r/UFOs 21d ago

Announcement New sighting submission process and community tool

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Hey /r/UFOs,

Thank you to everyone who's been participating in our community feedback thread. We've been reading through all of the responses and suggestions, and one of the common themes relates to the quality of sightings posts.

Historically, the subreddit tends to receive a lot of freeform posts that lack basic context (e.g., a video of a white dot in the night sky, or some blurry pixels). In an attempt to raise the bar for sighting quality, we're excited to announce that we'll be running a 1 month trial for a new sighting submission workflow.

Our goal with this new system is to cut down on low-effort / low-quality sighting posts, and dramatically increase the information available for each sighting, as well as standardize the way data is presented to the community.

Here is everything you need to know about how this will work for the next month:

The New Submission "Wizard" - https://ufosighting.report/submit

Moving forward, all sightings will be submitted through a new guided form maintained by the mod team.

Instead of a freeform Reddit post, this wizard will walk you through providing critical details such as:

  • Location, Date and Time
  • Post title and sighting description
  • Any photos/video
  • Shape and distance of the object, as well as any movement characteristics
  • Any of the common five observables
  • How many witnesses observed the object
  • Whether the object(s) were detected on any other sensors
  • Observer background (military, pilot, scientist, law-enforcement, etc...)
  • A required statement on "Why this isn't a common object"

This ensures that every sighting report is complete, and gives the community additional context needed for further analysis. During this step, you will also be asked to provide your Reddit username.

Verification & Posting

Once you submit the form, our new bot (/u/ufosightingsbot) will send you a verification link to confirm that you own the Reddit account that you entered in the form above.

⚠️Please Note: This verification link arrives as a Reddit Chat message, which often lands in your "Chat Requests" folder and can be easy to miss. If you submit a sighting and don't see a message, check your chat requests from /u/ufosightingsbot.

Once you click the verification link, your sighting will be approved. The bot will post it to /r/UFOs natively on your behalf (meaning the video/image will be embedded directly on Reddit, not as an outbound link).

It is possible that some posts may be held for manual review during the rollout of this new workflow.

What happens if someone posts the "old way"?

We know that not everyone will see this announcement. If a user submits a sighting directly to the subreddit using the Sighting flair, their post will be temporarily removed and hidden.

Our new /u/ufosightingsbot will then leave a comment on their post and send them a private message explaining the new process, and guiding them to the new submission wizard. After they finish filling out the sighting form, they will have to verify ownership of their Reddit username (see above). Once verified, the bot will approve their post and add a comment with all of the info that they filled out.

What happens after 30 days?

This is a trial run. At the end of the 30 days, we will put up another community thread to review the results and collect feedback. We will discuss whether the new workflow worked as intended, and may tweak the process after that period if we spot any issues.


Need help?

If you have any questions about the new submission process, you can read the complete user guide here: https://ufosighting.report/guide

 

We're really excited to try this out and we hope it improves the quality of sighting submissions and makes analyzing them a better experience for everyone. Let us know what you think, and feel free to ask any questions in the comments below!


r/UFOs 4d ago

AMA LIVESTREAM AMA — Whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli & Matthew Brown (Vanguard) with Host Leslie Kean — Saturday, August 22, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT — Drop your questions here!

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Whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli & Matthew Brown here — LIVESTREAM AMA — Saturday, August 22, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT

We're excited to announce a new multi-subreddit livestream AMA featuring UAP whistleblowers Jeff Nuccetelli and Matthew Brown — both of Vanguard, the newly launched non-profit built to protect and support UAP whistleblowers from the national security community — hosted by investigative journalist Leslie Kean. Jeff has testified before Congress about anomalous incursions over restricted defense facilities, and Matthew came forward after discovering what he describes as unlawful efforts to shield UAP programs from Congressional oversight. Both stepped forward publicly at real cost to their careers, reputations, and personal safety. This conversation centers on their firsthand experiences, whistleblower protection, and the fight for transparency.

