Luedenscheid (Germany) – Worldwide, private passive radar systems are increasingly being used in UFO research. In Germany, members of the “Society for the Investigation of UFO Phenomena” (GEP) also operate such systems. For the first time, one of these systems has successfully and independently confirmed a UFO sighting in real time – an unprecedented milestone in research.

– The original German version of this article can be found here

The following article is a guest contribution by Hans-Werner Peiniger for the German „Society for the Investigation of UFO Phenomena e.V.“ (GEP), originally published in the association’s journal „Journal für UFO-Forschung“ (JUFOF, 01-2025, Vol. 46, No. 277).

Incident Details

The witness, an employee of the Federal Police in Offenburg, was returning home from a night shift and parked in front of her house. Upon exiting her car, she heard a loud noise coming from the southern sky, which she described as “the dragging of a metal chain over asphalt”. Looking up, she saw a very bright, white, “wave-like“ formation in the clear sky. In front of the wave-like structure, she observed a bright, vertically aligned “double dot”. The sound stopped, and at the same time, the phenomenon disappeared. She estimated the sighting lasted no more than 5 seconds.

Case Summary

Case Number: 20240920 B
Date: September 20, 2024
Time: 05:34 AM CEST
Location: 77948 Friesenheim – Oberweier, Germany
Witnesses: Name known to investigator
Classification: NL
Assessment: GOOD UFO
Identification: None
Investigations: On hold
First Contact: Email, September 20, 2024
Investigator: Josef Garcia

UPDATE 04.03.2025, 18.00h:
Find the original radar datea and all technical details of the used passive radar instruments here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14949908

At the same time, the witness’s husband was preparing breakfast in the kitchen and heard the loud noise through the open balcony door. However, he described it differently, saying it sounded “like many small beads falling onto a tiled floor”. He did not step outside but found the unusual noise noteworthy for that early hour.

The witness was able to specify the exact time of the incident because she glanced at her Apple Watch, which displayed the time in large digital numbers (she uses this feature while jogging).

She lives approximately 1,000 meters from GEP investigator Josef Garcia, whom she knows personally and informed about the event shortly afterward. Unfortunately, Garcia was in the shower at the time of the event and did not hear anything, nor did his wife, who was still asleep.

For professional reasons, the witness wishes to remain anonymous. However, she emphasized that she had never seen anything like this before.

Sketch of the sighting (top) and an inverted version (bottom) for better representation of the dark sky. Source/Copyright: Witness/GEP, www.ufo-forschung.de

Translation by Andreas Müller, GreWi.de, original article published in JUFOF

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