Dispatches from the field.
Investigations, deep dives, and short reads from the Sighted team and verified investigators.
What 50 Sightings Tell Us About Spring 2026
The community has logged fifty reports since the spring equinox. Three patterns have separated from the noise — what we're watching and why.
Reading the Night Sky: Stars, Satellites, and Things That Aren't Either
Nine of every ten "UAPs" filed at Sighted resolve to something with a name. Learn what's normal in the sky so the genuine anomalies stand out.
How to Document a Sighting: A 5-Minute Field Checklist
Most useful UAP reports happen in the first five minutes. Here's what to capture before the moment is gone — and the easy mistakes that make a report unusable.
Why the Nimitz Tic-Tac Encounter Still Matters
In November 2004, F/A-18 pilots intercepted an object off Baja that didn’t follow any rule of aerodynamics. Two decades on, that case is still the cleanest data the field has.
The Phoenix Lights, 25 Years Later: What the Witness Map Still Tells Us
A look back at the 1997 Phoenix incident through the lens of modern community-driven sighting maps — and what the geometry of thousands of witness reports still tells us.