ANALYTICAL NOTES      NMS Sightings from NUFORC & MUFON
                                         JUNE 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

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NUFORC Sighting 181702, Occurred: 2024-06-02 19:30 Local, Reported: 2024-06-02 20:40 Pacific, Duration: long time, No of observers: 2, Location: Davenport, CA, USA, Location details: walking trail, Shape: Diamond, Color: black, Estimated Size: 40, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: top, Angle of Elevation: 90, Closest Distance: 100- feet, Estimated Speed: dont know, Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby, Missing Time, Animals reacted.In daylight a black object stopped in the sky. Dark object. very hard to see shape, looked like diamond or two sided pyramid. Happened at 730, strange feeling - its darker outside faster after seeing this. Terrifying dead sound everywhere. It was 100 feet ahead and nothing could be heard no animals no wind not noises. Saw it fly back up into mountains and then it was moving very fast while two jets were chasing after it head to ocean and cannot see more. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 181763, Occurred: 2024-06-03 06:10 Local, Reported: 2024-06-04 07:42 Pacific, Duration: 20 minutes, No of observers: 2, Location: Nashville, TN, USA, Location details: Greenway trail at Fontanel, Shape: Changing, Color: dark grey, Estimated Size: 50-60ft, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: 220 degrees SW, Angle of Elevation: 69, Closest Distance: 200-400 ft, Estimated Speed: Floating slowly, Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Morphing UAP. My wife and I observed a small craft floating across the sky with changing lights. The UAP was about the size of a small Cessna in circumference at its largest and would decrease in size when morphing into other shapes. As the craft slowly floated across the sky above the trees it was constantly changing shape and had bright lights that would change with the morphing shapes. We observed shapes from a straight line to a circle, to a curved odd shape as if it was entangled into itself. As it morphed bright white/blue steel type lights were coming off the object randomly making different patterns. It was very odd. It gently floated across the sky and would stop still then continue to slow float silently across the sky a couple hundred feet above the trees. It came from the South and was heading Westwardly. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 181775, Occurred: 2024-06-03 15:50 Local, Reported: 2024-06-05 11:15 Pacific, Duration: About 30 seconds, No of observers: 1 – Military, Location: Laguna, NM, USA, Shape: Triangle, Color: VERY bright chrome, Estimated Size: About the size of a fighter jet, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: East, Angle of Elevation: 10, Closest Distance: Approximately 2 miles, Estimated Speed: Too fast to estimate. 2 triangular (like a paper airplane) flying objects - I was driving east on I40 approaching the Laguna exit. I saw 2 VERY bright objects flying low (approximately the height of the cliffs just beyond the town) in the sky. The objects appeared to be reflecting sunlight extremely brightly (the way polished chrome or a mirror, but MUCH brighter). All of their movements were perfectly synchronized, as if they were tethered together. They moved in all directions faster than anything I’ve ever seen—up, down, left, right, forward, backwards—and occasionally would sit perfectly motionless in the sky. Eventually, the objects flew to the north so quickly that they were out of sight almost immediately. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 181776, Occurred: 2024-06-05 01:00 Local, Reported: 2024-06-05 10:43 Pacific, Duration: about 30 seconds, No of observers: 12, Location: Golden, CO, USA, Location details: North of Red Rocks about a mile or so, hovering above the treetops on the hog's back ridge. Shape: Disk, Color: Dark metallic, Estimated Size: Several hundred feet long, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: North, Angle of Elevation: 7, Closest Distance: About a mile or so, Estimated Speed: It hovered in place and then moved 5-10mph east. Characteristics: Lights on object. We saw a large disc shaped craft with three levels of windows. It hovered silently and then disappeared into thin air. I was working at Red Rocks Amphitheater last night when one of our coworkers suddenly said to us, "Hey, what is that over there? It looks like a spaceship." We all turned to look in the direction he was pointing and sure enough, there was a UFO hovering about a half a mile to a mile north of red rocks. A dozen of us saw it. We all kept asking each other, "Are you seeing this too?" It was a resounding "yes" from everyone in the group. What we saw was a classic disc shaped metallic craft that was several hundred yards long. It had three levels of windows, almost like really long 3 story office building. This thing was totally silent. It didn't make a sound. What's even crazier is that as soon as we all started noticing it and stopped what we were doing to pay attention to it, the craft tipped at an angle and slowly started moving belly-first to the east. Then it started fading away until it was invisible. It didn't shoot off into the distance. It simply dissolved into the ether. We all watched it vanish. This was not a plane. It wasn't a satellite, a drone, or anything like that. There was no mistaking what this was: We all saw a giant disc shaped craft hovering a few hundred feet above the ground with three rows of windows and lights. Then we all saw it fade into nothing as soon as it knew it was being watched. There were a dozen other people who saw it with me. [No spikes on 317 just SW]

