ANALYTICAL NOTES      NMS Sightings from NUFORC & MUFON
                                         NOVEMBER 2023


 
It is my job each month to select potential sightings of interest from the NUFORC printout (National UFO Reporting Center). The number varies from 30-50 each month. This NMS list is then submitted to the MADAR Operations Officer, Fran Ridge. Although some MUFON entries might have been listed, it is the job of each MUFON state group under Project MATCH  to provide MUFON listings of potential sightings of interest. Non MADAR Sightings (NMS) are entries where MADAR was NOT tripped, but the quality of the nearby sighting suggests that MADAR records be checked for significant spikes in the data.

Jeremy Haslam
MADAR UFO Officer
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Once I get the NMS list from the MADAR UFO Officer I go over each case narrative and select incidents that I feel a scientist or serious researcher would consider as good supporting, documented evidence of some type of advanced aerial vehicle. Using an FI-5 Procedure Guide or Case Evaluation Worksheet I obtain the latitude and longitude of the sighting and generate a registration dot on the MADAR Map to see where the nearest MADAR site is in relation to it. Based on the quality of the sighting and the location I then check the data logged on that MADAR site. This NMS shows the status of each case. If I missed something in this draft pleased send me a private email at
franridge42@gmail.com  
IDFE - Insufficient Data For Evaluation
NOL - means the MADAR site was Not On Line at the time of the incident.

Fran Ridge
Director and MADAR Operations Officer

Occurred:
 2023-11-02 21:02:00 Local, Location: Lemoyne, PA, USA, Location details: Driving East on Hummel Avenue, Shape: Cigar, Duration: about five to ten seconds, No of observers: 1 - Saw a fast-moving, glowing white tic-tac shape in the sky. While driving home from the grocery store, I saw in the sky a very fast-moving object. I was near 40.23974839965564, -76.89965313955344. While we have a fair amount of airplanes and helicopters in our area, this didn't look like anything I'd ever seen before. It was shaped just like a tic-tac, or a pill; it was glowing white - and though it was moving very fast across the sky, diagonally from my upper right to lower left field of vision, it did not have a motion trail. It was perfectly shaped, meaning the outline of it stood out vividly against the sky, in perfect relief - the line of its shape was perfectly defined against the black sky, like it was drawn there. And it was glowing white, though there was nothing external that was lighting it (ie. no spotlight on it or any other external source of light). It moved very fast across the sky, paused very briefly at a spot in the distance, then rapidly shot straight down towards the ground. It then disappeared behind the skyline of houses and churches on the street. There was no explosion or indication that anything crashed - it just disappeared behind the building line. While I normally can hear and see airplanes, or hear and see helicopters coming in and out of Harrisburg City, there was absolutely no sound here - it was very un-nerving. I got home and took my dashboard camera inside to see if it caught anything. The video shows a light that looks like a shooting star, moving fast across the sky in a straight line from upper-right to lower left of the sky; it then pauses briefly, then shoots down and disappears. [Really too brief with not much to go on. Handed off to MUFON anyway]

Occurred: 2023-11-02 22:25:00 Local, Location: Sioux Falls, SD, USA, Location details: Louis Ave Walmart, Shape: Chevron, Duration: 35 seconds, No of observers: 1 - Low flying silent craft with stealth coating.  At 1025 pm I pulled into the Walmart parking lot on Louis Ave Sioux Falls, A large chevron shaped craft was moving at a very low altitude (100ft to 150ft) approximately 300ft in front of me.  The craft was flying slow probably about 30 mph just clearing the top of Walmart, the craft was about the size of a couple city buses and moved with zero noise, the skin of the craft seamed to be coated in a light absorbing material and appeared as a black chevron moving against the back lit sky with a sort of shimmer around the edges, the craft itself had no visible light what so ever it seamed to absorb light, if it were not for the city lit sky you would never see or hear it, because of the city lights it appeared as a chevron shaped hole in space. As it crossed the store heading north it banked east presumably to avoid a air plane that just took off from the air port on the north side of the city, by time I parked my car to get a better look it had moved into a darker part of the sky and was no longer visible against the back drop of the night sky. [No nodes anywhere near this location. Handed off to MUFON anyway.]

Occurred: 2023-11-04 11:30:00 Local, Location: Clayton, OK, USA, Location details: I was driving east on Hwy. 2 before getting to Hwy 43., Shape: Cigar, Duration: 1 to 2 min., No of observers: 1 - While driving on 2 going I noticed a black line in the sky that I thought might be an eagle. No wings, head, tail. Black cigar shape. I was driving on Hwy. 2 moving SE toward Clayton, OK. At first I was noticing contrails in the sky. I saw a black dot way up in the sky thinking it might be a hawk or an eagle. I continued to watch as it got closer to me and realized that it might be a government drone. It had no wings was black and cigar shaped. It was at least 1000 ft in the air and moving from the SE to the NW. I have never seen anything like this. I know what drones look like but this did not have an apparent propulsion system. I do not know what I saw, I did not stop my car to watch as it went above my car. I was not looking for any strange flying object. I cannot unsee what I saw and it puzzles me. I would like to have an explanation of what I saw in the daytime over rural Oklahoma. [No madar site within 140 miles]

Occurred: 2023-11-05 10:32:00 Local, Location: Mount Morris, PA, USA, Location details: Along the highway in the mountains, Shape: Orb, Duration: 20 seconds, No of observers: 1 - Large extremely fast moving orb moving across the sky that stopped in midair, turned, and continued in the direction. Driving down the highway in the middle of the night I was the only one on the road. A large orb of light appeared in the sky to my left and was moving at an insanely fast speed in the same direction as me. It stopped in midair and stayed still for a second before turning to the right and continued on extremely fast without having to build speed. Was out of view after another 5 seconds. [Orbs not good examples even if there was a possible madar connection]

