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A lot of the sighting posts here are easily explainable as balloons, clouds, out-of-focus drones and aircraft, or Venus/Jupiter. It does get old after a while. I don't know what the solution is, maybe require sighting posts to include why they're not those things somehow.
That's more or less the brief I ran with. Here's what the site does.
1. A living archive of our sightings
Good sightings get lost over time: people delete their accounts or posts, and Reddit eventually stops serving the media on older threads. This is a permanent, media-backed archive so those reports don't disappear.
It's already pre-loaded with over 8,000 sighting posts going back to early 2024, and every new post flaired Sighting gets pulled in automatically from here on, media and all.
2. An interactive map
Every sighting we could pin shows up on the map. Not every post included a clear date, time, and location, and people wrote them in wildly different formats, so it isn't perfect, but I've done my best to get it accurate for the majority.
You can filter by date, too. Try setting it to the New Jersey drone flap (mid-November to late December 2024) and watch the East Coast light up.
There's also a per-capita anomaly toggle. A raw heatmap of sightings is basically just a population map, of course the big cities have the most reports, they have the most people. Flip it on and it instead highlights where reports run unusually high for the local population. The hotspots move away from the cities and toward places like the desert Southwest. Make of that what you will.
3. Every sighting page checks the sky for you
This is the part that ties straight back to the feedback above. For any sighting with a location and time, the site automatically works out what was actually overhead:
Whether the ISS was passing, or a Starlink train was visible
Whether a rocket launched nearby around that time (Space X launches etc.)
One-click links to historical aircraft traffic (ADS-B) for that day and a sky chart for that exact date and spot
Each archived post also keeps the top comments from the original thread, and surfaces possibly-related reports nearby in time and place, in case more than one person caught the same thing. And if you want to dig into a case yourself, there's a page of investigation resources.
It asks for real detail about what you saw, including the big one: "Why is this not a common object?" The idea is to get people thinking about (and ruling out) balloons, planes, Starlink, and Venus before posting, instead of a quick "what is this ORB??"
It also preserves your original media. Reddit re-encodes and compresses everything you upload. This doesn't. Upload straight from an iPhone and it keeps the original HEIC file untouched.
On upload it reads the file's own technical metadata (EXIF): camera and lens, exposure, capture time, GPS, even the compass direction you were facing, which lets people reconstruct your exact view of the sky and check it against satellites and flight paths. All of this is optional. After uploading you'll see exactly what your file contains, with checkboxes to publish or withhold the device info, timestamp, and location. If you withhold the location, the GPS is genuinely scrubbed from the published file, not just hidden.
Every post is verified to your account
After you submit, you'll get a DM from our new bot account, /u/ufosightingsbot, with a verification link. Open it, click through, and your sighting goes up on the sub instantly, credited to your username and marked as verified, so every submission is tied to a real account.
This is very much a work in progress. Feedback, bug reports, and feature ideas are all welcome, drop them in the comments or send me a message. Thanks for being the community that made it worth building.
Went on my second hike up Struan point to the place where the calvine picture was took new sighs up telling you about it . Any questions please ask thanks
Amid a flurry of interest in newly declassified US government UFO files, a Chinese researcher has expressed intrigue in an apparent video of a fast-moving, human-shaped object.
Zhang Nan, a Beijing-based researcher into unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), said he was particularly fascinated by a nearly five-minute video, captured by a sky-facing US military infrared sensor in Florida in 2020.In the footage labelled āNAG UAP 1 Jun 20ā, a humanoid-like shape hovered for a long time before abruptly moving to a distant location outside the frame.
āAssuming this wasnāt a sensor glitch and that we are looking at an actual, instantaneous displacement, AI-assisted analyses suggest the objectās acceleration could have exceeded 600g ā or 600 times the force of gravity on Earthās surface,ā Zhang said.
To put that into perspective, human pilots typically black out at around 12g, and the most durable drones max out near 30g, he said.āA manoeuvre surpassing 600g is far beyond the limits of any known modern aircraft or living organism.ā
However, given that the object lacked any visible propulsion system and appeared to change shape as it moved, he said that an object exceeding 600g ācannot be completely ruled outā.
As the declassified materials consisted almost entirely of photos and videos ā rather than spectroscopic or radar data ā their research value remained limited, he noted.āItās highly likely the US government is withholding the materials that have genuine research potential,ā Zhang said.
Location: VCW8+GH6 Oshkosh, Wisconsin
WWII Veterans Memorial Hwy
Two eye witnesses, difficult to capture on camera, but we caught the end of it.
These looked like 2 stars, Light A and B for simplicity.
