America’s most sensitive nuclear sites have been secretly invaded by thousands of unidentified flying objects, a stunning new report has revealed.
Crowdsourced platform Enigma revealed to the Daily Mail that there have been more than 2,800 ‘unidentified aerial sightings’ over 90 US nuclear plants or nuclear weapons facilities over the last eight decades.
The new report detailed sightings of objects often described as glowing orbs, disks, spheres, cylinders, or triangles hovering or flying in precise patterns within 25 miles of these nuclear sites.
One of the most recent reports from April 2025 captured video of a glowing orange ball changing shape while flying over Bear, Delaware, which is located near the Salem Nuclear Power Plant and Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey.
‘It just kept getting bigger, disappearing, bigger, disappearing. I thought it was just a star at first, or just a plane from a distance. Then I realized it got a lot, lot closer and kept getting closer and bigger. Then it started flashing,’ the witness described.
‘It wasn’t a drone. It wasn’t mechanical. It would actually morph into different shapes.’
One witness in California from April 2023 said: ‘After hovering, it arched sideways and disappeared in the blink of an eye. I felt it was observing Diablo Canyon Nuclear plant.’
More than 70 of these reports specifically referenced UFOs with metallic or reflective surfaces flying over bases in broad daylight during the early dawn hours.
Over 1,800 UFO sightings have been reported near US nuclear power plants, while more than 1,000 sightings have been documented at military nuclear weapons sites
An image taken in February 2024 in Salem, New Jersey captured multiple small objects merging with a larger object near the local nuclear plant
Enigma added that nuclear sites and missile bases in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Florida saw the biggest clusters of sightings.
Moreover, these incidents exploded during the mysterious drone surge over the East Coast between November 2024 and February 2025.
Enigma said: ‘Many of these sightings described structured, light-emitting objects that pulsed or changed color before disappearing – characteristics that closely resemble those attributed to the unidentified drones reported across the region at the time.’
One witness near the Salem nuclear power plant claimed that several small objects hovering over the facility seemed to combine into one large UFO in February 2024.
‘I was coming up to the Salem hospital and saw these four lights in a square hovering over the building, it looked like, but the closer I got, they seemed to disappear,’ the witness revealed.
‘So I started recording, and you see all these little lights going into the big bright one and not coming back out.’
Although the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is charged with investigating reports of UFOs, the military has maintained that there has never been any physical evidence that proves extraterrestrials or UFOs exist.
The new report also detailed how many of the thousands of objects easily violated restricted airspace, raising concerns about how safe America’s national security sites really are.
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Enigma Labs has revealed that more than 2,800 UFO sightings have taken place directly over or nearby nuclear power plants and military bases
The sightings were reported over several years and sent to the crowdsourced platform by eyewitnesses, including civilians, pilots, and military personnel
‘If these objects belong to foreign intelligence or advanced programs, they expose vulnerabilities in national defense,’ Enigma researchers wrote in a statement.
‘If they are something unknown to science, they may represent new physics or technology. Either possibility demands improved detection, data sharing, and protective measures.’
Enigma, which allows people to report sightings and share pictures or videos of UFOs on an app, noted that these incidents include the strange craft seen over Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in 1967, just as several Minuteman missiles shut down.
The sightings of strange craft and unidentifiable objects over nuclear plants weren’t limited to just the US.
Researchers detailed how witnesses claimed they saw UFOs over two major nuclear disasters – the 1986 reactor meltdown in Chernobyl, Ukraine and the 2011 accident in Fukushima, Japan.
In Chernobyl, a bright cylindrical object was reportedly seen hovering near the burning remnants of the nuclear plant’s Reactor 4. There has never been any confirmation that the radiation dipped after the sighting, as some have claimed.
During the Japanese meltdown, similar glowing objects were allegedly flying over the damaged reactor; however, these sightings were later suggested to be foreign drones conducting surveillance of the accident.
In 1967, multiple nuclear missiles were disabled during alleged UFO encounters over Malmstrom Airforce Base in Montana (Pictured)
Limerick Generating Station nuclear energy plant in Pottstown, Pennsylvania (Stock Image)
In the US, the sightings go all the way back to the dawn of the US nuclear program in the late 1940s, with Enigma detailing how ‘bright green fireballs’ were reported near Kirtland and Sandia Air Force Bases in New Mexico.
Overall, Enigma Labs has collected over 1,800 reports of UFOs flying and hovering near 53 nuclear power plants in the US.
Another 1,000 reports specifically mentioned incidents that allegedly took place over 37 US military bases linked to nuclear weapons research or missile launch sites.
Half of these sightings claimed that the objects were able to hover or seemed to float through the air, and one-third mentioned suddenly disappearing or vanishing into thin air.
