Analytical Notes      NMS Sightings from NUFORC
                                 March 2023, released July 24, 2023l May

MADAR UFO Officer: Jeremy Haslam
Terms: NMS means "Non MADAR Sightings" where MADAR was not tripped, but the quality of the nearby sighting strongly suggests that MADAR records be checked for curious spikes in data. Although some MUFON entries have been listed, it is the job of each MUFON state group under Project MATCH  to provide MUFON listings of potential sightings of interest. Note: NOL means node was not online at the time of the incident.

Fran Ridge
MADAR Operations Director
These are my findings:

Daylight Savings Time began on March 12th.
 
3-1-23 Farmville, VA 12:03PM – Craft / Anomalist Movements: Multiple lights in array on craft, too far to discern shape. Lights red, white and blue. Erratic movements, not straight paths.  Not fast moving, not straight paths, closet one could clearly see at least 6 lights in round arrangement, but not close enough to tell craft shapes. Unsure of total number, at least 3. Still there 12:45 am, moving in periodic zig zags and other small erratic repositioning.

3-3-23 Winchester, VA 6:31PM – Disk shaped craft – spot light:  One frame on SPYPOINT cam.  There were lights on the object, The object left a trail, The object emitted beams. It is real, looks like a flat saucer shape above light. No traffic on the driveway at the time. I am simply showing this photo. Hoping it can be explained. I can’t explain it. *Pic

3-6-23 Lakewood / Golden, CO 12:27PM – Black triangle craft - Black object, rectangular shape, approximately 500 feet above ground moving west slowly. Went to a restaurant in Lakewood, when I noticed an odd object in the sky as I approached the doors of restaurant. Studied it closely and noticed no gondola, so ruled out balloon. Color was black and rectangular in shape, ruling out weather balloon as well. No sound, but object appeared to be approximately 1/2 mile from me. Sky was clear, so I took two pictures with my cell phone as I watched it to the southwest of my position moving west. Sun was above me and to my left, not interfering with the photos. Snapped shots and returned to the restaurant. *2 Pics

3-7-23 Farmington Hills, MI 1:45PM – Silver metallic craft / Disc shaped craft – I saw a bright silver metallic object in sky moving shape and then saw a disk shaped turned into side way, and disappeared. It was a clear bright sunny day with no clouds so sighting was clear and I am 150% sure the object got disappeared. It was moving in south direction from the city Farmington Hills, Michigan at around 1:45 PM EST.

3-7-23 Oakdale, CT 7:15PM – Hexagon shaped craft - UFOs crossed our path, there were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object. 2 UFOs hexagon shape four white lights and one center green light. They crossed over the roadway silently and low.

3-7-23 Elkford Road, WV 7:30PM – Huge Triangle craft - We were sitting watching stars when a massive triangular craft with 3 white lights on the bottom, flying very low, no noise flew over. We were sitting in our car trying to get a signal on our phone, when out of nowhere, a pitch black very huge triangular craft with 3 white lights on the bottom of the craft. it appears out of thin air, my fiancé, and we had our daughter with us who now believes us, that there are ufos in west Virginia. It truly was amazing it was flying very low, so low I thought it was going to land right beside us. You couldn’t hear any kind of noise powering the craft nothing total silence when it flew over. We did happen to get a short video of it. This is the 3rd sighting on Elkford road in WV that my finance and I have personally witnessed. This one was different though it was so big i cannot explain how big this craft was. it was flying so low I nearly had a panic attack, because I wasn't sure if I was really seeing what my eyes were really looking at.