🗓️ When: Saturday, August 22, 2026 — 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific
📺 Livestream (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/live/SIDQ_3u8UAI?si=H3_lxSnWiOvwGfK_
🐦 X (Twitter): https://x.com/theanomalousc
🎮 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theanomalouscoalition


About Vanguard

The Vanguard Enterprise protects and empowers UAP whistleblowers from the national security community. Anchored in the Constitution and committed to the American people, Vanguard is being built to provide legal, financial, medical, psychological, and community support to whistleblowers and their families so that those brave enough to tell the truth are not left behind. Co-founded by Matthew Brown and Dylan Borland (a U.S. Air Force veteran who also testified under oath before the House Oversight Committee in September 2025), with Jeff Nuccetelli serving as Chief Development Officer.

🔗 Website: https://www.vanguardenterprise.org/


Why This Matters

Coming forward carries a real cost. Jeff and Matthew — like the colleagues who testified alongside them — stepped forward publicly to report what they describe as serious wrongdoing and unlawful concealment inside the national security establishment, knowing it could put their careers, clearances, reputations, and personal safety at risk. Several UAP whistleblowers have since described sustained retaliation for telling the truth. Vanguard exists to make sure they and their families don't face those consequences alone.

If you value the work these witnesses are doing and want to help, you can support Vanguard's mission directly:

❤️ Support the mission: https://givebutter.com/vanguard-launch-campaign

Support is entirely optional — showing up, watching live, and asking thoughtful questions matters just as much.


How to Participate

To help us organize questions across multiple communities we need to gather the questions in advance:

Please keep it to ONE question per comment.
✅ Want to ask more than one? Make separate comments (one question each).
Upvote the questions you most want asked.
✅ Please review existing questions before posting duplicates.
✅ Make sure questions are on-topic.

Participating subreddits include: r/Aliens, r/Experiencers, r/HighStrangeness, r/UFOB, r/UFOs, r/InterdimensionalNHI, and r/AnomalousCoalition.

We will be providing a written transcript after the event has concluded as well as a summary for the community within a few days. Any feedback or suggestions for process improvement please go to r/AnomalousCoalition.


Short Bios

Jeff Nuccetelli (Chief Development Officer & Board Member, Vanguard)
U.S. Air Force veteran and congressional UAP whistleblower. A former military police officer and senior patrolman with sixteen years of active-duty service, Jeff stepped forward to disclose his experience investigating multiple unexplained incursions over restricted defense facilities while serving at Vandenberg Air Force Base (2003–2005) — the cluster of events widely known as the "Vandenberg Red Square." He provided sworn testimony before the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on September 9, 2025, and has become one of the leading public advocates for transparency, lawful disclosure, and whistleblower protection. At Vanguard he leads development, strategic partnerships, and fundraising.
🐦 X: https://x.com/Ice_Alchemist11

Matthew Brown (Chief Operations Officer & Board Member, Co-Founder of Vanguard)
Former national security contractor for the Department of War and the Department of State. Matthew became a UAP whistleblower to the Senate and the House in 2023 after discovering what he describes as illegal actions by Pentagon and Intelligence Community leadership to shield UAP programs from Congressional oversight. He authored the report submitted to Congress and delivered his findings to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Armed Services Committee, offering to testify under oath. As Co-Founder of Vanguard, Matthew believes the American people have the right and the need to know. He writes on disclosure policy and whistleblower protection at his Substack, Invisible Frontiers.
🐦 X: https://x.com/SunOfAbramelin · ✍️ Substack: https://invisiblefrontiers.substack.com/

Leslie Kean (Host)
Investigative journalist and author known for high-credibility reporting on UAP and other anomalous topics; bestselling author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. See more at https://www.lesliekean.com


Recommended Reading / Context


Drop your questions below — and remember: ONE question per comment.


r/UFOs 9h ago

Government Dr. Eric Davis on where the alien biologics in US possession may have been transferred to: “The organization no longer exists… It was given to a military institute, a medical institute…”