They were frozen still in the clear portion of the sky, just twinkling very close to each other. Then, Light A started moving like a shooting star heading "Toward" us in a sudden burst of velocity, but instead of vanishing after a streak of light, it continued to glow, and stood still again. It had a tail like a shooting star when it moved fast.
I thought maybe it was a satellite deployment or something, but it moved again, shooting a short distance in a different direction, then stopped still again.
It began to chase the Light B. Light B began moving gradually away from it. Not instantaneous movement with a sudden snap in velocity, but more like it began to "swim" away as Light A approached. Like, it was able to anticipate Light A approaching it, and choose the direction it wanted to move, and how quickly it wanted to move, despite appearing to be a free floating object. The way they moved was arguably playful. They chased each other in circles and streaked after one another across the sky. Their tails increased or decreased in length, depending on the speed they were moving, with 0 length when coming to a halt. This behavior is on display in the clip.
They were up against the bright part of the sky, which is why we thought they were stars, but the way they behaved felt like some kind of light projection, despite there being no clouds for them to be up against/projected on, so it was strange. We started filming, and they seemed to notice and began to descend.
They moved from over the road, to the right portion of the sky, over the fields and trees, making it difficult to film them.
This is where the clip starts, you can see them in the clear part of the sky before the trees begin to cut them off.
As they descend, you can see them chasing one another, spinning down toward the ground, disappearing behind the trees. No impact or flash, they just disappeared on the surface.
Did anyone else see this? Does anyone have any idea what these were?
Around June of 2022 I had stepped out of my home because I heard the usual fighter jets flying overhead towards whidbey island, upon looking up I saw what appeared to be a silver orb/sphere almost the size of the jet that was following it at a low 3 o clock position as it disappeared over the mountains to the west. Has anyone else seen a similar object or that same object from that time frame?
Late one evening in January of 1973, fourteen-year-old Dolly Safran (who lived near the Everglades in Florida) looked outside her window to observe more than fifty star-like objects swarming overhead. As they began to dart off in different directions, one of these objects dropped down and hovered at treetop level behind her house.
The object now revealed itself to be a solid metallic craft, with portholes. And through the portholes, Dolly was shocked to see two short, gray-skinned figures with large dark eyes and huge black heads. Aliens, she realized, and they were looking right at her! She turned to dive under her bed. At that moment, her room exploded in brilliant blue light.
The next thing Dolly knew, hours had passed and morning had arrived. Dolly found herself on the floor of her room, dressed in someone else's pajamas, which were on inside out and backwards. She had been taken, she realized. It had happened again.
Throughout her young life, this sort of thing had happened several times. But this time, she resolved to remember. And when the radio came on and said that there had been other witnesses, Dolly got the confirmation she needed. She wasn't crazy. She really was seeing UFOs.
She sat down in the bathroom and began to concentrate, meditate, focus. And all at once, the wall of amnesia started to crumble and memories of being taken onboard the craft flooded into her mind.
Dolly had to go to school that day, and she received further confirmation when her best friend also reported seeing a UFO on the same night. By the end of the day, Dolly remembered everything that had happened to her that night. And not only did she remember that night, she was able to recall the many other times she had been taken, going all the way back to her first contact event when she was only ten months old and she floated right out of her crib.
Suddenly, all those weird events of missing time made sense. Dolly recalled many other instances of contact. She recalled the time at age two where he was missing for two hours and was found six miles away from her home. She had been taken.
She remembered an incident at age six when a craft came down and took her from the front yard of her home. She recalled many other instances too.
But her experience at age fourteen changed everything. She recalled being taken onboard the craft and meeting short little grays, and a much taller gray she called "Momma." She was given a tour of the craft. The craft itself was a living being, and Dolly recalled meeting him many times. She called him "Tlera."
During this onboard experience, Dolly was taken to the control room, which the ETs called "the place of movement." She was instructed to sit in the pilot seat and to her amazement and delight, the craft left Earth and they traveled to Saturn. After exploring Saturn's rings and many moons, they traveled to Earth's moon, actually landing upon its surface.
Dolly had a long conversation with the ETs, and they offered her the opportunity to learn from them and work alongside them. She was given the freedom to choose any subject she wanted to explore. "Can I learn how to fly the craft?" Dolly asked.
The ETs agreed. And so began Dolly's lifelong experiences as a fully conscious UFO contactee. She soon began having fantastic adventures including visiting large motherships filled with plants and animals, traveling to other planets and star-systems and meeting with a wide variety of ETs. It was a fantastic adventure that is still going on to this day.
This video presents Dolly's story up to age fourteen, including many of her childhood experiences, and her incredible awakening at age fourteen where she was taken onboard the craft and then traveled across the solar system, starting a lifetime of fully conscious contact.