Occurred: 2023-11-05 18:20:00 Local, Location: San Diego, CA, USA, Location details: https://gps-coordinates.org/my-location.php?lat=32.803196443483465&lng=-117.13511220106375, Shape: Orb, Duration: 1-3 minutes, No of observers: 1 - 5 White Orbs Hover Silently 240 Yards Above Me In The Night Sky. On Sunday, November 5, 2023, at 6:20 pm (pst), I was about to make a left turn from a busy strip mall parking lot onto a residential street in a neighborhood that is located in the middle of San Diego, California. When I turned my head to see if the road was clear, I noticed what appeared to be 5 bright white shining lights over to my left approximately 720 feet above my head. At first, I thought they were street lights. When I quickly realized they were not, I reached for my phone that had been setting in the console next to me and I snapped photos. These orb like objects didn't move. Nor did they didn't emit sound, or beams of light. I sat staring at them for a minute or three as they continued hovering motionless above my head. I looked around and I yelled out my window to a couple who were standing at their car, 'do you see that?' and 'hello, anybody see what's going on over here?' The people were oblivious to everything going on around them. The two drunk individuals that could be heard screaming at each other from across the parking lot didn't see the orbs either. Neither did the person I just cut off to snap photos. I thought I was the only one who could see them. After reading some of the posts here on this site, I discovered I am not the only one to have witnessed this fascinating phenomena. Just 9 days before, on October 27, 2023, a woman who lives not more than 3 miles from where I was saw the orbs, witnessed the same thing. Although, the details of what she saw weren't exactly the same as what I had seen, it was close enough. She saw the orbs at around the same time as I had seen them (around 6:20 pm pst). She counted 5 orbs hovering above in the night sky, too. When I drove a block closer to where the orbs were hovering, They disappeared without a trace. In a blink of an eye, they were gone. I am left with wonder. Was it 5 orbs that I saw in the night sky or was it 1 extremely large craft in the shape of a triangle? *Pic. Possible drones. [Not compelling enough for a MADAR comparison check]

Occurred: 2023-11-05 19:52:00 Local, Location: Santa Fe, FL, USA, Location details: Seen over trees then field before driving out of line of sight, Shape: Formation, Duration: 4min/drove out of sight, No of observers: 2 - While driving (dark) noticed 2 large lights to left. Once at field, saw underside, 3 lights(triangle) and small ones. Drove away. While driving towards Worthington Springs, FL from Lacrosse, FL with my husband, at 7:52pm, I noticed 2 bright, warm white lights in the sky. I compared it to headlights on a close hill, as it appeared much nearer than planets, stars, planes, etc. I had my husband pull up plane finder to see if any planes/helicopters were the culprit as we do have a nearby airport(but this still would have been very low for a plane.) I knew it was either stationary or moving towards us, as I couldn't see any movement. My husband took pictures but they are poor and do not show the formation. There is no cell tower in this area either. I lost sight of it behind the trees for a bit, then saw it again over a field. Here, I was able to get a view from the underside. (Horrible sketch attached.) It was 3 large, white, warm toned lights in a triangle formation, with smaller lights speckled about, all the same color. It was dark surrounding all these lights, but I cant tell you for certain that this was "a craft" as opposed to a product of my mind. I did understand it to be such. This did not look like any aircraft we know of or could Google. It appeared to be slowly moving in the direction we came from at this point. I kept driving and lost sight again, never seeing it cross the road in my rear view mirror. This object also did not have any sound and was visible for 4 minutes without much movement. It was definitely larger over the field, but we were driving toward it, so it's hard to tell what the movement distance/speed really was. It began about penny size then was golfball at second appearance. It was no longer there on our trip back ~20 minutes later. I will attach a picture from when we first saw it, but it isn't worth anything as it just appears as a blob of white light. (You will see two poles on the side of the road, mid photo. Look immediately above those. Other lights visible are reflections from my dash.) Terrible sketch shows the underside(I originally tried to draw it at an angle, like I saw it, but I can't.) I tried to illustrate the darkness around the lights. The positioning is all accurate. Feel free to text me about this. I'm not putting "I'd like to be contacted" because I feel like that's a waste of your time, but if you need anything, message me. *Drawing of craft. [Was investigated and appears to have been the star Capella. Witness lost interest and would not cooperate.]

Occurred: 2023-11-05 20:28:00 Local, Location: Hamilton, NJ, USA, Location details: Suburban street, on the East side of Lake Lenape. Clear night sky. Shape: Orb, Duration: Less than one minute., No of observers: 1 - Object was briefly stationary, before traveling in an apparent fish hook shape. Then vanished. Had arrived outside my home at roughly 8:26 or 8:27pm on November the 5th, 2023. I had parked my car in the street, with the driver's side facing South. I had gathered my things and stepped outside my vehicle. When I closed the door, I had been facing south. A single, large orb of white light was spotted in the Southeast, above a neighbor's house. It appeared to be stationary. The orb then began to travel east, accelerating as it did. The object then made a fish hook maneuver down and then towards the West before vanishing from sight. There were no other witnesses present, and the entire event lasted less than a minute in length. Other than the sight of the object and the fish hook path it took, nothing else was deemed unusual. Observer is a white male, in his early 30s. Does not have superstitious or supernatural proclivities. Has observed meteorological phenomenon in area before; including comets, meteor showers, and a shooting star. There are also several airports in the region, as well an FAA tech center. There is also occasional air traffic from Coast Guard aircraft. *Chart with directions mapped out. [Orbs like this not compelling for MADAR]

