MATCH-REP

and the National UFO Reporting Center
present the
2021 PROJECT MATCH REPORT

Potential Sightings of Interest & MADAR Anomalies

This report deals exclusively with bonified MADAR anomalies and Potential Sightings of Interest, those that we feel are representative of the UAP phenomena. There were a number of interesting sightings that either had too distant connections or had no obvious correlations-in-time to be used in this report. There were also cases that were not used because certain data couldn't be confirmed. So this is an effort to show accurate results, many times using Multi-Server Verification. This report will be subject to updating. Appropriate explanetory links are provided at the end of this summary. The current INVESTIGATION_STATUS database report showing all these cases and others can be accessed at any time. Finally, any terms used in this report you are not familiar with are explained at the end of this report. - Fran Ridge, MADAR Operations Center.

Updated 12 June 2024

January 10, 2021; Festus, Missouri
9:00 am. CST. The primary witness and a buddy were taking a walk in the woods near his house. His buddy sighted the silver disc craft first, and using their cell phone zoomed in on the object and started taking 3 pictures. After hovering for about 5 minutes, the craft moved at unbelievable speed, first left, then right, then zoomed up and away as the witness described it “at a speed faster than anything they had ever seen”. Primary witness seems very credible and stable. Photos can be viewed in case folder under images. (Source: MUFON) The nearby MADAR site at St. Louis, Missouri, node 70, is 30 miles to the SE and recorded two anomalies, the first being a "code blue" correlation with the sighting at Festus. The time of the sighting was estimated as being 9:00 am but the MADAR alertStart was documented at 15:10:47 UTC or 9:10 CST. The data from the compass heading change from 94 degrees prior to over 106, qualifies this event as an MSV (multi sensor verification). Four to five minutes prior to the alert there were spikes on the magnetometer, which could be evidence of an object entering Missouri airspace at 9:07-9:08 am CST. This anomaly lasted about 6 seconds during the suggested "entry" phase and it appears to have reverted to normal readings after the UAP idled down. A check of the status mode readings (1 minute datapoints) subsequent to the alert show a spike at 15:25 UTC which was 9:15 am CST, which could have been the departure phase. This sighting was investigated by MUFON and the case given the conclusion of "Unknown UAV", closed, and approved. (CMS 113331).

January 11, 2021; Newington, Connecticut
8:50 pm EST. The primary witness and his wife were leaving their home and spotted a black triangle flying at treetop level. It was about a quarter mile north of their position along the Berlin Turnpike (US Route 5 and 15). He saw it first and alerted her to it. They were able to see it for about 6 to 10 seconds as it descended behind the trees / hill sharply turning north towards Cedar Mountain and were able to clearly see the underside of it. It had three white lights, one on each corner and a much smaller yellow/green strobe light in the center. Node 151 is a test node of a field unit shown as Manchester but actually log-booked at Newington that date. The magnetometer showed a 6.75 milligaus spike at 8:51 pm, not that particularly impressive, but the compass showed some variation from 4 minutes prior to the sighting and that is considered significant ( 152.62 to 156.07 degrees) . Node 106, however shows a field spike of 6.0 milligaus within the minute of 8:50 pm which was 01:50:18 UT and at the 18 sec mark, suggesting the reading might have been higher at some point during that 60-second period. In this case the opposite was true with the onboard compass on 106 where variations were absent. Investigated by MUFON, CMS number 113740. Listed as unexplained, Unknown Aerial Vehicle. There was apparently a lack of motion requiring any noteable energy consumption, which could explain why the nodes at Newington (151 and 106) were not actually triggered. The readings in the Newington case are interesting, with the compass variation component falling in line with previous compass cases of which we have over 150+ cases on record. We can't explain the difference in readings where two MADAR dataprobes have the same hardware and software, other than the shield settings. 151 was set at 25 milligaus and 106 was lower at 22. The shield or threshold doesn't affect the compass sensitivity as it does the magnetometer.

