Case 17-035 was a photographic case from Cleveland, Ohio was closed as unidentified. Read the redacted Report of Investigation.

Case 17-035 was a photographic case from Cleveland, Ohio was closed as unidentified. Read the redacted Report of Investigation.

The witness submitted video clips in Case 21-026 from Brooklyn, NY shot on 25 May 2021 have been combined into 1 clip, with some enhancement, noise reduction, and annotation by API.

Released: 7 June 2021
Duration: 59 minutes, 30 seconds
Central Casting Saucer Spotted Outside Louisville; a Colorado Campout Overhead Light Show; and a Terrifying Idaho Orb Encounter
Several really good cases to cover in this episode! A mother and daughter saw a right-out-of-central-casting flying saucer maneuvering over them in the early evening of December 11, 2020. They were in a large urban area just outside Louisville. And we hear from a Colorado camper who got more than he bargained for under the stars the night of May 13, 2021: a mass of seemingly connected white lights cavorting in the sky for several hours as he and a companion took in the spectacle. A Witness in Caldwell, Idaho on May 17, 2021 recorded an orb flying along that seemingly changed directions to fly towards him. It stopped momentarily over his house as he took cover under an awning in fear of what it might do next!
Also in this podcast, Paul Carr presents another in his series of Unidentified Science episodes. He covers the issues surrounding fallible human recall.
We also introduce you to our newest API Investigator, Roger Draper. He hails from the San Francisco area and, with a background in law enforcement, investigation, and his DOD experience, he’s a real bonus addition to the team!
Case 21-017 is in the process of investigation, although we hope to have a report out in the next few weeks. Here are some photos that the witness took with an iPhone XS max, cropped and processed a bit by API. The cropped images have been scaled up without interpolation.
These were shot on 14 May 2021. The sky was overcast.



Update (28 October 2021) : we now consider this case solved. See our Report of Investigation.
On 19 January 2021, at about 18:09 EST, we were shooting an International Space Station pass and experimenting with Direct Manual Focus (DMF) on the Sony A7 III mirrorless camera. The lens was a Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 – a very good quality lens. The standard lens hood was attached, and video was captured at 4K resolution, 30 frames per second. We were looking to the East (you can see the constellation of Taurus in much of the clip). For a few seconds, a reddish, extended object “flew” through the frame, and was dismissed at the time as a lens flare. However, examination of the footage shows that is not a lens flare, so we’re baffled as to what it could be.
What do you think it could be?

Released: 11 November 2020
Duration: 60 minutes
Lots of cases to discuss!
The API team is joined by two new members, Molly and Dan.
Paul goes into detail on a dazzling Ohio sighting with terrific night vision camera footage, and talks about a recently reported 2014 close encounter experienced by a woman in San Francisco.
A new video summarizing the case 20-015 from Vietnam: