Green lights glide beneath the surface of the Fort Lauderdale River. No boats. No divers. Just two glowing orbs moving through water in ways that defy explanation. Someone captured them on a phone camera and uploaded the footage to Enigma, a UFO tracking app. Analysts reviewed it. Military officials took notice. Nobody could explain what they were watching.

Since late 2022, Enigma has logged more than 30,000 reports of unidentified flying objects and anomalous phenomena. But thousands of those reports describe something stranger than lights in the sky. Objects rise from ocean depths without warning. Craft plunge into water without making a splash. Spheres vanish beneath waves and disappear from radar entirely.

More than 9,000 of these underwater sightings cluster within 10 miles of American coastlines. Retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet calls them a threat to national security. Sonar operators track contacts moving too fast to measure. Pentagon footage verified by officials shows capabilities that shouldn’t exist. Yet the Department of Defense stays quiet.

Something moves through American waters with technology beyond known human engineering. Whether foreign adversaries made a quantum leap in physics or something else operates in Earth’s oceans, the implications shake assumptions about who controls these domains.

Meet Enigma: Database Capturing 30,000 UFO Reports Since 2022

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Enigma positions itself as “the largest queryable historical sighting database for global UFO sightings.” Users submit reports through a mobile app, documenting location, time, description, and often photo or video evidence. Crowdsourced data flows into a searchable repository that researchers, journalists, and curious citizens can access.

Launched in late 2022, Enigma has collected reports from across the United States and beyond. Most describe aerial phenomena, classic UFO sightings that have populated databases for decades. But a pattern emerged that caught attention. Reports kept coming in about objects interacting with water in impossible ways.

Maps published by Enigma show clusters of orange dots stretching along both coasts. Concentrations appear near major population centers, shipping lanes, and naval training zones. California leads with 389 underwater object reports. Florida follows with 306. Both states rank among the top three for ocean coastline length, but the correlation raises questions about whether proximity to water matters or whether coastal populations simply report more often.

USOs vs UFOs: When Unidentified Objects Go Underwater

Unidentified Submersible Objects, or USOs, refer to any object or phenomenon detected underwater that cannot be identified or explained. Like UFOs apply to aerial encounters, USOs describe aquatic counterparts. The key difference lies in the medium and the physics involved.

Objects operating in water face different constraints than those in air. Water is 800 times denser than air. Drag forces increase exponentially with speed. Breaking the surface creates turbulence, spray, and noise. Submarines moving at high speeds leave wakes visible for miles. Torpedoes create cavitation bubbles that sonar detects easily.

Yet reports describe objects moving through water at speeds that should create massive disturbances but leave nothing behind. Witnesses from medieval sailors to modern Navy sonar operators describe similar encounters: objects moving at speeds measured in hundreds of knots, changing direction without slowing, crossing between sea and sky with “transmedium” capabilities that defy known physics.

Veteran Navy sonar operator Aaron Amick noted that unusual “fast mover” contacts occasionally appear on sonar, describing them as “so quick that you can’t measure the speed.”

California and Florida Lead With Nearly 700 Combined Sightings

Enigma data shows clear geographic patterns. As of August 2025, more than 9,000 sightings occurred within 10 miles of US shorelines or major bodies of water. Around 500 happened within 5 miles of the coastlines. More than 150 reports describe objects hovering above water before descending into it, or emerging from depths to hover briefly before disappearing.

California accumulated 389 USO reports, concentrated along the Pacific coast from San Diego to San Francisco. Florida recorded 306 reports along both Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Both states have massive coastal populations and extensive maritime activity, but the numbers still stand out compared to other coastal states.

Clusters appear near naval bases, commercial shipping routes, and recreational boating areas. Whether objects gravitate toward human activity or humans simply witness more events in populated areas remains unclear. Enigma’s maps show persistent activity rather than isolated incidents, suggesting ongoing phenomena rather than one-time events.

Green Lights Moving Under the Ocean: Phone Footage Nobody Can Explain

Among the strangest evidence submitted to Enigma, a video captured from a boat shows two mysterious underwater lights. Green glows move beneath the surface, maintaining consistent depth and speed. No boats appear nearby. No diving equipment visible. Objects move with purpose, following paths that suggest control rather than drift.