NUFORC Sighting 181799, Occurred: 2024-06-07 22:15 Local, Reported: 2024-06-08 03:39 Pacific, Duration: About 20 seconds roughly, No of observers: 3, Location: Calverton, NY, USA, Location details: Wellbridge Rehabilitation Center, Shape: Disk, Color: Gray/White/Black, Estimated Size: disk object that could fit in courtyard, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: SE slowly traveling toward E, Angle of Elevation: 30, Closest Distance: hard to say maybe anywhere from 1/2 mile to mile, Estimated Speed: slower moving, Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Color. Small grey arc got closer and closer and seemed to become gigantic disk shaped object. There I was observing the sky and a mostly clear night with some low clouds. Notice a small gray arc floating slowly across sky. This gray arc is probably not too far in distance but not too close to feel threatening and was about a little more than the width of the moon, so I knew something was off. It was moving slowly to my left (seemingly south to north). What started as small grey arc started to grow as it traveled North and closer and closer and closer. I felt the need to walk closer out of curiosity and this gray arc turned absolutely massive. The dark grey arc had probably covered 30-40 degrees of my 180-degree field space, traveling close and getting closer and had gone from this small dark gray arc to a brighter grayish white arc where behind it you could see the black shadow of what appeared to complete the disk like object that seemingly was heading towards us. I had walked toward it out of curiosity and once it was this big, I had screamed at others to look. To describe the size and look - This deep gray arc went from a distant thin whisp to a thick whiter than grey arc even slightly brightening up and surface I was on. Taking up about 5 moons in width and height (hard to describe the arc but easy to draw) After I yelled at other to start look out of fear I turned back and all of a sudden it was gone. It did not seem to descend into the tree line but there were a lot of clouds. Nobody seems to have an explanation for how it just disappeared. There was not a single sound. Nothing. [IDFE]

NUFORC Sighting 181809, Occurred: 2024-06-07 12:35 Local, Reported: 2024-06-08 21:34 Pacific, Duration: Not sure, No of observers: 2, Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Shape: Rectangle, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Straight ahead, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: Not sure (not very far away), Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, 3 photos taken seconds apart all timed stamped 12:35. Walking up to the building in the pictures. Took one picture from a little further back, then walked up a few more steps to get a closer picture of the building. Took two more pictures within seconds of each other, and in the third photo the object appeared. Made no sound, and truly did not even notice it in the sky until I looked at the picture. My friend who was with me, was just as shocked, as she also said she heard and saw nothing in the sky. Our focus was straight ahead at the building so we really feel we should have seen or heard something. Whatever this was moved in and out of the area very quickly. *Pics [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181917, Occurred: 2024-06-08 20:21 Local, Reported: 2024-06-17 23:24 Pacific, Duration: 1 - 2 minutes, No of observers: 2, Location: Orlando, FL, USA, Location details: Headed east in Metrowest, Shape: Oval, Color: black, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Southeast, Angle of Elevation: 79, Characteristics: Changed Color. We were sitting on our balcony and looked up to see 3 oval/spherical objects flying in a triangular formation. At approximately 8:21PM, we were sitting on our balcony and looked up to see 3 oval/spherical objects flying in a triangular formation. They appeared to be a dark black but were reflective. At some points they looked like they changed shape. They seemed to be at a consistent speed but toward the end of the sighting, they changed direction at a rapid speed and disappeared. While we were viewing them, we checked live radar and there were no known aircraft in the area. *Pics of craft.[IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181806, Occurred: 2024-06-08 22:11 Local, Reported: 2024-06-08 19:51 Pacific, Duration: 5 seconds, No of observers: 2, Location: Boone, NC, USA, Location details: Literally on the Easter Continental Divide, Shape: Cigar, Color: silver, Estimated Size: 100 feet, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: out of the south west, Angle of Elevation: 45, closest Distance: 1/4 mile. Craft moved rapidly, lighting up on and off - Me and my friend watched this pulsating craft that seemed like it could have been at the tree top level, or a few thousand feet in the air (or possibly much higher). It was utterly silent (which is why we thought it was lower for some reason). It spanned the sky in just a few seconds although we were in a spot where the horizons were both limited to 45 degrees or so. [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181870, Occurred: 2024-06-09 14:38 Local, Reported: 2024-06-14 13:26 Pacific, Duration: 30 seconds, No of observers: 1, Location: Hillsboro, OR, USA, Shape: Oval, Color: Black, Estimated Size: 8-10ft diameter, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: South, Angle of Elevation: 90, Closest Distance: 1000ft, Characteristics: Aura or haze around object.  Oval shaped object circled around directly above, then dipped down, changed form, became obscured by blurry air and disappeared. Oval shaped object was probably 8-10 ft in diameter, and was first observed at cloud height (maybe 1000ft?) in Hillsboro near the Quatama area. The object circled around directly above for maybe 10-15 secs in broad sweeping motions, then dipped down toward southwest direction, appeared to change form into a narrow vertical cylinder, became obscured by blurry air and disappeared. I initially thought the object was going to drift out of view over a nearby housing building, but the form change to the blurred view sequence all occurred with the object in sight before just vanishing altogether. The oval object had a trapezoidal hockey puck look at first sight- with a white rectangular window of some sort visible that appeared to be halfway up the sides that sloped inward toward the top of the object. Due to the spinning, there may have been other details that were not observed. The puck form appearance was visible for 25-30 seconds. The form change and blurry air sequence that followed the broad circular sweeping motions all happened within a second and then it was gone. [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181846, Occurred: 2024-06-10 21:00 Local, Reported: 2024-06-12 12:32 Pacific, Duration: 30 minutes, No of observers: 10 – Military, Location: Ocala, FL, USA, Location details: Unable to precisely identify the distance to the object from the point of observation. Shape: Changing, Color: Bright glowing white, Estimated Size: 150 feet, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: South West, Angle of Elevation: 10, Closest Distance: Estimating 1-2 miles, Estimated Speed: 100-150 mph, Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby. Group observed a helicopter circling a lighted object for several minutes. Object changed shape and departed rapidly to the east. The Monday Driveway Gang here at Del Webb Stone Creek in Ocala noticed a Helicopter circling south of us in the area of the On Top Of The World community. This was around 9 pm. There was another white light I didn't initially pay much attention to but wife Rachel and a couple others commented that it was triangular in shape and seemed to be pretty much sitting still. I finally got my phone out and zoomed in to see what I could make out. There are limits on night time resolution with smart phone cameras but it was better than nothing. Initially it sort of looked like a hot air balloon with a gondola beneath it but the balloon part was distorted a bit. Again, based on guesses of the distance I would say it was about 1000 feet up with a background of storm clouds in the far distance. I'll draw some pictures later. The whole object was glowing bright white as if it had a bunch of search lights aimed at it from all directions. No navigation lights were visible as would be on a normal aircraft. It was very hard to gage how big it was, with nothing to reference it against, but I would guess it was the size of a medium airliner. That is more on feel than anything definite. It hung around for several minutes with the helicopter going around it then suddenly it changed into a football shape, still glowing bright white with what looked like 4 or 5 large windows down the side along the midline, and rapidly left the area to the East. I totally forgot to take pictures as I was studying it so intensely. I went inside my house and 10 or 15 minutes later heard a jet, with what sounded like afterburner engaged, go overhead. I rushed outside just as it disappeared to the south. It was too dark to make out what kind of aircraft it was beyond swept wing jet with its red and green nav lights on. If I had to guess I would say F-16. I