Germany logs record rise in UFO sightings – watchdog

The spike comes amid Pentagon disclosures on unexplained phenomena, with 41 declassified documents released just last week Germany has seen a spike in UFO sighting reports, according to the Central Research Network for Extraordinary Celestial Phenomena (CENAP), the country’s largest private UFO reporting and investigation network. The surge comes alongside the Pentagon’s release of declassified files on phenomena believed to be potentially linked to extraterrestrial activity.According to director Hansjuergen Koehler, CENAP has never received as many reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena – the official term for UFOs – as it does now.“We receive between three and six reports a day,” he told Euronews in an interview released on Sunday. By August 2026, he and his team had investigated some 14,000 sighting reports, he said, though he did not specify over what period.Koehler did not rule out that “there is life out there,” but said he remains skeptical about most sightings, noting that the vast majority turn out to be aircraft, rocket stages, satellites, meteors, planets, balloons, or even event lasers visible from kilometers away. Some remain unresolved because investigators lack ...