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Thursday, 12 August 2021

Passenger and Military Jets Both Report Seeing a UFO Over Eastern Canada, 30 July 2021

According to an aviation incident report posted on 11 August 2021, both a Canadian military and a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight “reported seeing a bright green flying object” that “flew into a cloud, then disappeared” over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in a stretch of open water between Quebec and Newfoundland. 

Artists impression


The KLM passenger flight (KLM618) was traveling from Boston to Amsterdam while the Canadian military transport aircraft (CFC4003) was flying between CFB Trenton, a base in Ontario, and Cologne, Germany.

Few other details were made available in the report, which appeared in CADORS, the Canadian government’s flight incident archive. 

The Canadian military plane may have been travelling to Europe as part of a mission to bring Afghan personnel to Canada. Data posted to Twitter by aviation and shipping researcher Steffan Watkins suggests the Canadian flight even changed course and altitude at the time of the sighting, which might actually have occurred on July 31.

The Canadian military and KLM airlines did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the July 30 UFO report in CADORS. Nor did Nav Canada, the private company that operates Canada’s air traffic control system and whose employees would have received the initial reports. In all statements relating to its aviation reporting system, Transport Canada cautions the “reports contain preliminary, unconfirmed data, which can be subject to change.”

Sunday, 11 July 2021

Bright, fast moving ball-shaped object caught on video during a thunder storm over US navy base in Yokosuka City, Japan, 7 July 2021

Japanese YouTuber "いろいろやってみる、ぶぐがんす" has posted a video showing a bright ball-like object moving erratically during a thunderstorm over a US navy base in Yokosuka City, Japan, on 7 July 2021.

 

The witness says "I happened to discover a UFO while shooting thunder ⁉︎ I think it's real!" 

They continue "It looks like it is flying at a fairly high speed while shining. The navigation light is not blinking because it is not an airplane or helicopter."

The object in question appears after about 1 minute, 20 seconds into the video;


Analysis

It is probably not a coincidence that this object appears during a thunderstorm - that is a clue. It is highly likely that this is a video of the very rare phenomenon of ball lightning.

From wikipedia, "Ball lightning is an unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. Though usually associated with thunderstorms, ball lightnings are said to last considerably longer than the split-second flash of a lightning bolt, and are a distinct phenomenon from St. Elmo's fire

Conclusion - Probably Ball Lightning

Sunday, 4 July 2021

Student photographs object with bright lights hovering over the sea before "it sped off" near Teignmouth , Devon, UK, June 2021 - UPDATED July 2021

A student says he was left shocked after spotting a large UFO hovering "for ten seconds" over a Devon seafront - before it sped off into the distance. 

 

Photos he took appear to show four bright lights in a triangular-shaped formation lingering in the night's sky.

The mature student said within seconds of taking the pictures, the object sped off into the distance.

Matthew said: "I couldn't help but see it.

"My kitchen window gives a great view of the sea so when it came across the horizon

"It wasn't moving like a plane would.

"It was moving a lot slower and went up and down for a bit before hovering a good ten seconds.

"It stayed in one spot long enough for me to pull out my phone and get those snaps.

"Then it quickly zoomed off at some speed and I couldn't see it anymore.

"The light was really bright."

"I just didn't know what it could be so I decided to take a picture.

"I'm not quite losing my marbles yet.

"But it's hard to place it so I suppose it is an unidentified flying object."


Update

Local photographer Matthew Blythe also took a photograph from the same location looking out to see that night. He used a proper camera, not a phone camera. What he photographed was the moon poking through a gap in the clouds. As we can see, the image is identical to the "UFO" image taken by Mathew Evans.

Original image here >>
 

Conclusion

Moon through a gap in the clouds 

Friday, 2 July 2021

Bright disk or cigar shaped object recorded flying erratically over Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, Brazil 29 May 2021

David Smolinski has provided a rather poor video showing a white or bright disk-like object flying in an erratic manner over Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, Goiás, Brazil on 29 May 2021.


David states "object apparently shaped like a glowing disk and it moves quite quickly and looks like it had some sort of trouble in flight and looks like it would crash behind these mountains".


 

Analysis

The video is so poor we cannot make any detail in the object so cannot really say what it is. Intriguing all the same.

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Intersting alledged UFO photo taken over the Francisco Madero refinery, Tamps, Mexico, June 2021

According to the Mexican news site, "www.elmanana.com" researchers of the UFO phenomenon in Tamaulipas are investigating the veracity of a photograph recently taken from the Francisco I Madero Refinery golf course. 

 

Roger Bailón, who took the photograph, revealed that prior to the sighting of the object, a storm was approaching in the southern region of the state, so the sky clouded and a wind of about 60 kilometers per hour was registered. 

