New app charts UFO reports as Oklahoma sees rise in mysterious sightings

Look in the sky- it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…an unidentified flying object! 

A new app, Enigma, has surged in popularity since its December 2023 launch charting UFO sightings across the globe, with a major uptick in sightings around the Sooner State. 

Featured on Vice, The Economist, The New Yorker, PBS, and The Scientific American, Enigma is the first community-driven and collaborative UFO / UAP database and app allowing users to upload their sightings and reports directly, visible to other users, for a “crowd-solving” experience. 

 Currently, Oklahoma is ranked in the Top 30 of states with the most UFO sightings. 

Thus far Enigma has collected over 300 reports directly from Oklahoma and nearly 3000 historical reports collected from other sources than can be viewed on the free app. 

Enigma’s Curated Sightings feed is updated daily, featuring trending reports from everyday people and credible witnesses—including pilots, veterans, and law enforcement. Users can also share their own UFO sightings through the app, contributing to the fastest growing community of skywatchers. Enigma runs machine learning analysis to review and score every sighting, and approved sightings become part of a global network working to study and understand UAPs.

The app notes 5 sightings in Blackwell, from 2016, 2001, two in 1997, and one from all the way back in June of 1955. 

The May 2016 one includes photos from a strange disc-shaped object in the sky over Sapulpa. 

The June 2001 sighting was reported from a man traveling with his girlfriend between Blackwell and Tonkawa who noted a multi-colored disc over the Highway 60 overpass. 

The two from 1997, both from the same date and time in January, report a triangular object southwest of Blackwell. 

The 1955 sighting was reported by a group of friends having a sleepover outside in June, seeing three saucer-shaped object flying overhead: 

“All of us saw the same disc shaped objects, we were too excited to sleep much that long ago summer night,” the report reads.

“I never saw UFOs before or after that.” 

Their reports can be read via the app. 

“We pull from a lot of historical databases from around the world, including the largest, such as the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON),” Enigma Consultant Alejandro Rojas told the Journal-Tribune.