United States — November 1, 2025 | Dalena Reporters
A popular UFO-reporting app has made headlines after logging tens of thousands of mysterious underwater and near-coast sightings across the United States, prompting national security experts to question government transparency.
The app, called Enigma, which bills itself as the “largest queryable historical sighting database for global UFO sightings,” has recorded approximately 30,000 reports since its launch in late 2022. Remarkably, more than 9,000 of these sightings occurred within 10 miles of U.S. shorelines or major bodies of water — and over 150 reports involve objects either entering or exiting water without a splash.
The states with the highest number of reported sightings: California (389 incidents) and Florida (306 incidents), both states with extensive coastlines.
Witnesses describe “green lights” beneath the ocean surface, objects that accelerate at extraordinary speeds, hover underwater and transition into the air seamlessly — behaviours which, according to retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, “jeopardise U.S. maritime security.
Enigma released visuals mapping the clusters of reported sightings — orange-dot patterns tracing the eastern and western seaboards of the U.S. The concentration of reports has raised questions about the nature of the phenomena: military stealth craft, foreign underwater vehicles, unknown natural phenomena, or something else entirely.
Despite the growing number of reports, both the app developers and government agencies such as the Department of Defense and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been vague in their responses. Gallaudet remarked that the government’s lack of an alarm-level reaction is “a sign that the government is not sharing all it knows about all-domain anomalous phenomena.
The concerns are not purely speculative. The phenomenon’s emergence at the intersection of air and sea boundaries — what experts call the “air-sea interface” — presents technological anomalies unexplainable by known human craft or marine vehicles. The potential national-security implications are significant, especially in coastal defence zones, territorial waters and strategic maritime corridors.
In a time when unmanned systems, drone swarms and underwater autonomous vehicles are proliferating, the unidentified nature of these reported objects complicates oversight. One expert interviewed described the scenario:
“It seems like there are five or six areas where there’s real high UFO activity around water… The ocean seems like a great place to hide.
The sheer volume and clustering of reports suggest a pattern rather than sporadic incidents. Skeptics point to misidentifications, sensor errors or natural phenomena (such as bioluminescent marine life or deep-sea gliders). However, the dataset’s size and the rich concentration along coastlines challenge standard dismissals.
At this stage, the story remains one of open questions: What are these objects? Why are they concentrated near U.S. shorelines? And why has the government response not matched public concern? For citizens, the message is clear: if credible tools track and map these phenomena — raising red flags for national-security experts — the absence of official transparency may itself deepen public mistrust.
For now, the clusters of orange dots on the map continue to grow — and with them, the questions.