ANALYTICAL NOTES      NMS Sightings from NUFORC & MUFON
                                         DECEMBER, 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: 2023-12-03 20:25:00 Local, Location: San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, Location details: Heading westward eventuslly over mountains that appear to be several miles west of the city. Shape: Diamond, Duration: 5 minutes, No of observers: 1, Object floated slowly over a radio tower that was decorated with X-Mas lights. It did not blink. Too big to be a drone - I was walking down Guadalupe Victoria St. Heading west, from the central plaza area. Looking to my left, I glanced at a radio tower decorated with many rows of vertical colored lights for X-mas. Then, a brightly glowing amber object caught my eye. It seemed to be stationary. It was too big and oddly shaped to be a star. It was too slow to be a plane and too close to be a helicopter, because there was no sound. I realized that it appeared stationary, because it was slowly moving the ssme direction I was (west).I stopped walking and realized it was moving in relation to some power cables in front of me. The entire object glowed amber, but bright street lights prevented me from verifying the exact shape. The gendral shape of a diamond or an oval - but from top to bottom, not side to side. After about 2 minutes, it looked similar to a bright star, except for its bright amber glow. By then, it had floared, or drifted closer to the mountains and street lights further down the street blacked out its image. It was at a 15 degree angle in front of me when it became no longer visible. There was no fireworks show tonight as there was 10 days before, nor any exploding bottle rockets ( which locals claim are chur h related). The bottle rockets don't stay aglow. They only explode. The object was a glowing object, not a mass of sparks. It maintained a uniform shape till it headed due west, beyond view. *Outside USA.


Occurred: 2023-12-03 23:59:00 Local, Location: Memphis, IN, USA, Location details: In the woods between 2 houses, Shape: Light, Duration: 3 minutes, No of observers: 1 Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Colo. Unexplained bright shiny light - At midnight a witness saw a very bright white light approximately 50 yards from his house. It was so bright he couldn’t look at it long at a time. He took pictures. It lasted about 3 minutes. It was in a rural area in between 2 houses in a wooded area. *Pics – very clear, shows intense light shining. [Two madar sites nearby but one was not online at the time. The one at Louisville, 18 miles to the south, node 206 had no field spikes, but the compass heading had deviated over 4 degrees - Under Investigation] 

Occurred: 2023-12-06 00:48:00 Local, Location: Austin, TX, USA, Location details: I was on the patio of my apartment building, Shape: Chevron, Duration: 30 seconds, No of observers: 1, A light grey craft similar to that of a B2 flying overhead Austin, TX, with no apparent lights and sound. Standing outside of my 12th-floor patio in my apartment building, I witnessed something approaching from North Austin with no visible lights (it was past midnight). Knowing this did not match commercial flight routes I had seen previously, I watched it fly almost directly overhead me in a south or nearly southeast direction. The first thing that came to mind was a stealth bomber like the B2, but I wouldn't understand why it was flying so low with no lights. I could clearly see the Chevron shape in a light grey tone, but couldn't discern whether it had a full triangle that was black or a darker color. I watched it fly above me for about 30 seconds, where once it got above I removed my headphones and heard no audible noise. At one point, I almost believed the front of the object changed shape from being a straight-angled Chevron, but I couldn't say this for certainty. [interesting but no spikes in madar data and a node less than 5 miles away]

Occurred: 2023-12-06 11:59:00 Local, Location: Melbourne, FL, USA, Location details: 28.11367° N, 80.67204° W, Shape: Disk, Duration: Just over a minute. No of observers: 1, Characteristics: Lights on object. Hovering in place until shooting off southbound and disappearing in a small flash of light. Was in my work truck heading to my very last stop at Dustin‘s barbecue off of Wickham Road when I saw the object seemingly suspended in place, not moving in any apparent direction. Filmed the object for approximately one minute to show its immobility before it seemed to Shoot off directly away from me before disappearing in a small flash of light. *nice clear video of a tic-tac / cigar shaped craft with random flashing lights around perimeter / Maps of location. [No madar spikes with sites within 40 miles]

