A ‘flame in the sky,’ eerie red glowing objects and swarms of UFOs over military bases are just some of the many sightings that have gravely concerned the US government.
There are dozens of unsolved cases going back to the 1960s that occurred over nuclear missile installations, Navy ships and a desert in New Mexico.
The FBI, CIA, and other government branches have spent years looking into these reports, but have yet to determine what the objects were and where they came from.
One report in 2019 detailed how ‘drones’ appeared over Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Kansas as locals reported spying a mothership hanging in the sky.
In just the last few months, the skies over New Jersey were filled with unidentified aircraft and drones that required a formal response from both the Biden and Trump presidencies.
Now, as the current administration weighs declassifying many of these UFO-related incidents, there could soon be new information about some of the key close encounters the government has taken extremely seriously over the years.
Base attacked for 17 days
Swarms of small UFOs were tracked at dusk above Joint Base Langley-Eustis for at least 17 nights in December 2023.
Witnesses reported them ‘moving at rapid speeds,’ displaying ‘flashing red, green, and white lights’ and sounding like a fleet of lawn mowers.
These brazen penetrations over the base — home to at least half the Air Force’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jets — led to two weeks of emergency White House meetings.
For at least 17 nights in December 2023, swarms of small ‘drones’ were seen penetrating the highly restricted airspace above Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Above, a photo taken by an eyewitness of one (or more) of these drones as provided to the Wall Street Journal and others
‘Drones’ sweeping over the Midwest
Reports of mysterious ‘drones’ swept through eastern Colorado and nearby areas of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Kansas over the winter of 2019 into 2020.
The sightings were in close proximity to some of America’s sensitive, nuclear-equipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
‘They all seem clustered in an area that has quite a few Minuteman sites,’ an official confessed in one email.
‘We do not know the origin of the drones,’ wrote another official at the base, which houses 150 Minuteman III ICBMs. The author then added the hashtag ‘#aliens.’
Witnesses reported that lights on these craft were sometimes ‘flashing or steady white, red, or green.’
Staff at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming claimed they also saw a ‘mothership’ six feet in diameter flanked by 10 smaller drones (some fixed wing, some not).’
‘When deputies follow the drones, they clock them at speeds of 60-70 mph,’ the base official continued.
An internal January 8, 2020 email released by F.E. Warren’s 90th Security Forces Group was adamant that drones are ‘100,000,000,000% not us.’
‘I’ve seen some articles pointing the finger as us [sic],’ one member of the base stated, ‘but I can definitely say this is not our team.’
Above, two USAF F-22 Raptors fly over Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia on June 14, 2018
An infrared image showed the three UAS off of the USS Paul Hamilton on July 17th, 2019. A ‘swarm’ of them hovered near the ship for several hours, in just one of the many occurrences Naval ships saw over the course of weeks
Invasion over the Southern California coast
Sailors on board a fleet of Navy warships sailing in the Pacific near San Diego witnessed their ships being swarmed by a host of UFOs from July 15 to 30 in 2019.
The incident went on for hours, with craft hovering and zipping around near the fleet with flashing multicolored lights.
Deputy Director for Naval Intelligence Scott Bray tried to dismiss the incidences, telling Congress in 2022 that he was ‘reasonably confident’ the objects were drones — but the solution raises its own national security concerns.
One senior source from a defense contractor told the Liberation Times that same year that these strange swarms, appeared to be ‘much more advanced’ than traditional drones.
This defense expert also noted that the crafts’ behavior made little espionage sense.
‘Chinese drones intent on spying would not announce themselves with flashing lights,’ the source noted.
There was a Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier, the Bass Strait, which sailed past one of the US ships around the same time as one of these so-called ‘drone swarm’ incidents.
That led to the US Navy suspecting that the Bass Strait was an espionage front, ‘likely using UAVs to conduct surveillance on US Naval Forces.’
All told, at least eight Navy warships off the coast of California faced these repeated aerial incursions by ‘unmanned aerial system’ (UAS) swarms.
‘Go Fast’ and ‘Gimbal’
Between the summer of 2014 and March 2015, UFOs were spotted almost every day over the skies off the East Coast, in a case made famous by Navy infrared footage released in 2017.
Infrared cockpit-camera footage taken on a later sortie by the same U.S. Navy squadron reveals another immensely fast-flying object, this one spinning in mid-air and moving against a 120-knot wind, again accompanied by commentary from totally baffled airmen.
The video showed one tiny white speck and one large, dark blob, which would later be known as ‘Go Fast’ and ‘Gimbal.’
Between the summer of 2014 and March 2015 these unexplained objects were spotted almost every day over the skies off the U.S. East Coast
These highly qualified Navy pilots, told superiors the objects seemingly defied the laws of physics.
About 30-40ft long and shaped like a Tic Tac mint, they had no wings or rotors — in fact, they had no discernible means of propulsion or flight — and, yet, they could hover in the sky, slow suddenly and accelerate almost instantaneously to hypersonic speeds of a mile a second.
Radar showed they could fly as high as 80,000ft. One pilot compared their remarkable maneuverability to a ping-pong ball bouncing off a wall. The resulting G-force would crush any humans inside.
A near collision was recorded in an official mishap report, when, in late 2014, the pilot of a Super Hornet fighter jet almost hit one of them. The pilot said it looked like a sphere encasing a cube.