don't know if any of those are in the area or where it would have come from. I spent two careers working with all kinds of military and civilian aircraft. I also have watched many rocket launches and satellites going overhead. I've studied the stars and planets. I haven't seen swamp gas yet. With all that I have never seen anything like this before. I've been checking Google to see if anybody else is reporting it. So far no luck. I think I'll call the Sheriff and the Airport to see if they have heard anything they will admit to. Very exciting to see my first up close UFO. I might have seen one back in the 70s but I now think I just saw a satellite on a northbound polar orbit catching the light off the sunset. It was moving way too fast for an aircraft and shown silver. Since I've now observed a couple Starlink "trains" I'm pretty sure that one was a satellite catching the sun just right. [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181847, Occurred: 2024-06-10 23:30 Local, Reported: 2024-06-12 13:06 Pacific, Duration: 2 Minutes, No of observers: 1 – Military, Location: Summerfield, NC, USA, Location details: Hovering adjacent to a cloud over the woods Between Witty Road and Mashie Drive, Shape: Triangle, Color: bright white gold, Estimated Size: Appx. 3,000 sqft Triangle, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Northwest, Angle of Elevation: 50, Closest Distance: .5 miles, Estimated Speed: N/A, Characteristics: Lights on object, Bright Triangle Craft Hovering Next to Cloud. The triangle hovering craft was on an angle to me. It was partly in the cloud, but a bright light was emanating from within it. The time was 11pm since I was taking my dog for her nightly potty break. At first I thought it was the moon, but at second look I noticed it was triangle in shape and its light was a very bright glassy, white, gold color. I was looking at for at least 1.5 minutes then it just faded out to disappear. The cloud was still adjacent to the object, so it didn't hide behind the cloud, but slow faded out to invisibility. *Pic or CGI? [No MADAR even close]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181885, Occurred: 2024-06-12 09:46 Local, Reported: 2024-06-15 21:10 Pacific, Duration: 5 seconds, No of observers: 1, Location: Charlotte, NC, USA, Location details: Just passed Carowinds in the air on approach to CLT, Shape: Sphere (*JH: metallic football), Color: Metallic, Estimated Size: Size of a car., Viewed From: Aircraft, Direction from Viewer: Southwest, Angle of Elevation: 30, Closest Distance: 5 yards, Estimated Speed: Extremely fast. Viewed 4 metallic objects shaped like a football, smaller than a plane, but bigger than a car. I was flying on American Airlines flight 5100. I have a law degree and a masters and I have been skeptical of UAPs until I saw this myself. The majority of the plane has their windows closed. I opened my window because my daughter wanted to see out of it. I saw another plane approximately 70 yards away and it looked like it was frozen in the air. I began videoing. I turned the video off. Then to my shock, I see two metallic objects. They were in a horizontal line just below my plane and about 5 yards away. Then a third object was a little behind the first two with a fourth just a tad behind the third. For a moment I saw them all, then they jetted away as fast as they appeared. NUFORC Note: The plane can be seen in the first photo, an odd object in the second. * 2 Pics [MADAR 60 miles SSE of site 183 at Moravan Falls, but no spikes in the data.]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181927, Occurred: 2024-06-15 08:45 Local, Reported: 2024-06-18 10:58 Pacific, Duration: 5 -8 seconds, No of observers: 1, Location: West Milford, NJ, USA, Shape: Disk, Color: white-greyish, Estimated Size: It spanned several tree widths wide. Seemed thin, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: on left and ahead - forward some. We were traveling in a car. Angle of Elevation: 50, Closest Distance: Not good at estimating that. It was across a lake, Estimated Speed: floaty then picked up speed going over the mountan. Saw a large disk hovering -flying over the mountain top really close to the tree line and went up and over bearfort mountain. I was a passenger in the car. We were driving to breakfast down Union Valley road. I saw a large disk (flattish) hovering close to the top tree line of Bearfort Mountain, West Milford NJ. Facing the Pinecliff lake side. I saw a flatish metallic- looking large thin disk. Where the sun was reflecting off of it, it looked white, and gave a floaty appearance with the sun reflecting on and off it as it maneuvered. It was hovering by the trees lower down from the ridge (but high up) It looked from a distance like it would crash into them. And a little out of control Then it is maneuvered more purposely, and in control upward and over the mountain range out of site. It stayed super close to the tree line going over the mountain. I yelled for the other car passenger to see, but it was