Occurred: 2023-11-06 22:30:00 Local, Location: Blairsville, GA, USA, Shape: Triangle. Duration: 5-15 seconds, No of observers: 1 - Triangle craft with green lights gliding through sky. I am a police officer and deputy sheriff. While on duty after dark, near the top of my windshield (frame of view) I witnessed movement in the sky (southbound direction of view). Upon concentrating my focus, viewing through the low light, I was able to make out a triangle craft, with 3 dim green lights per side (just bright enough to assess size, shape, and movement). The craft moved to my right (westbound). Due to tree coverage, I lost sight of it quickly, to which I never located it again, maintaining visual contact for less than 10 seconds. While it appeared very low, it is difficult to determine distance, size, and speed, given the relationship between those factors. I did not hear any noises, however I was at speed on the roadway inside a vehicle. I am privy to what helicopters and airplanes look like in the sky, frequently working alongside medical flight crews in the area, and where nearby airports are, making me somewhat familiar with common areas of the sky in which low air travel is common. This was unlike anything I had ever witnessed. It should also be noted, that within approximately one hour of my sighting, I responded to a call from a homeowner reporting hearing something running outside of his home, to which he stated did not sound like an animal. The callers’ residence was in the direction from which the object came when I witnessed it, as the crow flies, in a heavily wooded and forested area. There were no other similar or relevant calls, and no reported sightings through our 911 center. [Not good candidate]

Occurred: 2023-11-08 04:28:00 Local, Location: Hartford, CT, USA, Location details: Clear night sky with little light pollution. Shape: Orb, Duration: 25 minutes, No of observers: 1 - Craft swooped down fast & floated with bright white rotating lights & 2 beams of light darting around & on & off. The object seemed to drop straight down from high above the sky. It seemed closer to me at first, but as it slowly moved & rotated,& its lights began to rotate & flash, it became clear the object was massive & just seemed closer. Each large bright white light rotated in various directions. It had 2 beams of light that darted around downward & turned on & off. After about 20 minutes, it began to lift up farther into the sky & then swooped upward. It then shot straight up into the sky towards the atmosphere & disappeared. [Not candidate for a craft]

Occurred: 2023-11-08 20:08:00 Local, Location: Wimberley, TX, USA, Location details: Woodcreek North Neighborhood in Wimberley Texas, Shape: Orb. Duration: 2 Minutes, No of observers: 2 - Large helicopter chasing an amber glowing orb. I was walking my dog in the Woodcreek North neighborhood with my wife around 8pm. We heard a LOUD helicopter flying overhead which is common in the area, but this one was much larger than any I have seen and a lot louder. It was too dark to make out if it was military or not, but my hunch is that it was. Way out in front of the helicopter was a glowing orb (amber in color) just flying, not blinking. The helicopter was in steady pursuit but not gaining on it. We watched for a good two minutes until both were out of sight. The objects were probably about 1,000 feet in elevation. [Not good candidate]

Occurred: 2023-11-08 21:00:00 Local, Location: Fredericksburg, VA, USA, Location details: (38.2019054, -77.4822794), Shape: Rectangle, Duration: A few seconds, No of observers: 1 - Rectangle aircraft with two green semi circles at each end. Around 9 PM yesterday evening I saw a somewhat low-flying aircraft that was a rectangle shape and had green lights on the underside in the shape of a half oval at each end of the rectangle speed across the sky above me. It was loud and I could hear it coming towards me. It sounded almost like a tornado and I heard it in both the sky and the trees. I went inside and around 9:20 I heard a loud aircraft and felt my house shake, so there may be another one flying around, or the same one. [Node 282 just 20 mi SE wasn't online yet]

Occurred: 2023-11-08 21:32:00 Local, Location: Longview, WA, USA, Shape: Chevron, Duration: approx. 45 seconds, No of observers: 2 - silent as in no air moving at low speed moderate altitude. Another party and I were outside discussing the stars. We simultaneously noticed the craft above. The craft made no noise and was traveling at a low speed in the sky. It was almost the color of the the night sky, although a few shades lighter. Said craft then traveled southwest towards downtown and blended in with the lighter pitch of the city lights. The event was approximately 45 seconds in duration at approximately 2132 hours. [Node 66 is south of the site and in Portland, OR, but no interesting data]

Occurred: 2023-11-09 06:45:00 Local, Location: Elkin, NC, USA, Shape: Disk, Duration: 15-20 seconds, No of observers: 1 - A silver metallic disc rising vertically from the ground. On my way to work I saw off to my right a silver metallic disk like craft rising vertically from the ground. It seemed to be half a mile away rising from an open field. I watched it until the nearby woods obscured it. Once I got clear of the trees I stopped to look for it but it was gone. The disc was flat with a slight bulge in the center top. I could see the sunlight reflecting off the outside. I drove back and forth the same way the same time over several days trying to see if it was caused by the rising sun but I never saw anything like it again. [Doesn't sound very compelling]

Occurred: 2023-11-09 09:45:00 Local, Location: Topeka, KS, USA, Location details: Latitude 39.0345627 Longitude 95.7439403, Shape: Disk, Duration: 4-5 minutes, No of observers: 1 - There was a black but yet reflective basic saucer shaped UAP. Sighting was viewed from my back yard. Visible just above the tree line looking to be but only a few city blocks away was one reflective black UAP. It zig-zagged about left to right and up and down for several minutes I'd say about 4 or 5 minutes. Then it just disappeared NOT zipping off but just diapering, poof gone! [Not a good candidate]

Occurred: 2023-11-09 20:15:00 Local, Location: , KY, USA, Location details: FL34,000 over WV, PA, KY Objects were much higher. Shape: Light, Duration: 1 hour, No of observers: 4 - Characteristics: Lights on object. Lighted objects "dancing" and performing seemingly impossible aeronautic maneuvers. Passenger aircraft cruising at FL34,000. I was a crew member that entered flightdeck mid-flight. Two other crew members pointed out the 4 lights they had been watching for 45 minutes. Lights flying in circles vertically, horizontally as well as tight zig zag patterns, then flying straight upward. The circular motions were like a dance. No regular patterns, but incredibly fast maneuvers. The lights would disappear and reappear occasionally. The altitude of the objects was unknown, but they were so high that they never left our view during that time. I watched them for 15 minutes before allowing another crew member to observe as well. As our pilot said, "no aircraft exists that can perform those maneuvers." Four crew members witnessed. [Doesn't sound like a craft under intelligent control]

Occurred: 2023-11-10 06:13:00 Local, Location: Denver, CO, USA, Shape: Orb, Duration: Less than 1 minute, No of observers: 1 - Basketball sized ball of light, about the same brightness as a flood light flying low and slow. Driving east bound Friday November 10 at 6:13am on highway 285 near the intersection of S Sheridan Blvd and Highway 285, I looked to my left (north north east), and there was a large ball of light. The ball of light was approximately the size of a basketball with a dark core, the majority of the light coming from the outer edges. It was moving too slow/low to be an airplane in this area. It was significantly brighter than anything I have ever seen in the sky (while flying or on the ground). If holding an object at arm’s length away to cover the object, it would be the size of a basketball. It looked like there were multiple lights on the outer edges of the sphere when looking at it. The color was a bright white with the middle of the orb a darker color. There looked like there was an aura around the object, I'm not quite sure how to describe it. It looked like when you can see the heat around a hot oven after opening it. The middle was not black but there was significantly less light coming from the middle. When I grabbed my phone to take a picture of it, it became significantly smaller and dimmer before it disappeared. It was light outside when this happened and I could not see an object in the sky when it disappeared. This happened within 1-2 minutes. I make this drive everyday Monday-Friday to go to work at this same time each day and I have never seen this or anything similar before. [BOL or orb not compelling]

Occurred: 2023-11-10 18:44:00 Local, Location: Dixon, CA, USA, Shape: Other, Duration: 1-2 Minutes, No of observers: 5, 5 of us (4 Adults, one (1) 7 year old. Flew over at about 300-750 ft altitude. Firstly, this is fresh. This literally just happened 1 hour ago. 4 adults and one 7 year old child saw the following. My wife, daughter and I were dropping off her friend at her house in the country by Dixon, CA. We arrived at approximately 6:45PM. It was dark and the sky was mostly clear with some scattered clouds. They live in the country and there is very little light pollution. My daughters friend ran in the house as soon as we arrived. However, we stay on the porch talking we her parents for 10 minutes or so like we always do. Suddenly, we heard the oscillating rumble of an aircraft coming from the northeast (more east than north). I immediately noticed the rumble was deep but I assumed it was just a low flying life flight helicopter coming to land at its home at the Nut Tree Airport which was just a few miles away. However, as it got closer the house literally began to shake (Windows, glasses on their laundry room table tops, etc.) Still thinking that it was a helicopter I instinctively looked up as it began to fly over. At first I couldn't make out what I was seeing. It happened all at once and it was a wave of visual mathematics that my mind was working to solve. The is the exact sequence of events as I observed it. It may seem haphazard and arrhythmic but this is the exact sequence in which I saw the aircraft. So imagine you are looking through your own eyes when you read this. 1) Whatever it was was flying slow. 75 MPH or less. 2) I saw a really dim pair of lights. At first, I thought they were they were part of a helicopter, then my brain quickly realized they were on the rear of some sort of aircraft. 3) I saw a laser dot about 200 yards immediately to the left of the pair of lights referenced in part "2". The laser dot was red or orange, extremely dim and literally looked like someone from the ground was shinning a laser pointer at something in the sky. At this point I literally thought that is exactly what someone was doing. 4) Suddenly, as my eyes were focused on the faint laser dot, a cloud immerged in the background of the dot way off in the distance. It picked up just enough light pollution from the nearby city of Vacaville that it momentarily revealed that the laser point I was staring at was on the front end of the nose of an aircraft. The cloud was illuminated just enough to backlight the nose of the aircraft. The aircraft moved forward and as quickly as the outline appeared on the cloud it was gone. 5) Immediately my thought was that "Oh, there IS as a second aircraft leading the one following to the right. 6) When the nose cone moved past the cloud and back into darkness my peripheral vision suddenly became heightened and out of the corner of my eye I saw a laser beam that was as feint as the dot on the nose. However, the laser beam stretched from the point where I saw it all the way back to the pair of dim lights 200 yards to the right. It looked like someone was shining a cheap laser pointer from a helicopter, straight forward in its path. 7) A patch of scattered clouds back light approximately 60-70% of the body of the aircraft and I suddenly realized the entire thing was connected. The outline was only visible for a few seconds. It looked like a combination of surf board and He-Man's sword and at least 150-200 yards long. That's literally the best way I can describe it.We all started freaking out when the outline revealed itself. My wife and I immediately said "Don't discuss it! We need to draw what we see independently and then show each other. It's the only way we will know we aren't lying to ourselves. If we are wrong and all see different things then we know it was nothing". *Attached are the pics we each made of the object. [44 mi to the NE is site 245 at Rocklin, had no spikes]