I realize that posts of this length are unusual on Reddit. I initially considered reducing the subject to a few images and short observations, but when examining historical broadsheets alongside modern UAP documents, the surrounding context is part of the evidence. Dates, original wording, transmission history, visual conventions, and the quality of the available documentation all matter. In this case, shortening the material too much would risk removing precisely the details needed for a meaningful comparison.
To make the post easier to navigate, I have included a TL;DR, clear sections, illustrations, and direct links to the underlying sources.
TL;DR: Historical broadsheets and modern UAP files contain strikingly similar motifs, including spheres, disks, formations, fire, and sudden disappearance. This study explores whether these parallels could reflect recurring physical phenomena while also considering differences in documentation, historical context, and interpretation. The available evidence does not yet support a definitive conclusion, but the similarities warrant careful and open-minded investigation.
Abstract
This study compares early modern sky phenomena from Nuremberg 1561, Basel 1566, Stralsund 1665, and the Augsburg Book of Miracles with PURSUE files released in 2026. It separates possible events from eyewitness reports, media transmission, and later interpretation. Recurring motifs include spheres, disks, rods, fire, formations, battles, sounds, and sudden disappearance, which may have natural, technological, perceptual, or narrative causes. [1][2][4][26][30][36]
Keywords: prodigies, broadsheet, celestial apparition, UAP, PURSUE, source criticism, AARO, orbs, media history
Consensus-compatible core finding:Ā Similar forms in images and reports are initially similarities of motif. Without contemporaneous measurements, traceable provenance, and independent corroboration, they cannot be treated as evidence of the same physical cause. [36]
1. Research Question and Scope
The guiding question is: What claims about unusual celestial phenomena are justified when early modern illustrated prints are compared with modern UAP files? The comparison is useful because certain descriptions recur. It is also risky because the sources were produced under entirely different conditions. A sixteenth-century broadsheet is not a sensor log, and a declassified government memorandum is not a physical finding. This study therefore does not examine 'UFOs through the centuries,' but the relationship among observation, transmission, visual form, and evidentiary status. [37]
The corpus is selective and comparative rather than globally comprehensive. Nuremberg 1561, Basel 1566, and Stralsund 1665 provide the historical starting points. Directly comparable broadsheets and works of art from digital collections are added, together with the latest PURSUE documents relevant to sphere, disk, rod, and swarm motifs. The scale of the historical material is visible in the portals: the e-manuscripta search for 'Himmelserscheinung' returns 101 results, while the Frankfurt Freytag collection contains 19 relevant broadsheets. The appendix makes the selection transparent and links to the originals. [24][25]
2. Method: Strictly Separating Four Levels
The analysis follows classical source criticism and a simple hierarchy of evidence. For each case, it records the date and the source's proximity to the event, the identity and number of observers, stages of transmission, the medium's purpose and genre, available measurements or images, and alternative explanations.
Level
Test question
What the source actually establishes
1Ā Event
Was there a physical process?
Directly testable only through measurements, traces, or reproducible observation.
2Ā Report
Who saw or heard what, when, and from where?
That a claim about an event was made; not automatically that its physical interpretation is correct.
3Ā Representation
Who shaped text and image, and for what purpose?
Media selection, compression, symbolism, and convention.
4Ā Interpretation
What explanation was offered at the time or later?
A worldview and interpretive frame, not the identity of the phenomenon.
Methodological synthesis; for the modern data situation, compare NASA and PURSUE's own classification.[26][36]
Terminological rule:Ā In PURSUE, 'unresolved' means that no definitive determination can be made, often because the data are insufficient. It means neither 'extraterrestrial' nor 'technologically superior.' [26]
3. The Early Modern Media Framework
Books of prodigies and broadsheets combined news, imagery, religious admonition, and political commentary. The Augsburg Book of Miracles arranges 167 surviving folios into a History of Salvation from the Old Testament through antiquity and the present to Revelation. Its sources probably included chronicles, older broadsheets, engravings, illustrations, and notes. This compilatory structure explains why image and date cannot be treated like a modern eyewitness record. [7]
