Dee and Joe Indiviglio like to go out on their front porch at night, and look up.
A few days after that, Dee did something else unusual for her.
She uploadeda video of those odd lightsto a new-ish app called Enigma.
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I usually dont share anything, ever.
Even if I did something crazy.
But I dont know, for some reason, something made me share that night.
And I did, she tellsRolling Stone.
Enigmastarted out as a tool to captureUFOsightings.
By using modern technology, we will crowdsolve this age-old mystery together, the companys website reads.
Hundreds are being reported to Enigma, the top of the site now reads.
Enigma is currently #25 in news in the iPhone app store.
People need somewhere to go, the companys founder tellsRolling Stonevia email.
Shes hoping that Enigma winds up filling the vacuum.
But Ive verified her identity.
She became fascinated with the subject after the militarydeclassified those UFO videosaround 2020.
The website went up in January 2023, and the app launched that May.
Then Enigma gives each one a reliability score on a scale.
The Indiviglios sighting ranked58.
Its not like any aircraft that could be man-made, he says.
The lights he and his wife saw were nowhere in a flight path.
[They were] more towards the ocean … definitely more towards the coast, away from Newark.
you’re able to create the public safety threat that youre trying to investigate, she said.
A version of that argument is what worries some observers about Enigma.
That endorsement never came, though an agency report endorsed the idea of an app for collecting UFO sightings.
I also spoke with a number of science writers at the time who were wary of the project.
It wasnt just that eyewitnesses can be shockingly unreliable, especially about lights flashing in the sky.
It was the idea of combining what should be the most serious of scientific questions are we alone?
with the dopamine chase of a social internet.
It didnt seem like a recipe for rock-solid information.
Youre not going to be famous or go viral because of us.
Everyone goes through a standard reporting process where you have to report basic facts.
Like, we need the time, we need the location, we need standard descriptions.
And were looking at the metadata, were making sure we dont have deepfakes.
Some of the biggest peddlers of drone hokum have been elected officials.
Can this really be happening without our governments knowledge.
I dont think so!
Let the public know, and now.Otherwise, shoot them down!!!
That October, five drones appeared above a Department of Energy nuclear test site in Nevada.
Which is bananas to me, because nobodys getting a burrito from Amazon these days.
If A has a favorite explanation, shes disinclined to share it.
But one explanation she completely rejects is that everyone is just mistaken, and all at once.
Of course, theres a general part of the public that does get confused.
They look at a Starlink [mini satellite] and they think its an alien.
But that is definitely not 100 percent of whats going on.
And not everyone is confused by airplanes.
Its not just mass hysteria.
There is a percentage of the activity that is real, she tells me.
You know, this is not a DJI drone, right?
she adds, referring to thepopular mini-drone maker.
So thats the stuff we pay attention to.
We did an analysis last week.
We found, like, 54 percent of things reported to us were described as hovering.
So thats not plane activity.
The Indiviglios were hoping to find a little confirmation on Enigma that others saw just what they did.
I cant find any.
Thats why Im kind of freaked out, Dee says.
Its especially disconcerting, because she keeps seeing something strange up above.
Ive seen them three times now.
The latest was earlier this week.
I was like, Oh my God, here we go again.
