along the northern California coast, as the witnesses rounded a bend in the highway they spotted a large, cylinder-shaped “structure/object” at the top of one of the mountains in close proximity to another (man-made) structure. At first, it appeared this structure was some sort of large parking garage as it had a cork screw pattern running up its side. It was tall, completely smooth and a cylinder in shape. It was white with a black stripe moving up the structure in a cork screw pattern. At the top of the structure were a number of smooth silver cylinders that were capped with smooth silver spheres. To the right of the silver cylinders was some sort of object appearing to hang over the edge of the structure. Unfortunately, the primary witness didn’t get a good look at this hanging object. The structure was tall and looked very out of place for the surroundings which is why they first noticed it. Both the prime witness and the other witness studied the object for one to two minutes before their attention was momentarily drawn to the surrounding highway traffic. When the witness looked back to continue looking at this cylindrical object, it had vanished and was nowhere to be seen. As they rounded the mountain where the cylinder had been, they could see the backside of the mountain which was vacant with no indication any type of structure/object had been there. 1-2 mins. (NUFORC) If the time given for the incident is accurate, at that exact minute, MADAR site 52 at Los Altos, California, 25 miles to the SE had a spike in the magnetometer reading. The site hadn't gone on alert because the threshold was set at its normal 30 milligauss, so the data-rate was one line per minute. During that minute the field reading had registered 12.75, and there is no way of knowing how high the reading may have actually gotten. But there was no MSV (multi-sensor verification) with the onboard compass which is the protocol of a minimum of 3 degrees variation. There was no pre-auth but NUFORC was able to reach out to the witness who then came forward. FI spoke to the witness for about an hour. Witness created two images to illustrate what he saw. Because the objects in the recreation did not match any known IFOs, the FI closed the case as an unknown, CMS #132179. September 14, 2022; Corydon, Indiana 07:08 am EDT. The couple was driving late at night down a two lane country road. As they rounded a 90-degree turn, seven triangular craft were waiting for them, and they were motionless until the witnesses were right beside them. At that moment they broke off and started hovering over the top of the car. As they were doing this one of the triangles was "like going in crazy directions moving in ways nothing of this earth can do" but all this time they were completely silent. They would not leave the couple alone and stayed possibly less than 25 ft above their vehicle and kept following them down the road and staying above them except the one which was flipping, floating, and moving "crazy like". The couple drove very slowly, and at one point stopped the car and the objects also stopped and hovered over them in silence. They did this for about 45 minutes until witnesses made it to the Ohio river and at that point the objects flew off " lso fast they just disappeared". The witnesses checked the boxes indicating eectrical or magnetic effects on the car, missing time, and requested they be contacted. (NUFORC) The MADAR site 29, just so happens to be right at Corydon. The magnetometer shows a 9.38 milligaus spike at 11:09:19 UTC (7:09 am) and a one-minute variation between a time piece or iphone and the documented timing on the MADAR is not unusual. One minute prior to this or 7:08 am there was a 5.62 milligaus spike that occurred before they had made that turn in the road. Three to five minutes prior to the entire event the onboard compass showed a variation of at least three degrees, from 193.91 to 197.01 degrees. Possible documentation of the craft or parent craft entering Indiana airspace was noted at 11:03:19 UTC or 7:03 am. Ten minutes prior to all this the MADAR dataprobe had gone through a routine periodic system RECAL so the the data is concidered accurate. Contact information was given to FIs but witnesses did not respond to calls, which is not surprising for missing time cases. October 9, 2022, Newington, Connecticut 5:57 pm EDT. The MADAR Operator for Node 106 in Newington, CT received an SMS (cell phone text "short message service") alert which stated that site 106 had detected an anomaly. Trained as part of a rapid deployment team he immediately grabbed his binoculars and went outside to his backyard to see if he could spot anything unusual. At first the only thing that he saw was a few aircraft flying by, and as he was looking through his binoculars at one the planes he spotted a small round black object descending from the clouds above the plane and ascending back up. It repeated