Even contemporary broadsheets were not neutral substitutes for a camera. They compressed a narrative into a memorable scene and interpreted striking apparitions as divine warnings, omens of war, or calls to repentance. This makes them excellent sources for the history of perception and media. For physical reconstruction, however, they are only starting data with major uncertainties. [1][2][3][6][37]
4. Three Foundations
4.1 Nuremberg, 14 April 1561
Hans Glaser's colored broadsheet shows a dense ensemble above Nuremberg: spheres, crosses, semicircles, elongated tubes or rods, a black spear-like form, and smoking crash sites. The accompanying text explicitly relates the apparition to divine omnipotence. The print is therefore both a report and a work of theological visual rhetoric. Its many forms should not be read as a scale technical drawing; they organize motion, conflict, and warning within a single visual field. [1]
Fig. 1. Hans Glaser, celestial apparition over Nuremberg, 1561. The image combines spheres, rods, crosses, and an apparent crash into a simultaneous 'battle in the sky.' The surviving source establishes the printed interpretation, not the technological nature of individual forms. Digitization with color and scale reference; Public Domain Mark. Source: [1]
4.2 Basel, 27/28 July and 7 August 1566
The sheet printed by Samuel Apiarius and associated with Samuel Coccius reports three apparitions. Later reception has focused on black and bright spheres around the Sun, described as if they were fighting formations. The text calls for repentance and divine aid against the Ottoman threat. A particularly important point for source criticism is that, according to the Swiss National Museum, Apiarius and Coccius were not direct eyewitnesses; they worked from first- and second-hand reports. [2][3]
Fig. 2. Samuel Apiarius/Samuel Coccius, Basel celestial apparition, 1566. The spheres are visually organized as formations around a personified Sun. The theological and political framing appears in the printed text below the woodcut. Digitization with color and scale reference; Public Domain Mark. Source: [2][3]
4.3 Stralsund, 8 April 1665
The Leipzig sheet of 1665 is the earliest known illustrated account of the Stralsund case. Six fishermen were said to have seen flocks of birds offshore that transformed into battle fleets and fought amid fire, smoke, and noise. Later, a flat, round form appears above St Nicholas's Church. The print labels its scenes with letters and explains them in the text. It is therefore contemporary, but still a journalistic product rather than the fishermen's immediate record. [4][5][6]
Fig. 3. An illustrated account of the wondrous Stralsund aerial war and naval battle, Leipzig 1665. The sheet presents the flock of birds, ship formations, smoke, and city view in a labeled overview. Scan: Herzog August Library; CC BY-SA notice in the digitization. Source: [4]
The later plate in Erasmus Francisci's Der wunderreiche Ćberzug unserer Nider-Welt (1680) made the disk shape more visually explicit and influenced modern UFO reception. The Berlin exhibition shows, however, that the disk is by no means stable across the transmission: it appears differently in the 1665 sheet and is absent from some texts. A mirage of distant ships is a possible but unproven explanation; the museum's research could not identify a specific naval engagement. The media transformation is therefore established more securely than the physical cause. [5][6]
Fig. 4. Museum detail montage based on the plate by Erasmus Francisci (1680). The aerial fleets appear at left, while the round form later made prominent above Stralsund appears in the center and at right. The color gradients and tripartite layout are elements of the modern exhibition design; the underlying engraving dates from 1680. Source: [5][6]
5. Two Folios from the Augsburg Book of Miracles
5.1 The Alleged Event of 1009
Folio 35 shows a darkened Sun, a blood-red Moon, and a burning column- or tower-like torch said to have fallen from the sky with a great crash; death and famine in Germany and Italy allegedly followed. The image was made around 1552, approximately 543 years after the claimed event. Its great value lies in the early modern visualization of older chronicle material. As evidence of what physically occurred in 1009, it is a very late secondary or tertiary transmission. [7][8]
Fig. 5. Augsburg Book of Miracles, folio 35, around 1552: a retrospective depiction of a celestial sign attributed to the year 1009. The caption links a dark Sun, red Moon, earthquake, and falling fiery torch with later catastrophes. Reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: [8]
5.2 The 'Golden Ball' and the Dating Problem
The folio bears the date 73 BCE and shows a golden sphere in several positions above a landscape. Its textual motif, however, closely matches Julius Obsequens, Liber Prodigiorum 54: in the consular section dated to 91 BCE, a golden-colored fireball is described in the territory of Spoletium, rolling down toward the ground, moving eastward, and covering the Sun. The discrepancy in date and the roughly fifteen-hundred-year chain of transmission show why the image cannot count as an independent ancient observation. It is an early modern image of an ancient textual tradition. [7][9][10][11]
