ANALYTICAL NOTES      NMS Sightings from NUFORC & MUFON
                                         MARCH, 2024


 
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

NUFORC Sighting 180659, Occurred: 2024-03-01 18:30 Local – Approximate, Reported: 2024- 03-01 20:11 Pacific, Duration: Spotted in sky as it was, No of observers: 2, Location: Schenectady, NY, USA, Location details: It looked as if it was landing at the navy/reserve base on hethcletown rd, Shape: Triangle, Color: Black, Estimated Size: I am not good with measurements, but it was huge, viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Im not sure I understand but it flew from my right side to left, Angle of Elevation: 90, Closest Distance: 25 feet, Estimated Speed: Because it was descending it wasnt super fast, Characteristics: Lights on object. Second time in a year! Waited till i saw again just to be sure I wasnt losing my mind. This time, was close. So close. I noticed a v shaped set of lights descending really close to us, so I asked my daughter what it was. She had already spotted it too and was speechless. When it was right above us just about we realized it was a v shaped craft with spotlight looking lights lining the base. It wasn't hovering but it almost looked like it was flying at a huge tilt. No blinking lights like normal aircraft. Had also seen another one in the same spot a year prior but it was at a distance, daylight and was def triangle in shape and the sun hitting it you could tell it was silver reflective. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180692, Occurred: 2024-03-03 20:55 Local, Reported: 2024-03-03 22:06 Pacific, Duration: One minute, No of observers: 2, Location: Davenport, WA, USA, Location details: Directly east of Hawk Creek Rd and Ruffed Grouse Rd above the hills, Shape: Triangle, Estimated Size: Hard to say, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: East, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: Mile and a half maybe two miles, Estimated Speed: Couldn’t estimate, Characteristics: Lights on object. Triangle craft moving in crazy way and fast - Walked out our back door to take the dog out and saw a craft with three white lights in a triangle shape with large orange/red light in the center moving over the hills in every direction tightly and insanely fast then dove out of sight behind the hill. We are located on a hillside opposite the hills this was seen. We see planes both commercial and military often as the airport and Air Force base are located beyond where this was spotted. This was not at all like those. This is not the first such sighting we’ve had here but it’s the first we’ve reported. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180689, Occurred: 2024-03-03 23:00 Local – Approximate, Reported: 2024- 03-03 21:06 Pacific, Duration: 20mins., No of observers: 3, Location: Altamonte Springs, FL, USA, Location details: Above my house, Shape: Sphere, Color: Grey?, Estimated Size: Massive idk, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Northeast 067degrees /East 091 degrees, Angle of Elevation: 60, Closest Distance: Super close . Above my neighborhood, Estimated Speed: 8mph to 0mph, Explanation: Rocket – Possible, Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby, Animals reacted. Had foggy gas following it and was moving super slow. Like hovering over in front of my house. At first I thought it was a plane but I took another look out my window and then it had this weird orange spiral thing come out of it so I thought it was a meteor or something. It was moving really really slow. Then I thought okay this is awesome I’m witnessing a meteor falling. It somehow disappeared. So I was like okay maybe I’m seeing things apparently? Brushed it off a bit but I kept looking outside only to find that same exact moving thing appear but this time it was closer. And changed from blinking bright red/orange to blinking white lights surrounding the sphere and it somehow changed size because it was MASSIVE. I thought holy shit this is weird. I ran into my kitchen because it looked like it was descending and coming closer to my house. Thank god my mom and my brother came home as this was happening because once they walked inside the door that moving thing disappeared once I had them look outside. They told me they saw something moving but that they really couldn’t figure out what it was. Before any of this happened, like 1 or 2 hours before we had a strange bird flying frantically around my front door like it didn’t know which direction to go. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180740, Occurred: 2024-03-04 01:30 Local, Reported: 2024-03-06 19:37 Pacific, Duration: 1 minute, No of observers: 1, Location: Pawleys Island, SC, USA, Location details: Crossing ocean towards where I was standing on walkway, Shape: Sphere, Color: White, Estimated Size: 5 feet, Viewed From: Land, Angle of Elevation: 90, Closest Distance: 400 feet, Estimated Speed: 40 miles per hour. Broad daylight. No noise. Looked white metallic - Came straight over ocean to seaside homes where I was leaving beach. Stopped and descended at a quick right angle then vanished. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180718, Occurred: 2024-03-05 00:20 Local, Reported: 2024-03-05 04:14 Pacific, Duration: 15 MIN, No of observers: 1, Location: Ocean Shores, WA, USA, Location details: OCEAN SHORES,WA. roughly 1000ft above the ocean at the beach, Shape: Cigar, Color: off white light blue, Estimated Size: 300 yards wide or larger, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: north, Angle of Elevation: 40, Closest Distance: aprox. 1/2 mile, Estimated Speed: very slow ..maybe 5 mph..then vanished, Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color. Glowing outline of something huge slowly pulsated thru low clouds as it moved silent and slowly along the beach. I was taking some garbage outside my house to dump in my can shortly after midnight and I noticed a section of sky glowing strangley and slowly pulsating.. It was definatly NOT a fleet of drones,or random fireworks or somekind of flares, it was way to big and silent to be a helicopter ..too slow and silent to be a plane … weather was overcast, cold, very slightly snowing.. It was unusual because where it was at in the sky is where you cant help but look as you walk straight out the front door of my house..so in the15+yrs I have lived here, looked at that section of the night sky ive never seen any similar lights in that location at night.. So I was immedietly very curious as to what &why they were there and also, if they were actually moving like I thought they were …. So after quickly shutting all my outdoor lighting off I went out and looked again at it.. And whoa.., I could see it much better.. And whatever it was, it quietly glowed thru the clouds like a slow moving horizontal row of lights that had to be aprox 300 feet wide or larger.. Kind of eerie watching every light slowly pulsing in perfect syncronisity and illuminosity .. Glowing dim to bright in about 10 second intervals (dim to bright o dim again every 10sec.)when it reached the brighter of the pulse you could make out an outline of what I can only describe as looking like a curved cigar shape with maybe 20 or so lights running down the edge of it…(as if you were viewing the edge of a disc that had lights going all the way around it, from the ground it would apear to look like a flat row of lights..) .it was totally silent the entire time I watched it..then, ..after 10 min. it slowly started getting smaller as it got farther away..always moving in a northern direction following the beach..( I must say it was quit beautiful watching it) the lights were almost hypnotic as they perfectly pulsated slowly from an orangish/dim white to brighter greenish blue then back again.. From my doorway to where it apeared to be was approximatly 1/2 a mile away .. From that distance, I estimated the width had to be to be at least 100 yards wide (like the lenghth of a pro football field) then, a few minutes before it was gone the colors of the lights slightly changed .now…they were pulsing from a reddish/orange color to a darker blue/w white color then it was gone.. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180717, Occurred: 2024-03-05 03:17 Local, Reported: 2024-03-05 03:42 Pacific, Duration: 5 minutes, No of observers: 1, Location: Victoria, BC, Canada, Shape: Disk, Color: Silver, Green, Red, Estimated Size: It was large, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: North-East + South-East, Angle of Elevation: 70, Closest Distance: 30-50 feet, Estimated Speed: Pretty fast, Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby. Silver Craft Object With Red and Green Light’s over Victoria (Hillside and Oaklands Neighborhood) - I was on my deck having a smoke and then I saw a disk shaped object in the sky so I grabbed my Russian bunoculars and saw it clearly with my own two eyes, the craft was flying all over the place! I thought it was a dream but this sighting was real. The craft had green and red lights blinking around its silver disked body. I still can’t believe that I had witnessed it especially from my 2nd story Balcony! *Pic [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180745, Occurred: 2024-03-07 02:45 Local, Reported: 2024-03-07 01:26 Pacific, Duration: 20 seconds, No of observers: 2 – Military, Location: Sioux Falls, SD, USA, Location details: Over Louis ave in Sioux falls, Shape: Chevron, Color: Black / transparent, Estimated Size: Football field, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: West, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: Less than a quarter mile. Estimated Speed: 50 mph, Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Electrical or magnetic effects. Very large chevron descending - At around 2:45 am we seen a very large (building size) chevron shaped craft appear out of nowhere a few hundred feet up on a descent path down over