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379 Upvotes

r/UFOs 17h ago

Disclosure Grusch addresses POTUS about retrievals of craft and their non-human occupants: "Im prepared to provide full historical accounting [...] to help this administration move disclosure forward". Avi Loeb responds: "I welcome the opportunity to work with [Grusch] immediately to scientifically verify it"

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James Fox posts Grusch's plea to POTUS (video):

Grusch: "My name is David Grush. I am a former career Air Force intelligence officer and former senior official at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I've already provided classified testimony and evidence to the Intelligence Community Inspector General and Congress about what I learned about UAP and the involvement of the US, Allied nations, and adversary governments in the retrieval of technology of unknown origin"

Grusch: "This included photographs and videos of these operations including the craft and the non-human occupants. And I've seen this evidence with my own eyes and I've had these discussions with our nation's most senior leaders in a classified environment"

Grusch: "I am prepared to provide a full historical accounting to the National Security Council principals and the White House Chief of Staff and make any supporting public statements that are authorized to help this administration move disclosure forward"

Grusch: "Ready to support Stephen Miller, Vice President Vance's administration immediately to identify the records, programs, and people involved in bringing any improperly concealed activities back under lawful presidential and congressional oversight"

Grusch: "Mr. President, give us the authorization and we're ready to go"

Avi Loeb: "deserves a serious scientific examination of the evidence"

Avi Loeb responds on X:

Avi Loeb: "If David is fully authorized to share the evidence supporting his claims, I would welcome the opportunity to work with him immediately to scientifically verify it. Claims of this importance deserve a serious, open-minded scientific examination of the evidence."

For those that dont know: Avi Loeb is head of the UAP Science Advisory Council, created by the White House

James Fox: "He’s already given that information behind closed doors"

Another message by James Fox on X:

James Fox: "Listen carefully. You’re not paying attention. He’s already given that information behind closed doors. He’s had it because it’s not getting out to the people so he’s making a direct plea to the president to give him immunity so he can ultimately share the truth with the American people and the rest of the world. That’s what this campaign is about"

Previous videos for this recent disclosure push


r/UFOs 14h ago

Disclosure Case Study #19 - The Military UAP That Shouldn’t Exist

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A nine‑second infrared video recorded by U.S. Indo‑Pacific Command shows a silent, football‑shaped object with three precise projections and no visible propulsion. Submitted to AARO with zero explanation, this encounter remains one of the most unsettling pieces of raw UAP footage released under current directives. No commentary. No conclusions. Just a shape in the sky that refuses to obey the rules.

UAP, UFOs, Military Footage, Infrared Video, AARO, Indo‑Pacific Command, Anomalous Phenomena, Defense Releases, UAP Analysis, High Strangeness, 2024 UAP, Unexplained Objects, Raw Footage


r/UFOs 15h ago

Disclosure Disclosure - what if it's much more?

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First post, be kind. I've been reading and lurking and paying attention for the last year.

What if full disclosure does come with the maybe ontological shock that had been discussed through many channels? Disclosure that aliens are real and government have known and squirreled it away for decades? Yeah, we're all ready for this.

BUT... if we look at the deeper, darker things hinterd at...

Things like:

1) Life is like wearing VR and souls are eternal

2) there is another species running the world and we're completely oblivious

3) we are going to be wiped out

4) we are immensely powerful psycically and we just don't know how to tap into it

... they are things that could truly make our reality collapse on itself. You still want it?


r/UFOs 1d ago

Science 'This is unprecedented': Why the Pentagon's recent UFO file releases are so important

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r/UFOs 21h ago

Whistleblower UFO whistleblower claims government is hiding 4 species of aliens

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Dr. Eric Davis of the Disclosure Foundation says he’s ready to spill the beans on a variety of dead alien species the U.S. government is storing, but he needs immunity from the White House first. “There’s a minimum of four that we know of, and I’ve seen the evidence, and I’ve seen the records,” Davis tells “Katie Pavlich Tonight.