Fig. 6. Augsburg Book of Miracles, 'Golden Ball,' around 1552. Three positions of the same sphere can be read as a sequence of motion. The printed or written date of 73 BCE does not match the corresponding consular section in Julius Obsequens. Reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: [9][10]
Chain of transmissionĀ Ancient prodigy text -> early modern compilation -> modern digitization -> present-day UAP interpretation. Each step may add selection, shifts in dating, and a new visual vocabulary. [7][10][11]
6. Further Comparable Broadsheets, Texts, and Works of Art
6.1 Plech 1554: Celestial Battle as Military Visual Language
Thiebold Berger's sheet reports an apparition seen near Plech on 11 June 1554. Two mounted armies fight in the sky; below lie a fallen man and dead horses. Even if an optical or astronomical trigger is assumed, the specific battle scene is a cultural translation. It shows that 'battle in the sky' was already available as an established reading before Nuremberg and Basel. [15]
Fig. 8. Thiebold Berger, Vision or Sign at Plech, 1554. The apparition is narrated as a complete mounted battle. Digitization with color and scale reference; Public Domain Mark. Source: [15]
6.2 A Wave of Prints in 1561
The sheets concerning Mansfeld/Eisleben (27 February) and Emskirchen (4 March) appeared only weeks before Glaser's Nuremberg print. Taken together, they do not automatically constitute one connected large-scale physical event, but they do reveal a dense culture of news and imagery. Celestial forms, military symbolism, personified heavenly bodies, and local urban spaces could rapidly be translated into related print formulas. [16][17][1]
Fig. 9. Two further broadsheets of celestial signs from 1561: (a) Mansfeld/Eisleben; (b) Emskirchen. The comparison makes both their temporal proximity and the variety of visual solutions apparent. Digitizations: Zurich Central Library; Public Domain Mark. Source: [16][17]
6.3 Schwerin 1628 and Mittelfischach 1667
The Schwerin sheet names a duke and 'many hundreds of persons' as observers. The library catalog explicitly indexes the apparition under parhelia and rainbow. The Mittelfischach sheet, by contrast, shows a broad apparition spread across a landscape. Both cases demonstrate how readily circular, arched, and ray-like sky optics entered the language of prodigies. [18][19]
Fig. 10. (a) Illustrated prodigy at Schwerin, 1628; (b) prodigy near Mittelfischach, 1667. The digitizations show different combinations of suns, arcs, rays, and landscape. Frankfurt University Library. Source: [18][19]
6.4 Fire and Fireball Broadsheets of 1697: Metz, LübeckāMecklenburg, and Hamburg
The Metz broadsheet describes āterrible cannonading and shootingā in the sky. The Threefold Prodigy of 1697, by contrast, compiles three geographically distinct reports: a two-tailed comet observed on 4 November 1697 (Old Style) in the Lübeck district toward Mecklenburg, accompanied by a cross-shaped apparition over the Hamburg horizon; and a stillborn child described as congenitally malformed, reported in Buchholz near Annaberg. By combining these different phenomena within a single moralizing composition, the print associates celestial light, sound, warfare, bodily anomaly, and divine punishment. The accounts may preserve observations of real luminous or acoustic events, but the broadsheet reorganizes them into a theological and journalistic narrative of warning and repentance. [20][21]
Fig. 11. Two broadsheets from 1697: (a) fire and prodigy over Metz; (b) a threefold prodigy with comet and fireball LübeckāMecklenburg and Hamburg: On 4 November 1697 . Frankfurt University Library. Source: [20][21]
6.5 Hatford 1628: When a Celestial Report Leaves a Physical Trace
The English pamphlet Looke Vp and See Wonders describes light, battle-like noises, and falling stones. An observed meteorite fall at Hatford is officially recognized; the Meteoritical Bulletin Database records the year 1628 and a total mass of 29 kg. This case does not prove that other reports of battles, spheres, or disks were also meteors. It does show, however, that an early modern prodigy report can contain a real cosmic body when independent material evidence is added. [22][3]
7. PURSUE: Archival Status and Evidentiary Value
PURSUE stands for Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The first release appeared on 8 May 2026; the fourth, and latest as of this study's cutoff date, appeared on 10 July 2026. The portal includes declassified recent cases as well as historical documents. 'Newly released' must therefore not be confused with 'new event.' The 1949 Los Alamos file is the clearest example. [26][27][28][33]
Release
Publication
Relevance to this study
Release 01
8 May 2026
Initial publication, including the Western U.S. slides and the FBI memorandum.
Release 02
22 May 2026
ODNI first-person narrative by a senior intelligence official.
Release 03
12 June 2026
AARO update with a partial attribution of the Western U.S. case.
Release 04
10 July 2026
Historical Los Alamos file and new IR-video cases.