He noted that the photograph of the Unidentified Flying Object was taken with a conventional cell phone. He said that "it is something very beautiful what it feels like to see an object of this type ... I do not dedicate myself to taking photographs of this type ... It is a good experience". 

He indicates that the photograph has already passed several studies and it has been determined that it is not manipulated. He said that they have already tried to discredit the photograph, however he mentions that it was a strong wind and the object was suspended for several seconds, “it was a figure like Spacy Bader type”. 

He indicates that it is the second time that he has seen strange objects in the sky, as 4 years ago he spotted an object of multiple fluorescent colors, however he could not take evidence of that sighting. 

He pointed out that when he took the photograph, he shared it on social networks, for which, in a matter of a short time, it even transcended internationally, as he points out that he was contacted by the University of Costa Rica, and they have invited him to travel to Europe. 

In addition, researchers from Spain and Querétaro contacted to follow up on this research. Meeting with Marco Cruz, psychologist and UFO researcher from Tamaulipas, the employee of Petróleos Mexicanos, assured that the photograph is legitimate, and surely the image will serve to show life on other planets.

Analysis

The image does look like the sun or sun-lit bright clouds showing through a gap in the storm clouds. The witness, Roger Bailón, does not mention any movement with the object, just that it faded away.

Conclusion - gap in the storm clouds showing the sun or bright, sun-lit coulds behind. 

Saturday, 24 April 2021

Strange saucer-shaped object apparently caught on video following a helicopter, Hamburg, Germany, 20 April, 2021

A video has appeared on YouTube by  Jan-uwe Beyer from Hamburg Altona in Germany, taken at 19:33 0n 20 April 2021.

 


He was trying to capture a low-flying helicopter when another bright, saucer-shaped object appears and moves alongside the helicopter, before disappearing behind a building. We don't know if the video is genuine. What do you think?



Friday, 23 April 2021

Unusual bright light captured hovering over Tampa, Florida, USA, 22 April 2021

A video has been posted on YouTube by "ilham bintang" showing a bright light hovering in the sky over Tampa, Florida, 22 April 2021. 


Ilham says the video was taken from Zephyrhills in the morning, looking west over Tampa.

 


Analysis

One YouTube commenter suggests the light is the moon through a gap in the clouds. A quick look on Stellarium shows there was no moon in the west in the morning. Its not the sun either, as the sun rises in the east.

The light looks stationery, but if we overlay a frame from the start of the video and compare with a frame from the end, we can see that the light has moved slightly.


 

If we line up these 2 stills so the clouds overlap, we can see that the light has still moved, so the object is not as a result of a gap in the clouds.

 

 

So, this could be a real object. It is strange that this is the only report however.

Thursday, 8 April 2021

Remote farmstead security camera captures weird video of apparent bright diamond shaped object, Williston, North Dakota, USA on April 5, 2021

A weird video purporting to show a bright diamond-shaped object moving in the air above some farm storage silos has been provided to MUFON. The alleged event took place at a remote farmstead Williston, North Dakota, USA on April 5, 2021.


The owner of the video states "object was caught by motion detection on ptz camera mounted on top of structure out at remote unoccupied farmstead object moved from north to south - unclear how far away - next motion event was daylight, you can see the grain bins in background there were 2 dead cows found in tree row less than a mile away - no obvious cause of death, covered in mud. no farms with cows around for 10 miles, no reported missing cows from nearby farms never seen anything like this out there on the cameras"


Analysis

This is a very strange video - the movement of the object just doesn't look right: its very smooth and follows a very straight track, almost like a sprite on an early video game.

The object would appear to be shining brightly, and yet the light from it does not appear to illuminate any of the trees, buildings or ground around it. If it were a real bright object, surely it would.

If we superimpose a still from early in the video of the object with that of a daylight still, we can see that the time/date stamp and the dark silo shapes match up.


Conclusion - object just doesn't look right, but lets say unknown

Friday, 19 March 2021

Bright glowing "orb" UFO seen landing in Auckland, New Zealand 18 March 2021

A video has appeared on Reddit showing what looks like a bright shining orb float to the ground around the Mangere Mountain, Auckland, New Zealand 18 March 2021.


 There is no more real information.


 

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Mass potential UFO sightings in Wichita, Kansas, USA, 4 Mar 2021

According to local television, the incident took place on Thursday afternoon and the media received hundreds of reports from surprised witnesses.

 

Eyewitnesses reported seeing a bright, fast moving object that was not an aircraft.

We see planes all the time. We’re close to the airport,” said local resident Mike Marler. “It was definitely not a plane.”

Local TV station received reports of UFO sightings and sent reporter Eli Higgins to fly over the city in a small plane and try to find him. However, by the time he ascended into the sky, the object had long been gone.

Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Flashing or Spinning bright object recorded over Norwalk, CA, USA on 6 Mar 2021

A daytime video of a bright unidentified flying object above Norwalk in California, USA on 6 March 2021.

 

Witness states "Round organic looking glowing orb with flashing white light randomly, also seemed to be spinning. I was looking up at a clear blue sky in the afternoon when I noticed this white glowing object moving with random flashing white lights moving quite fast in the sky. 

It seemed to be spinning around and when the lights were off it looked like a black mass, it was hovering ( still ) at times, and then moving again changing direction one time at a 90 degrees angle. It looked like it was very high up in the sky, so it must have been big in size ! 

Don’t know what it was, definitely no airplane or balloon or any other known craft. Also this was not the first time I have seen a sighting like this above my house, this was the fourth time I have seen an UFO like this in the past year, only this time I had a clearer view on it then before"


 

Thursday, 4 March 2021

Very bright orange light appears in the night sky over Oceanside, California USA, 3 March 2021

A witness has reported to MUFON a very bright orange light in the sky over Oceanside, California USA, 3 March 2021 


The witness says "Very bright orange light appeared and hovered for a few minutes and would disappear and reappear. this would repeat several times and lasted approximately 20 minutes. no sound and the light appeared to pulsate. i have video of this."


 

Monday, 1 March 2021

Bright hovering and moving lights over Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA 26 Feb 2021

Brandi Lynn has posted a video showing a bright object hovering and then moving erratically behind trees near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA on 26 February 2021. 


She says "UFO sighting 2/26 @ 5:45am... ignore my crap commentary I did end up grabbing the hubs out of bed and dragging him outside. What do y'all think??"


Analysis

Brandi says in her video that the object has red and green lights. This is a bit of a clue, as all aircraft, including drones, have red and green navigation lights, red to the port side, green to starboard. The object in the video also appears to move in the same way a drone would, brisk movement left and right and then into a hover.

Conclusion - probably a drone. Interesting video anyway.

Saturday, 20 February 2021

Bright flying object videoed over Guatire, Venezuela, 19 February 19 2021

An unknown source has posted a video showing a slowly moving bright light over Guatire, Venezuela, on 19 February 19 2021.


 There is no further information.



Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Bright star-like object that appeared and moved fast over Glendora mountain, California USA, 16 Feb 2021

Daniel Soto has posted a rather poor quality video showing a bright, star like object moving fast over Glendora mountain, California USA, on 16 February 2021.


Daniel states "Just witnessed a bright star like object at 6:02 PM. At first it looked like a plane flying west to east while I was listening to a voicemail. The light then stopped blinking and turned bright and stopped. Thats when I stumbled to get my phone to record and watched it do a fast dip that left like an orange trail. As I was following it I was able to start recording when it was hovering over Angeles national forest. Then it disappeared, as I was focused where I last spotted it, out of the corner of my left eye it appeared over Glendora mountain ridge rd. I turned the camera and was able to capture how it moved and disappeared. Not sure what it was, maybe a drone who knows. But it sure moved weird and it's not the first time I've seen phenomenon in the Glendora hills"

 

Analysis

A drone would really be the only object that would look and move in the same way as the object in the video.

Saturday, 13 February 2021

Unusual "morphing" "objects caught on video during both day and evening time, Makaha Oahu Hawaii, 7 Feb 2021

 A YouTuber "Sky Walkertexasranger" has posted several videos showing unusual aerial objects over Makaha Oahu Hawaii, 7 February 2021.

 

They say "This morphing craft appeared just over the hilltop from North Shore area. It came down slowly and started out gliding down almost like a bright glowing white hang glider, except we determined it wasn't a hang glider when we noticed the points were moving in and out of its center and there was no person attached hanging below.. then it was like it took off this wider pointy veil (except nothing fell to the ground) and turned into a dark but reflective metallic ball. 

Sometimes it would go so dark tho, that we couldn't see the reflection of the sun on it for a moment. Really bizarre. It hovered slowly down lower where we could clearly see then went behind the building for a minute till it re-emerged and was still doing all these interesting things that did not seem physically possible. 

It would emanate bright blue-green plasma light flashes from it that were brighter than the sun. It blared through the clouds and also had a wider glowing halo around it, then it would turn dark again, and back and forth in a random pulsating rhythm which seemed like Morse code. 

