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A popular civilian UAP tracking application has documented more than 9,000 sightings of Unidentified Submersible Objects within ten miles of United States coastlines, with reports describing objects moving at extraordinary speeds, transitioning seamlessly between air and water, emitting strange lights while submerged, and disappearing beneath ocean surfaces without leaving ripples or impact debris, prompting a retired United States Navy rear admiral to warn publicly that the sheer volume and character of the documented encounters represent a genuine and underappreciated threat to American maritime security.

Enigma, a non-partisan organization that boasts its “largest queryable historical sighting database for global UFO sightings,” has recorded roughly 30,000 UFO sightings since its launch in 2022.

Since August, Enigma has documented more than 9,000 sightings of mysterious objects within 10 miles of United States shorelines or other major bodies of water. Of the 9,000 reported sightings since August 2025, approximately 500 occurred within 5 miles of a coastline. Additionally, over 150 objects were reportedly seen either hovering above or entering and emerging from bodies of water.

A surprising spike in underwater anomalies along U.S. coastlines has sparked alarm among defense officials after a popular tracking app, Enigma, recorded thousands of sightings of so-called Unidentified Submersible Objects, or USOs. The app, which describes itself as the world’s largest searchable database of UFO and UAP sightings, claims to have logged more than 30,000 unexplained events since its launch in late 2022. The Enigma platform functions as a crowdsourced reporting system that allows civilian observers, maritime professionals, and military personnel reporting in their private capacity to document UAP encounters in a standardized format and contribute to a database that researchers and analysts can query geographically, temporally, and by type of reported characteristic.

Unidentified Submersible Objects, or USOs, refer to any object or phenomenon detected underwater that cannot be identified or explained. They are the aquatic counterparts of UFOs or UAPs. Witnesses, from medieval sailors to modern Navy sonar operators, have described similar encounters: objects that move at extraordinary speeds, change direction instantly, or cross between sea and sky with “transmedium” capabilities that defy the laws of physics.

The transmedium capability description is the characteristic that most consistently distinguishes USO reports from conventional underwater objects. Aircraft transition from air to water and are destroyed on impact. Submarines operate underwater and cannot fly. The objects described in USO reports move between both domains without apparent penalty, which represents either an extraordinary capability of unknown human technology or something that does not fit within currently understood physics.

The two states with the highest coastal populations, California and Florida, top the charts for the highest number of UFO sightings. California accounts for 389 reported sightings, with Florida coming in second place with 306 witness accounts.

The data also shows several clusters of activity centered around specific coastal points throughout the country, raising eyebrows for both experts and government officials who fear the objects could pose a risk to national security. The geographic clustering of sightings around specific coastal points, rather than random distribution along the full length of the coastlines, is the detail that analysts find most analytically interesting. Random noise in a reporting system tends to produce diffuse distribution.

Clustering suggests patterns tied to specific locations, which raises questions about what is at those locations that might attract or produce the reported observations.

Retired United States Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who previously served as acting head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and who authored a detailed March 2024 report on USOs for the Sol Foundation think tank, provided the most authoritative institutional response to the Enigma data. Gallaudet warned that these anomalies could have major implications for national security. “

The fact that unidentified objects with unexplainable characteristics are entering US airspace and the Department of Defense is not raising a giant red flag is a sign that the government is not sharing all it knows,” Gallaudet said. He called the objects’ apparent ability to move seamlessly between air and water “world-changing,” and warned that ignoring the phenomenon could “jeopardize US maritime security.”

Gallaudet’s credentials give his assessment a weight that civilian observers cannot match. As a flag officer who served at the highest levels of Navy oceanography and as the acting head of NOAA, he has direct institutional knowledge of both the government’s ocean monitoring capabilities and its standard processes for responding to anomalous detections.

His judgment that the DOD is not raising a giant red flag when it should be is not the conclusion of a civilian enthusiast. It is the conclusion of a man who knows what the DOD’s standard response to genuine national security concerns looks like and has concluded the current response does not match that standard.