Some of these UFOs, looked like a ‘dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere,’ said Lt Ryan Graves, a pilot of ten years’ service. ‘These things would be there all day.’
Orbs and flying saucers in New Mexico
Scientists at the top secret White Sands missile test range witnessed waves of orb-like UFOs and ‘flying saucers’ seemingly spying on their work in 2013/
The smaller, more orb-like UFOs appeared to be greatly interested in the White Sands team’s current classified projects, perhaps aware of the site’s long history with the WWII-era Manhattan Project that built America’s first atomic bomb.
Witnesses said the ‘orbs moved toward the test site, hovered over the device as if scanning it for intel, ‘then zipped away … over the heads of bewildered scientists.’
‘Several times over a few days,’ according to ex-Pentagon counterintelligence officer Luis Elizondo, scientists at the top secret White Sands missile test range – part of famous Los Alamos – witnessed waves of orb-like UFOs and classic ‘flying saucers’ spying on their work
Witnesses said the ‘ orbs moved toward the test site, hovered over the device as if scanning it for intel, ‘then zipped away … over the heads of bewildered scientists’
‘Tic Tac’ UFOs in 2004
Witnesses to an infamous 2004 UFO incident reveal ‘Tic-Tacs’ spotted flying at incredible speeds by top Navy pilots off the California coast were also picked up on sonar speeding underwater.
On November 14 2004, Top Gun fighter pilot David Fravor was flying a training exercise off the coast of San Diego when he was re-routed to investigate a strange object spotted on radar by warships protecting his aircraft carrier the USS Nimitz.
What he found was a roughly 40-foot white object with no windows or wings, shaped like a Tic-Tac, flitting about above the sea that was roiling below it, disturbed by something large submerged beneath the surface.
Commander Fravor told Congress in 2023 that as he circled the object, it turned to mirror his movements, then shot off past him at thousands of miles per hour.
It then stopped a second later at a secret pre-designated rendezvous point 60 miles away that only he and a handful of Navy staff on his ship were given ahead of their training exercise.
UFOs larger than an aircraft carrier
Japanese pilots flying over Alaska in 1986 radioed to air traffic control in shock over seeing three unidentified lighted objects keeping pace with their aircraft.
According to Captain Kenju Terauchi, his first officer and flight engineer saw a giant round UFO as big as an aircraft carrier and flashing multicolored lights.
The UFOs were releasing fire similar to that of jet engines and then formed a small circle of lights that transformed into a square.
The FAA’s then-division chief for accidents and investigations, John Callahan, investigated this case, pouring over radio communications, radar data, witness statements and more.
Callahan briefed the Reagan White House on JAL1628’s gigantic UFO sighting, in a meeting also attended by representatives from the FBI, CIA, and three people from President Reagan’s scientific study team.
According to Captain Kenju Terauchi, his first officer and flight engineer saw a giant round UFO as big as an aircraft carrier and flashing multicolored lights
According to Captain Kenju Terauchi, his first officer and flight engineer they also saw a giant round UFO as big as an aircraft carrier with flashing multicolored lights. FAA’s then-division chief for accidents and investigations, John Callahan, personally investigated this case
‘One of the guys from the CIA,’ Callahan recalled, ‘they actually swore all these other guys into, ‘This never took place. We never had this meeting, and this was never recorded.”
‘I asked them at the time,’ he continued, ”If there was something there and if it’s not the [then in development] Stealth Bomber, then you know it’s a UFO. And if it’s a UFO, why wouldn’t you want the people to know?”
‘He said if they come out and told the American public that they ran into a UFO out there,’ the senior FAA investigator said, ‘it would cause panic across the country.’
UFOs appearing during the Cold War
At the height of the Cold War, a then 26-year-old US Air Force Lieutenant Salas was underground overseeing Malmstrom Air Force Base’s nuclear equipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in Montana.
Above, a missile combat crew member at Salas’ old post, Malmstrom Air Force Base, prepares to close a three-foot thick door inside a nuclear launch control center 70-feet underground
He claimed an eerie red glowing UFO above the base’s front gate temporarily disabled 10 ICBMs on the night of March 24, 1967 — a case that has since brought Salas to Congress and to the offices of the Pentagon’s new UFO-hunters at AARO.
‘I offered to even go there on my own expense. I would be happy to fully brief any congressman, or anybody from DoD,’ Salas told DailyMail.com in 2022.
A USAF Strategic Air Command document written for ICBM manufacturer Boeing and released via FOIA seems to confirm the event, saying: ‘All ten missiles in Echo Flight at Malmstrom lost [strategic] alert within ten seconds of each other.’
Strategic Air Command noted having a ‘grave concern’ about the case.
‘Flame in the sky’ over New Mexico
A police officer stands near to his patrol car outside the town of Socorro, New Mexico where a flying saucer was spotted in 1964
Socorro Police Department officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeder in 1694 when he spotted what he later described as ‘a flame in the sky’ about a half-mile away accompanied by a loud ‘roar.’
Zamora followed the ‘bluish and sort of orange’ flame in his patrol car, soon witnessing an egg-shaped white craft parked in the desert with ‘two people in white coveralls’ standing near the parked UFO.
‘One of these persons seemed to turn and look straight at my car and seemed startled,’ Zamora told investigators, who collected physical evidence of burns and landing gear marks at the site.
Despite the FBI, the CIA, and the Air Force having a go at the case, they confessed they came up empty handed.