Occurred: 2023-11-11 18:30:00 Local, Location: Windham, ME, USA, Shape: Rectangle. Duration: 2 seconds, No of observers: 1 - Floating rectangle with 3 lights. Last night, I had a wtf moment, still not sure what to make of it. I have never seen anything I could not identify before. I've been outside day and night my whole life, never seen anything strange. On my way home from Portland around 630pm or so, I was about halfway home and south of Windham a few miles, on a dark two lane road through rolling small hills, no shoulder, forest on each side with sometimes trees hanging over the road. In a break of the trees, out my front windshield at about my 1 o'clock and above the tree tops, I saw a vertical object just floating in the sky (it was not moving) about 1k ft in the air, maybe a little lower. It was hard to tell how far away it was from me but probably less than 1/4 mile. Because it was hard to tell how far away it was it’s hard to tell how big it was but im guessing it was between the size of a Chevy Suburban and a city bus, maybe bigger if it was standing on its end. It was backlit at the top like there was a light behind it and then facing me were 3 lights in a vertical row and I believe they dimmed and brightened in sequence. Because of the light behind it I could see the outline of it so i could tell it was an elongated rectangle. It happened fast, I couldn’t stop and take a photo, by the time it registered in my mind I was under the tree canopy again and a hundred feet or so down the road and I also thought I may see it again but there were too many trees. There are no radio towers out here and it def wasn’t a balloon, a plane, a helicopter or a drone. [Windham is a hundred miles NE of the nearest MADAR site at Manchester, New Hampshire]

Occurred: 2023-11-11 21:30:00 Local, Location: Lakeland, FL, USA, Location details: It was flying overhead while I was walking my dog in my backyard, Shape: Triangle, Duration: 10 seconds, No of observers: 2 - I saw a HUGE triangle craft with at least 7 bright white lights in a perfect “V” at the front and no lights on the backend of it. I was walking my dog with my son like I usually do around 9-10 pm and my son said “look dada” and he had pointed out a flying plane that you could see the red blinking lights and such and I’d say 4 seconds later, I looked away and looked up again and i see a HUGE triangle ship “gliding” across the sky. It was flying above the plane my son had pointed out and it was completely silent. The lights were bright in a perfect shaped “V” on the front of the triangle and it was flying about 78 degrees from the horizon so it was kinda above me. It was so big and I stared at it in awe and I had goosebumps and I felt happy as hell. Never in my life I have never seen anything like that and something that HUGE going across the sky and I say it was “gliding” because it did not move like a normal object. It seemed to go across the sky so effortlessly by just simply “gliding” on it. Lasted a solid 10 seconds max but that’s being lenient, it went across the sky really fast until it got out of my view across the top of my apartment building . [No pre-auth - NUFORC has reached out - MADAR 270 wasn't online until a few weeks later]

Occurred: 2023-11-11 22:40:00 Local, Location: Slippery Rock, PA, USA, Location details: Between the town of Slippery Rock and Forestville, Shape: Triangle, Duration: Two minutes, No of observers: 2 - Triangle shaped craft that moved like nothing I’ve ever seen. While driving with my wife we both saw what at first appeared to be a large helicopter moving horizontally across the sky , it quickly turned and came straight at us and went right over head and we saw it plainly. It was moving like something out of a sci fi movie and was triangular in shape with what looked like a green and red arrow lights underneath. Definitely not a drone, helicopter or airplane. Just after we saw it my wife said , watch out for that deer crossing the road. It wasn’t a deer and we can both only describe it as a mix between a llama and a hyena. Don’t know if the two are connected but that’s what we saw. Was looking for a place to pull over to try to get a pic or video of the craft when we saw the animal then decided to just get the hell out of there. Rural road and we weren’t taking any chances. [CI approved but no MADAR correlations]

Occurred: 2023-11-13 15:34:00 Local, Location: Milan, IN, USA, Location details: pike lumber company it was like half a football field from that company. Shape: Triangle, Duration: roughly about 7 mins, No of observers: 3 - Triangle black craft. I was at work on a break when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked in that direction but only got a split second to see it because it flew behind a tree line. I knew then it was something unusual. I assumed it was a farmer's plane and kept looking to see it come out from the other end of the tree line. Instead, the object came out at a 90-degree angle. When I got my closest look at it, it was about 50 yards away from me. This is what I saw: it was flat, maybe 20 feet in width, possibly smaller, and about 10 feet in height, maybe shorter. It started to rotate in an unnatural way, and when it did, I saw that it was in the shape of a triangle, but in the middle of the triangle, there was another triangle inside that was see-through. The color of it, the best I could describe, is black as black marble and shinier than marble. It looked like all the material was one piece, like no rivets, no seams, just like the craft was made by one piece of whatever material it was. The sun reflected off of it. It made no noise, there were no propellers, no propulsion; it was just floating and rotating perfectly with no disturbance, almost gracefully perfect in its rotation. Then it continued to do that as it slowly flew away until I could not see it anymore, rotating gracefully the whole time. There were two other employees with me; they only witnessed the end part of it but could still see it rotating because I called them out to come look at this. I wanted to take a picture of it but I didn't want to take my eyes off of it and miss something. It started off to the right of me then took of slowly into the air directly in front of me then flew away. [Milan is 42 miles SE of the MADAR at Columbus, IN, didn't show any spikes.]