Occurred: 2023-12-08 20:00:00 Local, Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Location details: This was headed on a NW diagonal over Wellington Woods Area, Shape: Chevron, Duration: Approximately 5 minutes, No of observers: 2, Explanation: Balloon – Possible, Characteristics: Lights on object. My husband and I saw and took a video of a very large, chevron shaped craft with a straight row of lights across the back center. Tonight, on Dec. 8th, 2023, I saw a large air craft in the sky unlike any I have seen before. I saw it clearly. It was a chevron shaped craft, with a straight row of lights in the back. The lights were a greenish blue. The craft looked like dark gray metal. It was flying on a diagonal in the sky through my neighborhood. I called to my husband to run out and he took a video with his phone. By the time he came out, it was farther away. When I watched the video, the lights were behaving differently on the video than I saw with my naked eyes. This has now confused me a bit because now I can't remember how exactly the lights were behaving, but I noticed it was definitely different on the video than what I had seen. He said maybe it's a helicopter or a drone, but I disagreed and said it was shaped like a bat, and very huge, and I had watched it when it was closer and not so far away when he saw it in the cloudy sky. I drew a quick hand sketch of it when I came inside, and sent it to my friend. She found this sight and sent me back similar images. On this sight, I see the chevron as an option and that's the shape! I posted this on my facebook. Everyone is shocked! * Drawing of back of craft. [IDFE]

Occurred: 2023-12-08 21:00:00 Local, Location: Lowell, MI, USA, Location details: North of highway I-96 in between Cascade and Lowell Charter Township in MI, Shape: Disk, Duration: A few minutes, No of observers: 2, Characteristics: Lights on object.  Greyish disc with two bright white lights one on each side on front circumference and multi colored red green lights - I was driving from Ludington MI to visit family on east side of state. I was driving on I-96 heading east just passing Grand Rapids on Friday December 8, 2023 at about 9:00pm. In between Cascade and Lowell Charter Township on north side of highway, a very bright light fell from sky. It then slowed and hovered right by highway on north side. It was a thicker disc shape, grey/silver in color, just hovering, with two very bright white lights on each side on front circumference and multiple multi colored lights around back end of circumference, red, green. The lights from the front illuminated so bright, that you could view around it and there weren’t any wings or segmented parts, just disc shape. Appeared to either be shiny or have windows on the side facing us. My son was sitting behind me and was a witness also. We were so shocked and scared that we couldn’t pick up our phone to take photo right away. I begged my son to please get a video while it was still hovering and I driving away from it. We were about a mile down road by the time he was able to come out of a scared mindset to take the video. You can see it on the upper right side of the video briefly. I was so scared and wanted to get out of there so fast. I now regret not turning around and going back to get better videos or pictures. I am still very shaken up by this and try to not let my son know how emotional I am right now about what we witnessed. I have never believed in any such paranormal thing or ufo until now! In the video you can here my son still saying he can’t take video with how shocked he was and me in disbelief in background. Please help me to find out if more people have videos or captured anything on radars in this area. My son said to me, “mom I can almost see inside of it”. That is how close it was. Maybe a football field away from highway and about football field up. Size comparison would be roughly 3 or 4 school buses in size, of course being compacted in disc shape. I called the hotline also to make report. *Drawing of craft, maps of location, and video clip. [Node 290 at Grand Rapids is less than 20 miles west of the sighting area, but wasn't purchased until January 5th, 2024]

Occurred: 2023-12-13 15:34:00 Local, Location: Benson, NC, USA, Shape: Disk, Duration: 1 minute, No of observers: 2,  Driving up Raleigh road turning right. Right on to Zack's mill road. We saw what look like the planet Saturn. In front of our vehicle - My daughter who is 30 and myself. I am 51. We were riding in the car together and out of our windshield ahead of us we saw this object in the sky that at first I thought was a weather balloon and as I looked at it. I said to my daughter. What is that and she said mom? I was just thinking the same thing and we watched it. It never moved it was big. It was the shape of the planet Saturn. It was mirrored or silver. And it was extremely bright and all of a sudden. It just disappeared. We pulled into a neighborhood after it disappeared to see if we could spot it again and it was just gone.I still don't know. What it is we saw but it was a unidentified flying object! We searched the sky after pulling into the neighborhood and saw 2 planes off in the distance. Not near where the sighting was and they looked nothing like what we saw and there was nothing else in the sky. It was a blue sky and whatever we saw was gone. There was nothing! [MADAR site at Moravian Falls is over 170 miles to the west and showed no spikes]

