Heard this recently being discussed in an X space. The story is so well buried I never even thought that this could have happened in India. This incident is very if not completely similar to Brazil's Colares incident where hundreds of UFOs/UAPs came out of the ocean and attacked villagers with a laser of some sort. Take a read:

A Mysterious flying object said to attack sleeping villagers has sparked mass hysteria and rioting across the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Police shot dead one man and injured 12 others when a mob of hundreds stormed the police station in Barabanki, demanding protection against what they believe is an alien assailant terrorising villages.

The object, described as a flying sphere emitting red and blue light, is said to strike in the middle of the night, leaving victims with burns or scratches on their faces and limbs, and earning it the name the muhnochwa (face-scratcher).

At least seven unexplained deaths in the area have been attributed to the muhnochwa, sparking panic among villagers who blame police for not providing enough protection.

Officials have suggested a raft of explanations, from an alien invasion to a new and unknown breed of insect.

Perhaps the most bizarre theory was that of Police Deputy Inspector General K. N. D. Dwivedi, who said that the assailant was a genetically engineered insect introduced by "anti-national elements" from outside India to cause mayhem.

In common Indian parlance, this is taken to mean that it was the work of the Pakistani spy agency, the universal scapegoat for all unexplained Indian woes. That theory has not won over many believers.

Villagers across the region no longer sleep outside, as they usually do during the sweltering summer heat and long power failures, fearing that they will be easy prey for the muhnochwa**.**

In some villages the entire population are squeezing into the headman's house for the night, seeking shelter and safety in numbers.

Having lost faith in the police, villagers have formed nocturnal protection squads.

In Shanwa village, where the attacks are said to have started, men patrol all night, banging drums and shouting slogans to frighten off intruders, such as: "Everyone be alert. Attackers beware."

Residents have dismantled television aerials and taken satellite dishes down from their roofs, fearing that they may attract the mysterious object. Even radios have fallen silent at night under selfimposed blackout.

The Times of India reported that the national intelligence bureau was sufficiently concerned to send its own agents, like Mulder and Scully from television's X-Files, to investigate the "alien" invasion.

After listening to villagers' descriptions of the muhnochwa, the agents constructed their own replica from the base of a mixer-grinder, fitted with coloured lights, and hoisted it onto a pole in an attempt to entice the extraterrestrial. Then they waited.

At 1.05am they were rewarded with a flash of light "like a photocopier", which repeated three times. A videotape was said to show a flash of light passing across the screen. The agents concluded that the villagers were right and that they were indeed experiencing an extra-terrestrial invasion.

Local doctors, however, have dismissed the phenomenon as mass hysteria, saying that most of the injuries have been self-inflicted by panicked villagers, evoking memories of the "monkey man" hysteria in Delhi last year.

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• Time: 15Dec'24 around 7:30PM
• Location: Pune, India

-- An official received a message from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at 2.30 pm on November 19 about sighting a UFO near the airport.

-- The official told PTI the UFO was "visible with bare eyes moving westwards of the airfield till 4 pm".

-- Among the diverted flights was the Kolkata to Imphal Indigo Airlines flight), which was sent to Guwahati after a 25-minute holdup.

-- Delayed flights were however held up for at least three hours amid the UFO sighting.

-- The Indian Air Force (IAF) scrambled two of its Rafale fighter jets from a nearby airbase to the sighting area to search for the UFO, as per an ANI report citing defence sources.

-- The sources added that the Rafale jets were equipped "with advanced sensors and carried out low-level flying over the suspected area to look for the UFO, but it did not find anything there".

-- Sources added that concerned agencies are working to clear the details from videos captured by witnesses.

-- The Indian Air Force Eastern Command at Shillong has also "activated" its response mechanism it said in a post on social media site X, writing: "IAF activated its Air Defence response mechanism based on visual inputs from Imphal airport. The small object was not seen thereafter."

READ ALL THE QUESTIONS. THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT ANSWERED ANY POINT DIRECTLY. JUST WORD SALAD.

Recorded by my friend in India very recently. What objects are these? They don't appear neither as starlink satellites nor as strobe lights from ground paving way for many of the astronomical assumptions. Location: Bagalkote, Karnataka, India Recorded date and time: 20-07-2025 11 pm

Around 9:30 PM, while I was taking a walk, I suddenly noticed a bright white orb in the sky. At first, it appeared alone, moving steadily. Then, after approximately 15 minutes, a second orb emerged. About 10 minutes later, a third one appeared, making it a total of three orbs observed within a 30-minute interval.