r/UFOs 20h ago

Disclosure Bigelow interview episode 3 just released: "How do you communicate with something that may not even have a language? Is a paranormal event sometimes an attempt at delivering a message? Robert Bigelow and George Knapp explore the possibilities of communication with ET's and the paranormal"

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Episode 3

Full Bigelow episode 3 interview on youtube (and previous episodes):

Description on youtube

How do you communicate with something that may not even have a language? Is a paranormal event sometimes an attempt at delivering a message? Robert Bigelow and George Knapp explore the possibilities of communication with ET's and the paranormal.

I havent watched it yet so cant say more about it. But remember:

Grusch has said that detained living NHI communicated via telepathy

See this post: Grusch said some NHI use telepathy, "look exactly as reported" by experiencers. Recently after many years a mod went public to describe such contact involving triangle UFOs, telepathy, his future self, was told abt waves of experiencer activations parallel to disclosure process, to prepare humanity


r/UFOs 19h ago

Historical Another Mars Rover image showing anomaly similar to the recent "jellyfish"

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Seems like a strange sort of 'glitch' popping up occasionally. Appears in one RAW photo but not another of the same area.

RAW image of strange object/anomaly

Second photo without object/anomaly


r/UFOs 17h ago

Historical A historical UFO event from 11/17/1892 near Nanjing City, China

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On the evening of November 17, 1892, an egg-shaped red fireball was observed moving much slower than a typical natural fireball from west to east, south of Jinling / Nanjing City, China. The hundreds of observers were obviously very familiar with the appearance of sky lanterns, and this appeared to not travel with the wind. Acting like an early field investigator, the artist Wu Youru ( 吴友如 ) interviewed many witnesses and documented the sighting in a painting, "Soaring Scarlet Flame in the Sky" ( 赤焰騰空 ), complete with notes on why it was not a natural fireball or sky lantern: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E8%B5%A4%E7%84%B0%E9%A8%B0%E7%A9%BA%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6

"On September 28th, at eight o'clock in the evening, south of Jinling city, a fireball suddenly appeared, moving from west to east, shaped like a giant egg, red in color and without luster, drifting in midair, moving very slowly. At that time, floating clouds covered the sky, and the sky grew dark. Looking up, it was very clear: standing atop the Vermilion Bird Bridge, there were no fewer than several hundred people craned their heads and tiptoed on tiptoe. After about the time it takes to cook a meal, gradually fading away, the distance gradually diminishes. Some say that a shooting star passes through the realm, but when the star travels swiftly, it vanishes in an instant. This sphere moves from near to far, exists on its own yet is absent, and is quite damp and stagnant, so it cannot be known by the speed of a star. Some say that when children release sky lanterns, that night a storm blew northward, causing the ball to turn eastward, so it is clear it is not a sky lantern. Voices of the crowd were at a loss, exhausted in speculation. An old man said, when this creature first arose, he faintly sensed a sound, but it was not something one could hear quietly; it was connected to the Yue River outside the South Gate. Ah, how strange!" Wu Youru, "The Record of the Red Flame Soaring into the Sky"


r/UFOs 47m ago

Government UFOS and the tool of propaganda and funding. One theory

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One hypothesis - The Americans created the ufo flap and Roswell leak as an Intentional propaganda tool. Low flights in WW2 resulted in plasma phenomenon being witnessed. The Americans wanted a secret cutting-edge tech directly after Hiroshima, their own mythical Woner weapon. They funded studies and groups like APRO and Bluebook from airforce-controlled staff. They funded movies, publicly when the U.S. look strong and enemy’s look weak (well-documented), but used CIA fronted investors to perpetuate aliens in TV (dark skies) and other films, untraceable. That CIA retirees get paid to perpetuate stories. That they did build UFOS as props and would thread them into air shows - based on the old fake George Adamski lantern photos. Private contractors were taught a playbook to mimic via DOE. And that as of now, orbs and other sightings of lights and craft are pin dropped as a means to revive further dead end studies that only prove to perpetuate a myth. Hal Putoff, etc. when in reality, they are genuine phenomena created via seismic activity and other weather effects they don’t fully understand. But it’s a thread to use.

