Scores of new witnesses have emerged with more footage of the eerie ‘drone’ UFO swarms buzzing key US military sites, including ‘a big fireball in a cube’ over Area 51. The Las Vegas-area witness who reported this bizarre cube-shaped object claims to have observed similar strange aerial lights in the area ‘over 100 times’ since June 2020, adding that these craft ‘always seem to head towards Nellis Air Force base.’

Nevada’s Nellis base and its sprawling complex about 40 miles northwest of Vegas — including top secret Area 51, now legendary within UFO lore — appear to have faced incursions by craft similar to those that plagued the Air Force in Virginia. For at least 17 nights last December, swarms of noisy small UFOs were seen ‘moving at rapid speeds’ and displaying ‘ flashing red, green, and white lights ‘ within the highly restricted airspace over Virginia’s Joint Base Langley–Eustis.

Vegas natives have posted videos confirming they too have seen more than one red, green or white UFO that ‘wasn’t flashing like a regular aircraft [or] like a satellite.’ Another witness, who documented one September 4, 2024 case from their own 60-night experience with the odd lights, hoped coming forward might help get answers. ‘I live approximately 7 miles from Nellis,’ they said. ‘Past two months, every single night, I’ve seen numerous different things going on. Just wondering what it all is.’

General Glen VanHerck of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), has pled with the US Secretary of Defense to authorize a full battery of electronic eavesdropping tools to get to the bottom of the Langley swarm and others like it. The general, who led the mission to takedown the infamous Chinese spy balloon in February 2023, described Langley’s ‘drone swarm’ wave as unlike any other reported. And speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee this past March, General VanHerck’s successor as the head of NORAD, Air Force General Gregory Guillot, told lawmakers that still more baffling UFO cases over US bases continue to mount. ‘I wasn’t prepared for the number of incursions that I see,’ General Guillot confessed.

While the new witnesses to the UFO sightings near Nellis were all civilians — working with consumer phone cameras and not the military-grade radar, infrared and NASA imaging tech deployed at Langley — their reports echo the Air Force’s own. ‘They were flashing weirdly not [like] the normal navigation lights,’ one witness reported in their submission to a UFO-spotting app run by start-up Enigma Labs. The UFOs during this April 16, 2024 encounter , they said, ‘were red in color’ and ‘traveling very close together.’ Another witness, who documented a November 21, 2023 event , stated that they saw an object that looked deceptively monochromatic until they re-examined the video. ‘If you zoom into the actual recording various times, you’ll see that it’s a round shape and it’s spinning and it’s multicolored, not just green,’ as they described it to Enigma.

Both Vegas witnesses said their sightings appeared to be near Nellis Air Force Base. The repeated appearance of terms like ‘drones,’ ‘unmanned aerial vehicles’ (UAV) and ‘unmanned aerial systems’ (UAS) in the Pentagon’s own official reports on these unexplained cases has pointed many observers toward terrestrial explanations. ‘Typically sightings near bases such as Nellis and Area 51 where there are a lot of experimental aircraft being tested are ᴀssumed to be advanced technology under development,’ Enigma Labs consultant Alejandro Rojas told DailyMail.com. ‘However, given the admission that UAV are flying in secured airspace over other Air Force bases,’ he noted, ‘we need to take a closer look at these.’ Rojas, a seasoned UFO expert and cofounder of the nonprofit, told DailyMail.com that Enigma has received ‘a lot of reports near Nellis Air Force Base.’

‘Civilian reports and videos of potential incursions by unknown objects from the public are essential,’ he added. ‘The Pentagon is scratching its head over these. Most cases we receive include videos, along with descriptions of how they move, what they look like, and the directions they come from and are headed to.’ Although many wished to remain anonymous, several of Enigma’s witnesses offered details that spoke to their own credibility, as well as to their efforts to find more prosaic explanations for the odd airborne phenomena that had left them stumped.

‘I lived under a commercial flight pattern near the airport, so I’m very familiar with what airplanes and conventional aircraft look and behave like,’ one Vegas-based observer to a September 13, 2022 case stated. ‘This was not conventional,’ they said of the ‘very bright light’ they witnessed ‘for at least 20 minutes’ in the wee hours of the morning, around 4:45am Pacific time. ‘The light was extremely bright, yellowish orange,’ they noted. ‘It was pulsing and it remain[ed] stationary […] it seemed to be situated near Nellis Air Force Base. It was strange,’ the witness continued. ‘I also checked to make sure it wasn’t a star or a planet or any atmospheric phenomenon. Two days later at the exact same time I saw the same object in the same airspace.’ Yet another witness also had repeat sightings around their own December 15, 2023 green light UFO, which made ‘erratic movements’ before ‘just stopping in midair.’

Only one of these half a dozen or so Vegas-area witnesses reached for otherworldly notions to explain what they saw: the witness to the ‘big fireball in a cube’ who taped a seemingly distant and very different amber-orange UFO, the night of May 6, 2024. ‘They always seem to head towards Nellis [AFB],’ the witness wrote. ‘I don’t believe they are man-made, probably in cahoots with the Air Force. I feel they are trying to communicate with me,’ the woman continued in her report. ‘They zoom up and down sometimes […] back and forth sometimes. They’re very playful, and they always know where I am,’ she added. Late last month, the deputy test director for US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) Jason Mayes, explained some of the policy hurdles facing America’s domestic defense against any enemy drones encroaching upon sensitive US airspace.

Mayes, commenting during the counter-drone experiment ‘Falcon Peak 2025’ at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado, spoke to both legal and civilian safety issues that have plagued defensive measures to combat UAVs on US soil. The entire phalanx of potential anti-drone tech available for US bases abroad — including surface-to-air interceptors, gun systems, lasers and high-power microwave weapons — are all currently ‘off limits’ for bases like Langley and Nellis. ‘They’re not appropriate for the homeland,’ Mayes told reporters with The War Zone. More troubling still, even less drastic techniques like signal-jamming have proven tricky for domestic use, over understandable concerns about where a jammed UAV might crash or what other civilian systems nearby might fail due to ‘friendly fire’ from that jamming. ‘Given the impact of GPS denial, just across infrastructure and all that stuff,’ Mayes noted, ‘it is a very, very difficult capability to get permissions to utilize.’

Out of any of these methods, Mayes noted that blasting drones out of the sky with a focused laser might prove to be the method that meets with policymaker’s blessing soonest. ‘I think that we could get to a point where we have approval for that here in the homeland,’ Mayes told reporters. ‘The biggest thing right now is the impact of the laser when it moves beyond its target. You know, how far is it going? What’s that going to do? How long does the laser need to remain on target before it begins to inflict damage and so on, right?’

NORTHCOM’s tests, of course, presume the solution to these events are all likely to be earthbound tech — or technology at all — an open question for many observers. ‘These incursions highlight the need for a process to identify the objects and get data to the right people, whether that be foreign materials analysis groups inside the military [or] law enforcement,’ Rojas told DailyMail.com. But: ‘With more mysterious situations, like any determined to be dealing with material not made on this planet,’ the longtime UFO researcher noted that ‘getting that data to scientists who can transparently analyze the cases’ will be paramount. ‘This last group is the exciting stuff,’ Rojas said. ‘These are the cases where we will discover something new.’