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.

A Texas witness at Houston reports watching and videotaping a “tall structure moving northwest” that emitted no light, according to testimony in Case 91666 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The event occurred at 10:20 p.m. on April 28, 2018.

“Never thought I’d have something to add,” the witness stated. “Just observed this in Houston, near Memorial Drive and Shepard. Object was moving north-northwest. Was keeping the same elevation and didn’t move like balloons. Much larger, vertical structure like a floating tower with a pointed tip at the top. Don’t know what the hell that was. Freaking out a bit.”

Texas MUFON State Director Steven Bates closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A Texas witness at Webster reported watching a “round, silvery object “moving into a cloud and then reversing direction, according to testimony in Case 91628 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving south of Houston eastbound toward Clear Lake on FM528 from Friendswood and approaching the I-45 south underpass at 2:30 p.m. on April 25, 2018.

“While stopped at a red light just before the I-45 intersection and looking upward at the light, a bright flash of light caught my eye,” the witness stated. “Looking upward I saw a round, highly reflective object streak southbound through the air and into a cloud. I had only a second or two to view the object and noted that it was round but slightly flattened on top and bottom, much like a very fat football. It had a center line from the nose to the rear along its horizontal axis. I could not tell if it was a marking or a part of the structure of the craft. It was fast, much faster than any conventional low altitude aircraft would be flying under this circumstance, and over a populated area. From my vantage point, in size the craft could be roughly compared to a dime, or slightly smaller, held out to my windshield in front of me. I estimate my position of observation to be approximately one mile from the cloud into which it disappeared.”

The witness could hear no sound.

“After only another second or two, the craft (or another just like it) came out of the cloud just above where the first had entered but headed back the opposite direction (northward) towards another cloud. It seemed to be going even faster than the first, and quickly just dissolved into a streak of reflective light about halfway to the second cloud. The second cloud (to the left-north) was separated from the first cloud by a space roughly the size of the first cloud. The left cloud was about 25 percent larger than the right. I checked with the Galveston Scholes Flight Service Station, and scattered cloud ceiling altitude was around 2,500 feet, with scattered cloud height varying from 4,000-6,000 feet.”

The witness reported the weather was predominately clear, with a temperature of about 83 degrees.

“No other aircraft was seen, but my travel dictated that I leave the scene for an appointment. I did get a short, but accurate view of the craft. It was clearly not a conventional aircraft. I estimate the clouds and activity were maybe a mile from my street location, but these things are difficult to estimate without a known object at a known location for reference. My guess, based on the FSS report of the 2,500-foot ceiling of the clouds, is that the UFOs were approximately the size of a normal small aircraft at maybe 25-40 feet in length. I am 73 years old and have significant experience as an aircrewman in the Navy during the Vietnam war. I also obtained my private pilot’s license after the Navy tour and owned my own aircraft. I am not presently an active flyer, but am not easily fooled by what I observe in the skies. This is the only UFO sighting I have had in my lifetime. NASA and Ellington AFB are located within a couple miles of this location. The Ellington facility is frequently open to the public and does not seem like it would be a special place of interest for the UFO. However, I have heard stories of occasional UFO sightings in the corridor from Galveston to the top of Galveston Bay. Also, there are rumors of black choppers seen at the base.”

Texas MUFON Field Investigator James Donald Gilchrist closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A Canadian witness at Edmonton reported seeing “a large, black triangle with four underside lights,” according to testimony in Case 91570 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness and friends were smoking cigars on a 10th floor balcony on April 22, 2018.

“It was a nice clear night and we could see a few stars in the distance,” the witness stated. “Our conversation was interrupted by a pulsing sound and we all looked up to see a large, black triangle flying overhead at a pretty fast rate. It had four large, silvery lights on the bottom of the triangle, with one light in the center and the other three at the corners. There was also a strange, dark green aura around the front of the craft, which outlined the front two edges and seemed to glow. It took about five or six seconds for the craft to fly overhead and out of sight from our balcony. It seemed to be fairly close to us, or just very large. All three of us heard and saw the craft.”

Canada MUFON Field Investigator Ryan Stacey closed this case as Information Only. 

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A New York witness at Brooklyn reported watching a silver disc with golden lights, according to testimony in Case 91572 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was smoking a cigarette in a friend’s backyard and watching planes fly by at 5:20 p.m. on April 22, 2018.

“I saw what I thought was a very reflective helicopter and began watching it out of curiosity,” the witness stated. “It made no noise and had a somewhat wobbly flight path at a fairly (but not completely) constant slow to medium speed, moving unlike what a helicopter is capable of. I saw it at a low angle coming from behind the house blocking the sky (perspective), looking north towards Gowanus and Park Slope from my location in Kensington. It began in the north sky and moved west, then northwest, away from me. I clearly observed a large metallic, reflective silver disc with moving/pulsating golden lights. The most prominent light was circling the disc as it was moving from the top to the bottom and back again like a helix, making me think the object may be spherical, even though the structure was clearly a disc. This main light appeared to move from above the structure to below the structure, with an observable air gap between said light and structure when it reached its apex. Other lights observed on the object seemed as if reflections of sunlight upon a moving sphere, moving flashes, which were golden yellow in color. By the time I was certain this was not a helicopter, plane, or other known aircraft, and overcame my sense of absolute wonder, I called out to the person nearest to me, but it was flying lower in the sky, and was blocked by a fence on the north side of the backyard, which said person was leaning up against and they did not observe it. The sighting lasted approximately 15-30 seconds and I did not have time to take a photo or video with my phone. Approximate flight path was heading north-northwest over west Brooklyn, passing over Prospect Park, Gowanus, Park Slope, and Red Hook.”

New York MUFON Field Investigator Keith Conroy closed this case as an Unknown Aerial Vehicle.

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A Pennsylvania witness at Manheim who works in law enforcement reported watching an object that looked like the “lunar lander” hovering over a major highway, according to testimony in Case 91575 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was traveling southbound along Interstate 81 toward Harrisburg near Lavelle Mountain at 5:14 p.m. on April 22, 2018.

“Just all of a sudden this object appeared over the interstate and appeared to hover stationary for like 20 seconds and quickly went into the trees on my right at a high rate of speed,” the witness stated. “Object appeared quite large. At first, I thought it was some type of drone, but it moved too fast to be one. Kind of looked like a lunar lander in my opinion. I was shocked by what I saw and got emotional. When I had passed the spot where I thought the object would be, found nothing.”

Pennsylvania MUFON Field Investigator Larry Shaak closed this case as an Unknown-Other.

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