January 17, 2021; Lee's Summitt, Missouri
1:18 pm CST. According to the witness the object was about the length of a football field, black, stealth-like with angular features.. Described as similar to tall building on its side, with each level flat on the bottom and coming to a tip near the 'front'. Object was seen about 300 feet above the ground and 1.68 miles away. Witness was driving westbound. By the time witness got to the intersection at Lees Summit Drive and NW Vellie Rd, object had dropped to approximately 100 feet (just above tree line) and was about 1.2 miles away. The movement of the UFO was described as a perfect motion, still, no shift in the wind, simply a slow decent and looked like it was going to land. "Maybe it was just trying to hide?....I can't stop thinking about what I've seen. I've never seen anything like it and can only be described as a UFO". The witness was previously in the Air Force, is now a scientist, has a PhD and works in toxicology. The craft was described as traveling 1.56 miles in about 2 minutes, or 47 mph. When the witness tried to record a video, it did not work. The sighting time of 1:18 pm CST converted to UTC is 19:18. At that exact same time a MADAR site twelve miles to the north, MADAR node 45 at Independence, Missouri had a spike on its magnetometer. But that was just the beginning. Twenty minutes later that same site had a full-blown code blue at 1:39 pm or 19:39:17 UTC and lasted for nine minutes. The magnetometer readings were the highest on record from 69.75 to 105.75 milligaus. The compass heading swung from 207 degrees to 240 degrees! The FI reported that he was able to calculate the direction of travel from the precise coordinates that the witness provided and draw a line straight up to within feet of MADAR site 45. The craft was in Lee's Summit, and traveled 6.21 miles to be near the MADAR site--about 1,900 ft from the projected path. Node #45 had the alert start at 19:38 UTC which is 20 minutes after the sighting in Lee's Summit. When we divide 6.21 miles by 0.33 hours, we get a speed of 19 mph. In this case the node sensed the object 20 minutes after the witness' visual sighting, all accurate data from the MUFON case # 114238.

March 9, 2021; Ball Ground, Georgia
19:44 pm EST. The witness had just turned on the outside light to let his service dog out to "do his business" and the motion-activated ring camera came on showing a one minute clip of the dog reluctant to move out in the yard, then looking like it saw something. At the end of the clip light reflects off of the man's glasses twice, then the camera shuts down. Right at that point a very bright light (like an arc welder) from a rectangular probe-like object about 12-15" wide and 6-8" vertically was observed by the witness, for about 20 seconds. Witness felt object had thickness and solidity and that the light “panel” was actually on a solid cylinder-shaped object. Although very bright, it didn’t hurt his eyes to look at it, which he found difficult to describe. The light also had a “moving-ripple-like effect” to it even before it moved, which he attributed to a reflection effect off of the stainless-steel chimney cap (which had a pattern of vent holes across it). When first seen, the object was stationary, but then began to move very slowly to the right (west). This took it briefly behind the chimney. The object was about 60-foot away and about 3 feet left of the chimney at first and about 50 feet up, or 20 feet higher than the roof. The witness' Apple iPhone 11 was unable to lock on the target to take a picture. This witness just happened to be the Operator of MADAR node129 at Ball Ground, Georgia. At that time the site was not DAS-equipped (alert klaxon) but the node hadn't triggered because it's shield or threshold was set at 25 milligaus and the magnetometer reading didn't get that high. However, the one-minute data lines showed some irregularities. The magnetometer had spiked and compass heading changed 5 degrees while the object was present. Three minutes before the sighting the field readings were 0.38 to 3.38 milligaus, building to the spike at 10.12 right at 00:45 UTC or 7:45 pm EST.. The onboard compass had varied from 119 to 121 degrees, building to 126. MUFON's CI Doug Wilson had assigned an FI in his Case Assistance Group to investigate and completed the case in about 3 days. Shortly after that the Chief Investigator for Georgia, visited the witness to clarify some issues with the previous report. A 3-page report was drafted and the case was closed. The witness reporting is former Navy, electronic intelligence gathering, Naval Security Group, USS Oriskany CVA34. Originally the failure of the MADAR to trigger and the camera unable to capture the UAP was the basis for the original conclusions. Once the data in the spreadsheet was discovered by MADAR Operations, based on all available information and the evidence at hand, the case was considered to be unexplained.

