At Enigma, they have analyzed 565 sightings reported within 5 miles of 52 major U.S. airports.
🚨 23% mention planes or pilots directly — a strong signal of UAP activity intersecting with commercial airspace.
This isn’t rare. This is a pattern.
Let’s take a closer look at what the data reveals...
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📍 Where are the sightings happening?
Here are the top 5 U.S. states with the highest number of UAP reports near major airports:
🔴 California
🔴 Florida
🔴 Arizona
🔴 Texas
🔴 Nevada
Each of these is a high-traffic airspace — and a consistent hotspot for UAP activity.
🗺️ Let’s zoom in on the top airport clusters next.
👀 What are people actually seeing?
Across hundreds of sightings near U.S. airports, three shapes dominate:
☁️ 17% report light phenomena
🔮 13% describe a sphere
🌀 12% witness a circle or ring
📍 Proximity matters.
Of the 565 airport-adjacent reports we’ve received, 179 occurred within just 3 miles of major U.S. airports.
That’s not just close... it’s inside regulated airspace.
Many of these sightings come from trained observers, including pilots and aviation personnel .....raising serious questions for both aviation safety and national security.
📐 Shape matters — and so does distance.
Our data shows distinct spatial trends in UAP reports near airports:
Cigar, triangle, and disk shapes are often seen closer in, around 2.7–3.0 miles.
Saucer, chevron, and fireball shapes tend to appear farther out, around 3.6–3.8 miles.
Why the distribution?
Signal behavior?
Detection bias?
Still unknown.
🛬 Airport clusters, same anomaly.
We looked at the top 3 U.S. airport zones with the most UAP reports:
📍 New York (JFK, EWR, LGA)
📍 Phoenix (PHX)
📍 Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
Despite different geographies and traffic volumes, orbs consistently show up across all three.
A shared phenomenon… or a shared blind spot?
🗽 New York Cluster: JFK, EWR, LGA
NYC-area airports are among the most active for UAP reports -and the most commonly reported shape near JFK is the “sphere.”
These aren’t isolated stories. This pattern repeats.
🌄 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport
Arizona is showing a clear pattern:
36% of reports near PHX involve circles, spheres, or light-shaped objects, with 15% directly citing orbs.
One witness wrote:
“A very reflective white object came into view from behind a mountain... it moved slowly as it came around the mountain.”
Is it coincidence or perhaps consistent behavior in this airspace?
🌴 Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood Airport (FLL)
27% of sightings near FLL report a circle, sphere, or light-shaped object — echoing similar reports from Phoenix and New York.
One witness near the airport described:
“A metallic silver sphere… about 2ft in diameter, 100–200ft above, moving slowly—then stopping in place for several seconds.”
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Small, close, deliberate. And not alone in its pattern.
🕰️ UAPs near airports aren’t new.
In 2006, a metallic disc hovered above Chicago O’Hare’s Gate C17 ...seen in broad daylight by United pilots, ground crew, and passengers. The case remains officially unexplained.
🔁 Now in 2024, a similar object darts past a plane near LaGuardia. Case #290972.
The context changes. The proximity doesn’t.
📡 Seen something strange near an airport?
Enigma’s real-time, crowdsourced network is mapping patterns that could impact aviation safety, public policy, and scientific inquiry.
📝 Your sighting matters.
Submit your experience to Enigma. You could help connect the dots in ways no one else can.
The White House recently announced that the numerous drones observed over New Jersey were authorized by the FAA for research and other purposes. However, this explanation leaves several critical questions unanswered:
Lack of Specifics: Who exactly was operating these drones, and what specific research was being conducted?
Delayed Disclosure: Why did the FAA not disclose this information during the initial investigations, especially considering the public concern and media coverage at the time?
Contradictory Actions: If these flights were authorized, why did the FAA implement airspace restrictions and collaborate with other federal agencies to investigate the sightings?
These inconsistencies suggest that the recent FAA announcement may not fully align with the observed activities and official responses during the period of increased drone sightings.
Since mid-November, we've received over 860 reports from skywatchers across NJ, NY, PA, MD, DE, and DC. Key observations include:
Timing of Reports: The surge in sightings began before major media coverage, indicating that initial reports were likely based on genuine observations rather than media influence.
Impact of FAA Drone Ban: Following the FAA's local drone ban on December 20th, there was a 44% decrease in reported sightings, suggesting compliance by local drone operators.
Descriptions of Unusual Objects: Approximately 17% of reports describe large objects, some as big as a bus or car, which do not match the typical profile of hobbyist drones.
These data points raise questions about the nature of the aerial activities observed and the adequacy of official explanations provided so far.
Recent statements from a former U.S. intelligence official cast doubt on the official explanation of the drone sightings over New Jersey. Key points include:
Questioning FAA Authorization: The whistleblower suggests that the FAA's claim of authorizing these drone flights is misleading and that the true nature of the operations remains undisclosed.
There is a demand for more detailed information about who was operating these drones and for what purposes, as the current explanations lack specificity.
Kevin Day was a key figure in the famous #Nimitz Tic Tac UFO incident, which took place in November 2004. At the time, Day was the Senior Chief Operations Specialist on the USS Princeton, a guided-missile cruiser that was part of the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group. His primary responsibility was air defense and the detection of airborne threats.
During the incident, Day was monitoring radar screens when he and his team detected multiple unidentified flying objects, which were later described as "Tic Tac" shaped due to their white, oblong appearance. These objects were observed performing maneuvers that defied known capabilities of conventional aircraft, including rapid changes in altitude, speed, and direction.
Day's role was crucial because he was the first to notice these objects and reported them to his superiors, leading to the deployment of F/A-18 Super Hornet jets to intercept and visually identify the objects. The pilots, including #Commander David Fravor, reported seeing the same Tic Tac-shaped objects and were stunned by their incredible speed and maneuverability.
Kevin Day's observations and the data recorded during the incident have since become a significant part of discussions about #UFOs and #UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), especially after the U.S. government confirmed the authenticity of the video footage from the encounter. Day has since become a prominent advocate for further investigation into such phenomena.
Shared below are multiple posts 14 hours ago where Kevin has had enough bearing the burden alone... Pay attention to what he says, and who he names.
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