Navy Admits To Seeing Thousands Of Unidentified Moving Objects In U.S. Waters

A UFO tracking database has logged over 9,000 unexplained underwater sightings off American coasts since 2022.

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The oceans surrounding the United States harbor more than fish and submarines. There’s a tracking platform called Enigma that’s been collecting reports since 2022, and the numbers are staggering. Over 9,000 reports of unidentified objects have been logged within ten miles of U.S. shorelines. These aren’t things flying overhead. They’re underwater. They move at speeds that shouldn’t be possible. They slip between air and sea without leaving so much as a ripple. Military officials have seen them with their own eyes, recorded them on sophisticated equipment, and they still can’t explain what they are.

The Database Catching Thousands of Encounters

Enigma launched in late 2022 and calls itself the world’s largest searchable database for UFO and UAP sightings, with roughly 30,000 unexplained events recorded in total. By August 2025, more than 9,000 of those sightings happened within ten miles of U.S. shorelines or major waterways, and about 500 occurred within five miles of the coast. Over 150 of those reports specifically describe objects hovering above water or moving into and out of it.

California tops the list with 389 reported sightings, with Florida coming in second at 306. Enigma released maps showing clusters of orange dots tracking along both the East and West coasts. The concentrations show up near shipping lanes, naval training zones, and busy maritime routes. Some of these reports come from remote areas where you wouldn’t expect many witnesses.

One of the videos that made it into the database shows eerie green lights moving beneath the ocean’s surface. People describe objects that rise from deep water without any warning. Things that plunge into the sea but don’t make the splash they should. Glowing shapes traveling underwater at speeds that don’t make sense. The footage quality varies, since a lot of it comes from phone cameras, but the consistency across hundreds of reports from different locations and different witnesses starts to form a pattern.

When Navy Personnel Couldn’t Explain What They Were Seeing

July 2019. The USS Omaha was operating off the coast of California. An infrared camera aboard the ship captured a spherical object moving over the Pacific before it dropped into the ocean. The recording happened on July 15, 2019, at 11 p.m. PST, filmed in the ship’s Combat Information Center off the coast of San Diego. This wasn’t some grainy footage from a consumer camera phone. The crew tracked the object using their AN/KAX-2 electro-optical sensor, which is a stabilized sensor turret specifically built for maritime environments. The system includes a digital video camera, night vision camera, and laser rangefinder. This is military-grade equipment designed to identify and track objects at sea.

The encounter lasted more than an hour. At least 14 targets were detected. The objects measured at least six feet in diameter, solid mass, traveling at speeds ranging from 40 to 138 knots. That’s 46 to 158 miles per hour. When the object finally went into the water, a submarine was sent to search the area, but they found no wreckage.

The Pentagon had to address this footage. Officials verified it as authentic. Susan Gough, a Department of Defense spokesperson, confirmed the video was recorded by Navy personnel and went to the UAP Task Force for review. That’s the official government panel established to figure out what these things are.

In the video you can hear military personnel saying “It splashed” as the object goes into the water. The object didn’t look like any known drone, missile, or aircraft, and it left no splash, no wake, no debris – something impossible to all known physics. It just disappeared beneath the surface as if the ocean opened up and swallowed it.

The Admiral Making Uncomfortable Statements

Tim Gallaudet is a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral who previously served as acting head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration… so he had credentials. He’s stated that unidentified objects with unexplainable characteristics are entering U.S. water space, and the fact that the Department of Defense isn’t raising a giant red flag suggests the government isn’t sharing everything it knows.

Gallaudet didn’t stop at writing opinion pieces. He is so determined to bring out the truth that he testified before the U.S. House Oversight Committee in late 2024. In his testimony, he said that 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. He described the objects’ apparent ability to move seamlessly between air and water as potentially world-changing. That’s a strong word choice from someone with his background.

Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee sits on the House Oversight Committee investigating unidentified aerial phenomena, and he told CBS News that naval personnel have chased objects underwater moving hundreds of miles an hour. Those speeds far exceed what conventional submarines can do. Our most advanced military submarines can hit roughly 40 mph underwater. The objects naval personnel are tracking? Several times faster.

Burchett shared information from a Navy officer about sightings of strange vessels deep in the water, with some of these unidentified objects described as the size of a football field. A football field. Underwater. Moving at impossible speeds. The congressman stated that naval personnel told him about underwater craft they’re chasing that move at hundreds of miles an hour, while the best human technology manages maybe just a little under 40 miles an hour. The technology gap isn’t close… it’s enormous.

Sonar Operators Tracking Something They Can’t Measure

Aaron Amick spent years as a Navy sonar operator. He’s noted that unusual fast moving contacts or objects occasionally show up on sonar systems, and he describes them as so quick that you can’t measure the speed. When someone whose job involves measuring underwater speeds says he can’t measure something, that pretty impressive… and terrifying if you don’t know how to explain it.