Occurred: 2023-12-13 23:00:00 Local, Location: Greensboro, NC, USA, Location details: front porch of my home and from the window of my bedroom, Shape: Orb, Duration: 2x - 1st 10 min 2nd 3 hr, No of observers: 3,  Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Animals reacted - AM sighting of a bright intense light that was hovering over tree line and a PM sighting with 2 crafts of the same "look". Around 7AM on Dec 13th, I was on the front porch of my home and saw an extremely intense light above the tree line on the hole of the golf course that my house is situated on. The trees are roughly 500-750 ft from my front porch viewpoint. It was hovering left and right with periods of standstill. It was difficult for me to gauge the elevation of the object but it appeared lower than a plane in the sky at the time. Also of note is that there were no visible stars in that field of view, or in my periphery. The only stars faintly visible were directly above my head. With regard to directional positioning, it was just a tad west of the rising sun, but not by much, and was lower than the sun in my field of vision. It caught my eye as it was so intensely bright. It was very mesmerizing. And as it got my attention, I noticed it was periodically emitting a blue light, almost like a beam but more of a tentacle appearance than a typical “linear” laser we think of. The object was relatively stable and hard to get an idea of the exact shape because the light was so bright. However, it looked almost like a pyramid in nature. But would hover around in a small vicinity without much perceived pattern, at least to my eye. I wanted to get a picture but my phone was dead. As I was in awe, a member of the household was leaving for work and saw the same thing. She agreed it was strange but had to leave for work. The object was gone when I came back outside with a family member’s charged phone, within 2 mins of me going inside to retrieve the phone. I probably would have dismissed this or even forgotten about the morning event but late that evening around midnight, I was called outside by a family member who claimed they saw an “orb.” Remembering the event from 18 hrs ago, I came outside and saw the same thing I did in the morning along with lots of animal sounds, like they were disturbed. This time, it was much closer to my house - it was basically above my yard and hovering around the ¾ acre that we live on from above. This time, the pyramid structure was a bit more defined and the light was more of a gold color than the intense bright light I saw in the same morning. It would stay in one place for a few minutes and then hover around aimlessly. In addition to blue lights, this one also emitted red and green lights, both in a tentacle fashion. The majority of the mass of the object would appear in a more rounded muted orange color when the projections were not coming from it. There were moments when it appeared to be transitioning between the two states (pyramid/tentacle structure and orb structure). It also seemed to have a noticeable blackness around it, almost like a cloud when I the pyramid form. About 30 minutes later, 2 family members are watching this with me and another identical object appears on the other side of the house. It seemed to be the same type of object. These things hovered around for about 3 hrs and slowly moved from above our yard to the west. I still had a visual on one from my window when I came to bed and got a video of it jetting away. After many many tries of trying to focus I finally did, right in time for it to be caught ZOOMING away!!! I was in total disbelief but this is the best evidence I have. From what I can see in the video, it moved away so fast that it left a blur with the video recording at 60fps. It went from basically standstill to these speeds. Of note, a family member has claimed he has seen similar things and many orbs on this property but I gave it no attention due to “stigma.” I now believe every word he has said. Now this is speculation but it felt like these things knew they were being watched, there was even a moment when it was behind trees when I was trying to record it and it seemed to move to areas that had optimal tree cover. Since I couldn't get a good in-focus picture, I sketched what I saw to the best of my ability. (the pyramid form) and the video shows the orb form zooming away.  The 2 most anomalous things I recall - 1) the speed of which this thing took off from a complete standstill 2) I lost sight one of the objects when viewing it from my room window only to find it, and when I did, this time it appeared to be casting a straight blue beam down to the ground. I did not have view of the ground beneath however the beam was linear this time, casting much further from the object than the wavy lights in the picture. It also appeared to be in orb form during this behavior. The "tentacle" lights only appeared when it was in pyramid form. * Drawing of crafts, video. [IDFE]

