From mysterious orbs near aerospace facilities to shape-shifting objects in broad daylight, join us as we explore recent unexplained phenomena in our skies and seas. Our countdown features pilot testimonies, whistleblower revelations, and documented sightings that continue to puzzle experts and challenge our understanding of aerial phenomena.
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00:00Witnesses at the time described seeing a large white UFO in the sky.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo Pop, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 recent
00:08mysteries involving unidentified anomalous, or sometimes aerial, phenomenon. Thanks for
00:14joining as we dive into the UAP mystery. And as crazy as this sounds, it's what's guiding me now.
00:21Number 10. Orbs witnessed near Lockheed Martin facility. On January 12th, 2025,
00:26orbs were sighted in Colorado near a Lockheed Martin facility, according to multiple witnesses.
00:32I tell you, there's some crazy stuff going on in this town. You can save that again, Mr. Garrison.
00:38Allegedly, there was no sound observed by the witnesses, and they ruled out both Starlink and
00:43drones. According to reports, the UAP were forming different shapes as they would disappear and
00:49reappear. A video of the sighting was posted to Instagram on January 26th.
00:56Some local residents even shared similar experiences in the comments, indicating the
01:02mystery was not exclusive to 2025. For instance, on June 5th, 2024, there was a report of an object
01:09several hundred feet long in the early morning Colorado skies, witnessed by about a dozen folks
01:14working at the Red Rock Amphitheater.
01:23Number 9. Sightings across Fresno. In January of 2025, there were multiple unexplained sightings in the
01:29skies of Fresno, California, some made by pilots.
01:32Do you have any drone activity on your radar by any chance?
01:35One of these sightings was a strange light captured by the Fox 26 News Channel's tower camera and sent to the
01:41Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON.
01:43That one I would probably actually give an unknown classification to, which is a UFO.
01:50They ruled out space launches and planets or stars, calling it an interesting capture based on the
01:55movement of the object. Four days later, the Fresno tower received a call from two pilots requesting
02:00information because an unknown object was following one of the pilots at 3,500 feet. The Fresno police
02:06helicopter was even called to investigate. We reached out to the FAA in Fresno for more information
02:12on Tuesday's unusual sighting by pilots, but we have yet to hear back. Number 8. UAP reported by
02:20pilot in Oregon. On December 7th, 2024, pilots flying in the skies of Oregon reported mysterious
02:26lights to air traffic control. We're seeing three or four targets. The other, all altitudes up and down,
02:33it's pretty crazy. One pilot described them as moving in a corkscrew pattern. During this exchange,
02:38air traffic control actually referred to the UAP as a UFO, which is something you don't hear every
02:44day. The interesting report led NBC News' Gotti Schwartz to interview Ryan Graves, an ex-lieutenant
02:51U.S. Navy, F-A-18 pilot, and co-founder of Americans for Safe Aerospace, to get his expert opinion.
02:57This is a very consistent thing that's been happening to pilots. They are seeing things,
03:02not just way up in the sky, potentially in space, but things that seem to be exhibiting very strange
03:06maneuvers and capabilities right in the atmosphere with the aircraft themselves.
03:10Graves mentioned this has been an ongoing thing for pilots over the years, and as the stigma lifts,
03:16it allows more pilots to report some of the strange things they're seeing in our skies.
03:20There seems to be this strange stalemate where the government simply can't find the information
03:24and they can't assign any type of threat level or origin to these objects. And that alone, I think,
03:30it's something our adversaries are going to be taking careful notes on.
03:33Number seven, flight crew's experience with UAP over the Bahamas. On December 23rd, 2024,
03:39a flight crew witnessed a glowing spherical object in the skies over the Bahamas.
03:43The aerospace world is full of flying machines that we all recognize,
03:48but sometimes people see things in the sky that defy explanation.
03:53Cassandra Martin, one of the flight attendants present that day, claims to have overheard the
03:57traffic controllers say, we have a foreign object, can you please identify?
04:01I grabbed my phone and I just pressed it to the window to see if I can get a video of what
04:07the object was. I don't know what it was. And then I zoomed in as much as the phone allowed me to.
04:14According to Martin, the pilot saw multiple objects, though she reported seeing only one.
04:19She even stated that there were several other aircraft who also reported witnessing the UAP.
04:24She was able to take a video via her phone through the window of the private jet,
04:28and the object appeared to change color. Whatever it was, it stayed with them for about 45 minutes
04:33and suddenly disappeared.
04:36And it had the capability just to zigzag and change color. So that was a little,
04:41you know, daunting to say the least. But, you know, it was also something fascinating that I was
04:45able to see and capture with my phone.
04:48Number 6. Underwater UAP. In January of 2025, during an interview with Matt Gaetz,
04:55Representative Tim Burchett alleged that an admiral told him about an object the size of a football
05:00field reportedly moving hundreds of miles an hour underwater.
05:04He's a little cagey, and then he leaned over and whispered to me, he said, Tim, they're real.
05:09According to Burchett, this is a documented case. Luis Elizondo, who claims he was the head of the
05:15Department of Defense's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, also shared his thoughts
05:20regarding underwater UAP on the Joe Rogan podcast in 2024.