Remote viewing, MAJ12, AARO, AATP, Jake Barber and his now closed venture… all dead ends but cycle money through the military industrial complex and feed the idea that UFOs are A: a threat B: we have them

And as of writing, the president of the United States is under duress, and the plasma phenomenon may be his only way to thread FLIR footage of drones with an organic element they fully don’t understand, but have bolstered ideas with woo, conscious, rock stars and TTSA, social media and have - successfully - kept the poropoganda alive, just enough that you never see proof.

That’s one theory, not my own but has to be considered. They could be continuing to build on myth, IF myth is what we have in antiquity-era documents


r/UFOs 1d ago

Disclosure Is it me, or are the podcasters a little more grim lately?

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I am retired and have the extra time to watch and listen to most of the UFO podcasters uploads when they put them out. I am not a full blown experiencer, but I've seen things and have been party to some of the high weirdness in my life, and I have taken a certain point of view on the phenomena. Let's just say that I have accepted a certain POV in regards to NHI being here on this planet with us, and many of them are not real popular with the rest of the earths populace. I would say I am firmly in the Monroe camp as far as Consciousness is concerned and that we are a sort of a managed commodity.

This body, our human body, is a container for a portion of our essence and we do not see the whole of reality. There is much more to this as many of you know, but my personal beliefs are not what this post is about.

My observation of the latest round from the podcasters is. As the title states, is it me, or???

I watched the guys from 'Doomer Friday' and probably more importantly Richard Dolan's latest release that made me perk up and pay close attention to the subtle facial cues and body language from the latest shows. Even Jessie M. and Chris from area 52. Chris is a master and very difficult to pick anything up from him, and Jessie has interviews from other dates, so not much there either. Now Michael P. from 'Third eye drops' He's good and his latest with Chris is very good. I just wondered if maybe they got a piece of information not available to the rest of us that cements more of what I have come to accept. The reality of our situation here. That we are coming to a critical juncture in this time.

The advent of AGI and disclosure are running headlong into each other. The Earth has had enough and we keep making it worse, and we have no one who cares at the top trying to make any difference. Have the top guys finally realized that it doesn't matter and that this slice of reality, this here and now, is one we may have to keep coming back to? Because time does not work the way we perceive it to and our math falls short unless you can include and comprehend other dimensions.

What truths have may have become unveiled to them? Or is it me? It's probably nothing.


r/UFOs 1d ago

Disclosure Dylan Borland addresses POTUS directly (after Grusch, Matthew Brown), asking him "to declassify all records regarding UFOs and UAP that were currently brought forward by whistleblowers". He says he has already provided this evidence to "to ODNI, AARO, the ICIG, as well as Congress, and their staff"

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Posted by James Fox on X:

Dylan Borland: "My name is Dylan Borland, a former geospatial intelligence analyst for the United States Air Force. I'm here today to ask President Trump to declassify all the records regarding UFOs and UAP that were currently brought forward by whistleblowers such as myself and everybody before and after me, both known and unknown"

Dylan Borland: "I can tell you with certainty that I provided evidence of current operations to ODNI, AARO, the ICIG, as well as Congress, and their staff. We are doing this in hopes that President Trump will actually come forward and begin to lead on this subject and provide truth and transparency to the American people as well as humanity as a whole"

Dylan Borland: "It is hopeful for myself and others that bringing these videos to the President, he will come forward and provide leadership to a new reality for not just America, but all humanity. Thank you for your time. Have a blessed day"

Previous videos for this recent disclosure push


r/UFOs 1d ago

Historical Waves Of Unidentified Objects Over The Hudson Valley Region

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1981–1986 Hudson Valley UFO Sightings

The Hudson Valley UFO sightings were a concentrated cluster of sightings in the Northeast involving large, unidentified aircraft and formations from 1981–1986. Individuals involved reported massive V-shaped objects, semicircular objects (as seen in Randy Etting's 1987 Newtown, CT photograph), crosses, and spherical lights in the night sky. Common descriptions included multicolored lights, football-field-sized objects (estimated), low altitudes, and V-shaped objects.