Gallaudet referenced one infamous incident in 2019, when the USS Omaha tracked a spherical object flying over the Pacific near San Diego before it plunged into the ocean and disappeared. The Pentagon later verified the video, which appeared to show the object entering the sea without leaving any debris or causing impact. The USS Omaha incident is significant precisely because of its official status.

The Pentagon’s verification of the video removes it from the category of unconfirmed civilian reports and places it in the category of officially acknowledged military observation of a phenomenon that cannot be explained by any known technology. An object that plunges into the Pacific Ocean near a US Navy vessel without producing any detectable debris, impact signature, or subsequent track is not a conventional submarine or drone. It is something that neither the Navy nor the public has been given a satisfactory explanation for.

Maps released by Enigma show clusters of orange dots concentrated along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Reports describe objects rising from the depths or disappearing beneath waves without leaving a ripple. Some witnesses captured footage. Others relied on calibrated military equipment that recorded movements science cannot yet explain.

The distinction between civilian phone camera footage and calibrated military equipment recordings is analytically important. A cell phone video of lights in the water could be a boat, a reflection, or any number of conventional explanations. A calibrated military sonar, radar, or optical system recording an object moving at speeds and executing maneuvers that exceed the performance envelope of any known human-made underwater vehicle is a categorically different category of evidence.

Gallaudet authored a March 2024 report for the Sol Foundation, a think tank dedicated to studying unidentified anomalous phenomena. His 29-page analysis pulls no punches about the implications. “Pilots, credibleobservers,s 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.

He describes the capabilities documented in cases like the USS Omaha incident as threats that “jeopardize US maritime security, which is already weakened by our relative ignorance about the global ocean.”

The national security framing that Gallaudet applies to USO phenomena is distinct from the extraterrestrial framing that dominates popular coverage of UAPs.

His concern is not primarily about whether the objects are alien in origin. His concern is about what the presence of objects with unexplained capabilities in American coastal waters means for the Navy’s ability to detect, identify, and respond to all underwater threats. What makes USOs so confounding is that they blur the line between natural and artificial phenomena. Some experts speculate that secret military drones or advanced underwater vehicles could account for a portion of sightings. Others insist the speeds and maneuvers reported go far beyond current human technology.

The three explanatory categories that analysts apply to USO sightings are, in order of institutional comfort: misidentification of conventional phenomena, advanced secret technology of human origin, and non-human technology of unknown origin. The first category is the explanation that officials prefer because it requires no acknowledgment of capability gaps.

The second category is the explanation that intelligence professionals take most seriously because it implies either American development of extraordinary technology or foreign adversary possession of technology that the United States does not have and cannot explain. The third category is the one that produces the most public discussion and the least official acknowledgment.

Enigma’s database shows a surge in reports since 2022, mapping dense clusters of activity along both the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines. The 2022 launch date of the Enigma platform coincides with the period of significantly increased official government engagement with the UAP question, following the 2021 Office of the Director of National Intelligence preliminary UAP report and the subsequent establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office in 2022. Whether the surge in documented sightings reflects an actual increase in observed phenomena or an increase in civilian reporting behavior driven by greater public awareness and availability of a reporting tool is an open question that the data alone cannot resolve.

Around 150 of these reports described objects hovering above or plunging into the water. One report even includes video of glowing green lights moving under the ocean surface. Maps released by Enigma show dense clusters of sightings running along both coasts of the United States. The green light video is among the more visually compelling pieces of evidence in the Enigma database. Light behavior underwater follows specific physical rules, and the color, intensity, depth, and movement pattern of underwater light sources can provide information about their origin to trained observers. The video’s circulation through UAP research communities has produced analysis that notes the light characteristics are inconsistent with known biological bioluminescence and are potentially consistent with an artificial source, though no definitive identification has been made.