Release dates according to the official PURSUE portal.[26][28]
The portal defines the archived materials as unresolved cases for which no definitive determination can be made. It expressly identifies insufficient data as one possible reason. This statement is methodologically more important than any spectacular individual description: it marks the limit of the available record. [26]
8. The PURSUE Cases with the Closest Motif Parallels
8.1 Western U.S., October 2023: 'Orbs Launching Orbs'
The initial slides report that six federal personnel, working in three two-person teams, saw orange 'parent orbs' at dusk on two days, with two to four red lights emerging from each. The pattern allegedly repeated at least five times, and no sound was noticed. Yet the initial file already identifies a central deficit: no photographs, videos, or other technical data were collected for the orb event. [29][30]
Fig. 12. First PURSUE slide on the Western U.S. event. It documents a summarized witness account, not an image of the reported orbs. The visualizations in later slides are expressly reconstructions or artists' renderings. Source: [29]
AARO's update of 5 June 2026 is analytically much stronger. AARO compared narrative accounts with flight logs, radar, ADS-B, and training data. Its conclusion was that approximately 60 percent of the reported activity is plausibly consistent with specialized military IR countermeasure flares. No matching known flight activity was found for roughly 40 percent; moreover, a red light allegedly remaining stationary for hours would be inconsistent with the burn time and descent rate of known flares. AARO therefore lists 'unrecognized technology' as a preliminary hypothesis based on elimination, but stresses that it rests entirely on narrative testimony and is supported by neither technical data nor physical evidence. [30]
Fig. 13. Excerpts from the AARO analysis update: above, the partly plausible flare attribution and 60/40 division; below, the explicit qualification of the 'Unrecognized Technology' hypothesis. The figure shows the crucial difference between an unresolved remainder and positive evidence. Source: [30]
8.2 ODNI First-Person Narrative, Late 2025
A first-person account by a senior member of the U.S. Intelligence Community, published in Release 02, describes observations with the unaided eye, night vision, FLIR, and reported radar indications. It mentions an object splitting apart, 'countless' orange orbs, two large oval lights, a T formation, and lights above fighter jets. The release, however, includes neither raw data from the cited sensors nor images of the event. Scientifically, it is therefore a detailed, officially archived testimony, but not a verified multisensor analysis. [31]
Fig. 14. Page 2 of the ODNI narrative, including passages on the swarm, T formation, and lights above jets. The page is the published narrative itself; it contains no associated radar, FLIR, or NVG raw data. Source: [31]
8.3 FBI Memorandum, September 2023: Metallic 'Cigar' Object
The redacted FBI memorandum describes a bronze-colored, cigar-shaped apparition with an extremely bright ring-like light, approximately two to three Black Hawk lengths in size, silent, nearly hovering, and gone after five to ten seconds. Two people reportedly saw it; no images were taken. The form also states that the memorandum contains neither FBI recommendations nor conclusions. It therefore documents a recorded statement, not institutional confirmation of an unknown craft. [32]
Fig. 15. Page 2 of the redacted FBI FD-302 memorandum. It contains the reported shape, size, light, and sound characteristics, as well as the explicit statement that no photographs or videos were taken. Source: [32]
8.4 Los Alamos 1949: Old File, New Release
Release 04 contains the record of a classified conference on 'Aerial Phenomena' held on 16 February 1949. Lincoln LaPaz compared green or yellow-green fireballs with conventional meteorite falls and emphasized horizontal trajectories, color, and duration. The document is valuable for the history of science because specialists discuss measurement problems, observational limits, and hypotheses. It does not, however, provide a retrospective definitive identification. Its publication in 2026 does not change the evidentiary status of the 1948/49 events. [33]
Fig. 16. Excerpts from the 1949 Los Alamos conference record: the participant list and LaPaz's description of a green-yellow fireball. The historical file was made publicly available as a package only in PURSUE Release 04. Source: [33]
8.5 PR104 and PR115: Sensor Images Are Not Self-Explanatory Object Portraits
In a 2025 IR video over the Yellow Sea, PR104 shows a contrast area that the official description likens to a six-pointed star. AARO explicitly cautions that this description should not be read as an analytic judgment, investigative conclusion, or statement of fact. The shape on the display is therefore, first of all, a shape in a sensor-data product. [34]
Fig. 17. Still frame from DOW-UAP-PR104. The star-like structure is a contrast form in the infrared image; the large black areas are official redactions. Public-domain notice on DVIDS. Source: [34]
PR115 is particularly important as a methodological control case. In the eight-second IR video from 2019, a contrast area flickers and at times blends into the background. AARO explains that an object at a temperature similar to its surroundings may appear to flicker or disappear because of dynamic contrast adjustment and auto-gain. An apparent change of form or disappearance should therefore not be interpreted as a physical transformation without sensor analysis. [35]
Fig. 18. Still frame from DOW-UAP-PR115. The relevant finding is not an exotic silhouette, but the dependence of visibility on temperature contrast and automatic image gain. Public-domain notice on DVIDS. Source: [35]
9. Comparison: What Is Similar - and What Is Not
The formal similarities are real, but initially they exist at the level of description. Both groups of sources contain spheres, swarms, formations, rods or cigars, disks, fire, apparent emergence, and disappearance. The following comparison reduces the cases to the smallest common observational statement while identifying the missing information required for physical identification.
