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Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mysterious 'UFO Base' off Malibu Vanishes from Google Earth
Malibu is home to Hollywood elite, surf dogs, and one of California's premier, most historically significant pointbreaks. The place is steeped in surf history, dating back to the salad days of the '50s and '60s, yet still living up to its iconic reputation anytime a large south swell swings through town. Off the coast, however, there's something that's been stirring up the tinfoil hat community. Sycamore Knoll, an underwater feature 6.6 miles from the shore, has been speculated to be a 'UFO base' by conspiracy theorists. And now, according to the armchair alien experts, it's disappeared. According to one UFO sighting Instagram account, Sycamore Knoll has been 'known to scientists for years, it has recently gained attention, particularly with speculation that it might be a hidden alien or government base, or the site of frequent UFO activity. Others suggest it's simply due to incomplete data or Google Earth updates.' The coordinates of the oceanic feature are 34° 1'23.31″N 118° 59'45.64″W – go check it out yourself. 'However, as of April 2025, it has been mysteriously blurred out from Google Earth,' continued the conspiracy theorist IG, 'sparking questions as to why they felt the need to hide its location.'Per an account reported to the National UFO Reporting Center regarding a sighting at Sycamore Knoll: 'It looked like a massive, cathedral-shaped structure — multiple pointed edges all glowing brilliantly white, heading straight into the ocean. 'There was no splash, no sound... just a flash, and it was gone. It happened so fast — like a giant ship or object vanishing beneath the surface in an instant.' Experts have studied Sycamore Knoll in a more scientific manner, citing that it is anomalous. According to a study from 2018: 'At the boundary between the Western Transverse Ranges province and Inner Continental Borderland of Southern California, strain is partitioned across the sinistral-oblique Anacapa-Dume Fault system. Sycamore Knoll, a pop-up structure 20 km west of Point Dume in the hanging wall of the north-dipping Anacapa-Dume Fault, stands out as an anomalous bathymetric high along the Southern California coast.' Over on the highly credibleReddit thread dedicated to this phenomenon, one user wrote: 'Time to get a group of UFO hunting divers together.' Any takers?
Daily Mail
25-04-2025
- Science
- Daily Mail
Mysterious underwater 'UFO base' spotted just 6 miles off the West Coast
A mysterious formation lurking deep in the ocean has been spotted just a few miles off the coast of Southern California. Geographically known as Sycamore Knoll, the natural underwater structure looks like a bump pushing up from the ocean floor, with a flat, table-like top. It has been studied by scientists for years, though recent claims by conspiracy theorists have suggested Sycamore Knoll might be an underwater ' alien base.' A Reddit post from earlier this year featured a Google Earth image of Sycamore Knoll with the title: 'Underwater UFO base between Malibu and Catalina Island.' 'Some refer to it as an anomaly while others believe it is an alien base,' a Redditor shared in another post this year. 'It's believed to be between two-and-a-half and three miles wide.' Sycamore Knoll sits about 2,000 feet below the surface and is located 6.6 miles off the coast of Malibu. It is located at geographic coordinates 34° 1'23.31″N 118° 59'45.64″W. While Google Earth images from 2014 captured detailed views of the formation, it appears to have been wiped from the platform as of 2025, adding more mystery about its origins. The formation, however, can be seen on other online mapping platforms such as a fishing charter app. Sycamore Knoll has been known for the past several decades but gained widespread public attention in 2014 when Google Earth images led to speculation about its structure, with some suggesting it resembled an artificial or alien base. The structure was also featured on the 'Fade to Black' podcast with Host Jimmy Church, who fed into conspiracies proclaiming it as not natural, but rather extraterrestrial. He speculated that it could be the biggest center of UFO activity found since Roswell, New Mexico, the Los Angeles Almanac reported. The National UFO Reporting Center has also received many reports of mysterious objects flying over the exact area as Sycamore Knoll, with some people saying they spotted craft emerging from the ocean. 'It looked like a massive, cathedral-shaped structure — multiple pointed edges all glowing brilliantly white, heading straight into the ocean,' one California resident reported to the UFO reporting site after seeing a mysterious craft in the sky. 'There was no splash, no sound... just a flash, and it was gone. 'It happened so fast — like a giant ship or object vanishing beneath the surface in an instant.' The X account Daily UFO, which has over 35,000 followers, shared a post about Sycamore Knoll in January, noting how Google Earth previously showed the tabletop formation and now it is blurred. Some have suggested that the Google Earth image 'isn't an actual picture, so there's nothing to blur,' noting that 'it's a digital markup of data. The 'blur' is just a lack of data.' Republican Congressman Tim Burchett also claimed in January that an admiral, whom he did not identify, told him about a UFO that was moving underwater at remarkable speed. 