3-8-23 Kingsport, TN 7:00PM - Brilliant light hovering over Holston Ordnance Army Ammunition Plant, then moved northeast very slowly. I was sitting in my living room when I noticed a very bright light towards the west. At first, I thought it was Jupiter or Venus. Then I realized it was under the dark cloud layer. There was still a sliver of light on the western horizon. The object sparkled with several colors. I retrieved my binoculars, but couldn't make out the size or shape of the object. It was stationary for a while. It appeared to be over the Holston Army Ammunition Plant which is across the Holston River from my neighborhood. After a while it began slowly approaching my location. I took my binoculars and went to the front porch. Here I observed several variously-colored lights. I noted a large red light that appeared on the bottom. This bright red light was constant. As it got closer, I couldn't understand what shape it was. It continued over my house and I lost sight of it. One thing that really stuck out in my mind was the absence of a anti-collision or beacon lights, which are required and strobe a brilliant white light visible for at least 20 miles. The object seemed compact and to have some thickness. The colored lights were at the edges. No noise, no trail, moved in a straight line.

3-8-23 Warsaw, MO 7:45PM – Triangle shaped craft - I saw a triangle of lights hovering quietly about 250 feet above Hwy 65 in Warsaw, Mo, with a sequenced series of flashes. I was entering Hwy 65 on a ramp last night, accelerating up to about 45 when I saw what I expected was the life-flight helicopter that frequents a helipad nearby during medical emergencies. Usually it comes in from Clinton, Mo, to the west, then it circles back just south of Hwy 7 and lands. I've seen it a couple of time, and while it's creepy seeing it land right next to the hwy at night, it's obvious what it is. We live near Whiteman AFB, so the airspace is controlled by the military. The only aircraft we see here are Air Force planes and choppers, the life-flight helicopter and on occasion a cesna. But this object was North of Hwy 7 by about a half mile just hovering over what we call Lost Valley Road which is an outer road of Hwy 65. So, it drew my interest since it was just hanging over the hwy, and I rolled down my window to see if I could hear the sound of rotor blades chopping the air, but all I could hear was road and wind noise from driving 45mph. As I approached the object, I vaguely remember a small, steady red light on the northern side, but it soon was gone as I was passing the object on its western side (and honestly, it could've been just me expecting to see a red light since most helicopters have them). The lights on it - I was so close that they looked more like globes, but not totally circular. A bit elongated, like if a globe and an old police light had a baby. There were two on the western side, and they switched between dim and bright in a sequence from left to right. There would be a small space of time then the sequence started again, left then right. As I passed by it, I saw the third globe on the far side of the object, making the triangle shape. And I assume it was part of the left to right sequence, but I don't remember seeing it ever light up. Granted, I was seeing it from the rear side of that light. I was going to stay on 65 to go to my vacation rental that I own, but I wanted to get video or photos of this thing with my phone, so I pulled off on Hwy 7's ramp and sped to get turned around and come back down Lost Valley to get as close as I could. But I saw that it began pulling away. By the time I reached the road about 20 seconds later, I saw it was well off in the distance. Then as I was driving on Lost Valley, I saw that it had already reached the horizon. Then it was gone. I wish I had just pulled over on Hwy 65 to get video, but it just seemed a little dangerous and my phone doesn't get good video at night, so I wanted to get closer. I never saw an actual body to the craft, just the globes of light that were laid out in a triangle. I do assume that it had a body, however, because I couldn't see the light on the far side of the craft until I reached the southern side of it and was looking back and noticed the third globe.

3-9-23 Colchester, CT 6:30PM – Huge Triangle shaped crafts - Driving route 2 towards Norwich Ct. While driving I saw two triangle humongous craft with lights under them two on the back and one in front. The crafts behind each other hovering above slow. I felt like stopping to record but kept going it was very strange! When I first spotted them, I thought maybe military but as I got closer it was too big to be military. The shape of the crafts was not from here! I wish I had stop and record I couldn't believe it! Beautiful crafts can someone find out if any military flying during last night. It wasn't like any craft I've ever seen. *Not far from Node 220 in Groton, CT.