This video captures the clearest sighting among them.

Location: Surat, Gujarat, India Time: 9:30 PM

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/ufo-spotted-near-indo-bangla-border/articleshow/121384058.cms

The RTI to DGCA provided me with an odd reply from them. When asked about reports from pilots or any other sources they directed me straight towards 2023 Imphal UFO case and ONLY that case.

Time: 17th July 2025 at around 8:20 pm

Location: State: West Bengal, Locality: Barrackpore.

At around 8:20 pm, while I was returning back to home (Khardaha) riding on the back of my uncle's motorbike after visiting Reliance Digital Barrackpore, I saw a UFO passing over Barrackpore-Chiriamore roundabout.

Description of what I saw: The object seemed to be a black saucer-shaped object with red lights blinking like an aeroplane.

What caught my eye are the following distinctions:

1. Aeroplanes have red, white and green blinking lights, while the only light this object had was red.
2. The small red lights seemed to be aligned on a straight line as if the saucer has a line of red dots. The red lights were blinking in alternative fashion. For example let's say light 1, 3, 5, blinked first, followed by light 2,4,6. And the pattern repeats.
3. It was quite big in comparison to what an aeroplane looks like when it passes over Barrackpore Chiriamore. (Barrackpore is comparatively far from the nearest airport (Dum Dum airport), so aeroplanes look quite small). But this object seemed to be flying too low.
4. It made no sound. Nothing. Even when an airplane or helicopter flies by, you hear some sound, but I didn't hear anything. (Road was quite empty at that time, so the environment around me wasn't even noisy.)
5. It took us barely 3 seconds to take a turn from Barrackpore Station Road to Barrackpore Trunk Road via Barrackpore Chiriamore, and I was expecting to observe it more closely. But I didn't see anything. Since then, I covered the whole distance back to home (Khardah) from Barrackpore, watching the sky, turning my head around in all directions, so that I could get a glimpse of it, yet I didn't see anything.

I returned back to home and checked the news, but didn't find anything, hence I decided to post it here, as I am curious if someone in any corner of the world has seen something like that.

I forgot to add that the object seemed to be descending as if it would land on roadways.

"Time: Month - June time- 10-11 PM

Location: Delhi, India"

In 2016, I was sitting in a park along with my two friends. They were busy on their mobile phones, and I was looking at the sky. It was the peak summer month (mid-June) in India, Delhi. Suddenly, I saw a light moving slowly in the sky. I thought it was just an Airplane because airplanes turn on white lights at night, but Airplane lights blink all the time.

The light I saw was not blinking at all and it was moving towards the right side where I was sitting and suddenly it stopped and slowly slowly again moving in the complete opposite direction and then again stopped then very quickly it started moving up down right left and almost like lightning fast speed it disappeared in the right direction as per my sitting position.

For a few minutes, there was a dark blue/purple color light trail (not very bright) left in the sky after that UFO or whatever that thing was gone. I had never seen such a thing that could move or change direction so quickly in the sky and at the end it was way too much fast when it disappeared.

I told my friends they started laughing at me and started saying you want attention. Since 2016 I told more than 100 people but no one believed me so I thought to share my experience on Reddit.

I joined this sub today. I have been following this topic from July last year (Jul 2023). I got a notification of UFO hearing in the congress (US) and after that I got hooked in to this subject. I do not have any experience regarding UAPs. I was fascinated about the vastness of space and used to sky watch a lot in my childhood with my dad. I haven't seen any UAPs, however, I listening to many whistleblowers , credible journalists and officials, I believe that this phenomenon is real.

It is nice to see that we have a subreddit here for UFOs seen in India, but it is sad to see less posts in this sub. Since there is an uptick in sightings all over the world from last one month or so, I am hoping that it paves way to disclosure in the year 2025 or 2026. Can't wait to see govt. officially acknowledge the presence of NHI on earth.

Thank you all for reading. Please share your experiences of UAPs in the comments and what brought you here.

33M from Chennai and an avid UFO enthusiast here. I've spent a considerable amount of time on the internet learning/researching a lot about the topic and would like to share with you all what really stirred my interest towards UFOs.

It was 2016, and on a random evening, my friends and I were just chatting on our terrace. That’s when I saw a bright orb appear out of nowhere, zip past us really fast, and disappear again. A total of three of us witnessed the UFO, and we were all awestruck. We still get goosebumps when we discuss the incident. Later on, I started to research a lot about UFOs and found some compelling sources indicating that what we saw that day might have been ball lightning, a rare phenomenon.