'They tell me something's moving at hundreds of miles an hour underwater... as large as a football field, underwater,' the Tennessee congressman told former Republican congressman Matt Gaetz, who now hosts a show on right-wing news outlet One America News. 'This was a documented case, and I have an admiral telling me this stuff.' The renewed attention in Sycamore Knoll also comes days after a UFO expert who released a new video this week showing the infamous Tic Tac revealed bombshell theories about the phenomenon. Jeremy Corbell, an investigative journalist and filmmaker known for his work with George Knapp on military-documented unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), has once again ignited public debate over UFOs - this time with newly released footage captured aboard the USS Jackson in 2023. The video, made public this month after a multi-year verification process, shows what Corbell and military witnesses described as a 'self-luminous, wingless, tailless' craft rising from the Pacific Ocean. But Corbell insisted the new footage is far from an isolated event. Instead, he said it fits a broader and increasingly alarming pattern: repeated sightings of intelligently controlled craft that defy known aerodynamics, appear regularly in the same offshore military training zone, and may originate from below the ocean's surface. According to Corbell, the 2023 incident echoes two other major military encounters: the 2004 Nimitz sighting and a lesser-known but well-documented 2019 event in which a swarm of UAPs surrounded ten Navy warships over multiple nights. The new footage, he argued, is not a standalone revelation but part of a growing body of evidence pointing to intelligently controlled craft - capable of transmedium travel (moving seamlessly through space, air, and water) - that have repeatedly appeared over decades in the same region: Warning Area 291, off the coast of Southern California. The 2023 release was supported by a new military witness: an active-duty U.S. Navy combat information center (CIC) operator who claims to have seen the object rise from the ocean with his own eyes. Corbell and Knapp, known for handling sensitive testimonies, vetted the witness and aligned his account with radar data and FLIR imagery. The Navy veteran tracked the object using the ship's high-powered SAPPHIRE FLIR thermal targeting system. Radar detected four unknown targets in the area, though two were captured on video. According to the witness, all four UAPs performed an instantaneous, synchronized maneuver, shooting off simultaneously without visible propulsion, suggesting intelligent coordination.
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
More than 200 UFO sightings reported in Fresno County since 1950s. Is it a hotspot?
On a clear December night in 2011, something strange appeared in the sky above Fresno. 'I was driving home when my family and I noticed three bright orange lights shaped in a triangle,' an observer recalled in an anonymous report to the National UFO Reporting Center. As they got closer, 'another bright orange light' showed up ahead of the trio of lights, the observer wrote. 'The strange thing about it (was) they were all moving at the same time and pace. ... It was clear it wasn't a plane.' Then, they wrote, the lights 'just vanished. It was pretty cool.' As of Thursday, March 27, a total of 16,735 sightings of unidentified flying objects had been reported in California since the 1970s, according to The National UFO Reporting Center. In January, there were more than 40 UFO sightings reported in California, including one in Fresno, the National UFO Reporting Center said. More than 20 UFO sightings were reported across the state in February, according to the center, and 18 had been reported so far in March. Fresno ranked No. 6 in terms of California cities with the most UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center, trailing San Jose and San Francisco. That should come as no surprise, given Fresno-area residents' fascination with the paranormal, otherworldly and just plain weird. After all, Fresno County has its own famous cryptid, the Fresno Nightcrawler, and was once home to one of the most haunted places in the nation, Wolfe Manor. In 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold attracted national attention when he reported seeing nine objects, glowing bright blue-white and flying in a 'V' formation over Washington's Mount Rainier, according to the History Channel. Arnold compared the objects' motion to 'a saucer if you skip it across water,' the History Channel said. Contemporary newspaper reports misinterpreted this as meaning that the objects were shaped like saucers, the History Channel explained, 'leading to the popularization of the term 'flying saucer' as a synonym for UFO.' Since then, UFO sightings have become an American obsession, with many television shows, movies and music focusing on visitors from beyond the stars. Works inspired by extraterrestrials range from Radiohead's song 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' to 'The X Files,' the hit TV series about FBI special agents investigating the unexplained that spawned comics, novels and two films. 