September 6, 2021; Indianapolis, Indiana
6:25 AM EDT. Four minutes prior to that at 10:22:18 (6:22 AM) the magnetometer on Node 21 with its shield set at 30 milligaus was showing 3.75 milligaus.The normal scan rate before an alert is one dataline per minute. The next three minutes showed status readings of 4.5, 3.75 and again 3.75. But right at 10:25:04 UTC, which converts to 6:25 AM EDT, everything changed Something in the area or region caused the reading to reach or exceed the threshold, and 32.25 milligaus put the node in alertStart. When the green relay on top of the device closed, the blue LED came on and site 21 had a "code blue", a full-blown MADAR alert. When that happened the unit when into a faster scan rate or once-per-second. The DAS alarm sounded for an additional 180-seconds. During that time, at 10:26:11 (one minute after the alert began) there was a 7 second period of spikes at 17.25 milligaus. Twenty-three seconds into the alert the compass heading exceeded the multi-sensor verification (3 degree) range by going from 90.64 to 101.36 degrees. During the fourth second the onboard gyro or accelerometer jumped to 1.01 from 0.99. The alert ended at 10:25:34 UTC or 6:25 AM EDT, lasting on 30 seconds..At that time of the morning the operator was on-station, about 1/4 mile south of the K-Mart parking lot. Right after the alert, put out an APB using social media requesting anyone seeing anything unusual that morning to contact him. Without giving out the time of the incident he received a response from an observer who had spotted an unknown object right at 6:25 am! The witness was a retired Marion County and State Capitol Police officer, and at the time of the sighting, an Uber driver. Report as follows. Beach Grove/Indianapolis, retired police officer, Jeff Hall, was sitting at the corner of Thompson Road and Emerson Avenue in the old Kmart parking lot. Witness was in his car facing West when he looked up and saw a black cigar-shaped craft with 7 round white lights on the trailing edge of the object, which was silent. He estimated the craft at 1800-2000 feet high, height similar to low flying helicopters. From witness's vantage point inside his vehicle, he estimated the object to be around 1/2 mile away. When looking at it with his arm outstretched, eye to thumbtip of around 25-30 inches, he noted it was about 45 degrees up and about the size of 3-4 of his thumbnails which is approximately 3-3-1/2 inches. This indicates a large craft estimated to be about 300 feet wide which would make the 7 lights on trailing edge about 15 feet across. Object moved slowly from NE to SW and he lost sight of it when he had to drive off to pick up a customer. He stated he had seen this exact same craft in August 2021 about 8-10 miles West of this location near his home.Operator Terry Tolle was instructed to have the witness fill out a MADAR UFOI questionnaire ASAP, and this was completed and filed with MOC. Drawing by witness was attached. There being no reason to conclude that this was a coincidence, there is no other conclusion we can come to other than an unidentified craft of some sort, and described by a reliable witness, was observed and reported less than a half mile away from a MADAR site which had readings that were not only anomalous, but triggered the MADAR at the same time. Witness estimated he saw the object for about 30 seconds and the MADAR data during alert actually confirmed 30 seconds. Witness stated that there was no other air traffic at the time of the sighting. MOC Director Fran Ridge ran a Flight Radar 24 loop for the period and location and no traffic showed up on the radar, indicating the object was not conventional and was not being painted. Witness never saw or reported any dynamic departure but a minute after first seeing the object there was a burst or set of magnetometer spikes that could have been indicative of that.

September 8, 2021; Goshen, Kentucky
6:47 am. EDT. The witness reported observing a huge object, estimated at 50 yards on a side, with three white lights in a triangle formation with a single center red flashing light. The craft was about one mile away and tracked from NE to SW at approximately 5000-7000 foot altitude. The object made some maneuvers but mainly stayed on a straight and level track and moved at a very slow rate for any type of aircraft, estimated at about 30 mph. The sighting took place over a 45-second period. The witness in this incident was a MADAR operator, but site 182 did not go into alert mode. Its shield was set at the usual 30 milligaus and the magnetometer reading never got higher than 7.5. What WAS interesting was the compass heading had gone way beyond the normal variations, and far in excess of the MSV (Multi Sensor Verification) 3-degree protocol. Since the device did not go on alert status, it was tracking at the slower one minute status scan rate instead of the one second alert data lines. But at 10:47:18 UTC (6:47 am) the compass heading was 64.17 degrees. The next minute it had gone to 358 degrees, which means the variation was 66 degrees (360-358+64). That is if the compass needle would have swung counter-clockwise. If it had swung clockwise the variation would have been 294 degrees (358-64)! During the next minute the heading changed back to 30.93. A high evaluation would have been given if the device had gone into any level of alert plus the MSV of 3 degrees or more. This much was established. The op's Flight Radar 24 showed no flights at all, which means this was not an airliner or normal aircraft. The op did the right thing by checking his radar during the event. If the craft were a military flight and therefore not painted on FR24, it would not have had any effect on the compass, and those readings were certainly anomalous. And since there was no reported dynamic motion or maneuver and the object was almost "idling", no effect would have been expected on 182's magnetometer. Looking at the printout, two minutes prior to the specific sighting time of 6:47 am there was a spike in the magnetometer of 7.5. And three minutes subsequent to the sighting time was a spike of 6. Not what would be expected for a slow or fast craft to enter or exit airspace from orbit or another dimension.

END OF REPORT

Terms and acronyms used in this report:
nuforc = National UFO Reporting Center at Seattle, Washington
CCO = Case Certification Officer. Used when MUFON is not available.
MADAR dataprobe = official term for MADAR unit.
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