3-9-23 Opelika, AL 7:37PM – Cigar shaped craft - We were on I 85.. got off at exit 62 and ran parallel to interstate. Went about 2 miles and it was just hanging there. It was higher than a cell tower.. but was not a plane and was NOT MOVING. Completely stationary. Extremely BRIGHT. It was long. We did not pull over. I can’t believe others did not see it. It was just BIZARRE. We got away from it but it was still hovering because we could see it behind us. Nearest site was 246, 26 miles at Columbus, GA.  Site was not online.

 3-9-23 Hermitage, PA 8:55PM – V shaped (Chevron) craft - There was a V shaped hovering craft in the sky. I thought it was an airplane at first but it wasn’t moving which I thought was weird and as I got closer it got bigger so I knew it wasn’t moving. Then when I approached a stop sign, I stayed for about a minute and watched it. It had 5 lights and they were very bright. It was very dark, maybe black, but it could be seen against the night sky. It stayed in the same spot then all of a sudden it turned sideways (vertical) and darted out of sight. I could not see it on the horizon at all after it darted. It was gone in less than 2 seconds. No sounds or noise from the craft. MADAR site 14 miles SW at Youngstown, Ohio, but no compelling data.

3-12-23 Fort Worth, TX 2:45PM – Cylinder shaped crafts - At approximately 2:45 pm, two witnesses observed two long, flat like a coin, almost-rectangular objects. The objects appeared to have rounded corners. The sighting occurred while witnesses were in moving vehicle traveling approximately 50 to 60 mph. Photo/video could not safely be captured because vehicle was moving and the short length of sighting. The objects appeared to be hovering above the south end of Alliance Airport, at least 400 yards above the ground. The objects were extremely bright, even in the sunny afternoon. The light was similar to sunlight reflecting off metal, except brighter. At that time of day, the sun was on the other side of the objects from the witnesses' perspective. At first it appeared the objects were simply wings on a landing airplane. However, there was blue sky between the objects (i.e. no fuselage) and said objects hovered in the same place, uncharacteristic of a plane. The witnesses are familiar with airborne planes and helicopters due to close proximity to the JNRB airfield, DFW airport, and emergency responder helicopters. After about 20 seconds, the objects were no longer visible from their hovering location. The witnesses did not see the objects disappear. Around 10 minutes later, the witnesses observed a military helicopter traveling south, not far from the east side of I-35 W. The helicopter appeared to be a Black Hawk with armament. *Sighting details appear to be told from a 3^rd person report. [Too close to airport in daylight and 3rd person-type report]