the highway. We have seen these craft several times before and they appear to be following a flight path. The craft was extremely large and a clearly defined Chevron with squared off flat sides. The craft appear as a hole in the sky and are defined by shimmering edges, this was the closest we have seen one enough to make out geometric detail in the shimmering. The craft was around 500 meters away and did not make a sound, no visible light except the edges shimmering. As the craft descended down behind the buildings we jumped in our car and were around back of the business in 30 seconds but it was not there on the other side. Earlier tonight we seen 2 smaller chevron craft of the same type just smaller following the same path, in the past we have seen a large one of this type on the same flight path only it turned east to avoid a air plane taking off from the airport to the north. These craft seam incredibly camouflaged and it’s really only possible to easily spot them against a back lit sky as they seem to absorb light, for the second time in a row we attempted to get them on video but when we attempt to film them the shimmering cause the camera to loose focus and go crazy with artifacts. Edit: I’m not sure what’s going on with my compasses, I have 3 and they are all giving me different direction readings but I believe the craft was west of me moving to the north over Sioux Falls. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180776, Occurred: 2024-03-07 18:51 Local, Reported: 2024-03-10 11:34 Pacific, Duration: 2 minutes, No of observers: 1, Location: Locust Valley, NY, USA, Location details: It was in the sky traveling SW from NE, Shape: Disk, Color: Black I believe, Estimated Size: 30ft by 20ft length width respectively, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: I was perpendicular to the object as it traveled from NE to SW, Angle of Elevation: 70, Closest Distance: Maybe 1000ft in the air, Estimated Speed: Slow maybe 25 mph, Characteristics: Lights on object. UFO went across the sky slowly - I was waiting in the school parking lot for a pick up and I thought I had seen an airplane because it’s lights were white, green. Although as it turned , its actual shape was a square with green lights on each corner of the ufo and as it passed me it turned again and that’s when I got a photo of it. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180789, Occurred: 2024-03-09 20:24 Local, Reported: 2024-03-11 13:57 Pacific, Duration: 40-60 seconds, No of observers: 1, Location: Palm Springs, CA, USA, Location details: 33.85381° N, 116.55166° W, Shape: Chevron, Color: Dark Shape w/ Lights, Estimated Size: Many miles in scale. Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: It flew from high in the southwest sky over the mountains to the west of where I was standing. Angle of Elevation: 75, Closest Distance: More than 2 miles, possibly hundreds of miles. Estimated Speed: Impossible to say without an exact altitude. Characteristics: Lights on object. I saw a massive dark V-shaped craft covered in small lights traveling across the western sky and over the San Jacinto mountains. While walking my dog at 8:24pm PT on Saturday, March 9, 2024, I paused to look up at the stars. The sky was extremely clear with ultra-low humidity (~16%) at that time. Facing west, I looked up at the Orion constellation in the southwest sky, as I frequently do at night, and noticed an enormous V-shaped craft traveling across the sky. It appeared to occupy about two-thirds of the height of the Orion constellation as viewed in the night sky, clearly much larger than any human-made craft, as it was evidently very high up yet still occupied a large portion of the night sky. The craft appeared miles in scale, not meters. It seemed covered in 'star camouflage,' with randomly-spaced lights mimicking the size and colors of stars in the neighboring sky. I could clearly see the shape of the dark structure beneath the lights against the night sky, indicating these were not separate lights moving in unison but rather part of a larger, visible solid structure. After watching in amazement for several seconds (perhaps up to 10 seconds), I attempted to capture it on video with my iPhone. It was challenging to align my phone's camera with the object in the dark, and though I was unsure if it was properly lined up, I managed to capture about 8 seconds of video before losing alignment, then watched as it disappeared over the San Jacinto mountain range to the west. The event lasted approximately 40-60 seconds. The craft's speed was remarkable, given the distance it covered in such a short time. Given its massive size, comparable to 2/3 of Orion in the sky, any manmade craft would need to fly only a couple hundred feet above me to appear so large. Yet, this craft was clearly many miles up, far exceeding the height of the 2- mile high mountain range. It was completely silent, with only the normal ambient noises of wind and nearby traffic. I realize now how easy it would be to miss such a sight unless one looked directly at it, as I fortuitously did. The experience was surreal yet unmistakably real, awe-inspiring, and unlike anything else I've ever seen. *Map, Drawing, Videos [Was anonymous so unable to investigate]