Occurred: 2023-11-13 20:02:00 Local, Location: Greensboro, GA, USA, Shape: Circle. Duration: 10 seconds, No of observers: 1 - Noticed very bright light to my left as it approached I slowed down the lights got brighter. As the lights got closer the aircraft came into view it was large the lights were so bright I had to squint to see the aircraft it was large and very close to the ground as if it was landing. It was not spinning it was hovering the circle of lights was stationary under the aircraft. It did not fly away I was afraid to stop on the dark road. [Seems lacking data for such a close encounter]

Occurred: 2023-11-14 23:00:00 Local, Location: Chicago, IL, USA, Location details: above 7/11 and neighboring apartment building, Shape: Cigar, Duration: 20 mins, No of observers: 3 - Saw two craft, one approaching from the SW and another about 1500 ft away relatively close to my building. Was in the midst of playing guitar and drumming and was exiting the bathroom when I went to go shut the window and blinds. The angle I was at gave me clear view of the 7/11 across the train tracks adjacent to my building. I saw a cigar shaped saucer with four lights on the underbelly of the craft, and a blue haze was being emitted from the underbelly. I was freaking out, yelling at my neighbor's to look out the window, and it stayed out until others went to observe, but it was still visible as it descended behind the building next to 7/11. It eventually disappeared and no one saw it fly away, but as we awaited it's departure, a second craft came in from the southwest and flew rather erratically and didn't fly like how I traditionally propelled aircraft would. The crafts also exhibited both horizontal and VTOL flight capabilities, with them seeming propelled by the propulsion source on the underside of the craft that emits a blue glow akin to the same glow emitted by uranium fuel rods when submerged in a cooling pool in a nuclear power plant, or like the glow of the tesseract in the Avengers film. A blue glow emanated from both craft's undersides. [Doesn't meet standards]

Occurred: 2023-11-15 21:00:00 Local, Location: Lincolnshire, IL, USA, Location details: Driving past the woods, Shape: Rectangle, Duration: 10-12 seconds, No of observers: 2 - Platform type craft traveling low over forest with lights illuminating the top but no lights on bottom, at night. I was driving with my wife and noticed this unusual object moving quickly over the tree line of the forest preserve. Watching it reminded me of a flatbed truck traveling down the highway at too fast a speed. Since the quality of the light was so unusual and I do not draw well, the image I attached is more of a schematic. The single arrow in front of the craft shows the forward movement. The very back was not illuminated; I represented this by shading that area. The side I could see best had enough light to show a sharp edge, but I had no sense of how tall the side was ...except that it was very close to the trees. I believe I saw two rows of four dim blue/violet lights that nicely light almost all of the platform surface. There was a second, less defined, yet radiating, light source coming from the front in a hue somewhere between a warm white LED bulb and yellow represented by the three grouped arrows. It was a bit brighter in both color and intensity and intermingled with the other color to some extent. For the question about the size of the object, it was really more like the size of two pennies at something like a two to one ratio. Even though the sighting was very brief, it made a strong impression. And even though it made a strong impression, I would not have made this report if I didn't have another event two days later. My notes are from two days after this experience. *Nice drawing added. [Unable to come up with a craft]

Occurred: 2023-11-16 12:45:00 Local, Location: Boyce, VA, USA, Location details: On the Virginia State Arbiretum, Shape: Disk, Duration: 6 minutes, No of observers: 1 - Object was above arboretum. Moving rapidly sideways and up and down then hovering. Object was white and circular. It made no noise and left no contrail. It moved rapidly side to side and up and down. It appeared to be rotating and there were faint blue and red lights on the outer part of the saucer. No aircraft could have maneuvered like that. Clear sky, light haze, 70 degs.. Suddenly/abruptly it disappeared as I was watching it, just poof, it was gone. I am a retired Senior Intelligence Officer and am a trained observer. It was definitely not an aircraft. [Checking madar

Occurred: 2023-11-16 17:38:00 Local, Location: Burbank, WA, USA, Location details: (46.1987307, -118.9965909) I was driving and I saw object to left over the edge of the town Burbank, Shape: Rectangle, Duration: 45 seconds, No of observers: 1, Explanation: Aircraft – Possible, Characteristics: Lights on object, Large hovering craft, silently floated away when I stopped my car, at night with lights. I was driving and saw bright lights that appeared to hover over the side of the freeway. I was on the phone with my dad and hung up because I wanted to film it. It seemed like a low plane at first but quickly I realized I was approaching it, and it wasn’t moving. It was crazy. When I passed it going 40 mph in a 70 I saw the side of it. It was not flat like a drone but more ball shaped? Maybe rectangle? But not flat. It had volume. And it was very large? Truck sized at least. And silent. I pulled over and started filming again and it just started moving away from me opposite direction, along highway. I tried to zoom in on it but it’s very hard to tell in video. It seemed to have two big circles on the back of it, inside where the light was coming from. And that’s the direction it moved. Like big jet engines on the back is what it made me think of. But they weren’t lit up and it was silent. *Videos [Check madar