3-12-23 Oxnard, CA
9:40PM – 4 low flying Craft at AFB - I live very near Point Mugu Naval Base. Walking westbound on Woolley Rd from offshore on a Sunday night I approached Victoria Ave, a walk I've made many times at night. This particular night though I was going to Ross's to get some new shoes, it was now 9:40pm and they closed at 10pm. I still had a 15-minute walk to get there. So, I could only observe the lights for a minute. After a minute they appeared not to be any closer, but stationary. I know the night sky to the west from that location. These were unusual. I have been an aviation enthusiast since I was flushing cloth diapers down the toilet then watching dad snake it, lol. There was absolutely no wind that night and the flight path they were on was highly unusual for Oxnard airport who’s tower is unmanned at night and the downwind leg of the flight path in 0 windspeed conditions is to the east. Typically, anything landing there that time of night are things like Gulfstream jets and such and fly straight in on final approach. The downwind leg takes aircraft rite down the middle of Taffrail Lane + or - a little north/south deviation of my house location. The altitude of an aircraft as it passes over my street & house when you're in the downwind leg of the pattern would be 850' and is typical of any civilian airport. Since this is most definitely not a flight path military aircraft follow and I wasn't sure what to make of them at the time, I moved on. I left Ross's on Channel Islands Blvd at 10:05pm and made it back to the same viewing location of the night sky from Victoria & Woolley Rd where I initially seen them and they were still there and hadn't seemed to move at all. I continued to watch them from that location for about a minute and continued East down Woolley Rd toward the street just before Offshore, but this time I walked on the Northside of Woolley Rd so I could keep the lights in sight. These were not glowing orbs or behaving erratically in any way. I wasn't going eastbound long on Woolley when I could see that they were clearly getting closer now. Their distance from me when stationary was 2-4 miles as they were significantly brighter than the stars and weren't very high in the sky. It was now about 10:20pm. Virtually everything in this town shuts down at 10pm especially everything South of Woolley, especially to the east. Now they were about to pass directly overhead and I was only about 500-600' from my house on Taffrail Lane and standing on the sidewalk approximately 100' west of Offshore. I Estimated 65mph ground speed, winds were at 0mph, I faintly heard one vehicle in the distance, but only for a moment. The time they took to pass over me was much longer than the cars interruption of the silence. As they passed overhead, they made no sound whatsoever. Believe me I was listening hard. I can't hear an aircraft in the sky and not look up and am always looking up. Anyways, the whole time during their approach I'm looking for navigation lights & strobes and see nothing. All I see is glare. A very bright glare. I've spent much time at night at the end of the runway at Nellis Air Force Base in Vegas, these lights were much brighter than aircraft landing lights. The four UAP'S were traveling in line with about 100 yards of separation. One behind the other. I'm diligently looking at this first craft and the 3 other craft following it. All displaying the exact same characteristics, glare. No navigation lights or strobes can be seen at any time during the entire event. As the leading craft passes over, I see 3 very bright lights, one at the front preventing any observance of detail then a second light of the same intensity further obstructing any kind of observance as I was now looking straight up at what I could now at least tell what was the middle of its bottom and the 3rd light at the rear coming into view and having the same intensity as the first two and all preventing any observance of the craft they belonged to. Remember I told you how quiet the night was, you could've heard a cricket fart. All joking aside, these things made absolutely no sound whatsoever and my hearing is fine. These things were the size of a two-story house easy and only 850' above me. As the 2nd craft was overhead the first made a gradual turn to the North and out over the city. It maintained this turn until it had made a full circle and came up behind the fourth craft and passed over me again. The skies were clear and as the lead craft first started to circle around back to the rear of the fourth I was finally able to get a slight glimpse of its shape, but it was very slight and the other three were still passing over so I was dealing with their glare at the same time. Still no navigation lights, red or green and no strobes. I watched the four of them as they continued East 3-4 miles then turned right into Point Mugu's airspace where I lost sight of them as houses and various two-story structures now blocked my view from where I stood on Taffrail Lane just a 100' West of Offshore. To me this is the military hiding its operation of a fleet of at least for craft with some sort of propulsion that is completely silent. I will gladly submit to any kind of testing, hypnosis, psychiatric, lie detector, sodium pentothal or whatever. People want answer's and what I seen is to me highly anomalous of any UAP/UFO reports I've ever heard and their happening within sight of a public street and apparently going to land at Point Mugu Naval Base where for years testing of top-secret technology has gone on. [Data not compelling and objects too close to Point Magu]