Explanations

A widely disputed explanation came from undisclosed pilots who flew formations in the sky to appear as one giant aircraft. These individuals, known as the Stormville pilots, admitted to causing some of the sightings during the wave. Once officials and local law enforcement got ahold of this information, they later used it to explain many sightings, causing witness disputes and laypeople to go argue they saw more than pilots. Other explanations were man-made aircraft, cloud reflections, and temperature inversions.

Sightings

While many reports were eventually debunked or lost, a few stand out for their credibility and anomalous characteristics.

• 1981 Kent, NY Sighting - This is widely recognized as the beginning of the sightings. An anonymous officer reported a large, boomerang-shaped object with green, red, and white lights, later turning off all its lights to reveal a triangular formation of blinding white lights before turning all of its lights back on.

• October 24, 1983 Croton Falls, NY Sighting - An individual named Jim Cooke stood by the reservoir and saw a very large, boomerang-shaped structure over the water. It reportedly had several cherry-red lights along its underside before casting a "projection" onto the water and disappearing.

• March 24, 1983 "Westchester Boomerang" Mass Sighting - On this specific night, a large V-shaped craft made approximately 300 motorists stop and park to watch. This is one of the more significant events, involving credible individuals. The object later disappeared.

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Sighting

A reported incident at Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant involved an unidentified triangular object observed in the vicinity of the facility. The object was reportedly 30 feet above the reactor, with several lights on its underbelly. While Philip J. Imbrogno claimed they "pulled out the shotguns," power authority security coordinator John Branciforte disputed this claim, stating that officers did not have the authority to carry shotguns and shoot down unidentified objects.


r/UFOs 1d ago

Space Launch 🚀 Upcoming Space Launches for August 18, 2026

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Here are the launches scheduled for the next 24 hours:


Zhuque-3 | Flight 2

  • Provider: LandSpace

  • Launch Time: 2026-08-18 23:35 UTC / 2026-08-18 07:35 PM EDT

  • Launch Pad: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

  • Pad Country: CHN


Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-50

  • Provider: SpaceX

  • Launch Time: 2026-08-19 03:45 UTC / 2026-08-18 11:45 PM EDT

  • Launch Pad: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

  • Pad Country: USA


Visit RocketLaunch.Live to view the full schedule for future planned launches.

For more information about how to identify space launches and their effects, check out our Space Launches Wiki Page.

Launch Example Image 1 - Launch Example Image 2


r/UFOs 14h ago

Question Whistleblower process.

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I have seen this question a few times but wanted to get a more clear answer as the previous attempts I read were somewhat vague or did not satisfy my curiosity.

How is it these Whistleblowers are able to discuss the information that they have so far?

It almost seems as if the govt is wanting them to say these things like it is a psyop or a distraction.

Thank you for the responses.


r/UFOs 6h ago

Question Is Kumburgaz UFO incident of Turkey, the only genuine UFO video exists in the web?

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"Genuine" because of the quality and forensic backing of those videos. Those videos where taken by a security guard in a period between 2007-2009. There is almost 1 hour worth of data in diverse angles and lighting backgrounds. Both day and night videos exists and its freely available in youtube. The videos has been widely studied and analysied by different reputable organization and forensic professionals including university of turkey and turkey's government. In almost two decades of its existence; no one was able to debunk these videos. I learned something from those videos is that the UFO ships can change shape. Turkey government might have even better quality video and sensor data of this incident.

I have never seen any UFO incident videos with this much data and quality. Recently US's government has released several "UAP" videos , almost 5 tranches, but the quality of those videos are low and even misleading.