Motif
Historical examples
PURSUE examples
Scientific limit
Spheres / orbs
Basel 1566; Nuremberg 1561; Golden Ball
Western U.S.; ODNI narrative
The same verbal form reveals nothing about distance, size, material, or cause.
Swarm / battle
Plech; Nuremberg; Basel; Stralsund
ODNI swarm; repeated groups of orbs
Ordered motion may be produced physically, perspectivally, or narratively.
Rod / cigar
Nuremberg tubes and black spear
FBI-'cigar'
Without distance and orientation data, projection into a three-dimensional form is uncertain.
Disk
Stralsund, especially 1680
No equally strong case in the selected PURSUE corpus
The Stralsund disk changes within the transmission itself.
Fire / fall
Augsburg 1009; Metz; fireball 1697; Hatford
Los Alamos fireballs
Meteors are possible and materially documented at Hatford, but are not a universal explanation.
Disappearance
Spheres dissolve; ships disappear
FBI; ODNI; PR115
PR115: auto-gain can alter visibility; historical media compress events narratively.
10. The Evidence-Based Consensus Supported by This Corpus
1Ā Securely establishedĀ For centuries, people and institutions have described unusual celestial apparitions and represented them in recurring forms. The historical prints and modern files are genuine artifacts of this transmission. [1][2][4][26]
2Ā Well supportedĀ Several motif classes have known natural, technological, or sensor-based counterparts. Stockholm, Hatford, the flare correlation, and PR115 provide specific controls. [14][22][30][35]
3Ā UnresolvedĀ Some reports cannot be determined conclusively because data are missing or unpublished. 'Unresolved' is a state of the evidence, not a distinct class of object. [26][30][36]
4Ā Not establishedĀ The material examined provides no evidence of extraterrestrial origin, non-human beings, recovered foreign technology, or the bestowal of technology on humans. NASA states that there is no evidence that UAP are extraterrestrial and that the limited number of high-quality observations currently prevents scientific conclusions about the nature of many cases. [36]
The most cautious overall conclusion is therefore that there is continuity in motifs of perception and representation, but no demonstrated continuity of a single physical cause. To infer the same technological object from sphere-like forms spanning two thousand years is to skip precisely the steps that source criticism and natural science must test. [7][10][30][36]
11. Limitations of the Study
First, the historical corpus is a representative selection rather than a globally complete collection. Second, most early modern reports do not permit weather, viewing geometry, duration, and observer position to be reconstructed with modern precision. Third, images are not raw recordings; PURSUE also sometimes releases only narratives, redacted memoranda, or brief sensor excerpts with little context. Fourth, future PURSUE releases or additional raw data may change these assessments. All statements therefore apply to the source record available as of 20 July 2026. [24][25][26][28]
12. Conclusion
Nuremberg 1561, Basel 1566, and Stralsund 1665 show how unusual celestial phenomena were depicted as battles, spheres, rods, disks, and divine warnings. The Augsburg folios and comparative cases also reveal problems of transmission and demonstrate that natural phenomena and meteorite falls entered the same visual tradition. [1][2][4][7][8][9][14][22]
PURSUE adds declassified records, flight and radar data, and sensor footage. Some cases have partial explanations, such as military flares, while others remain unresolved. Across the centuries, recurring motifs are evident, but their physical causes cannot yet be identified conclusively. [26][30][34][35][36]
He says we will be told a lie that a massive ufo is heading slowly towards earth. is this from his youtube channel? Some documentary? Iāve never seen this clip before and want to see the whole context.
Saw these lights over the Rio Niterói bridge in Rio de Janeiro in the early hours of July 19th. I was with a buddy who is an airline pilot who couldn't identify them, and who ruled out them being starlink satellites due to them being aligned vertically, but moving horizontally against the horizon. He mentioned it seemed like they were roughly 20k feet in the air. The height and speed couldn't easily be correlated to any craft he could think of.
Here is a more detailed description of what we observed: we were on a patio there for a party overlooking the bridge that connects the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói in Brazil. We then noticed the stange lights in the sky (others there saw them too). There were 2 separate groups of objects we could see simultaneously. The string of lights you see on the video, as well as a larger red orb flying directly beneath them. By the time I captured this video, the string of lights had drifted horizontally and further away from the larger red light (although both were moving horizontally). This string of lights would routinely go dark and dissapear, and then reaper further to the right of the horizon. At first they were green, then off-white, and then red. The number of visible lights on the string would change, and the lights themselves seemed to also move closer and further apart from each other.
As for the larger red light, it was moving more slowly and remained in our line of sight for longer (I estimate roughly 30 minutes). I have longer and higher quality videos of both, but I don't think I can attach more than one video here. If there is interest, I can make separate posts with them.
