Two Sailors Saw Balls of Light. The Ship’s Radar Saw Nothing

On the night of October 11, a ship crossing the Atlantic roughly 640 kilometers south of Nova Scotia reported that crew members had seen lights, though no instrument on board confirmed the sighting. The account was submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center’s public database in the United States and published there on October 21. The Daily Mail also reported on it.

At around 3:25 a.m., the second officer spotted a light low on the horizon, slightly to the left of the bow. The sky was clear, with only a thin crescent moon, and the writer said there was no other activity nearby.

One Ball, Then Four

Two sailors watched a ball of light through binoculars for about 40 minutes. It appeared to be 20 to 26 kilometers away. According to the writer, for five to 10 minutes it rose and fell, swayed from side to side, and sometimes shot off at what the writer described as supersonic speed. Three or four similar balls appeared, all of them, the report said, “twisting and spinning, rising and falling together without any set pattern.”

The writer also described moments when the objects disappeared and then reappeared somewhere else: “Sometimes they just went somewhere else entirely, at a speed I can only call unreasonable, and then they were there again.”

The Radar That Detected Nothing

The report included screenshots of the ship’s radar, which the writer said were taken during the sighting. No airborne objects appeared on the screens. The report does not explain why the objects were visible to the eye but not detected by radar, or specify who took the screenshots or exactly what they show.

The report has not been verified: the writer’s identity was not disclosed, no additional witnesses or information about the ship were identified, and no official source confirmed the account.

The screenshots show no radar contacts.