too late. At first I thought it was maybe drone… but when I googled drones and military drones nothing even closely matched… We did have a plane show that weekend at our town airport which is located totally on the other side of town. The air show was also at night only. [Possible aircraft reflecting sun, but too brief. Not that compelling]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181888, Occurred: 2024-06-15 16:45 Local, Reported: 2024-06-15 22:54 Pacific, Duration: Split second (*JH: but long enough to take out phone and take pic), No of observers: 2 – Military, Location: Palmer, AK, USA, Location details: Jim lake, Shape: Disk, Color: Dark, Estimated Size: Not sure, Viewed From: Boat, Direction from Viewer: North East, Angle of Elevation: 50, Closest Distance: 1/2 mile, Estimated Speed: Fast, My wife and I were leasing at Jim Lake near Palmer and saw this object and then we saw it in a picture I took. *JH: Pic of Saucer shaped craft. [Too brief]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181953, Occurred: 2024-06-16 14:59 Local, Reported: 2024-06-19 18:13 Pacific, Duration: 10 minutes, No of observers: 3 – Pilot, Location: Anchor Point, AK, USA, Location details: Climbing through about 5000ft off shore of Anchor Point, Shape: Cigar, Color: White, Estimated Size: .5mi, Viewed From: Aircraft, Direction from Viewer: 300, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: 50mi, Estimated Speed: Stationary, then maybe 200-300kts, Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail. Large object hovering over summit of Redoubt volcano - While piloting an aircraft westbound offshore of Anchor Point, Alaska, I and my passengers observed a large object hovering over the summit of Redoubt volcano. It hovered there for about five minutes before proceeding north eastbound across the horizon, covering approximately 30 to 40°. It then disappeared. It looked like a white cylinder. It appeared to have some sort of vapor trail while hovering that dissipated once it started moving. It was at least a few times bigger than a 747. [Sounds like a lenticular cloud, and no anomalistic motion].

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181940, Occurred: 2024-06-19 04:45 Local, Reported: 2024-06-19 02:40 Pacific, Duration: 2 mins, No of observers: 1 – Military, Location: Jacksonville, FL, USA, Location details: Crossing over rampart rd, Shape: Triangle, Color: Black, Estimated Size: Huge, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Going toward blanding blvd, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: Just above the tree line, Estimated Speed: Slow, Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object. Black triangle very low no noise. Black triangle huge just above tree line no sound [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182039, Occurred: 2024-06-21 10:30 Local, Reported: 2024-06-24 19:48 Pacific, Duration: Bright flash milliseconds, No of observers: 4, Location: Richland, TX, USA, Location details: sitting on my friends porch, facing south, full blood moon on rise, clear full moon at sighting, Shape: Flash, Color: Bright white & blue, Estimated Size: a beam of light 50 to 100 yds. Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: directly above us, no sound, but the beam of light came from the sky and disappeared, Angle of Elevation: 1, Closest Distance: can't approach a object you dont know is there, Estimated Speed: magic, beam of light and disappeared, Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects, Possible abduction, Missing Time, Animals reacted. Clear night brightest light ever seen dont know how long it was there, just remember a white and blue beam and it disappeared. June 21, 2024, Richland, TX., Navarro County, time was between 10 pm and 11 pm cst. I was sitting with my friend on his porch talking and listening to music. It was a clear night with a full moon, we were facing south enjoying the moon rising when a white and blue beam covered the yard. It was the brightest light (beam) I have ever seen, it seemed like it stopped directly over the house for less than a second and it disappeared like when you turn a flash light off. No noise coming or going, but it felt like it was right over us. We both felt a radiant heat from the beam. We both had immediate dry mouth, taste buds became soured. We both don’t know if any time was lost between sighting and disappearing. There was a feeling of shock, as if time stood still, and the WTF was that, and did you see that? We discussed colors and I said the brightest white light (beam), and he saw white and blue. We spent the next hour asking ourselves if we saw what we saw. He and I have watched many lightning storms and have felt the blast of a bolt that was so close, we heard the crinkle, pop, and then boom, and the bolt seemed to be 10’ wide. Needless to say we hauled ass inside. The light beam from whatever it was from above us felt like we were scanned. We didn’t see any life forms, as far a we know or could remember. It seemed like time