NUFORC Sighting 180825, Occurred: 2024-03-13 03:20 Local, Reported: 2024-03-15 10:47, Pacific, Duration: very fast flight, No of observers: 1, Location: Idaho Falls, ID, USA, Location details: traveling north to north east, Shape: Chevron, Color: dark,white lights, Estimated Size: very long jet, long wide wing span flattened out, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Right over my head in a slight arc from left to right. Angle of Elevation: 90, Closest Distance: 1/4-1/2 mile up, Estimated Speed: way faster than a jet like a full speed rocket, Characteristics: Lights on object. Inverted V shaped, 7 bright lights, fast moving , no sound traveling north to northeast. I am an insomniac and was wide awake. I was retrieving my dog from early yard relief visit at about 3:15-3:20 am. I looked out over roof far out beyond the eves of doorway to check on icicles/ ice and then took a look at the clear , cloudless sky and bright stars. A clear , inverted v (chevron) shaped dark grayish object but lighter than sky , thin in shape of v but large size like a jet in v mid length at the distance and not exactly close nor too far away ( distance is hard for me but maybe 1/4- 1/2 mile up) with 7 bright lights on the v shape ( one at point and three on each side) zipped into my site from eves and shot over my head from left to right ( North - Northeast) in a slight arc and corner of deck and out of my view in about 1 second. Very distinct shape, very clear, dull not shimmery lights , very fast zip, soundless. I did not go out on deck- too icy. Houses are close together to see more. By the time I got out it would have been gone. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180941, Occurred: 2024-03-13 23:55 Local, Reported: 2024-03-26 18:18, Pacific, Duration: 2:00, No of observers: 1 – Military, Location: Waynesville, OH, USA, Location details: Residence. Appeared east of location. Shape: Other, Color: White, Estimated Size: No idea since I'm not sure of the range, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: East, Angle of Elevation: 46, Closest Distance: 3-5 miles, Estimated Speed: O, Characteristics: Aura or haze around object. Seen as I exited my car after returning home from work. It appeared due east of my location with a orange hue. I thought it was Mars at first. But I saw no stars. How can I see Mars and yet no stars? I watched it for approximately 2:00, didn't see any movement or other changes. So I went inside and started talking online with my fiancee about what I saw. She suggested that I use a telescope to look at it. I had a pair of binoculars and went outside to look at it again approximately 15:00 later. When I looked at the same spot in the sky, it was not there. I looked around the sky and didn't see the object nor did I see any stars still. I went back inside and enlarged the photo I had taken twice and was very surprised to see something with straight lines and a geometric shape. Today I was watching a video on YouTube that was released several years ago taken from a navy plane off of the coast of California by Navy pilot, Commander David Favor. I took a screen shot of the UAP in the video and was struck by the similar shape of what I saw to the object in the navy video. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180824, Occurred: 2024-03-15 04:45 Local, Reported: 2024-03-15 03:20 Pacific, Duration: 3 to 5 min, No of observers: 1, Location: Oconomowoc, WI, USA, Shape: Circle, Color: White light, Estimated Size: Bus sized, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: North, Angle of Elevation: 90, Closest Distance: 50 feet, Estimated Speed: Fastest thing iv ever seen, Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Missing Time, Marks found on body afterwards. Seen in a farm field - I was driving on my way to work and seen 2 crafts hovering in a field I pulled over to get a better look and it seemed to notice me had an strange feeling then one craft flew at me and hovered 50 foot above me I felt heat from the lights but heard no sound I felt 100% at peace like iv never felt before after less than a min it flew back to the other craft they hovered for another min and flew off at an amazing speeds I don’t remember driving to work at all and a trip that would usually take me 40min or so seemed to take only 15 min so now I don’t know what to do with this info or my experience and would really like some direction. *JH: Case has everything except contact. [MADAR site 268 at Ingleside, IL is 53 mi south and had no spikes]