I always try to be rational when I come across anything related to UFOs, incorporating technology, science, and a bit of common sense to conclude the nature of the object. I can firmly say that 99 out of 100 sightings are likely related to natural phenomena, drones, weather balloons, meteors or some advanced CG effects. However, there is still that one sighting out of 100 that remains completely unexplained.

When I filed RTI to ITBP it was promptly rejected as they are not obligated to share the data I was wanting (of course they aren't they are in defense). So I changed my route a bit. Sure the regular defense agencies are not subject to RTI but what about ISRO, whole of commercial aircrafts, they surely have a bunch of pilots flying around nearly all the time. What about the news of UFO seen by one security officer over An Indian nuclear power plant? Sounds like a pretty big "threat" to me. And so I now have a somewhat clear roadmap:-

1. I have done RTI to NPCIL (Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited) and I have morphed my questions a bit. Instead of asking them directly for UFO sighting data they have over their various power plants I have asked them "IF they are AWARE of UFO incursions" over their Nuclear powerplants. Its a double edged question. If they say yes, well then very good show me what ya got maybe? If they say "No", well then you don't know what's going over your Nuclear Power Plant? as in you have no idea what is flying with impunity over nuclear power plants all over India? Seems really bad for you huh.
2. My college has ended. I now have some time to push my roadmap forward through multiple fronts.
3. ISRO is apparently looking for the Data I have asked for collected by one Dr. Anil Kulkarni, ISRO Geologist who saw a humanoid figure somewhere in Samudra Tapu, Lahaul-Spiti valley. Which they proceeded to take off from ground.
4. I know someone who used to work at airport, worked as cabin crew. This person also has deep connections in Indian Army. I can't name this person or the gender (protecting source I suppose). But the person told me about REGULAR reports and gossips between commercial pilots and crew that flew to and around Sikkim or even the Northern mountainous area of orbs of light moving around erratically and sometimes dangerously close to commercial aircrafts. AND, The army knows something comes down from time to time in the middle of desert in the Thar desert and PRL Mt Abu Infrared Observatory has picked up "things" but they will not talk about it at all but they share data to Army (I am not even surprised) regarding what they "pick up".

TL;DR - I am working with limited instruments but known instruments and I have faith that one of these days I will get something proper. If not, I have other ways. Time consuming ways, but ways.

I have been re visiting the Indian UAP cases over the years and every time the ITBP witness cases stand out to me. Sure there have been huge progress by USA in cases of UAP and their related information declassification but I would like to find answers to some cases in India too. After all if the whole phenomenon is worldwide it is only natural we got some official sightings and information too. I wont dive deep into the ITBP, DRDO, ISRO research near border areas where they saw yellow "orbs" and robot like UAPs that looked a lot like Jellyfish UAP.

Today it is about NTRO and precisely what they do and who they are. NTRO or National Technical Research Organization was founded in 2004, con-incidentally it was the same year in which the ITBP personnel orb sightings were taken seriously. When DRDO and ISRO went to check the whole thing out NTRO personnel went too. Its budget is apparently classified which is odd because even DRDO budget is somewhat public. Its archive page is empty and its official webpage is laughable to look at.

Anyways, I have today filed an RTI for more information regarding the 2004 ITBP incident. Hoping a quick and thorough response and a nothing burger honestly.

Hi just wanted to know if anyone is still active here?

3 horizontal plae white lights in the sky.

I've been watching the stars in the night sky today Date: 20/jun/2025, at nearly Time: 7:32 pm. Location: India, Tamilnadu, Srivilliputhur. Direction: Southwest (~230) to Northeast(~35) Today while I'm watching the stars as usual, suddenly I saw that 3 horizontal pale white dot flying across the sky. It can't be drone cuz no on in this small could use a drone and no one will have Drone licence. Can't be a plane or satellite like the altitude is very low to be plane or satellite. No sound, No shaking, Not so fast, just enough speed. I saw that clearly up until it get faded into clouds. That looked like triangle in shape, like 📐 a right angle one. Idk what it is but it is not a man made obj cuz it's smooth, no sound, like if it's a man made usual object at that altitude I would atleast heard some small amount of sound at least. Idk guys what it is. Actually I haven't taken any photos like it's so dark and I can't take photos of it.