A sighting in New Jersey occurring in 2023 was investigated and closed as Identified.
Read the redacted Report of Investigation.
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Category: Recent Investigations
Case 22-058 AN 1 (New Mexico) closed as Identified
Case 22-058 was closed as Identified following a short investigation. Read our redacted Report of Investigation for details.
Closer look at a witness submitted video: Case 21-021 AN 1
A new witness submitted video has us scratching our heads. This was shot on an ordinary cell phone: an LG G7 Thinq, and was shot in full HD. It was roughly an hour after sunset on 13 May 2021. The 60 fps clip is just under 30 seconds long (1786 frames). The camera was oriented toward the southeast. We have interviewed the first witness, who shot the video. The total duration of the event he describes was about 5 hours.
We still don’t know how to interpret what we are seeing here, and haven’t completely ruled out sensor defects, or possibly a strong magnetic field. Some more tests are required with the camera in question. We are also hoping to speak to a second witness.
If you were in or around Pueblo, Colorado on the night of 13th of May, and saw anything unusual in the sky, please contact us as soon as possible: https://reportaufo.org.
Witness photos from Derby, UK
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.
Several new witness submitted videos
We’ve had several new witness submitted videos since our last post. Many of these include annotation or enhancements by API. The audio is often muted to protect witness anonymity. Have a look, and let us know what you think.
If you have your own video you’d like us to look at, please use our sighting report form.
Any idea what this is?
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?
Witness Submitted Video with star identifications (Case 20-030)
It was a clear, moonless night, and the witness was out in his back yard observing comet Neowise with a digital night vision camera when this extremely bright object flew over.
When you have reference objects in a video or photograph, the first order of business is to determine whatever you can about the direction and distance of those objects. In the case of stars, the distances aren’t important, but if you know the date, time, location, and which star you are looking at, then you know the exact location in the sky.
In this video we show the names of a few of the stars as the object passes by. For 64 Cygnus, you might notice that as the object neared, a bright lens flare briefly hijacks the tracker.
Motion Analysis for Case 20-017
This training video goes into considerable detail of how the first part of a motion analysis was performed using the free version of Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve. You should be able to perform similar analyses when you have shaky video and good reference objects in frame.
Redacted Report of Investigation for Case 20-008
A Utah sighting reported to us was closed as identified with probability 2, strangeness 0
Witness Sketch from Case 19-003 (Uzbekistan)
Nice sketch! Of course, you don’t need any artistic talent to make a useful sketch, but we encourage all witnesses to make one as soon as possible after their sighting – even before submitting a report.
This description, with the object stopping almost overhead, reminds us a little of our case 18-009 in Utah, which took place in August 2017. We did not perform a field investigation of this case, but if there is a responsible organization in Uzbekistan, please contact us.