Occurred: 2023-11-17 12:58:00 Local, Location: Lincolnshire, IL, USA, Location details: Side front yard of residential property above smaller (50 ft) tree and close to a powerline. Shape: Other, Duration: 6-8 seconds, No of observers: 1 - Craft was total stationary and totally silent, just above a tree. I was driving home with my wife in the car and spotted something above and ahead of us by the road. The whole object was very white with a low matte finish. There were no markings of any kind. My initial 40 degree angle of visual contact became more steep as I approached the object and I turned onto the driveway, causing me to break visual contact. I jumped out of the car, grabbed my phone out of my pocket and ran back down to the street. It was gone. I scanned the sky but saw nothing except a smaller private jet, which was also white. What was interesting to me was the arc the airplane was making. Its motion seemed to place my location as the center point and I think it a strong possibility a person or persons on the plane saw what I did. I have a series of photos that I believe can document the arch of the airplane. [ IDFE ]

Occurred: 2023-11-18 22:54:00 Local, Location: Buffalo, NY, USA, Location details: Best Street.  Shape: Triangle, Duration: 5 minutes or longer, No of observers: 1 - Grey bicycle seat shaped object with flashing red lights. I was driving on Best Street heading East and saw what I immediately assumed was a plane. I saw two pinpoint flashing red lights on both the left and right sides of the object (east and West). Then I realized that it was not a plane. I could see the underside of the object which looked like the bottom of a mostly triangular shaped object shaped kind of like a bicycle seat. The grey color reminded me of the color of a jet. The object did not appear to be moving and if it was it had to be extremely slow as it was undetectable from my vantage point. I pulled over to to check the Flight Radar app and the closest plane was shown over Amherst, NY. The Buffalo Niagara International Airport is just a few miles from where I was so I wanted to just assume it was a plane. Planes don't stand still in the air or hover so I decided to report this. I really want to know what it was. I was approaching the turn for the 33 West and couldn't stay pulled over in the lane I was in so I had to drive off. The object was still there when I drove off. [ IDFE ]

Occurred: 2023-11-19 18:04:00 Local, Location: Denver, CO, USA, Shape: Sphere, Duration: 5 minutes, No of observers: 2 - Large object appeared hovering above Sec. of State bldg then opened and released 4 reddish/orange orbs. On November 19, 2023 in Downtown Denver, Colorado me & my partner witnessed a large dark grayish object appearing in translucent looking clouds or smoke above a building directly in front of our balcony. We were staying at The Warwick Hotel on the 14th floor. After the large object appeared above The Secretary of State building, we were frozen in place unable to speak for several seconds then it opened & began dropping out 4 perfectly circular red/yellow/orangish orbs that pulsated and flashed and hovered at first then began to maneuver in all directions (up, down, left, right) forming shapes etc. Neither the “mothership” as we called it or the orbs made any noticeable sounds. As seen on our video footage some orbs hovered while others descended. One can be seen sharply changing directions as it descended behind SkyHouse Denver highrise. Just before all the orbs descended and disappeared from our view behind The Secretary of State building a black helicopter arrived in the precise area the orbs and mothership disappeared and circled for approximately 40mins to an hour. Afterwards time seemed to leap forward 2 hours and a large flock of crows came to the tree directly in-front of us and began crowing loudly after the orbs disappeared. *Pic/Video. [Denver Broncos Skydivers - IFO ]

Occurred: 2023-11-21 20:30:00 Local,  Location: Stillwater, OK, USA, Location details: Viewed from FL320 and FL340 observed from same apparent relative direction flying from DFW to RAP. Shape: Light, Duration: 1hr+, No of observers: 2 - As many as 4 lights were simultaneously observed corroborated with no less than 6-7 other aircraft on Denver Center. Lights observed from the flight deck from what appeared to be slightly above or co-altitude with us in the 30's (32000-34000') from a consistent 280 heading over the 600+ mile flight northbound from dfw to rapid city. Distance to lights could not be determined as they were above the horizon. Lights would fade in from a dim red orange and intensely brighten for about 10 seconds before fading away. Lights would often move in different directions including directions that would not make sense for satellites. It was not starlink or meteors stars or planets as some lights moved upward and others downward towards the horizon. Lights would occasionally abruptly change direction and velocity with the appearance of dancing or rotating around each other. Lights were observed from a constant direction but were in no discernable formation. Witnessed by both flight crew and as many as 7 or more aircraft on frequency transiting from as far as the east coast to over Colorado from what we heard. *Video. [ IDFE ]

Occurred: 2023-11-24 14:00:00 Local, Location: Odell, IL, USA, Location details: We were flying at 5500 feet around Odell, Illinois, just on the southern edge of a windmill farm. Shape: Sphere, Duration: 5 to 10 seconds, No of observers: 3 - We saw a 10’ black ball off our right wing at 5500’. There were 4 of us flying in a Cessna 172. We were at 5500 feet heading south bound and saw a black, round object off our right wing. It was about 10 feet in diameter and 50 feet or less from our plane. I saw it at the 1:00 position from our plane and I continued watching it for about 5-10 seconds until we passed it. After watching it for about 2 seconds and I called out to the others in the plane, “What is that black, round thing?” Two others in the plane witnessed the object as well. *Video (??). [No madar near there until March of this year - handed off to mufon]

Occurred: 2023-11-24 20:15:00 Local, Location: Dothan, AL, USA, Shape: Rectangle, Duration: 5 seconds, No of observers: 3 - Blue rectangle appear, above the trees, about 30' high, above us, and then shoots off to the West. Three of us saw a very bright robin egg blue rectangle appear, above the trees, about 30' high, above us, and then shoots off toward the West. No noise. It was seen for about 3 seconds. The light did not seem to illuminate anything. [ IDFE ]

