Witnessed in Los Angeles and Sonoma counties and seen hovering, cruising, and rapidly accelerating. Witnesses include civilian adults and children. Closest sighting was 200 feet.
Sample case: Two children were visited by a boomerang that hovered 200 feet above them while emitting a deep humming noise, and then it shot away at high speed.
1977 nationwide National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) boomerang reports: 10
2024 nationwide NUFORC boomerang reports: 55 (450% increase)
2024 "Immaculate Constellation" description: "Boomerang- and arrowhead-shaped UAPs were also among the rarest reported. The boomerang UAPs exhibited bilateral symmetry, with sweeping wings and a high aspect ratio. Arrowhead UAPs also showed bilateral symmetry, but possessed tapered wings and a low aspect ratio, typically with highly swept leading edges." Read "immaculate Constellation," authored by Matthew Brown, on congresswoman Nancy Mace's website HERE.
Witnessed in Fresno, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Stanislaus, and Ventura counties and seen hovering, cruising, and rapidly accelerating. Witnesses include civilian adults and children as well as law enforcement officers. Closest sighting was 150 feet.
Sample case: Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputies watched a cylinder with a light on each end hover, and it then rocketed across four counties in nine seconds.
1977 nationwide NUFORC cylinder reports: 3
2024 nationwide NUFORC cylinder reports: 94 (3,030% increase)
2024 "Immaculate Constellation" description: "Oval-shaped UAPs were infrequently reported within the dataset, and only after approximately 2003. These UAPs either maintained a uniform egg-like symmetry occasionally tapered into a teardrop shape. Cylinders with convex ends, Tic-Tacs, fall into this category, and occasionally featured visible protuberances on the top or bottom of the otherwise uniform planform."
Witnessed in Riverside and San Diego counties and seen hovering, cruising, and rapidly accelerating. Witnesses include civilian adults and children as well as Air Force personnel. Closest sighting was 300 feet.
1977 nationwide NUFORC diamond reports: 3
2024 nationwide NUFORC diamond reports: 48 (1,500% increase)
Sample case: A glowing diamond that left a blue vapor trail cruised by seven March Air Force Base airmen flying at 3,000 feet, and then it instantaneously accelerated away at 10,000 mph.
2024 "Immaculate Constellation" description: Diamond craft unmentioned.
Witnessed in Alameda, Colusa, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Joaquin County, and Santa Barbara counties and seen hovering, cruising, landing, and rapidly accelerating. Witnesses include civilian adults and children as well as pilots and law enforcement officers. Closest sighting was thirty feet. More on this specific craft HERE.
Sample case: A disk with bay windows descended into a small canyon, visited schoolchildren playing outside by hovering 100 feet above them, and ascended straight up into the sky.
1977 nationwide NUFORC disk reports: 74
2024 nationwide NUFORC disk reports: 125 (70% increase)
2024 "Immaculate Constellation" description: "Discs, reported with and without domes, were the second-most common shape reported. Flat saucers were reported as well, these being disc-like objects without pronounced domes."
Witnessed in Los Angeles, Mendocino, Merced, Monterey, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and Yuba counties and seen hovering, cruising, rapidly accelerating, flying in formation, joining together, and vanishing. Witnesses include civilian adults and children as well as law enforcement officers. Closest sighting was 200 feet.
Sample case: A glowing orb lit up the ground while cruising at low attitude, was seen by a pilot and law enforcement officers, and a highway patrolman gave chase at 100 mph.
1977 nationwide NUFORC orb reports: 5
2024 nationwide NUFORC orb reports: 556 (11,020% increase)
2024 "Immaculate Constellation" description: "Orbs were the most reported shape, with variations ranging from smooth featureless orbs to spheres with visible openings or appendages. These objects' prevalence suggests a possible standard in UAP design or function, capable of high maneuverability and speed. "
Witnessed in Orange and Sacramento counties and seen hovering, cruising, rapidly accelerating, and flying in formation. Witnesses include civilian adults and children. Closest sighting was 25 feet.
Sample case: A seven-foot-tall orange pyramid and an orb visited three children, came within 100 feet of them, and the pyramid rapidly accelerated away.
NUFORC dataset does not include pyramids.
2024 "Immaculate Constellation" description: Pyramid craft unmentioned.
Witnessed in Orange County and seen hovering, cruising, and disappearing. Witnesses include a California Highway Patrol officer and a Huntington Beach Police Department officer. Closest sighting was undetermined.
Sample case: Two law enforcement officers watched a green pulsating rectangle for ten minutes, it hovered in total silence, and then inexplicably vanished.
1977 nationwide NUFORC rectangle reports: 5
2024 nationwide NUFORC rectangle reports: 91 (1,720% increase)
2024 "Immaculate Constellation" description: Rectangle craft unmentioned.
Witnessed in Alameda, Orange, Placer, Riverside, San Diego, Sonoma, Stanislaus, and Sutter counties and seen hovering, cruising, rapidly accelerating, vanishing, and reappearing. Witnesses include civilian adults and children, Air Force personnel, and law enforcement officers. Closest sighting was fifty feet.
Sample case: Three children watched a triangle rise from behind a hill, hover in front of them, and then shoot off at incredible speed, covering fifty miles in ten seconds.
1977 nationwide NUFORC cylinder reports: 37
2024 nationwide NUFORC cylinder reports: 251 (580% increase)
2024 "Immaculate Constellation" description: "Triangles were among the rarest UAPs reported in the data. Most of these sightings were equilateral triangles, occasionally with vertical stabilizers visible on the top of the UAP. Elongated isosceles types were also reported, occasionally with the same vertical stabilizers observed on the equilateral type."