Mysterious UFO Sighting Over Joshua Tree National Park
A group of four hikers in Southern California recently shared incredible images of a mysterious craft flying overhead during a solar eclipse. The sighting occurred on October 14, 2023, when the family spotted a large dumbbell or H-shaped UFO near Ryan Mountain in Joshua Tree National Park.
According to the witnesses, they followed the object for approximately 45 minutes, observing it disappear and reappear several times before it ultimately vanished. The images captured by the hikers were shared with safeaerospace.org, a nonprofit organization focused on aerospace safety and national security. These photos revealed a clear view of the UFO, which was made of a highly reflective material described as silver.
The object was described as resembling a ‘capital I’ or ‘sideways H’, with two large panels on each end that gave it a shape similar to a TIE fighter from the Star Wars films. While some skeptics online have suggested the craft could be a box kite or an escaped letter H party balloon, the hikers estimated the object to be the size of a car or small plane. This would make it significantly larger than typical kites or balloons.
Proximity to Military Bases
The family noted in their report that the suspected UFO was within a few miles of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) at Twentynine Palms, located about 125 miles east of Los Angeles. Additionally, the sighting took place roughly 115 miles from Edwards Air Force Base, the world’s largest airfield and a famous testing ground for experimental aircraft since the 1940s.
Edwards Air Force Base is home to the 412th Test Wing and the Air Force Test Center, which serve as the primary location for developmental flight testing of new technology. Historical tests have included the X-1, which conducted the first supersonic flight in history, and more recently, the B-21 Raider, a sixth-generation stealth bomber unveiled in 2022.
Expert Commentary on UAPs
The incident has been taken seriously and shared publicly by an expert in the field of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), the modern term for UFOs. Safeaerospace.org was founded by Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot and one of the key witnesses on UAP incidents who has testified before Congress about what he saw during his decade-long career.
Graves told Congress in 2023: “UAP are in our airspace, but they are grossly under-reported. These sightings are not rare or isolated; they are routine. Military air crew and commercial pilots, trained observers whose lives depend on accurate identification, are frequently witnessing these phenomena.”
Graves added during the House Oversight hearing on UAP that sightings and close calls involving US fighter jets and these mysterious crafts over American airspace had become so common that warnings about these encounters became standard in mission briefings. “The American people deserve to know what is happening in our skies. It is long overdue,” the veteran pilot said.
Safeaerospace.org is the official site of Americans for Safe Aerospace, Graves’ nonprofit that provides civilians, commercial pilots, and fellow veterans with a secure and confidential channel to report UAP encounters.
Trump’s Comments on UFO Disclosure
On Wednesday, President Trump suggested that the long-awaited files on UFO disclosure could soon be made public. “I think we will be releasing as much as we can in the near future,” the president told reporters during a meeting with the crew of NASA’s Artemis II moon mission.
“For some reason, and I guess it’s just a reason, it’s been in the minds of people for a long time. They want to find out about the UFOs and anything having to do with UFOs or related material.”
Confirming Graves’ testimony, Trump added that he had spoken with military pilots who revealed incidents involving what they believed were non-human craft. “I interviewed some pilots. Very solid people, and they said they saw things that you wouldn’t believe,” Trump said.