this maneuver twice as if trying to stay concealed in the clouds. As per Project MATCH protocol the op contacted MUFON and the incident was investigated and documented (CMS 125762}. This was a MADAR "code blue" and the magnetometer showed readings from 0.38 milligaus to spikes as high as 25.88 milligaus with a duration of 5 seconds. There was no MSV (multi-sensor verification) by the onboard compass. Although the sighting value is less for a distant object, this is listed as an unknown UAP and the incident is clearly classified as a MADAR "code blue"/UAP sighting correlation at 21:56:30 UTC. The field investigator determined the cloud cover was at 4318', and since the witness saw the UAP descend from the clouds at least once, the object had to have been at that level and higher at one point. Calculations of the size of the object which was viewed through 7x binoculars varies and depends on the actual slant range rather than cloud ceiling. Numbers attempted ranged from 1.6' to 3' or larger. Was this the object that tripped the MADAR or was it another object or probe associated with a larger object?. The Accurite Weather data chart also shows possible anomalies in two areas: 1) There is a bottoming out in the UV index from about 6 pm to almost 9 pm. 2) At the same, the barometric pressure had stair-stepped up to a higher over the same period. Unknown UAP. October 11, 2022; Portland, Oregon 8:00 pm. Not sure how accurate the time estimate, but stated as 8:00 pm or 20:00. Witness claims he/she saw what seemed to be a saucer type UFO that night. Witness tried to count the number of red lights along the perimeter and said that he/she thought there were 6 or 7. The one in the middle was the largest and it was pulsing on and off. The others were smaller and less active but kind of twinkling like stars. Also the lights seemed to be slowly rotating around the craft as it slowly flew from South to North. Witness got a good look at it with binoculars. The craft itself was very dark and the witness said he/she could barely make out the bottom edge against the night sky. About 2 miles east of witness, 10 degrees off the horizon. Length of object was approximately about 100 feet in length. Observed about 3 mins. (nuforc) If one assumes the reported time as 8 pm, and with the usual one-minute error, with the converted time of 20:00:18 UTC there was a slight spike in the magnetometer reading at 19:59:18 of 6 milligaus. There was no MSV, however, with the compass heading. There was a recal at 19:56:14 so the readings should be fairly accurate. Similar to the Tyrone, PA photo of Oct. 4. October 12, 2022; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1:00 am. An object with a red light was slowly flying parallel over the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, approximately one mile from where the witness was standing. Witness did not pay much attention to the object until it passed behind a building and immediately came back from behind the building. The first thought was that it was too quick to do this and it did not seem to be flying backwards. It continued slowly flying back to its original position hovering over the bridge for about one minute. Then, suddenly, it flew toward the witness and stopped about 20 feet away. The time it took to fly from its position over the bridge to the position 20 feet in front was less than a blink of an eye. Right before that the witness could see a tail behind the object, an after-image created from the speed of the object and the red light. As it hovered in front of the witness for some reason the object could not be seen clearly. Object was fuzzy and one could see almost like an outline and the red light was on the bottom of the craft, but no navigation lights. There were no wings and the object seemed to be the size of a small bus, and it hovered in silence. As it started to fly away, the red light was now seen to be actually the outer rim of an opening with a bright white light in the middle. Living in an apartment building with possibly 8-9 apartments on each side, and on the 27th floor with another 4-5 floors above that, the observer at standing position saw it fly away. It did not arch up as most crafts would require and simply raised up and flew away. Witness' background is computer technology. (NUFORC). The sighting location at Philadelphia is 25 miles south of the madar site at Furlong, node 38. Sighting times such as 1:00 AM are not so precise and 3 mins later at 1:03 AM (5:03 UTC) there was a spike in the magnetometer reading of 8.62 milligaus. Most notable, though, was the compass heading change far exceeded a 3 degree fuxuation from 117 degrees to 137 degrees. END OF REPORT Terms and acronyms used in this report: nuforc = National UFO Reporting Center at Seattle, Washington CCO = Case Certification Officer. Used when MUFON is not available. MADAR dataprobe = official term for MADAR unit. Operation Foal Eagle |