stopped. My Bluetooth boom box and phone went silent. My son was camping in the back pasture with friends and I called him the next day and asked him if they saw anything on Friday night. He said they saw a bright light, but didn’t know what it was, except one the friends said he saw a UFO. I would like to talk to him, but I don’t want to sound crazy. It’s a small town. I believe there is something in the universe that I can’t prove, but after Friday, I can now say that I have witnessed something so close to me that scared the crap out of me. Something up there was silent and had the baddest f’n light beam ever created. The US Airforce needs to upgrade the stealth bomber, because this thing was unreal. [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 181989, Occurred: 2024-06-21 21:15 Local, Reported: 2024-06-22 02:02 Pacific, Duration: 7-10 seconds, No of observers: 1 – Military, Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA, Shape: Formation, Color: White-greyish, Estimated Size: Individual objects were a bit smaller than a C206, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: 310, Angle of Elevation: 70, Closest Distance: 1200ft, Estimated Speed: 150kts, Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby. 6 triangular objects overhead, heading west in very tight formation. Six triangular objects in very close formation (maybe 1/5 of their wingspan apart), coming from roughly direction of Malibu heading NE, relatively low altitude. The objects appeared white-grey, no light sources on the objects, but they somewhat looked like they would be reflecting light with intermittent strength (which cannot have been ambient so must have been the objects themselves). Absolutely no sound - at this altitude any regular aircraft or drone would have been audible as we are very familiar with them due to the close Santa Monica Airport. Difficult to tell from my POV, but the whole formation might have been in a bank, no movement relative to each other or relative to the horizon. Was able to observe for 7 to maybe almost ten seconds before they faded into the background in less than a second, almost like an object fading into the mist - but the skies were clear. [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182004, Occurred: 2024-06-22 20:20 Local, Reported: 2024-06-23 10:24 Pacific, Duration: 1.5 minutes, No of observers: 1, Location: Watertown, MA, USA, Location details: First from front of house 20 ft. elevated 2nd floor, then from elevated 2nd floor rear of house. Shape: Sphere, Color: flat black, Estimated Size: small car sized, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Slightly west of north, Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: 600 feet, Estimated Speed: 80 mph. Spiky Black VW Bug sized and shaped object 500 ft high, 80 mph, flew over house, no sound, looked evil. Saturday just before sunset, twilight, 8:20 pm, temp 75 degrees, in Watertown, MA looked out the front 2nd floor window and saw one flat-black slightly misshapen sphere object with spikes approaching my house from the North (slightly west of north but not north northwest). Had spike-like protuberances coming out of a small rounded car-sized black sphere, not shiny. Had been reading about UFOs on computer before I glanced up and saw it approaching. Thought I was looking at the frontal view of an oncoming black helicopter head- on with its bulb-like cockpit but there was no glass, no landing gear, no rotor, no tail, and no sound. Looked like a WW2 spiked ship mine. Size of an outstretched hand's thumb-nail. Moving about 80 mph around 500 feet high. Lower and slower than an airplane or helicopter, no wings or control surfaces, and no lights. Larger, different shaped, no propulsion rotors, and silent - so unlikely a drone. Left no trail. Not a weather balloon; had spikes, moving fast and steady with zero wind in a gray sky. Seemed solid metal. Spherical shape was somewhat misshapen with many protruding black spikes, each differently shaped, not uniform. Flight path was straight but it meandered slightly, maybe 5% from a straight line, like it was looking for something. Went over a house two doors down. I ran to the back of house to get a picture but not in time. Saw it steadily depart for 15 seconds to the tree line in a south southwest direction (not direct south) so it had taken a slight turn as it went over my house. Thing had a bad military vibe to it and seemed to be intelligently controlled, maybe Ai. Had never before seen a UFO; now I know what people are talking about when they say they "know what they saw." There is no ambiguity possible. Noted a similar sighting from an observer in the nuforc database from last month when I went to make this report. From a retired analytical business consultant, two graduate degrees. Happy to be contacted (by researchers). Have been studying the phenomena for a few years. Glad I finally saw one, except for the fact that this changes everything. Was 95% certain of UFO reality (thus aliens) with the 80-years of massive documentation but am now 100% certain. [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182035, Occurred: 2024-06-23 21:40 Local, Reported: 2024-06-24 14:42 Pacific, Duration: 3 minutes, No of observers: 2, Location: Lafayette, LA, USA, Shape: Cylinder, Color: Grey, Estimated Size: 40-50 feet wide, 200 feet long. Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: Northwest. Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: 1000 thousand feet. Estimated Speed: Not moving at all. Stationary cylinder that quickly disappeared after several minutes. While jogging at night and heading generally northwest on Shelly drive, my daughter and I both saw a grey cylinder motionless in the air. We thought maybe a blimp, but there were no navigation blinking lights on it. There was no sound coming from it. We thought maybe an odd cloud or something, but it was very well defined in the shape of a cylinder, essentially the shape of a commercial aircraft fuselage without a nose, tail, or wings. We continued jogging and watching it until we ran beneath some live oak trees. As soon as we emerged from beneath the tree canopy, the cylinder was gone. When we returned to the site where we originally saw the shape a few minutes earlier, there was nothing in the sky. Neither of us were jogging with a phone/camera so unfortunately we have no pictures. We looked for social media posts to see anybody else saw anything. Closest we could find was a Starlink siting in a northern part of the state. Pictures on those posts did not look like what we saw. Those were moving objects that made a relatively bright line. What we saw was stationary and a much wider shape than typical Starlink pictures. [No MADAR site anywhere close] 

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182116, Occurred: 2024-06-28 22:00 Local, Reported: 2024-06-30 12:16 Pacific, Duration: 1 Minute, No of observers: 1, Location: Chatham, MA, USA, Location details: Multiple Orbs and Blue V or Triangle Shape, Shape: Triangle, Color: Blue then changed to, Estimated Size: See Video, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: 500 feet and at the end less (maybe 150ft), Angle of Elevation: 45, Closest Distance: 150-500 feet, Estimated Speed: Bursts of fast speed. Vanished to slow and steady, Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo. Blue Orbs in Triangle or V Shape. Merge to orange orb. With other swirling lights in the vicinity. I had been outside since around 9:00pm. Watching the stars come out. Catching the occasional satellite go by. I typically take my laser pointer (as I did tonight) and point it straight up. When I know there are no planes, I blink it 3 times and then hold it for 3 seconds on the third button press. I do this maybe once every 15 minutes or so. I do that for the first hour I go out every time. So like 4 sets of that. I would say 60%-75% of the time I do this little ritual I see a white or orange light strobe into a solid bright light. Then dim a little bit and then begin to move in a direction close to where I was aiming the laser. Disappears between 10 and 30 seconds after appearing. I stopped with the laser around 10:00pm on this evening I suppose and was just relaxing. My phone was inside so I am estimating the time. I began to see some high altitude orange lights. Maybe one or 2 were satellites, but some were moving then abruptly changing direction. I went inside grabbed the night time binocular. *Video [IDFE]

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182126, Occurred: 2024-06-29 23:00 Local, Reported: 2024-07-01 11:37 Pacific, Duration: 10-15 seconds, No of observers: 10, Location: Eagle Harbor, MI, USA, Location details: Off the road with a clear view of lake superior, no trees obscuring the view. Shape: Oval, Color: Orange, Estimated Size: 20 feet, difficult to tell from distance, Viewed From: Land, Direction from Viewer: West, Angle of Elevation: 10, Closest Distance: 1-2 miles, Estimated Speed: 0mph when stationary> faster than a shooting star. Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams. We saw an oval/pear shaped craft 1-2 miles away that had an extremely bright orange light on it. We saw a pear/oval shaped craft that had an extremely bright orange light on it. The craft was roughly 1-2 miles away, maybe about 1000 feet above the water. I couldn’t tell the color of the craft due to the fact that it was night and that the light was so intensely bright, but the shape was distinguishable due to the fact the light seemed to illuminate the craft. It was stationary above the water with the light illuminating the air between the craft and the water almost like a laser. After 10-15 seconds of aiming the light over the water it strobed up the shoreline almost like a lighthouse. When it the light hit us the craft quickly accelerated away, disappearing within 2 seconds. It did not make any sound and as it began accelerating away. When beginning to accelerate it almost staggered, kind of jumping back and forth. *Possible Transmedia craft. [IDFE]