An Indiana witness at Garrett reported watching a slow-moving, cigar-shaped object with windows, according to testimony in Case 92110 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was outside having coffee at 5:05 p.m. on May 13, 2018.

“I spotted something to my left in the sky,” the witness stated. “I was looking to the south. It looked like it had windows and was shining, moving slowly. It looked like it was turning, but that was just the shape of the object. It was going straight. No noise. No wings. When it got more in front of us, it was either glowing from sunshine or flame. It must have been as big as a Greyhound bus. I have seen objects before, but never this close. It seems it is just now sinking in what we saw.

Indiana MUFON Field Investigator Patrick O’Brien closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A New Jersey witness at North Plainfield reported watching a hovering object with “fuzzy edges,” according to testimony in Case 91968 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving a friend home at 11:45 p.m. on May 11, 2018.

“Saw a star and another object below it that caught my eye,” the witness stated. “At first, I thought it was possibly a house with weird lights up in the wooded area but after it disappeared, I realized there was no wooded area up there. And even if there was, it was way too high to be a house. For the whole time I saw it, it was hovering in the same place. There were a lot of blueish-white lights turning on and off so that it looked like it was shimmering. And I couldn’t make out the shape of it. We stared for it about 30 seconds while waiting to turn onto the highway while the light was red until it straight up disappeared. My friend and I were both trying to come up with explanations until it disappeared. And after about two minutes of going back and forth for a rational explanation it disappeared.”

New Jersey MUFON State Section Director Robert Spearing closed this case as an Unknown-Other.

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A Canadian witness at Esquimalt reporting watching two cigar-shaped pods moving southbound in a straight line under 500 feet, according to testimony in Case 91939 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was on a work break at about 10:20 a.m. on May 11, 2018.

“Looked up in the sky and noticed a blue/gray, wingless, soundless pod fly over top of us heading southbound in a descending straight line,” the witness stated, “whilst we were looking in a southerly direction. It made no noise and it wasn’t an airplane. Looked like a cigar-shaped pod, no wings. Then a second one followed a couple minutes later. Then about a minute later, the coast search and rescue airplane flew over top of us in a couple of circles and flew off. We wondered if it was a missile or drone. It didn’t have wings. Later on in the day airplanes flew over and you could definitely tell the difference. You could see a con trail and big wings. This area is near a naval base. Thought I’d see if you could help explain what I ‘maybe’ saw. Thanks. Both of them just kept flying until we couldn’t see anymore.”

Canada MUFON Field Investigator Carl Peterson closed this case as Information Only.

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A Missouri witness at Caverna reported watching a string of lights at the tree top level surrounded in a mist, according to testimony in Case 91773 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving south on I-9 roughly three miles north of the Arkansas and Missouri border at 10:28 p.m. on May 3, 2018.

“I noticed what I initially thought was a helicopter,” the witness stated. “Once I noticed it, I realized that it was ringed in brilliant white light like over-powered LEDs or (very) bright halogens. I watched it approach from the southeast moving northwest at a very gradual angle as it crossed the highway at treetop height. I noticed that the light was swirling in a light mist that seemed to surround the object. It continued up traveling across the road and as it reached the top of the next hill a brilliant light was emitted from the bottom of the craft almost like a really bright aura. At that time the lights on the side of the craft began to strobe multiple colors and then just winked out all at the same time leaving a void in the sky. I couldn’t watch any long as the area that the object went to went past my point of view. Had I not had my family in the car I would have investigated further.”

Missouri MUFON Field Investigator Britt Faaborg closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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An Alabama witness at Loxley reported watching a “glowing orange light” that approached and hovered before moving away quickly, according to testimony in Case 91829 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was outside near a barn sitting by a small fire watching the sky on May 1, 2018.

