A popular UFO reporting app has made waves after tens of thousands of mysterious underwater objects were recorded up and down the coast of the United States, raising eyebrows and leaving experts with more questions than answers regarding their origin.
Enigma, a nonpartisan organization that boasts the “largest queryable historical database of UFO sightings in the world,” has recorded nearly 30,000 UFO sightings since its launch in 2022, according to the company’s website.
However, users turned their attention away from the sky in search of evidence that life might exist elsewhere.
Since August, Enigma has documented more than 9,000 UFO sightings within 10 miles of US shores or other major bodies of water, Marine Technology News I mentioned.
Unidentified submersible objects (USOs) are defined as “any object discovered underwater that cannot be immediately identified or explained,” according to the outlet.
USO objects can be observed through technological sensors and with the naked eye – witnesses often describe them as moving at incredibly high speeds, making precise changes in direction and possessing “cross-medium” capabilities by transitioning seamlessly between water and air.
“What’s really interesting to me are the reports we get about it [United States] “Underwater ships detect a vehicle moving at exceptionally high speeds underwater,” Kent Hickenlively, author of Catastrophic Revelation: Aliens, the Deep State, and the Truth, told Fox News Digital.
“Now this is one of two things: this is something we don’t understand, or it means our technology is catching ghosts underwater.”
Of the 9,000 sightings reported since August 2025, nearly 500 occurred within 5 miles of the shoreline, according to Marine Technology News.
In addition, more than 150 objects have been reported either hovering over or entering and exiting bodies of water.
The two states with the largest coastal populations — California and Florida — top the charts for the most USO sightings, according to the Enigma website.
There have been 389 reported sightings in California, with the Sunshine State coming in second with 306 witnesses.
The data also shows several clusters of activity centered around specific coastal points across the country, surprising experts and government officials who fear these objects could pose a national security risk.
“There appear to be five or six areas of high UFO activity around the water,” Hickenlively said.
“That would make a lot of sense, and I think the problem the average person has is that they say to themselves, ‘Well, if these things were real, how could they come to Earth and hide?’ And the ocean seems like a great place to hide.”
This sentiment was echoed by retired Navy Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who previously claimed that video footage released by the Pentagon showed technology that “jeopardizes US maritime security, already weakened by our relative ignorance of the global ocean.”
“The fact that unidentified objects with inexplicable properties enter American water space and [Department of War] “Failing to raise a giant red flag is a sign that the government is not sharing everything it knows about anomalous phenomena across the board,” Gallaudet wrote in a report last year.
The 2019 video shows an unidentified object passing near the US Navy ship USS Omaha, before sinking into the Pacific Ocean without a trace.
“Pilots, reliable observers, and calibrated military apparatus have recorded objects accelerating at rates and crossing the air-land interface in ways that cannot be achieved by anything created by humans,” Gallaudet wrote.
Among the various witness accounts collected by Enigma, one of the most compelling testimonies shows two mysterious underwater objects lighting up while underwater, according to Marine Technology News.
However, years of public skepticism have led to the emergence of apps like Enigma, a crowdsourcing of data regarding UFOs, which Heckenlively believes is a positive step toward transparency between the US government and citizens searching for answers.
“I’m skeptical of weird things,” Hickenlively said. “But I am convinced that the government is lying to us.”
In what has historically remained a topic shrouded in secrecy, Hickenlively hopes that the publication of UFO findings by NGOs will put pressure on officials to prioritize transparency regarding national security.
“What’s the best cleanser of corruption? Sunlight,” Hickenlively told Fox News Digital. “So let’s throw as much sunlight as we can on this, and see what comes out quickly.”