'People are obsessed with topics like UFOs (because) they deal with that age-old question: 'Are we alone in the universe?' ' Michael Banti, founder of Weird Fresno, told The Fresno Bee. 'If UFOs are indeed from outer space, then that question is answered and a new one is brought up. What is our purpose in the universe?' As of Thursday, March 27, a total of 189 UFO sightings had been reported in Fresno from 1953 to 2024, according to the National UFO Reporting Center. That's in addition to 52 UFO sightings in Clovis reported since 1968, National UFO Reporting Center records showed. In comparison, more than 500 UFO sightings had been reported in Los Angeles since 1942, the center said. According to the center, the earliest sighting of a UFO in Fresno was in June 1953. An unidentified person reported hearing an 'extremely loud whirring, rotating sound' accompanied by a disc-shaped UFO with 'white fluorescent-type light completely around the middle of it.' Since then, Fresno-area residents have reported at least one UFO sighting per month, according to center data, with the most sightings reported on the month of April. The discussion about UFOs has spread to social media. 'Is anyone aware of any spots in the Central Valley where UFO sightings have occurred?' a Reddit user asked in 2021. 'I've never seen anything but have friends and family who swear they have seen unusual things in the sky here,' Reddit user bravo2505 wrote. A Selma resident shared a similar experience in a comment. 'I was looking up in the sky and saw a dot of light, like an airplane but a little bigger, as bright as a star, zigzag fast in the sky, then zoom off and disappear,' Reddit user tubesocks111111 wrote in 2021. 'It was going faster then any aircraft I've ever seen fly.' Even celebrities have gotten in on the act. NBA star Shaquille O'Neal recalled spotting something strange in the sky in Madera in 1997. 'Right when we passed the fairground, I could swear I saw a flying saucer come down with all the lights and it was spinning and then it took off,' O'Neal told late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' in 2021. 'We all looked at each other and it was like, I know it was a UFO. I don't care what anybody says.' Fresno television station KMPH-TV, also known as Fox 26 News, said it caught 'unusual aerial phenomena' on camera in mid-January, when a tower camera recorded footage of a light appearing to hover over downtown Fresno. A day later, Fox 26 photojournalist Anthony Guevara said he captured footage of a similar object. Earl Grey Anderson of the Mutual UFO Network said he could 'technically call (the object) a UFO.' 'We've seen a few odd things ... strange lights over the horizon at strange times of the day,' said Keith Quattrocchi, founder of Sierra Remote Observatories, a five-acre facility for hobbyist astrophotographers and others near Auberry in eastern Fresno County. 'By definition, some of the things that we've seen are unidentified flying objects, because they're flying, and we don't know what they are,' Quattrocchi said. Sam Miller, a technician at Sierra Remote Observatories, said he first got interested in UFOs in 2021, when he saw some odd objects in the sky. Since then, Miller said, he's set up extra-sensitive cameras at his Auberry home and worked to compare findings. He also has a YouTube channel where he posts videos of unusual aerial sights. 'These strange lights look like satellites, but the frequency and orientation does not match satellite behavior,' Miller wrote in the caption for one of his videos. The U.S. Department of Defense releases a yearly report of 'unidentified anomalous phenomena.' 'Airborne unidentified anomalous phenomena continue to dominate reporting,' according to the federal agency's latest report, released in November. Of the 757 reports the agency logged from May 1, 2023, to June 1, a total of 708 involved objects in the 'air domain,' the report said, including balloons, satellites, aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems. Quattrocchi said he's received emails from people misidentifying everything from drones to planets as UFOs. When Venus is visible overhead, he said, 'They tell me they've seen an orb that's standing still in the sky. ... It's a very bright planet that is amazingly bright, and (if) it's on a really good evening, it really looks strange.' He said it's getting harder to discern if UFOs are fact or hoax as technology advances. 'Naval pilots ... have seen things that really we cannot explain in our radar systems,' Quattrochi said. 'These things were making very strange maneuvers.' People can argue, 'Well, maybe they're mistaken with what they're seeing,' ' he added, but 'our radar operators ... (are) saying these things are doing pretty much what the pilots are able to visually see. It's starting to become a little harder to discern.' Have you spotted something strange in the sky? You can report a UFO sighting through the National UFO Reporting Center's website. You'll be asked about the date and location of the sighting, as well as how long the phenomenon lasted. You'll also be asked: Where were you when you saw the unidentified flying object? On land? In a boat or aircraft? What did you see? What did the object look like? How did it behave? Where there any witnesses?