NUFORC Sighting 180827, Occurred: 2024-03-15 12:30 Local, Reported: 2024-03-15 14:36, Pacific, Duration: 10-15 minutes, No of observers: 1 – Military, Location: Springfield, OR, USA, Location details: It flew directly over our farm heading N/NE, Shape: Sphere, Color: A light burnt orange, Estimated Size: 30 foot diameter, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: East/Southeast, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: 300 feet away, Estimated Speed: 50 mph, Characteristics: Changed Color. 30-50' diameter light burnt orange sphere which came from the west/southwest over my farm, flew for 20-30 miles before disappearing. At approximately 12:30pm on 3/15/2024 I was sitting on my couch speaking to my dad on the phone when plain as day in a completely unobstructed view a 30-50 foot diameter round object that was a light burnt orange color, approximately 200-300' up in the air, flew from the back of my property, from the S/SW direction into my view looking South. It was heading North/Northeast. It was moving about 50 MPH. It was plain as day in a cloud free sky flying across the wide open 60 acre field directly across the road from me. I immediately went outside to video it from my Samsung Galaxy S21+ phone; while describing what i was seeing to my dad. I noticed that it was a light burnt orange color, but at times would appear bright white and then back to its original color. I'm not sure if it was changing colors or if it was the sun reflecting off of it. It was flying in a upward angled trajectory increasing elevation as it flew heading North to Northeast. Once it was about 7-8 miles away from me it just disappeared; however just a few seconds later it reappeared a good mile or more to the left of its original flight path but was still heading in the same original direction. I was able to observe it for another minute or so before it was out of my view. I was the only one home at the time. I came back inside and was excited to send the video I just took to my dad. However when I opened my photo gallery there was no video there. I went back into my camera app, because I started panicking that I didn't have the video. I opened the camera app only to see a note saying "Video Cannot Be Recorded While Speaking On The Phone". After finishing my phone call with my parents, I'm 57 & my parents are 74 & 75 years old, I contacted the local police departments Non-emergency line, they then directed me to the County Sheriff's department and I made a report with them. I then called our local news station in hopes that someone had also seen it and reported it. The news station told me his hands were tied on stuff like this & that he was in the same boat as I am in reporting it. I then contact the airport to see if they had any reports of it. The airport executive office connected me to the tower control, I reported it to them. The control tower told me to contact you guys at the National UFO Reporting Center. I contacted by phone the N.U.F.O.R.C. and reported what I saw & they asked me to file a written report; which I'm now doing. It was the most thrilling & spectacular experience I've ever had the pleasure of viewing! [Sighting loc 80 mi nw of Lapine 189, no spikes]

NUFORC Sighting 180836, Occurred: 2024-03-16 01:30 Local, Reported: 2024-03-16 10:22 Pacific, Duration: about 1min 45 sec, No of observers: 1, Location: Leicester, MA, USA, Location details: Tree line across Burncoat Pond horizon larger then to the right a smaller yellow oval shaped object, Shape: Oval, Color: deep yellow, Estimated Size: Very large hard for me to tell, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: 311 degree NW me at 42 14'13'N 71 56'48'W, Closest Distance: 300 yards, Estimated Speed: From here looked to be very slow but smaller fast. One smaller yellow oval shaped out of nowhere toward the larger squarish shaped object and hovered than both slowly disappeared. Looked out across Burncoat Pond and at the tree line was large solid deep yellow two points with a curve on the right side partially hidden by distant tree line. It was stationary but actually it was slowly disappearing over the horizon. Then a much smaller duller yellow cigars oval shaped object quickly appeared to the upper right from out of nowhere and then moved slowly closer to the larger object. It looked to be hovering but gently swaying up and down left and right. Both slowly disappeared into the distance. They were very low in the sky. I froze in my tracks for 30 or so. Finally made my way inside to retrieve phone but was too late for any chance of video. The sky was clear with multiple stars. No wind. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180856, Occurred: 2024-03-17 19:20 Local, Reported: 2024-03-18 09:56 Pacific, Duration: 30 sec, No of observers: 1, Location: Palm Desert, CA, USA, Location details: At the traffic lights on the corner of Monterey Ave and Hwy 111, waiting to make a left hand turn. Shape: Triangle, Color: Black, green lights, Estimated Size: Similar to domestic aircraft, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: NNE (almost directly in front of me, but up high), Angle of Elevation: 75, Closest Distance: Approx 0.5 mile, Estimated Speed: Moving, complete stop, movement, then gone, Characteristics: Lights on object. The object appeared from the right to left directly in front, then stopped mid-air. Was low enough to see shape and lights underneath. I was stationary at the traffic lights on the corner of Monterey Ave and Highway 111 (in between the Mall and Walgreens) at the front on the line, left hand side (there are two left turning lanes), waiting to make a turn onto Hwy 111. The sky was dark and I noticed movement in the sky from the right to the left, so that the object was almost directly in front of me, but up high. There are always planes in the area due to the airport and I didn’t think anything at first glance, but the object stopped in the air and that’s when it caught my attention. As I focused my attention more on the object (trying to figure out what it was, like a helicopter), it moved enough towards my direction so that I could see from underneath that it was triangular / boomerang shaped and there were round, green lights. I think there were 3 green lights on each of the arms of the “boomerang”. The object was still quite high in the sky. I was trying to grab my phone to take a picture but the traffic lights changed and I couldn’t get to it in time and had to make the left hand turn. The time would have been between 7.19 - 7.23 pm on Sunday 17th March, 2024. I was in the car alone, but there was a car beside me on the right, also waiting to make a left hand turn so there may be another sighting at the same location. If I had to guess the location of the object relative to the ground, I would estimate it was in alignment with the Living Desert Zoo, but on the right hand side of Hwy 74, over the housing area there. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180874, Occurred: 2024-03-18 21:00 Local – Approximate, Reported: 2024- 03-19 18:20 Pacific, Duration: 2-3 seconds, No of observers: 1 – Military, Location: San, Antonio, Texas, United States, Location details: 30.635027,-96.037924, Shape: Orb, Color: Green, Estimated Size: Small in appearance, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: South South East, Angle of Elevation: 59, Closest Distance: 1/4 mile, Estimated Speed: 2-300 mph, Characteristics: Animals reacted, While hunting, I stopped scanning with a thermal optic and looked out over the lake where a green orb appeared. At approximately 9:00 PM while hunting on private property near Gibbons Creek Reservoir, I was using thermal optics to scan the horizon. After I stopped scanning I looked towards the lake. The moon was approximately 3/4 full, with partly cloudy skies when approximately 100- 200 feet above the lake a green orb appeared. It stayed in place for about a second, disappeared, and re-appeared approximately 300-400 feet away within about another second interval and dropped in elevation slightly. There were no visible traces of a laser, and given the remote area, and the speed I don't think it could have been a drone. At the same time of it's appearances, every coyote in the vicinity started howling. When I looked back through the thermal optics, there were no heat signatures present after seeing the orb. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180889, Occurred: 2024-03-20 19:30 Local, Reported: 2024-03-21 07:48 Pacific, Duration: 2-3 Minutes, No of observers: 1, Location: Centralia, WA, USA, Location details: I was looking towards the west, Shape: Cylinder, Color: Black, Estimated Size: 10x6, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: West, Angle of Elevation: 75, Closest Distance: 2- 300 feet, Estimated Speed: 2-3 MPH, Characteristics: Lights on object. Black cylinder with an orange light - Ok, so I got done shopping and was getting in the car when I saw a black shape with an orange light on it. I immediately thought it was a helicopter. It was moving towards me to the right of my car. I got in the seat and started the car when I realized it didn’t look like a helicopter at all. I leaned over to look out the passenger window and the thing was floating closer and then slowed down to a hover. I could clearly see it was a black cylinder, with a orange light with a lighter yellow center. The light and the object both felt organic to me. The light was fluctuating much like a fire would, not changing size but intensity of the light. It was off center of the object, like between four and five o’clock on a clock face. The edges were solid and it was solid black but seemed to fluctuate for lack of a better term. It seemed to be only a few hundred feet up. I looked into the back seat to grab my DSLR when I realize it had my 85mm lens on it still, but I had a 70-300 in my bag. I leaned over to check it again before changing the lens and getting out of the car and it was gone. I hopped out of the car and could not see it anywhere. Nothing it could have hid behind. Gone. Disappointed I get back in my car and go to drive out of the lot, when I get to the far end