Kent Heckenlively, author of “Catastrophic Disclosure: Aliens, The Deep State and The Truth,” told Fox News Digital: “What is really interesting to me is the reports that we receive about US underwater vessels detecting craft moving at exceptionally high speeds underwater. Now that’s one of two things: That’s something we don’t understand, or that means our technology is picking up ghosts underwater.” The two-option formulation, either something we do not understand or ghosts, is wry but analytically accurate in its acknowledgment of the fundamental uncertainty. Military sonar systems detect objects through the acoustic signatures those objects produce in water. An object moving at high speed through water produces acoustic signatures. If calibrated Navy sonar equipment is recording acoustic signatures consistent with objects moving at extraordinary speeds, the most parsimonious explanation is that there is an object moving at extraordinary speed, not that the equipment is malfunctioning.

The historical depth of USO sightings, which the Enigma database is the most recent expression of, extends back centuries and crosses cultural boundaries in ways that complicate the misidentification explanation for all 9,000 reports. Historical accounts stretch back centuries. In the 11th century, witnesses in England described a fiery object that “revolved, ascended on high, and then descended into the sea.” In 1825, naturalist Andrew Bloxam reported seeing a red, luminous orb rise from the ocean while sailing aboard HMS Blonde. “It was the color of a red-hot cannon shot,” he wrote, bright enough that “a pin might be picked up on deck.” The consistency of the descriptive vocabulary across nine centuries of accounts, objects that rotate or spin, emit light, move between air and water, and move at speeds inconsistent with conventional propulsion, is the thread that serious USO researchers follow across the historical record.

The Trump administration’s UAP disclosure initiative, which released the first batch of 162 declassified files on May 8, connects directly to the USO story through the inclusion of materials describing objects that transit between air and water. The government’s own documents describing transmedium UAP capabilities, now public through the war.gov/UFO archive, provide an official backdrop against which the 9,000 Enigma USO sightings take on additional analytical significance. The government is no longer dismissing the transmedium phenomenon. It is releasing classified documentation of it while simultaneously declining to explain what it represents.

As Gallaudet put it, “We know more about the surface of Mars than our own deep sea.” That observation is factually accurate and undersells the epistemological problem it describes. The deep ocean covers approximately 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and averages more than two miles in depth. Human beings have directly observed a fraction of one percent of the ocean floor. Military sonar coverage of deep water is extensive in some areas and sparse in others. The USO sightings documented by Enigma near US coastlines are occurring in relatively shallow, well-monitored waters. Whatever is being detected in those waters is being detected despite relatively good surveillance coverage, not because of surveillance gaps.

The 9,000 Enigma reports represent a self-selected, voluntary, civilian data set with all the limitations that implies. They are not vetted by the military, not corroborated by independent instruments in most cases, and not subject to the analytical protocols that would apply to officially reported UAP encounters. The database’s value is not in proving that any specific object is of non-human or extraordinary origin. Its value is in demonstrating the scale and geographic distribution of unexplained observations near American coastal waters, which is itself information that national security analysts should take seriously regardless of the ultimate explanation.

The Department of Defense has not raised its public red flag on USOs despite Gallaudet’s warning. The Trump administration’s UAP disclosure initiative has provided more public access to classified UAP documentation than any prior administration, but the specific question of what is producing the sonar signatures, the speed anomalies, and the transmedium observations documented in cases like the USS Omaha incident has not been publicly answered. Whether the next tranches of the PURSUE disclosure include materials specific to USO encounters may provide some indication of how comprehensively the declassification review is engaging with the underwater dimension of the broader UAP phenomenon.

The American coastal waters in which 9,000 USO sightings have been logged since August 2025 are the same waters through which American commercial shipping, military vessels, and civilian maritime traffic move daily. If objects of unknown origin and extraordinary capability are present in those waters with the regularity that the Enigma database suggests, the national security implications that Gallaudet identified in his 2024 report are not theoretical. They are operational.