3-14-23 Madison, IN 11:35PM – Disk shaped craft - I don't even know how to start this honestly. I suppose I'll just tell you what I saw and when; since it's so fresh in my mind. My name is ((name deleted)), I'm a Chef from Madison, Indiana and I guess, I may have seen a UFO. It was between the times of 11:30 and 11:40 pm on March 15, 2023. I was pulling into the road of where I live and I saw two clusters of white lights moving in tandem with each other. There was three, orb shaped, small white lights on the left, and two on the right. I thought nothing of it, because I live right next to a small airport. As I slowed down to turn onto the road I live on, I found myself at a complete stop and stepping out of my car, because the lights on the right turned green and then began to spin around the white lights on the left. As I witnessed this, it dawned on me that this object was no longer moving forward like a plane does and had actually back tracked from it's original flight path. Still trying to see reason, I thought maybe it was a helicopter, because more have been in our area lately. The only thing is.... This thing didn't make a sound. It almost felt like the sound around me was dampened even. As I stood, mouth agape, because I didn't understand what I was seeing; whatever this thing was, was coming towards me now. It was less than a quarter of a mile away, maybe even closer. At this point it was moving in an unusual manner, all the while the green lights still rotating around the white ones. It moved further up and then further down. It started to fly in ways I've never seen any aircraft fly before, moving sporadically in all directions. All of a sudden it stopped and started to float down towards the ground. It had moved significantly closer at this point just north of my house. Close enough, that when I started walking closer to see if I could make out more detail, I actually saw a disk-shaped object hovering silently. The top was spinning in one direction and the bottom was spinning in the opposite direction. I couldn't believe my eyes. I simply just couldn't believe what I was seeing. As it hovered and spun it started to move further away and the green light stopped spinning around the white lights and turned back into white. As quickly as it appeared, it disappeared right in front of my eyes. The lights were above a tree line moving away from me at an increasingly high speed and then simply vanished from view. Unfortunately, I didn't have my phone on me to capture a video, or a picture of the event. I'm not saying what I saw was alien, but it was certainly not identifiable to me. My hair was standing up the entire time this was happening, I'm still in disbelief of what I saw. I feel a little crazy for even thinking it was even a possibility of being a UFO, but I had to tell someone. I don't care if you don't believe me, because I don't have proof. I saw something that changed my view on life, that I don't think I'll ever understand. I'm thankful that I saw what I saw, but that was terrifying. One final note to address as well, not 5 minutes after I saw this, there were 3, or 4 small planes, possibly jets in formation flying directly where this thing flew. Feel free to reach out to me if necessary and thank you for your time. [Nearest madar site is Louisville, 30 mi SW of Madison. Data not compelling]

3-18-23 Revere, MA 9:30PM – Chevron shaped craft (maybe), possible entity seen - t least 2 or 3 low flying silent crafts one was bluish and white the other was greenish and the last one was black with red lights. 3 crafts one bluish and fairly stationary the second one looked green and yellow with wire like appendages floating around the craft. The 3rd was black with red lights looked transparent as if I could see the operator tall white long legs. This craft came down my street silent and slow turned above my Neighbor’s house to the right hesitated and slowly moved off towards the north gradually gaining altitude. No sound at all the size of a small bus that came to a point also with wire like appendages flowing around. This went on for well over an hour. I have pictures that look like it’s small and far away but these were flying just above the roof tops. I didn’t think to video it. It was a clear cold night and these were not drones or helicopters, they emitted no sound at all. These were brightly lit , I believe that the one that looked transparent had an operator in a seated position moving arms around controlling the aircraft. This is a true statement I was not drinking or under the influence of anything. I am 60 years old and never seen anything like this in my life. *Pics

3-19-23 Minneapolis, MN 10:20AM – Unknown shaped craft, Anomalist movements - UFO spotted in the sky thought it was big air force plane because it looked like it wasn’t moving. Got to VA hospital took picture. Thought it was a chinook or C17 so large it looked like it wasn’t moving. Thought maybe it was drill weekend. Got to VA hospital took picture it went flat turned diagonal and disappeared (when we were driving by the base there were two military police squads one car one truck at least 5-6 police that seemed to be looking at it) We we’re pointed west in the VA parking lot looking north northwest. *Pics

3-20-23 Amesbury, MA 9:00PM – Diamond shape craft – Anomalistic properties (translucent) - Large as a pine tree top, blue and red tube-shaped colored lights running from top point and bottom point to circumference center. Descending slow and stead, first thought, a helicopter coming over the tree topped hill from the local hospital but it made no sounds. Moved along about 60’ in the air shinning a strong light down below the surface of the water flying around Eagle Island across the Merrimack River. The tubular red and blue lights outlined from the top and bottom joining in the middle but you could still see threw them front to back and the inside was hazy. I couldn’t distinguish any interior form. It moved along the north shore of the river and headed over the marsh area toward Salisbury. Took about 10 minutes. I did not realize at first what I was seeing. Later I thought maybe it’s a drone from the Coast Guard and called them but they said no they don’t use drones on the river. So, guess someone wanted to do some surveillance… who I do not know.