Occurred: 2023-12-15 23:45:00 Local, Location: Capac, MI, USA, Location details: Capac Mi. between Caoac and Emmett Mi., Shape: Light, Duration: 1 minute, No of observers: 1, Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Electrical or magnetic effects, Animals reacted.  Saw a horseshoe shaped orange light with blue center hovering, it turned 180° on its axis and sped off gaining altitude - Was driving down m21 and saw the object, initially thought nothing of it until it moved, my car stalled as I noticed it begin to move it moved in a straight line for a substantial distance then stopped, hovered on its axis then turned and shot up into the sky in a streak of light leaving an orange trace behind it. Estimated altitude at time of first sight is 500 or so feet, then it shot off at an astronomical speed and gained altitude almost as fast as it was moving across the sky, vanished in an instant, it made no sound and the lights were not blinking as required in the US. Heard coyotes all around begin barking and howling for a few seconds until it was gone. [cAPAC IS 40 mi NE of site 144 at Farmington Hills. 144 had no spikes]

Occurred: 2023-12-17 05:10:00 Local, Location: Lynnwood, WA, USA, Location details: 4723 200th street sw lynnwood wa 98036, Shape: Triangle, Duration: 30 seconds, No of observers: 2 Explanation: Aircraft – Possible, Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby, Landed - Seen a huge black boomerang shaped craft flying low from east to west , very little sound.  We were outside trying to get into vehicle that had keys stuck inside when we noticed a black craft flying very low and it had two white lights on ends with red light underneath all flashing like crazy. It make very little sound for how big it was. I tried to get video of it but my camera would not focus on it. It flew slow , and went east until we almost could not see it and then it did a 180 degree turn and decent down into the hillside. *Pic / Video. [IDFE]

Occurred: 2023-12-18 16:57:00 Local, Location: Kelso, WA, USA, Location details: 46.1404146 latitude -122.9090231 longitude, Shape: Disk, Duration: 30 seconds, No of observers: 2, Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects, Animals reacted - It was a black disc and it was moving fast around 500 feet in the air. The UFO was a disc shaped object and it was black.It was moving smoothly side to side then it vastly moved away. It looked like it was going around 500 miles per hour. It was close to 600 feet in the air. There was only one UFO but there where 2 viewers of looking at it. *Pic [315 at Battleground was purchased months later.  Portland, OR is 50 mi SE but had no spikes]

Occurred: 2023-12-30 18:27 Local, Duration: 10-20 Seconds, No of observers: 2, Location: Beaverton, OR, USA, Location details: Seen near the intersection of Rosa Road, and 192nd Ave from the sidewalk. Shape: Disk, Color: N/A, with RGB Lights, Estimated Size: Ferris Wheel Sized, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: West, Angle of Elevation: 47, Closest Distance: 100-200 ft, Estimated Speed: 2-5 mph, Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed color., Unidentified formation of lights seen on walk with a friend. Slowly rotating, & massive. Had a contour like it was a disk on its side. Me (15) and a friend (age removed for privacy) were on a night walk. We were joking about how the sky looked perfect for an alien invasion, due to it's pretty smoky brown color. When we reached the intersection of Rosa Road and 192nd Ave, we were immediately distracted by what looked to be a huge, slowly revolving chain of lights hovering in the sky. They were in a straight line (or mostly straight line), almost as if on the edge of a disk spinning on its side. I could see the faint contour of an edge or side. It was massive, Ferris wheel sized or larger. There were over 10 lights, and they were close enough to trigger my mild astigmatism. They flashed several colors. It produced no sound, no shadow, and reflected no light on the ground. There were several streetlights, however, so they could have overshadowed any light the craft produced. I stared at it for about 10-20 seconds, panicking, before attempting to take a photo. I would realize later that I had accidentally took a picture of the ground instead. My friend was much more excited than scared, but I urged them that I wanted to go home. I told my dad what I had seen, but being a skeptic, he mostly shrugged it off. We decided to go back while I called my partner for support. We could not see anything else. On the way home, I sighted a small, low flying plane heading in the direction of the object. There is an airport in Hillsboro nearby, however. When we got home, my friend would report that they watched it as we walked away, and that when we began walking, it disappeared behind a nearby tree. Due to the fact I was still incredibly shaken, my friend suggested we watched a show to take my mind off it. Half way through (around 7:00), I could not stop thinking about what we saw. They suggested we both draw what we had seen. They drew a line of several lights, and I drew something very similar, but with more of a contour. I am still very shaken after this, and it is possible that my panic has obscured some of the details. I am just glad I am a writer, so I can properly attempt to describe what I saw yesterday. One last thing I would like to note is that I used the location data and time on the photo I took to confirm the location and time me and my friend saw the object. [IDFE]