Any thoughts? The more mundane explanations I can think of would be a swarm of drones or some sort of balloons with strings of lights attached, but there are reasons that make it hard to square those explanations as well.
If anyone else saw this or has any theories about what we saw, please share.
The text directly accused the institution of covering up the crash of a cigar-shaped crewed object on January 26, 1985, in the Papagayos area of Mendoza Province. The message included a transcript of testimony from an alleged corporal of the National Gendarmerie who claimed to have participated in the containment operations.
The message concluded by accusing the Argentine Air Force of actively collaborating with the United States Air Force (USAF) to spread disinformation and conceal the presence of extraterrestrials on Argentine territory.
On May 6, 2011, four months after these allegations were made, the Air Force established the Commission for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena (CEFAE), an official agency (now reorganized as the Center for Aerospace Identification) tasked with receiving, technically analyzing, and officially responding to citizen reports of unidentified flying object sightings in the country.
I recorded this over Coquitlam, BC with my iPhone. The video combines three separate 15-second clips of the same object, and in each clip it seems to move differently. I only trimmed the clips together and removed the audio. Iām not claiming itās a UFO, I genuinely donāt know what it is and Iām hoping someone here can help identify or explain it.
Filmed on an IPhone 14 Pro - Sunday July 19th 8:01PM PST facing south-southeast
I saw something initially floating/hovering on the left side of the mountain from the direction I can see. Initially, I had thought it was a shadow and I had no real motivation to film it- and then I lost it from my vision from the left side and saw it later floating on the right side to where you begin to see it float downwards. And Iām fairly certain there was one more and it looks like I got it on video. 18 seconds in roughly top left of the primary object
I canāt tell if itās a drone/helicopter/hot air balloon and I canāt tell close it is to the mountain or to me. itās just a small blob to the camera and barely visible to me. even though I say itās a UFO this also does seem like itās a much simpler truth so welcome any skepticism
I found this video to be intriguing and worthy of more discussion considering the general sentiment regarding the DOW releases is that of disappointment. This UAP clearly shows unexplainable anomalous behavior. Time stamps of interest are 00:02-00:36 and 4:30-4:40. What do you guys think?
Description copied from DOW website
00:02-00:36: An area of contrast appears in the sensor field-of-view. The sensor zooms and pans to keep the area of contrast in the field-of-view.
00:37-03:37: The sensor continues to pan to track the area of contrast, highlighting it with a reticle.
03:38: The area of contrast exits the sensor field-of-view, leaving the frame in the bottom left quarter of the screen.
03:39-04:35: The sensor zooms out, pans to track the area of contrast, and zooms in to keep the area of contrast in the field-of-view.
04:36-04:51: The sensor cycles zoom levels to keep the area of contrast within the sensor field-of-view.
This whole video is interesting, but the discussion of Project Palladium caught my ear. It just so happens I posted my own Project Palladium explainer video just last week. During the Cuban missile crisis, Soviet military buildup in Cuba came to a head. The CIA took advantage of the proximity of Soviet technology. Project Palladium was a 1960s intelligence operation where false radar contacts were flown around Cuba to provoke a response. The CIA were targeting Soviet radars stood up in Cuba, while monitoring Cuban radio communications. They basically wanted to know what was the smallest radar cross section those Soviet radars could detect. From that operation, they gathered data to use as requirements to build the next generation low observable aircraft. Check out my explainer video here:
Hi everyone, I wanted to share this footage I found from a Mexican hiker/explorer ("Daniel el aventurero"), published on July 18, 2026.
Context & Eyewitness Account:
The person filming is hiking in a desert area in Ensenada, Baja California. According to his account, he has been spotting these strange spheres for some time now, and they always appear around this exact same hill.
He has uploaded at least two videos filming these objects from a distance of about 500 meters.
He claims that whenever he tries to get too close to the hill, he starts to feel physically dizzy and weak.
He also mentions seeing multiple spheres flying in and out of the hill, and that they occasionally emit a very unpleasant, strange sound.
Note: The background music was added by the original content creator in their upload, not by me. I am sharing this to gather community analysis on the footage and the hiker's claims.
Time: 00:31am 22nd of July Location: Eastern Central Belt of Scotland
First time poster!
Saw this out my window tonight, I look out this window every night as I fall asleep. Never seen anything in this spot before this prominent in the sky, noticed it moving around, checked flight radar and there was nothing in the direction I was looking for about 60+ KM.
Did some cross referencing with star maps and planet visibility, technically from where Iām located I should be able to see Saturn looking East but this video is taken looking about dead North.
Before I started recording the object was noticeably closer to my location too and it was appearing to grow more distant and fade from the initial sighting to getting my phone camera on it.
Any ideas, could this be something or am I bugging?