05:24Have there been interactions with these things?
05:27I would not at liberty to discuss any details about that.
05:31Elizondo says he was once told about an object that moved, quote,
05:35hundreds and hundreds of knots underwater and was bigger than our submarine.
05:39Right, now you know how big our submarines are, right? They're huge.
05:40These two instances seem very similar, indicating that it's not only in our skies that we're seeing
05:46this mysterious unidentified phenomenon. Number 5. Three nights of UAP witnessed at
05:52Tianjin International Airport, China. In September of 2024, there were three back-to-back nights of
05:58sightings of unidentified flying objects at the Tianjin International Airport in China.
06:03Because of these sightings, which began on September 11th, the airport canceled many flights.
06:08Some flights circled above the airport dozens of times but couldn't land.
06:12Officially, China has stated that these objects were drones, though the citizens continue to
06:17question this explanation for many reasons, including the length of time that the objects
06:21were able to remain in flight, as much as 10 hours.
06:24This incident is far from simple. These drones flew in a no-fly zone and defied all jamming equipment.
06:31With a single battery, the next night, security measures were increased,
06:34but that didn't stop the objects from returning and causing flights to circle without being able
06:39to land. On the third night, September 13th, witnesses described seeing four or five of the
06:45same objects, despite the airport's increased security measures.
06:49One person wrote,
06:50Apart from the pilots, no one knows the incident better than I do.
06:53I was a crane operator, working overtime to lift materials when it happened.
06:57The crane was over 150 meters high. That thing was definitely not man-made.
07:02Number 4. Shape-Shifting UAP Spotted in Florida
07:06On March 22nd, 2025, a mysterious object was spotted changing shape in the skies above
07:12Green Cove Springs, Florida, around 4pm, in broad daylight.
07:21This event was recorded and posted across social media. The Naval Air Station Jacksonville,
07:27located about 15 miles from the sighting, had announced training exercises beginning that
07:32day and advised residents to expect an increase in aircraft activity and noise. However, the object
07:38that was recorded allegedly produced no noise. There were actually 34 reports of UAP across the
07:45state of Florida from March 1st to the 19th, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.
07:50Number 3. Egg-Shaped UAP Video Release
08:01In January 2025, NewsNation independently obtained and subsequently released a video of an egg-shaped UAP
08:08allegedly received from a secret UAP craft retrieval program.
08:13Let's slow this down to take a closer look.
08:16The object appears smooth with no markings and no visual indications of propulsion.
08:21This exclusive video release was discussed across social media. According to NewsNation's Ross
08:26Colthart, U.S. Air Force veteran Jake Barber described the object in extraordinary detail to
08:31the Senate during a four-and-a-half-hour testimony. This was also the object Barber referred to in his
08:37previous NewsNation whistleblower interview. The UAP's final destination still unknown.
08:43Number 2. Whistleblower Reveals Alleged UAP Retrieval Program
08:47In 2024, Jake Barber, considered a whistleblower by many, was interviewed by NewsNation and revealed
08:54allegedly secretive UAP craft retrieval programs from his own first-hand experience.
09:00You've lived with this secret for how long? You could say more than a decade.
09:05According to Barber, he was a helicopter pilot contracted to retrieve craft. Barber told NewsNation's
09:12Ross Colthart that an egg-shaped craft, which might be familiar if you've been paying attention,
09:17quote, was not human. How close did you get? Well, I was a helicopter pilot and I operate with
09:23a 150-foot to 200-foot long line, so I got within 150 feet of this object.
09:29Over the last few years, prior to Barber speaking out, other whistleblowers like Luis Elizondo and
09:35David Grush have also alleged the existence of secretive UAP retrieval programs. Barber's
09:40interview was heavily discussed on social media before and after it aired.
09:45And try and improve upon that path and widen the road. I expect the next people that are,
09:51the next groups of folks that are going to be coming down this path are going to blow it wide open.
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10:10Number 1. Skywatcher and the Jellyfish UAP
10:14Jake Barber is part of Skywatcher, an organization which he describes as a privately funded elite team
10:21of aerial intelligence experts and scientists. As you've heard about, we're focused on two
10:26different types of UAP calling. We have machine calling and we have psionic calling. According to
10:34their ex-profile, this group was founded by former military and intelligence professionals to provide
10:39advanced aerial intelligence and protection systems. So far, Skywatcher has released two videos based on
10:46two 2025 events via their YouTube channel, revealing the data they've been able to gather regarding UAP,
10:52including what they call a jellyfish type.
10:55I would say the most significant encounter that I've had here was probably interacting with the
11:02jellyfish. Other types of UAP have been described by Barber,
11:06from a vibrating crystal to a pulsating blob to orbs. So far, they've created a classification
11:12system with nine types of UAP. As more data is gathered by Skywatcher, even more types may be
11:18discovered. Our mission and our investigation is truly just getting started. We're quickly learning,
11:23in fact, how many things that we still don't know. Have you experienced a UAP yourself,
11:30recently or otherwise? Comment down below and keep your eyes to the skies,
11:34as well as the seas, apparently. I was shaking. Like, it was super exciting.