“Had just gone back in house for a few minutes,” the witness stated, “when I started walking back towards the barn and noticed a bright orange light coming over the treetops about 500 meters to the northwest. Grew larger as it came closer until it was almost directly over me. Hovered above a few seconds before shooting off to the south and out of sight. While above, maybe 200 feet or so, it appeared reddish-orange and circular but with three slightly brighter spots around the edges. Overall, a round, glowing object but with three brighter spots that would seem to have made it triangular, although too luminescent to distinguish a triangular shape.”
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Alabama MUFON CAG Field Investigator Mary Owens closed this case as an Unknown-Other.

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A British witness at London reported watching a black, triangle-shaped object “about two-to-three times the size of an A380 passenger jet moving overhead, according to testimony in Case 92298 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness and his wife were standing in their backyard having a cigarette at 11:30 p.m. on May 1, 2018.

“Jupiter was very low in the sky and we were wondering what it was?” the witness stated. “We got out my phone and used the Skyview app to work it out. We both commented on the fact that we hadn’t ever remembered seeing Jupiter or if we had, we didn’t know that’s what it was. London skies are always full of passenger aircraft coming into land at Heathrow and we are on one of the flight paths they use. The planes come in from the east over our house and then head out west before they turn north towards Heathrow airport. You can always hear them. This black triangle object with round lights on each of its three corners and one central light that was reddish orange in color appeared in the west.”

The witness said the object was about two-to-three times the size of an A380 passenger jet.

“It flew right over us in one fluid motion, in a slight arch. It rotated slowly as it moved across the sky. It probably made one full rotation in the time we witnessed it. It flew from the west horizon to the northeast horizon in about 8-10 seconds. It was completely silent. The sky was completely clear. There were no clouds and the stars were very visible. We both watched this object come in and pass right over us both. We both knew exactly what we had both seen. It was like watching a silent fiction movie or one of those UFO TV shows, but real life. We both just watched it until it wasn’t visible anymore, then looked at each other both with shocked but excited faces and said, ‘what was that.’ Then we both said together, ‘that was a UFO for sure,’ We both knew exactly what we had seen. We are in the photography/film industry. We use our eyes for our job. This object was so clearly a solid structure, but it also had a film static kind of shimmer to the underside of it, a bit like digital glitch. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it was like its cloaking device was switching on or switching off. This was so incredibly strange and overwhelming it has most defiantly changed our view on UFOs.”

United Kingdom MUFON Field Investigator Karl Webb closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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By Sue Gerberding
 
Memorial Day Weekend had a new kind of “fireworks” this year. The weekend was filled with sighting reports by Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witnesses who submitted more than 40 reports from around the world.

​Beginning on May 24, 2019, there was a spike in reports coming into the CMS database. It continued through the night into the early morning hours of the 25th, with a nearly record-breaking number of reports for that time period. Reports continued to come in on the 26th and the 27th.
 
Astute witnesses all reported a straight line of “dots,” as many as 20 – 100 white lights, moving across the local skies. Reports were received from Romania, the United Kingdom and Canada. Sightings across the U.S. included the States of Tennessee, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, Maine, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah, Colorado, Oregon, New Mexico, California and Washington.  Many of the sightings occurred around midnight in each local time zone.
 
What was this mysterious line of white dots circling the globe? Turns out that Space X had previously launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space with a huge payload. The payload was 60 small “Starlink” satellites, launched from the rocket into low Earth orbit. These satellites are part of a new global Internet system. They were low enough, and bright enough, to be seen when launched into orbit around the Earth in any location in which the skies were clear. As the satellites circled the Earth, they began to spread apart, increasing the distance between each. This is why the initial reports stated 20-60 dots in a white line, and the later reports spotted but a few dots.
 
Photos and videos were submitted with a few of the sighting reports. A case from Romania had a video which was nearly identical to that from a Netherlands observer who submitted a video to SpaceWeather.com (to see the video follow the link, or go to SpaceWeather.com and put May 25, 2019 in the “Archives” date box: http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=25&month=05&year=2019 ).
 
For more on the new Space X (Elon Musk) initiative, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(satellite_constellation).
 
Many thanks to all who submitted reports.