Sadly I only caught the last bit of it on camera but the 6 of us watched it slowly and silently morph by for about 6 minutes. I know its kind of hard to spot at first but its towards the lower middle of the screen. I can zoom in much further on my phone but I'm not sure how I can get the video on to YouTube like that. Let me know if you have any skills or tips on that! Most explainable, thing I've ever seen in my life. Caught a second one a little bit later"


 

Then, the second video

"This is the 2nd of the two UFOs my friends and I saw on 2/7/21 at Makaha Beach on Oahu in Hawaii. I have never seen anything quite like these before. It was amazing" 

"The first was at 5pm (still sunny, sadly my phone was scrambled when it was really close. They both came down from just over the hilltop from North Shore area and curved up towards the mountains. They flew by pretty slowly. We watched the first one in complete awe for about 6 minutes before it blinked in and out of visibility. 

It went off into space. It did not fly towards the airport or Pearl Harbor. It did not take a typical flight path for planes in this area, nor did they look, sound or behave like planes or any drone I've ever seen. 

The videos don't even do these things any justice.. This one didn't seem to be shapeshifting like the first one, but it did glow with an aura that was completely out of this world. There were no wings, winglights or taillights, and no sound".


 

Analysis

Sadly, the videos don't really show any of the things that the objects were claimed to be doing. The videos just seem to show a round object floating along, with the usual suspects coming to mind, balloon, drone...

Friday, 12 February 2021

Two mysterious bright objects in the night sky over Glendale, Arizona USA, 9 Feb 2021. The return of the Phoenix Lights?

A video shared by a Facebook user who goes by the name Jae Luna claims to herald the return of the Phoenix Lights. 

 

The video apparently shot from Glendale, Arizona on February 09 shows multiple flying objects in the night skies. Interestingly, the unidentified flying objects (UFO) spotted in the skies apparently had the shape of a triangle (although this cannot be discerned from the video), and it has made several people believe that the infamous Phoenix Lights have returned.

"Phoenix lights 2.0 UFOs in Arizona!I experienced some UFOs tonight. They seemed to be traveling between dimensions in my opinion," says Jae Luna.

 


In the initial moments of the video, two illuminated flying objects can be seen in the skies, but soon, one object disappeared shocking Luna who was capturing the video using his smartphone. After some seconds, the second UFO also disappeared from the skies.

Analysis

Luna states himself that he can hear jet engines from a nearby airbase. Could the lights not be from those? Landing lights are very bright, and can seem to fade out when the aircraft does a 90° turn away from the viewing point. Aircraft performing circuits will follow the same flight path, so landing lights may appear to come on and then fade out as the aircraft goes about its path. Its a shame the objects are so out-of-focus in the video as they just appear as bright blobs, without any real detail. 

What were the Phoenix Lights?

The Phoenix Lights event happened on March 13, 1997, when several unidentified flying objects were spotted in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona, Nevada, and the Mexican state of Sonora. Even though the US military has classified these flying objects as military flares, conspiracy theorists strongly believe that these UFOs could be most probably space ships developed by aliens.

Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Bright stationery object videoed hanging over the town of Olbia, Sardinia, Italy January 2021

A video has just become available showing a bright stationery object videoed hanging over the town of Olbia, Sardinia, Italy January 2021. 

 

The person posting the video, Maury Coc says "I want to clarify that I am not the author of the video but I can testify, believe me or not, that I was able to see the same object myself, during the period of the total Lockdown, above the area of the Fausto Noce park in Olbia."

"I'm still biting my fingers for not stopping to pick it up, initially I mistook it for a sports field headlight, but the further I went the more I realized I was wrong ... but I didn't stop anyway. My fault." 

"Fortunately, today there is this video that repeats this sighting in another area of the city. I have chills but I'm glad I'm not suffering from hallucinations."


 

Friday, 29 January 2021

Two bright UFO's merge then disappear over Graz, Austria, 28 Jan 2021

You-tuber "MrTensz1" has posted an interesting video showing two bright objects hovering over Graz, Austria, on 28 January 2021. 


The two objects then move towards each other, appearing to merge into one object before moving off and fading away until then are no longer observable.


 

Bright hovering object recorded over Touchet, Washington, USA 27 Jan 2021

A suspected UFO sighting has been reported to MUFON consisting of a bright white light hovering over Touchet, Washington, USA on 27 January 2021.

 

The witness states "Bright random light of four; hovering; quick ascent. I was raised within hours of area 51 in California, and have never witnessed a UFO until now. At the dusk of day, just off my back porch, I noticed some brightness of lights flashing, looking closer it was evident the object was stationary and hovering. Grabbing binoculars, I could make out a dome shape with four pulsating lights along it’s bottom edge. It was disappointing and unfortunate this detail was not captured in my video. After a duration of 3 minutes or so, the object ascended backwards like a shooting star, and disappeared from my sight."


Analysis

There is no evidence in the video to confirm what the witness states regarding the object's appearance and behavior - that is unfortunate. All we can see from the video is an out-of-focus bright light hovering, which could very well be from an aircraft's landing light, a helicopter or a drone.

Conclusion - inconclusive

 

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