Beginning in mid-November 2024, residents across northern New Jersey report waves of large, slow, often car-sized 'drones' at night, with early clusters near Picatinny Arsenal. The FBI logs thousands of tips, the FAA restricts airspace, and a December 12 joint DHS/FBI statement finds no threat and attributes many sightings to misidentified manned aircraft. A January 2025 White House statement calling the flights 'authorized' closes the news cycle without reconciling the record.
PURSUE Release 03 declassifies the FBI's investigation of recurring orb phenomena in one sparsely populated area of the northeastern United States: four authenticated eyewitness videos spanning November 2021 to July 2025 — 'Triangle Orbs,' 'Red Orb Rotation,' 'Orbs Over the Pond,' and the 'Northeastern Orb Sighting' — plus seven investigative records. The standout: an FD-1057 documenting two FBI special agents' own first-hand UAP observation during a November 2024 site survey. The Bureau assesses the civilian witnesses as 'highly credible.'
Over two days in 2023, seven separate U.S. federal government employees reported close-range encounters with multiple unidentified phenomena at a site in the western United States — including orbs launching other orbs, a large stationary glowing orb at close range, and a large semi-transparent object described as a 'translucent kite.' AARO calls it 'among the most compelling within AARO's current holdings.'
Three young women in Varginha, Brazil report encountering a small creature with brown skin and large red eyes in a vacant lot. Claims of a military capture operation follow, the Brazilian Army attributes the reports to a misidentified local man, and the case becomes the most prominent — and most contested — UAP event in Brazilian history.
Hundreds of witnesses across Belgium, including dozens of national and federal police officers, report large, silent, triangular craft moving at low altitude over the country. The Belgian Air Force scrambles F-16s on 30–31 March 1990 and obtains a brief radar lock that is later attributed to anomalous propagation.
Three Texas residents report a close-range encounter with a diamond-shaped object emitting intense heat, escorted overhead by approximately twenty-three twin-rotor military helicopters. All three subsequently report serious medical injuries.
A New Hampshire teenager and two Exeter, New Hampshire, police officers report a large, silent, brightly lit object hovering at low altitude over a residential field. The Air Force initially attributes the sighting to a high-altitude refueling mission, then revises the case to 'unidentified.'
Eleven members of an extended family in rural Kentucky report being besieged through the night by small, silver-coated humanoid figures. The Hopkinsville Police, Kentucky State Police, and U.S. Air Force investigate.