Occurred: 2023-12-30 23:45 Local, Reported: 2023-12-31 14:13 Pacific, Duration: 2-3 minutes No of observers: 2,  Location: Collinsville, IL, USA,  Location details: Over a wheat field. I was pulled over to the side of the road.  Shape: Diamond, Color: Black, Estimated Size: The size of a microwave, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: West?, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: I'd say a semi truck length away?, Estimated Speed: Slow, Characteristics: Lights on object.  Black and shaped like a diamond with 5 lights underneath. One blinking, the other 4 solid.  I saw a black shaped diamond craft hovering above a corn field. It was silent and moving straight ahead, silently. I didn't see anything that made it seem like a consumer grade drone, and it had 5 lights. 1 blinking and 4 solid. I know at least one other person saw it and turned around. I gave a video of it. [Node 70 is at St. Louis, MO which is only 12 miles SW of the sighting area, but was offline since July]

Occurred: 2023-12-31 17:19 Local,  Reported: 2023-12-31 17:55 Pacific,  Duration: 5 minutes No of observers: 2,  Location: Boise, ID, USA,  Shape: Unknown,  Color: Black,  Estimated Size: Unknown,  Viewed From: Land,  Direction from Viewer: North East, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: Couldn’t tell,  Estimated Speed: Couldn’t tell,  Explanation: Contrail – Possible.  Vertical, black, slow moving/hovering, then quickly moved towards the mountains and lost sight.  Noticed this tall, black, metallic looking object in the air. It looked like it was just floating along and almost not moving at all at one point. Then could tell it was moving north east. We lost sight of it behind clouds or over the mountains, or it just disappeared all together. *Pic [IDFE]

 Occurred: 2023-12-31 20:32 Local,  Reported: 2024-01-04 17:20 Pacific,  Duration: approximately two minutes,  No of observers: 2,  Location: Broadway, NC, USA,  Location details: Harnett county - western part - Approx. six miles north of Fort Liberty, NC.  Shape: Orb, Color: orange,  Estimated Size: hard to tell - larger than a plane,  Viewed From: Land,  Direction from Viewer: directly overhead,  Angle of Elevation: 90,  Closest Distance: Hard to tell low guess 5000 feet?  Estimated Speed: ? it took about two,  Characteristics: Aura or haze around object.  Three orange orbs two in front one trailing behind came directly over our home going generally west to east.  We were outside Dec 31 approx 830-845 pm, Fairly rural area with little light pollution. Husband saw them first as I was coming out of the house he told me to look.. ;ufos he said.. My husband is a no nonsense police officer and this kind of shook him a little.. They flew low and steady over the house and continued east until they disappeared. Two in front one behind. Absolutely no sound. Maintained level speed and height. I managed to get two pics one is blurry the other (the third orb) I was able to get a good picture. *Pic [IDFE]

Occurred: 2023-12-31 23:45 Local – Approximate,  Reported: 2024-01-02 11:20 Pacific,  Duration: 5 minutes,  No of observers: 5 – Military,  Location: Allentown, PA, USA,  Shape: Disk Color: Orange, Estimated Size: 100 feet, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Northwest,  Angle of Elevation: 70,  Closest Distance: 3000 feet,  Estimated Speed: 100 mph,  Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object.  Orange light in the sky moving quickly from northwest to Southeast direction. Orange light as stated above.  *Pic [IDFE]

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