I see a small black object to my left. I quickly take a picture with my phone and scramble to change the lens. It’s going north/northwest now, was east originally and it’s moved a fair distance in maybe 15 seconds, it goes behind the tree in the picture and I wait for it to come out and nothing. After about ten seconds I head the direction I saw it going thinking maybe it started going west, I drove like three blocks to where I could see pretty clearly all directions and got out and looked around. Not a sign. I called a friend a few miles north and asked them to humor me and look to see if they could see it and they said the sky was clear. *Drawing [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180893, Occurred: 2024-03-21 20:50 Local, Reported: 2024-03-21 21:19, Pacific, Duration: 45-50 seconds, No of observers: 1, Location: Jacksboro, TN, USA, Location details: Standing outside on a flat surface in a clear setting with no visual obstructions. Shape: Triangle, Color: Black, Estimated Size: Massive, around the size of a football field. Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: North, Angle of Elevation: 90, Closest Distance: 500 feet, Estimated Speed: Hard to say, but around 350-400 miles per hour. Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby, Animals reacted. Black triangle craft silently traveling directly above me, emitting no sound save for a humming vibration that I could feel and hear. I was standing outside, admiring the clear night sky before I noticed this craft "flying" right over me, around 500ft. in the air traveling towards the West. I scrambled as quickly as I could to snap a few pictures of it and a very short recording of the craft to showcase the complete lack of any blinking lights on the underside of the craft. It was completely silent save for the vibrational humming that filled the air that I could "feel" and "hear" all at once. The craft was traveling at a fairly decent and consistent speed without disturbing the environment around it. The craft had one light on each corner of it, with one light in the middle of the craft. Towards the end of my sighting as it traveled towards the West, it just flat out disappeared from my vision. I don't really have any better way to describe it's disappearance other than it seemed to "fade away" for lack of a better explanation. Please understand that the quality of my recording is less than desirable since I am using an older generation of Samsung Galaxy smartphone, that being the S10+. However, I wanted to record the craft's lack of blinking lights along with it "fading away" as I stated in my sighting detail earlier. *video [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180938, Occurred: 2024-03-24 19:49 Local, Reported: 2024-03-26 16:18 Pacific, Duration: 3-4 seconds, No of observers: 1, Location: Temple, TX, USA, Location details: In-flight from 1st-class passenger window of commercial UA flight, just before descent into Austin, Shape: Triangle, Color: All black, stimated Size: A basketball or slightly larger, Viewed From: Aircraft, Direction from Viewer: While flying from Chicago to Austin TX, I would have been looking southwest out of the window, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: 120- 150ft, Estimated Speed: Unsure, flying opposite dir. as plane, 100-200mph, Characteristics: Aircraft nearby, A pyramid-shaped black object the size of a basketball flying above the clouds 150ft from our plane. Had no wings, propellers, or trail. I was sitting in a 1st class window seat on United Airlines flight UA 2145 from Ohare to Austin on March 24th, 2024. The sky above the clouds was clear and it was at sunset when the event occurred. Our plane was preparing for descent, and just before we went down through the clouds, I saw a small black object flying the opposite direction at eye-level roughly 150ft from the plane (to our right). The object had no wings, no propellers, no stream behind, and no windows. I saw it for roughly 3-5 seconds between it passed into the clouds. The object did not wobble or appear turbulent in any way, and was flying smoothly at a similar speed to us. It appeared to be a pyramid shape with the tip pointing towards the direction it was flying, so not exactly the shape of a plane but rather a triangular rear end, coming to a point in front. I did not see windows, letters, or anything shiny. Just a black pyramid-like device flying by. This shape, design, and control seemed unlike any drone available today. Upon landing, I decided to ask the pilot some questions before I got off of the plane. I asked him if he saw the black object that flew past us on the right side. He replied "you mean at takeoff?" I said, "no, just now before descent, just above the clouds. 