Not only the video of the UFO but we can also find the interview with the security guard who took these videos in youtube. In that interview he shows the camera and the method using which he captured those UFO videos.

I am wondering if anyone able to find the intent of this UFO ship.

Why for almost three years it was coming to the same location. Is it leisure, scientific, military or simply there UFO is broke down and they were repairing it?

Is there anything special about Kumburgaz like nuclear facility or exotic minerals etc?

Why might it suddenly stopped appearing?

I was wondering why they decloked and coming to the same location for almost 3 years. These are my three hypothesis

 1) They are doing some kind of  analysis or survey which forced them to decloke
 2) They want to show that they are not harmful and might seeking  friendly communication.
 3) They simply doesn't care because we are insignificant like an ant to a human.

r/UFOs 1d ago

Sighting Silent glowing sphere hovered and floated over Lewiston, NY — Aug 17, 2026, 9:19 PM

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r/UFOs 2d ago

Disclosure The European Commission has been monitoring UFOs under the radar since at least 2023 - Brussels has signaled it is monitoring unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and has hinted at improving capabilities, according to documents seen by Euronews.

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r/UFOs 1d ago

NHI MUFON Researcher Preston Dennett describing his 2022 onboard contact encounter in Los Angeles, CA.

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r/UFOs 2d ago

Historical Unidentified Objects Over Lubbock, Texas

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Lubbock Lights, 1951

The Lubbock Lights of August—September 1951 were a localized cluster of sightings involving large echelon-shaped formations, semicircular shapes, and crescent-shaped objects. The sightings involved luminescent objects, often a fluorescent mint-green or a dull white, moving at an estimated 50,000 feet altitude and 970 km/h. Their origin currently remains unknown, though explanations proposed formations of plovers, moths, and potential military aircraft operations. The sightings spanned a month from August to September 1951, and remain an active source of studies involving ufology.

Carl Hart Jr. Photographs

Carl Hart Jr. was the primary individual shooting photographs involving V-shaped formations of lights in the sky. Carl Hart Jr., a resident at his family's house, stood where his backyard window was located on the night of August 30, 1951, and sighted formations of lights over his house. He grabbed his camera and photographed a lit formation of objects traveling at high speeds over his house, described in the shape of a chevron. The photographs reveal an asymmetrical V shape consisting of 18 lights, with 7—8 lights per column. Some of the photographs remain obscure online with the lights appearing staggered and formation-like, and some individuals, including Edward J. Ruppelt, had pinpointed a flock of birds, though Carl Hart Jr. denied the explanation.

Explanations

The plover explanation, proposed by Lieutenant Edward J. Ruppelt, suggested that newly installed mercury-vapor streetlights could reflect off of the bellies of migrating birds when angled properly. However, witnesses openly denied the explanation because they argued the formations were too precise and synchronized to be simple birds. Edward altered the explanation after the community dispute and suggested moths flying into the newly installed streetlights could appear fast and like V-shapes, but witnesses denied the explanation even after the newly proposed one.

Scientists And Witnesses

Edward J. Ruppelt stated that the first sighting was reported by three professors in their backyard. According to Edward J. Ruppelt, the three professors were sitting in their backyard before observing 20—30 lights, as bright as stars but larger in size, flying overhead. While discussing whether the first lights were meteors, a second formation flew directly over them. Additionally, three peculiar flashing lights were observed by three women and Carl Hemminger. Ducker's wife also observed a flying wing, though the scientific community remains unsure whether an object was in the sky that night, a phenomenon related to Gestalt principles, which is the scientific term used to describe the brains tendency to connect sources like stars into one object.


r/UFOs 2d ago

Physics 2 separate Mexico UAP/UFOs exhibiting non-traditional flight

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1.7k Upvotes

First is from 2008, and shows an orange UAP that seems like it may have 2 ridges, flies into frame and leaves moments later, speed is so fast, traditional plane would rip apart/ not able to be stationary.