Phone camera footage lacks the resolution of military sensors, but it captures something. Lights emit enough luminescence to penetrate water and register on camera. Movement patterns show consistency, not the randomness of bioluminescence or floating debris. Objects maintain formation, suggesting coordination.

Experts struggle to identify natural phenomena matching these characteristics. Bioluminescent organisms create light but don’t move in formation. Military exercises might involve underwater vehicles, but exercises get announced, and restricted zones are established. Footage shows residential areas, places where military operations don’t occur.

150 Reports Describe Objects Plunging Into or Rising From Water

Beyond the green lights, reports describe objects emerging from ocean depths or descending into water from above. Witnesses describe craft hovering above waterways before dropping straight down and vanishing beneath the surface. Others report objects rising from water, hovering briefly, then shooting into the sky at speeds that blur visual tracking.

Pentagon-reviewed footage documented instances of unidentified craft diving into or emerging from water without damaging vessels nearby or even making a splash. Objects transition between air and water seamlessly, defying what should happen when solid objects break the surface at high speed.

Physics demands that objects entering water at velocity create impact forces, spray, and turbulence. Submarines diving must manage forces that could damage hulls. Aircraft ditching in water either skip across the surface or break apart. Yet reported objects enter and exit water as if passing through air, with no visible interaction between craft and medium.

July 2019: USS Omaha Tracks Object That Vanished Into Pacific

Alarm bells rang in July 2019 when USS Omaha, a Navy destroyer, tracked a spherical object flying over the Pacific near San Diego. Radar operators watched the craft buzz the Navy fleet, moving at speeds and in patterns unlike conventional aircraft or drones. Crew members filmed the encounter, capturing video that would later undergo Pentagon verification.

After circling naval vessels, the object plunged into the ocean and disappeared. No splash registered on video. No debris field appeared. Sonar operators found nothing. Search efforts recovered nothing. An object tracked by military-grade radar and visual observation simply vanished beneath the waves as if it never existed.

Video leaked to filmmaker Jeremy Corbell in 2021. Pentagon officials verified footage as an authentic Naval recording of an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon. The capabilities displayed raised immediate security concerns. If hostile actors possessed technology allowing seamless air-to-water transition, American maritime defense faced vulnerabilities nobody had prepared for.

Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet Calls It “World-Changing” Threat

Tim Gallaudet brings credentials few can match. Oceanographer and former Naval rear admiral who served as acting head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Gallaudet spent decades studying oceans and maritime security. When he sounds alarms about USOs, people in defense circles listen.

March 2024 saw Gallaudet publish a 29-page report for Sol Foundation, a think tank studying Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. Report centered on USS Omaha footage and broader patterns of USO encounters documented by Navy personnel. Gallaudet described implications as “world-changing” and warned that ignoring phenomena could jeopardize American maritime security.

November 2024 brought testimony before the House Oversight Committee. Gallaudet made clear he considers these objects and incidents serious national security risks requiring immediate attention and research funding.

“Pilots, credible observers and calibrated military instrumentation have recorded objects accelerating at rates and crossing the air-sea interface in ways not possible for anything made by humans,” Gallaudet wrote in his Sol Foundation report.

Pentagon Verified the Footage But Won’t Raise Red Flags

Pentagon authenticated the USS Omaha video, confirming Navy personnel recorded it during operations off San Diego. All-domain Anomalous Resolution Office (AARO) exists specifically to investigate such phenomena. Yet official response remains muted. No emergency protocols activated. No heightened security measures announced. No public warnings issued about potential threats.

Gallaudet sees the silence as telling. “The fact that unidentified objects with unexplainable characteristics are entering US water space and the DOD is not raising a giant red flag is a sign that the government is not sharing all it knows about all-domain anomalous phenomena,” he wrote.

Either the Pentagon knows more than it shares, or bureaucracy prevents an appropriate response to phenomena that don’t fit established threat categories. Neither option provides comfort. Knowledge kept classified serves no purpose if threats remain unaddressed. Ignorance about capabilities operating in territorial waters leaves defenses unprepared.