Occurred: 2023-11-25 00:10:00 Local, Location: Arlington, MA, USA, Location details: Over Route 2 right before exit 131, Shape: Triangle, Duration: 20 seconds, No of observers: 1 - Explanation: Helicopter – Possible, Characteristics: Lights on object, Triangular shaped craft over Route 2. I was driving east on Route 2 towards Boston a little after midnight when I saw a low flying craft in the sky a little ahead of me. It was heading in my direction over the highway. It had fairly nondescript blinking red and blue lights on it, and a very bright downward facing white light on the underside of its nose. I assumed it was a helicopter with a search light on, and turned my head up to look at it as I passed underneath. To my surprise, however, it had what appeared to be a V-shaped formation of maybe 4 or 6 lights on the bottom, with the brightest light serving as the center point at the front of the V shape. It did not appear to be moving in any sort of extraordinary manner, and everything that I saw aside from the V shaped formation seemed consistent with it being a helicopter. I was also near Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford/ Lexington, although the object appeared to be too slow moving for it to have been an airplane. I have seen things that I would generally classify as UFO’s on at least 2 previous occasions, and am generally accepting of the idea that there are things in our skies that we lack a solid understanding of. There is definitely a part of me that wants to be able to say that I saw something that we cannot explain through conventional knowledge, so I am fully accepting that there may be some cognitive biases at play here. That said, I’m mainly posting here on the off-chance that someone else saw the same thing and was similarly unable to identify it, as there were numerous other cars on the highway at the time and it is a fairly densely populated area. [ IDFE ]

Occurred: 2023-11-25 09:59:00 Local, Location: Mount Hood, OR, USA, Location details: Driving near Tracy’s Tree Town U Cut, Shape: Cone, Duration: 5 minutes, No of observers: 1 - Saw static object while driving. While driving to a Christmas tree farm in Oregon City, OR, sited an unusual object hovering in the sky and not moving. No cables or power lines were in the vicinity of my view of the object. *Pic (clear cone / diamond shaped object). [ IDFE ]

Occurred: 2023-11-25 13:22:00 Local, Location: Brinnon, WA, USA, Location details: Beach, across water 1 o'clock position in picture, zoom image, Shape: Disk, Duration: Momentary, high-speed pass, No of observers: 1 - Taking picture of dog, raising camera to zoom object low high speed pass pushed shutter repeatedly got one image and was gone. Silent. Cool, Coldish day. Reasonably clear. Vehicle backdropped by clouds. Enough highway noise to mask any sound. No sonic boom. 500 mph? In zoom appears to have field around it. *Pic (flying saucer?). [ IDFE ]

Occurred: 2023-11-27 13:05:00 Local, Location: Bandon, OR, USA, Shape: Cigar, Duration: 2 minutes, No of observers: 1 - It almost collided with the Coast Gaurd Helicopter. I was standing on my front porch and heard a helicopter coming. So I looked and it was the Coast Guard heading right towards my house from the Northeast heading southwest. All of the sudden there was this white cigar shaped thing (with what looked like a long window in the middle of it) coming straight towards the helicopter from the southeast going to the northwest. I thought for sure it was going to collide with the Coast Guard. Thankfully, they were much faster than the white cigar shaped thing. The cigar was going so slow that I could not hear the helicopter any longer. I saw it long enough to open the door holler for my daughter to come here close the door turn back around and still see it before it went behind my tree. The sky was blue no clouds at all, no birds. I could see it through my apple tree branches. It was quite thin compared to the helicopter. The I could see what I can only sense was a window right in the middle, shaped like a cigar. I could see the white all the way around the window. It had no wings, no tail, no sound at all. It was one single object. It was much slower than the helicopter. It had no lights. I thought if it was an aircraft it would have been illegal for them to fly so closely. It was also very low to the ground. [Check madar

Occurred: 2023-11-28 19:14:00 Local, Location: Ridge, MD, USA, Shape: Other, Duration: 3:16.  No of observers: 1 - Object hovered approx 1/2 mile above Potomac River, Object hovered with no sound approx. 5 minutes and then disappeared. *Very clear Video (looks like underside of craft). [Three active madar sites within 55-80 miles but no spikes]

Occurred: 2023-11-29 17:20:00 Local, Location: Valley Stream, NY, USA, Location details: Was driving my car, Shape: Triangle, Duration: 5-10 seconds, No of observers: 1 - Aircraft with unusual lights, triangular shape with 5 circular lights on the bottom, heading west. I looked up and saw what at first was a bright light that appeared to be hovering. I was heading north at about 20 mi. per hour and slowed as the object oddly was getting closer and I could see far more detail. It was triangular and had five circular lights beneath. One light in the point of the triangle, 2 lights toward the center, and 3 lights at the bottom. I have never seen a plane with a configuration like that….nor a clearly triangular aircraft (resembled a stealth warplane, but larger. In my vision the aircraft seemed oddly to be moving very slow….then suddenly accelerated at an unusual rate of speed….over my head going west. I tried to stop and recapture vision, but it was gone. [ IDFE ]

Occurred: 2023-11-30 20:25:00 Local, Location: Denton, NE, USA, Shape: Unknown, Duration: 5 minutes, No of observers: 1 - I observed an aircraft with two bright lights to be stagnant and hovering over my pasture approximately 100' in the air. I observed an aircraft to be hovering approximately 100' above the ground in my pasture. It did not make a sound. It was noticed by the two bright headlights and I also noted it was not moving. The aircraft quickly dropped to hover 20' above the ground. As I approached in my vehicle, to obtain a better view, the aircraft shot straight up into the air and sped off towards the east of the location. *No details of craft size, shaped, color, etc.. [ IDFE ]

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