The physics of what these objects reportedly do makes no sense. Water is approximately 800 times denser than air. The drag forces and cavitation effects at the speeds being reported would create massive turbulence and noise signatures that should be easily detectable. Yet these craft apparently move without conventional propulsion signatures. No engine noise. No heat signature. Nothing that would indicate how they’re moving through the water.

Objects accelerate at rates that would destroy any known aircraft or submarine. Craft transition between air and water without the structural damage that pressure differentials would cause. Try dunking anything into water at high speed and watch what happens. The impact alone should tear most materials apart. The propulsion systems leave no thermal signature, no exhaust, no visible means of thrust. They just move.

Encounters Stretching Back Centuries

Modern technology didn’t create these sightings. People have been reporting similar encounters for a very long time. Reports of USOs date back to the 11th century, when witnesses in England reported seeing a fiery object that revolved, ascended on high, and then descended into the sea. The object kept reappearing off the Northumberland coast. Medieval chroniclers didn’t have the vocabulary we use today, but they documented what they saw.

Fast forward to 1825. English naturalist Andrew Bloxam was sailing on the HMS Blonde when he witnessed a red, luminous orb rising from the sea. He wrote that the object was the color of a red-hot cannon shot and bright enough that a pin might be picked up on deck. That’s a specific detail from someone trained in scientific observation. The orb rose and fell twice before vanishing from sight. He documented what he saw, even though he couldn’t explain it.

The accounts span continents and centuries. Different cultures, different time periods, different witness backgrounds. But the descriptions share common elements. Objects moving between air and water. Luminous forms. Speeds that don’t match natural phenomena or known technology from that era. The consistency across time suggests something real, even if we can’t identify what.

What the Pentagon Carefully Avoids Confirming

The Department of Defense walks a careful line with this topic. The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office released its 2024 annual report stating it had found no verified evidence of extraterrestrial technology. That’s the official position. While hundreds of aerial or space anomalies remain unresolved, the Pentagon has not confirmed any proven underwater craft of non-human origin. Notice the specific wording. They’re not saying these things don’t exist. They’re saying they haven’t verified them as extraterrestrial.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence got involved too. In June 2021, ODNI released a preliminary report on UAPs, focusing largely on evidence gathered over the previous 20 years from U.S. Navy reports. The conclusion? The report came to no conclusion about what the UAPs were, citing a lack of sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by military pilots. They couldn’t say what these things are. They couldn’t say what they’re not.

But the report did acknowledge some unexplainable capabilities. In a limited number of incidents, UAPs reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics, including high velocity, breaking the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom, high maneuverability not able to be replicated otherwise, long-duration flight, and an ability to submerge into the water. That last part matters for underwater sightings. The government is acknowledging, in official documents, that some of these objects can go underwater. They’re not dismissing it. They’re just not explaining it.

The Ocean Keeps Its Secrets Better Than Space

Gallaudet points out that humanity knows more about the surface of Mars than it does about the deep sea. That statement lands differently when you’re talking about thousands of unexplained sightings in those same unexplored waters. We’ve mapped Mars in detail. We’ve sent rovers to drive around and analyze rocks. We’ve identified specific minerals and geological features millions of miles away. Meanwhile, vast stretches of our own ocean floors remain unmapped and unexplored.

The explanations people offer vary widely. Some experts speculate that secret military drones or advanced underwater vehicles could account for a portion of sightings. That’s plausible for some reports. Every nation with a coastline has an interest in testing underwater capabilities away from prying eyes. But others insist the speeds and maneuvers reported go far beyond current human technology. The gap between what we can build and what witnesses are describing isn’t just a matter of slight technological advancement. It’s a chasm.

Enigma’s maps continue accumulating data, with thousands of reports describing objects moving through American waters in ways that current understanding simply cannot explain. Every week brings new reports. The clusters on the maps grow denser. Patterns emerge but explanations don’t. The scale and concentration of underwater sightings raise a question that’s been around forever but feels more urgent now: how much of Earth’s oceans remain unexplored, and what might be moving beneath them?

We’ve built submarines that can dive deeper than any living creature. We’ve developed sonar systems that can detect a whisper across miles of ocean. We’ve mapped shipping lanes and monitored naval movements with satellites and sensors. Thousands of reports describe encounters with objects that don’t fit any known category. Military personnel with years of training and access to sophisticated equipment can’t identify them. These objects appear on multiple sensor systems simultaneously, ruling out simple instrument error or misidentification.

New reports arrive weekly at Enigma. Witnesses continue filing accounts of what they’ve seen. And beneath American waters, something continues to move in ways we can’t explain and at speeds we can’t match. Whether that something represents classified technology from another nation, phenomena we haven’t yet understood, or something else entirely, the evidence suggests we’re not alone in the deep. The question isn’t whether something is there. The question is what it is, where it came from, and what it means that we’ve only just started paying attention.

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NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.