3-21-23 Barnegat, NJ 9:09PM – Classic disk-shaped craft, Anomalist movements (disappeared) - 2 Crafts seen, then 1 right near my car with entities seen. I was getting on the parkway in Barnegat and could see 2 fixed things in the sky with bands of light. The lights were round. There were 4-6 lights going straight across. I tried to take a picture but they suddenly blinked out of vision. I called my husband to tell him what I saw, when suddenly one was just outside my driver's window not further up than the treetops. It was a very large disk shape with bright lights on either side at the center I could see a very large window. The window looked to be multiple stories high and I could see beings moving around in the window. It lasted for at least 30 seconds. I was traveling at 75 mph and it seemed to be keeping pace with me because it stayed in the same view for me. It wasn't like I was driving away from it. It vanished suddenly. There was no sound. [Site 15 miles away, but no MADAR until July]

3-22-23 Portland, OR 9:45PM – Rectangle shaped craft - Witnessed a rectangular ufo come closer to me but eventually came to a stop (a hover) just above some trees and take off again. I live close to PDX airport. I was driving along 148th/Halsey and I thought I was seeing just a regular plane take a regular flight path to descend to the airport. All of a sudden, I start thinking wow that’s a big plane. Like oddly wide for a plane and the lights were not those of a normal plane. So as I’m driving this object is coming closer and I’m starting to realize this “thing” is not going to the airport. Mind you, I’m slowing down as this thing approaches me so I’m slowing down more to try to follow it and within a matter of seconds this aircraft is close AND hovering just above some trees of this dead-end street I turned down to try and record it…I’m CLEARLY seeing this rectangular object that can only be described as the shape of a suburban with moonbeams for headlights just hovering in the sky. Completely soundless. Absolutely no sounds came from this thing! There was even a man taking out his trash RIGHT UNDERNEATH THIS THING and he didn’t even notice a thing. So, by this time I’ve stopped my vehicle in the middle of the road of this dead-end street and I’m just watching this thing hover for like another 20 seconds while I’m messing with my phone to try to record this thing and it just silently takes off and disappears. When I was witnessing all this, I got goose bumps all over my body and suddenly I felt overcome with terror. Even writing, thinking, or speaking of this event causes the goose bumps and feeling of being afraid. Like I saw something I should not have seen. [Portland node 66 had no impressive data].

3-23-23 Woodland, MI 10:14AM – Triangle shaped craft - Dark triangle shaped object hovering in yard about 100ft from ground. While letting out my dogs I noticed a bright orange light in the distance (about 2 acres away) that looked like fire in the trees/tree line. I told my dad it looked like the top of the trees were on fire. I grabbed my binoculars by the door to see what it was. I could not find the bright orange light in the trees because I was stuck on the big dark triangle object hovering aways down the yard. While looking at it the object appeared to be a dark blur as if it was something standing still but moving at the same time. My dad said "where did the light go" because he left to grab his phone and by the time he got back the orange light in the tree line was gone and when I looked back into the binoculars that object had disappeared. [Farmington Hills site is a hundred miles to the SE and the data is not compelling]

3-25-23 Alma, AR 6:30PM – Classic disc shaped craft, Anomalist properties (cloaking) - silver disc with cloaking ability. Saw a silver disc less than 1000 feet from ground near my home late in the evening, craft tilted and I caught a quick reflection from craft surface. [Data not compelling]

3-26-23 Sedona, AZ 9:10PM – Boomerang / Triangle shaped craft - Boomerang/ triangle silent no lights <= 300meters above. And it was ~ 50 meters in diameter and flew over silently and barely visible on a crystal-clear night <= ~ 300 meters above; there were no aviation lights and it had a distinct shape… very strange it appeared cloaked - there was an aura or haze around the object. [Sedona is 46 miles NE of the MADAR site at Prescott, but was not online at the time.]