Objects Accelerating at Impossible Rates With Impossible Precision

Military instrumentation calibrated to track missiles and aircraft recorded objects moving at speeds that exceed known propulsion systems. Radar operators documented accelerations that would pulverize any human pilot. Objects changed direction without slowing, violating conservation of momentum as currently understood.

Crossing the air-sea interface presents massive engineering challenges. Aircraft carriers, the most advanced naval vessels, still create huge wakes. Submarines diving make noise detectable by passive sonar from miles away. Every vessel humans build announces itself through disturbances in the surrounding medium.

Reported objects leave no trace. No wake. No splash. No cavitation. No sonic boom. Silent transition between domains as if physical laws don’t apply. If technology exists allowing such capabilities, whoever possesses it has leaped beyond anything in American arsenals.

USOs Actually Pose Greater Hazards Than UFOs, Navy Says

Scot Christenson, director of the US Naval Institute, wrote in a 2022 editorial for Naval History Magazine that although no documented damage to planes has been caused by UFOs, mysterious objects in water “have presented the Navy with the greatest hazard.”

Air provides visibility. Radar covers vast areas. Aircraft can evade or engage threats with room to maneuver. Water offers none of these advantages. Submarines operate blind relative to surface vessels. Sonar provides limited range and resolution. Objects moving at reported speeds could close on naval vessels before defensive systems activate.

Maritime security depends on knowing what moves through territorial waters. Unidentified objects with capabilities exceeding human technology operating in American waters represent direct threats to Navy vessels, commercial shipping, and undersea infrastructure. Fiber optic cables carrying internet traffic, oil pipelines, and military communications gear all sit vulnerable on ocean floors.

Historical Sightings Date Back to Medieval England

USO reports stretch back centuries. Medieval chronicles from 11th-century England describe witnesses seeing a fiery object that revolved, ascended on high, and then descended into the sea, repeatedly reappearing off the Northumberland coast.

Accounts predate modern technology, ruling out misidentification of aircraft or drones. Whatever witnesses saw possessed enough consistency that chroniclers recorded it as significant. Repeated sightings suggest phenomena rather than one-time events.

1825 brought another documented encounter. English naturalist Andrew Bloxam sailed aboard HMS Blonde when he witnessed a red, luminous orb rising from the sea. He wrote that it was “the color of a red-hot [cannon] shot” and bright enough that “a pin might be picked up on deck.” Objects rose and fell twice before vanishing.

Bloxam’s scientific training lends credibility. Naturalists observe and record accurately. His description suggests something producing light underwater, rising above the surface, then descending again. Behavior matches modern USO reports separated by two centuries.

What Humanity Discovers When Looking Down Instead of Up

For generations, humans scanned the skies searching for signs of other intelligence. UFO reports trained eyes upward, seeking distant stars for answers about our place in the cosmos. Billions poured into space exploration while 95% of Earth’s oceans remained unexplored.

Thousands of reports now suggest something operates in waters covering 71% of the planet with capabilities defying explanation. If objects move through oceans with technology beyond human engineering, assumptions about who or what shares this world need reconsideration.

Perhaps intelligence and consciousness don’t always announce themselves from light-years away. Sometimes they surface from depths barely explored, challenging ideas about whether humanity truly controls domains claimed as territory. The ocean represents the final frontier on our own planet, yet more effort goes toward reaching Mars than understanding what lies beneath nearby waves.

Confronting USOs means confronting ignorance about the world we inhabit. Gallaudet noted that “we know more about the surface of Mars than our own deep sea.” That ignorance creates vulnerabilities. Objects moving through territorial waters with impunity demonstrate how little control exists over domains presumed to be secured.

Recognition of suffering in animals pushed legal boundaries outward in Spain. Recognition of phenomena in oceans pushes boundaries of knowledge and security. Both require a willingness to acknowledge uncomfortable possibilities. Sometimes, looking down into the abyss reveals more about humanity’s place than looking up at stars ever could.

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