A US military witness with over 25 years of experience has revealed his own late night encounter with a UFO, that lit up his campsite and ‘made absolutely no noise.’
The event came less than a month before a more senior ex-Pentagon counter-intel official, Luis Elizondo, testified before Congress accusing government actors of secretly working to ‘hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.’
The October 21, 2024 campsite UFO, according to the military witness who requested anonymity, hovered as close as 100 yards above him along the treeline: ‘The entire area lit up brighter than the brightest full moon I’ve ever seen,’ he reported.
‘I knew it wasn’t the moon because I had already located the moon prior,’ the trained observer noted of this 20–30 foot UFO. ‘[The moon] was a dimly lit waning gibbous.’
The career military man, who reported this episode to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), added: ‘I observed it for at least a minute before fear took over and I sank back down into the bed of my truck and into my sleeping bag.’
The oval-shaped ‘stationary, bright white light’ resembles one newly public case reported this November by Connecticut policeman Robert Klein, who professed that an orb UFO, the size of a Mini Cooper, ‘lit up the entire cab’ of his patrol car in 2022.
Fear over roughly car-sized ‘unidentified aerial phenomena’ (UAP), often described as ‘mystery drones,’ has swept the nation since November as sightings across New Jersey and surrounding states have eerily matched cases over US military bases.
Local leaders in the Garden State are ‘livid,’ according to journalist and author Michael Shellenberger, who obtained audio from a video briefing delivered to more than 500 New Jersey mayors by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
A US military witness with over 25 years of experience has revealed a late night encounter with a UFO that lit up his campsite. Above, Nest camera footage from a July 24, 2019 UFO case in Leominster, MA, in which a similar brightly lit object (a possible meteor) zoomed across the sky
The US military witness saw their 30-40 foot long, oval shaped UFO while camping at the the Santa Rosa Mountain Yellow Post campsites just southwest of Joshua Tree National Park in California. Above: the Milky Way galaxy seen over a Joshua Tree in the park on May 12, 2024
‘One of them [i.e. a mayor] got up there,’ Shellenberger told Fox News, ‘and said, “I had two automobile-sized drones hovering over my house.”‘
The newly public military witness’s case, as he told NUFORC was itself roughly 8–10 feet tall, making this bright oval UFO about the size of a school bus.
The sighting, which the military man said lasted for over a full minute, occurred at the Santa Rosa Mountain Yellow Post campsites, just southwest of Joshua Tree National Park in California where he was ‘the only camper/hunter in the area that night.’
‘I was laying in the tarped bed of my truck,’ he told NURFOC, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that has coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on UFOs for decades.
‘It was pitch black out,’ he said, as the waning gibbous moon was shining weakly — when ‘instantly’ the ordinary noises of the insects and animals in the wild ‘went completely silent’ as the UFO appeared.
‘It made absolutely no noise, didn’t pulsate or move, and did not radiate any sort of heat,’ he said, adding the temperature was ‘about 40 degrees Fahrenheit’ that night.
By his estimation, this ‘stationary, bright white light’ was ‘about the size of a medium sized helicopter but with the light encompassing the entire object’ as it hovered at ‘tree top level, behind an about 30-40 foot tall pine tree, only about 100 yards away.’
The encounter, which ended as abruptly as it began, differed from Officer Klein’s encounter with a car-sized glowing orb UFO in that the Connecticut policeman’s sighting pulsated its light from white to red to green to orange.
The veteran cop took pains to emphasize to NewsNation that, in the early moments of his encounter, he was able to get ‘a very close-up view of it’ from 30 feet below the hovering, orb-like object: ‘It wasn’t a drone — I can guarantee you that.’
Swarms of drones have been spotted in the skies of New Jersey for weeks, sparking officials to call for a ‘limited state of emergency’ – with drone bans taking effect in some areas
Mayor Mike Ghassali of Montvale, New Jersey took to Facebook to reveal what happened to a resident’s quadcopter drone when they had a run-in with a mysterious drone UFO hovering in the air nearby – noting there was ‘sophisticated’ technology at play in this December 15 event
The military witness delivered the coordinates of his October 2024 UFO sighting as 33 degrees 32′ 12.8″ North and 116 degrees 27′ 38.7″ West (red pin, above) – placing him at the Santa Rosa Mountain Yellow Post campsite east of Los Angeles at the time of his
‘I froze,’ Klein said, recalling that moment looking up at the object. ‘I wasn’t in fear. I just was really trying to understand what exactly I was looking at.’
‘I was trying to just process what I was looking at,’ he said. ‘Still to this day, I’m perplexed.’
Speaking before Congress this past November, Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Defense Department’s UFO-hunting Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), criticized federal officials for ‘excessive secrecy’ on the UFO issue.
‘I believe that we as Americans can handle the truth. And I also believe the world deserves the truth,’ Elizondo said.
The former intelligence officer also urged Congress to pass legislation that would protect government whistleblowers afraid to reveal what they know about UFOs, a common refrain among those testifying at the November 13, 2024 open hearing.
The hearing, held by the House Oversight committee, was part of a larger investigation into UFOs to determine whether any government officials have been withholding evidence from Congress.
‘Advanced technologies not made by our government, or any other government, are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe,’ Elizondo insisted, raising unsettling implications for the rash of ‘mystery drone’ sightings at US bases.
In recent months, the Garden State has been ravaged by thousands of unexplained drone sightings, as over 5,000 reports of odd drones have been filed with federal law enforcement
Although misidentifications of conventional planes have been rife amid the growing public panic, reports by from US military officials across America and Europe, alongside local police, have told matching accounts of these car-sized drones.
The drone swarm’s lighting colors, as well as its behavior, match those that also made repeated brazen incursions over the restricted airspace above Air Force joint-base Langley-Eustis in Virginia, then home to America’s stealth F-22 fighter fleet.
For at least 17 nights in December 2023, swarms of these noisy, small UFOs were also seen at dusk ‘moving at rapid speeds’ and ‘flashing red, green, and white lights.’
And these cases are almost identical to what has been reported above sensitive sites in New Jersey, like the US Army’s Picatinny Arsenal, since mid-November 2024.
Base police have reported 11 confirmed and unauthorized drone sightings over the arsenal since November 13, meaning security officers ‘visibly witnessed a drone.’
Senior ex-Pentagon security official Chris Mellon told DailyMail.com last October that the unexplained incursions over Langley-Eustis were ‘part of a much larger pattern affecting numerous national security installations.’
‘Two of the notable aspects,’ he said, ‘are the fact our drone signal-jamming devices have proven ineffective and these craft are making no effort to remain concealed.’
‘In fact, in some instances,’ as Mellon took pains to emphasize, ‘it is clear they want to be seen as though taunting us.’