15 minutes before landing." He said " was it a bird?". I replied, no, it had no wings or head, it was a black pyramid-shaped box flying past us only 120-150 ft away. His body language told me he had zero concern of this object nor cared to ask questions about a potential safety hazard, or illegal object. He instead was dry and not making much eye contact, just turning back the cockpit to carry on his conversation with his copilot. I asked if I should report it, and he said I do not need to, and his copilot didn't see anything but would look into it. It was clear he didn't want to talk about it, and avoiding an event as such is quite alarming. I then filed a compliant with United Airlines about the object as a safety concern in the event they have any interest. They allegedly film the flights for safety purposes, so perhaps they have the footage (in case someone wants to be honest about it). Why was this object flying so close to our plane? How did the pilots not notice this black box flying by in clear view? How did the radar not pick up this object? And why did the pilots not care at all about this concerning event? [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 180929, Occurred: 2024-03-25 21:15 Local, Reported: 2024-03-25 19:47 Pacific, Duration: 30 minutes, No of observers: 1, Location: Roeland Park, KS, USA, Location details: Ufo hovering over price chopper on Roe Avenue, Shape: Triangle, Color: White light, Estimated Size: Larger than plane, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: West, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: Several hundred feet, Estimated Speed: Faster than a plane, Characteristics: Animals reacted. Flashing light object floating around irregularly in the sky. It hovers, and maneuvers in ways planes can’t. I saw what I thought was a shooting star, but quickly realized it was something else when it flew back up into the sky after falling toward the ground. The next is flickering bright light and can move up, down, side to side. Our flight radar app shows no air craft in the skies. The object has been flying around in the same spot about 30 minutes. *Clear video [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 181042, Occurred: 2024-03-26 22:00 Local, Reported: 2024-04-05 18:50,Pacific, Duration: approx 5 minutes, No of observers: 1, Location: Malverne, New York, United States, Location details: Craft first spotted to the south, flew northward, then turned to the East and went behind a house, Shape: Disk, Color: blue-grey, gold aura, Estimated Size: I'm not sure, but I drew picture to scale as best I could, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: It started South of me, then went East, Angle of Elevation: 40, Closest Distance: 200feet? I'm not sure, but it was close, Estimated Speed: 35 mph compared to a car? Slow., Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object. Large silent craft - appeared to be a disk seen from side, with six circular white lights, steady- on, and one dark red blinking light. I went outside to walk the dogs. Rural area, dark at night with no streetlights. Quiet night, cold (mid 30's), no wind or precipitation, and no one outside up and down the whole road. Scanned the sky and immediately saw this craft, far down the road, about 5 houses down, on my side. It had seven perfectly circular lights in a row, with one white light at the end and then a bright blinking red light, then 5 more steady-on white lights. It looked unusual and I watched it intently. However, with the blinking red light I thought perhaps it was a small plane, and there was an optical illusion somehow making it look like a disk, being seen from one side. This idea didn't really make sense as the small planes flown for crop-dusting locally don't fly at night. It was clearly not a helicopter or a large jet, it was far too close to the ground. In a few moments it had flown forward down the road, just above the trees, and then shifted direction toward the East right before it got to my yard. It was absolutely silent. As I watched it, I noticed it had a beautiful golden glow around the whole thing. It traveled across the street and flew behind the neighbors' house. I braced myself to hear a crash, because it was way too close to the ground, but there was no sound. I stared into the darkness on the far side of their house, to see it come out, thinking maybe it banked sharply and would be visible again as it gained altitude. Suddenly there was a bright blue-white flash, apparently coming from the neighbors' backyard (out of my line of vision) which illuminated the outline of the house on the left and a tree nearby for a brief second. Then, nothing. No sign of the craft, no unusual noises, no neighbors coming out, nothing. I stayed outside for some time watching in case it came back, but it didn't. I tried to grab my phone to take a video of it, but by the time I thought of it (as I was somewhat mesmerized by this sight!), the craft was behind the building. I still hit video record, but then turned it off again as there was nothing to see. But I saved the clip anyway as it reminds me of the time and day I saw this. *Nice drawing. [IDFE]

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