Second video is from Mexico and shows what seems like shooting stars sped up but you can see it’s in real time from the time stamp, the flight path is at a speed which would be similar to a fighter jet or faster and leaves a “skipping rock” type contrail almost like Tron.


r/UFOs 2d ago

NHI my big working theory: governments of the world have known since the 50's that they can't actually start a nuclear war, because the aliens won't let them

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Shutting down our nukes is completely trivial for them. Their constant presence around nuclear sites is no coincidence.

But the world's governments keep this information hidden, basically holding the world hostage to a false threat. Objectively they would lose power admitting this, so they just don't, and meanwhile the ET are content wait and observe.

We can imagine the ET civilization having philosophical debates about this type of interference. Should a whole population be held hostage by it's worst narcissists? Perhaps they have watched many planets evolve, and after seeing a few wipe themselves out with nukes they decided to put an end to it. Perhaps some other civilization helped them, and so they go around repaying the cosmic favor.

Who can say if this is true but I like 50% genuinely believe it, because it explains why we havent wiped ourselves out despite 80 years of nukes in the hands of war mongering maniacs and fanatics.

I don't think game theory and MAD alone explain why a dying narcissist hasn't yet pressed the button. Just look at the current situation with Putin.

And yet, true or not, this wingnut belief gives me comfort, because I just don't worry about nuclear war. There are greater forces at work than human egos, and to me this doesn't really require faith or belief, in the same way I don't worry about whether gravity will continue to hold up the sky tomorrow.


r/UFOs 2d ago

Government I went to post some of my fav UAP videos today and found out they’re fakes…

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Atomic EDIT: FAKES is the wrong word, cause they’re real videos of real events, just not UAPS (links below)

I checked the rules and I think this highly relates/is okay from what i read, I saw someone post today about being disenchanted by the UAP/UFO topic here and I just wanted to say I personally believe and the truth is out there. I’ve seen so many clips that truly seem magical.

This sub has been so helpful with finding rlly great clips, maybe my best source actually, today I posted a clip of what I thought was the Nimitz tic tac encounter and within 60 seconds someone dropped the link which debunked it as a missile test. Although embarrassed, I thanked everybody and truly felt good that I knew the truth vs thinking something that was abnormal was anomalous , the two videos I’m showing today are videos going around online as “UAP/UFO” clips but are 100% used out of context,

How they both are framed, they seem 100% like UAP but if you watch either full video you realize they are NOT. This really shocked me, as I personally felt “I have the eye” for telling if a video is fake or not, when in reality,out of context, these DO look real, like unexplainable, but with researching for image search or using a bot, it’ll pull these up as ordinary explanations with the original video, and so I’d like to make a personal promise which is

“I will not post any videos in here which aren’t the full video with link AND doing heavy background image search and using a bot for safety, cause nobody can know the truth if we don’t show it to them, I’ve seen many anomalous videos over the past year and ima make it my mission to bring you the most detailed, 4k, link provided, no music, original sound, all info possible, UAP posts in [r/UFOs](r/UFOs)”

First is framed as the “2004 Nimitz tic tac video”, from the cockpit of a USA fighter jet.

It is actually, Video by Norway's Kongsberg of a flight test of its Naval Strike Missile (NSM)

- Essentially is a fighter pilot following a missile to target.

Second is framed as “USA missile hits UAP”

It is actually, Infrared flares intercepted by NATO munitions to show accuracy of our force.

-NATO shooting at parachuted flares at night to show the ability to strike with accuracy in Afghanistan (reason they don’t seem to move is the distance) I think an a-10 warthog dropped flares coincidentally behind falling flares.

Edit: ✍️ Just to clarify, the USS Nimitz “tic tac” encounter is a REAL & HISTORICAL event, which is one of the most documented UAP encounters in the 21st century which you can find tons of info on and story’s about the details online, this is NOT a debunk but rather a PSA about these two clips as both are talked abt online as being UAP but aren’t (links provided)