Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about Sycamore Knoll, an
underwater UFO base. That's correct, Sycamore Knoll,
an underwater UFO base. At least that's what some people
are calling it. It's quite interesting though.
I found this article over data mail.co.uk written by Stacey
Libertori says dated April 25th, 2025.
Title says mysterious underwater UFO base quote UN quote spotted
just six miles off the West Coast.
A mysterious formation lurking deep in the ocean has been
spotted just a few miles off the coast of Southern California.
Geographically known as Sycamore Knoll, the natural underwater
structure looks like a bump pushing up from the ocean floor
with the flat table like top. Now you can look at a picture of
this saying they got the the Google Maps images here.
Really neat, very striking. Goes on and says it has been
studied by scientists for years. Though recent claims by oh boy
here we go. Conspiracy theorists have
suggested Sycamore Noel might be an underwater alien base.
Can somebody please get a hold of the Deep state and let them
know that Stacey has got the term conspiracy theorist
injected into the article within the first or I don't know, 4
sentences. Should be a check in the mail
for that perhaps. A Reddit post from earlier this
year featured a Google Earth image of Sycamore Knoll with the
title Underwater UFO Base between Malibu and Catalina
Island. Now, of course, if you follow
UFO so much, you know, there's been a lot, an awful lot of
activity around Catalina Island. We have the the whole notion
that there were possibly giants that inhabited that island at
one time, that that place has so many stories to it, it's
unbelievable. Some refer to it as an anomaly,
while others believe it is an alien base, a Redditor shared in
another post this year. It's believed to be between 2
1/2 and 3 miles wide. Sycamore Knoll sets about 2000
feet below the surface and is located 6.6 miles off the coast
of Malibu. It is located at geographic
coordinates 34 degrees 123.31 N and 118 degrees 5945.64 W.
Well, Google Earth images from 2014 captured detailed views of
the formation. It appears to have been wiped
from the platform as of 2025, adding more mystery about its
origins. Now, that does raise some
questions. Google's pretty terrible about
changing things all the time. It it seems like it'll get
something that's going along quite well.
Or maybe they'll acquire a company that's doing something
just perfectly, and then Google comes along and improves it to
the point where you can't use it anymore.
That's been my experience. Yeah.
You see this image here from I guess 2014, 2015.
It's really like I said, striking.
It looks almost like a plateau shaped feature.
And then you have these very well, they look like pillars.
They could be natural formations, but it really leads
one to question, what exactly is this thing?
Is this some sort of manufactured structure or is
this just a natural feature that's really, really unusual?
Hard to tell, especially when the images on Google disappear
when they become inconvenient. It seems like it goes on down
here. It says Sycamore Knoll sits
about 2000 feet below the surface, and it's located 6.6
miles off the coast of Malibu. It is located at geographic
quarters 34 degrees 123131 N and 118594564 W Yeah, 2000 feet
deep. That's you think about that.
That's really quite deep. The formation, however, can be
seen on other online mapping platforms, such as phishing
charter app Sycamore Knoll has been known for the past several
decades, but gained widespread public attention in 2014 when
Google Earth images led to speculation about its structure,
with some suggesting it resembled an artificial or alien
base. I like the fact that they at
least point out here that is this image is still available on
this phishing charter app. You know, I think sometimes we
become far too dependent on one or two sources.
And Google has taken advantage of people's dependence on them
for information, in my opinion. The structure was also featured
on the Fade to Black podcast with host Jimmy Church, who fed
into conspiracies proclaiming it is not natural but rather
extraterrestrial. Now, here you go again.
This person has just such AI don't know a nasty little bit
toward conspiracies. And you know, I've watched Jimmy
Church's stuff, find it to be quite entertaining in quite a
bit of the time. But notice the derogatory
language fed into conspiracies. So I suppose asking questions or
just putting out ideas make sure conspiracy theorists.
Now. He speculated that it could be
the biggest center of UFO activity since Roswell, NM, the
Los Angeles Almanac reported. Well, I think he's just having
fun talking about this, just like we're talking about right
now on this podcast. This mean we're this mean that
we're conspiracy theorists. It just means that we're
considering a lot of different possibilities.
The National UFO Reporting Center has received many reports
of mysterious objects flying over the exact area as Sycamore
Noel, with some people saying they spotted craft emerging from
the ocean. This seems to be pretty common
out there, but these underwater submerged objects coming up out
of the ocean like that. It looked like a massive
cathedral shaped structure, multiple pointed edges all
glowing brilliantly white, heading straight into the ocean.
1 California resident reported to the UFO reporting center
after seeing a mysterious craft in the sky.
There was no splash, no sound, just a flash and it was gone.
It happened so fast, like a giant ship or object vanishing
beneath the surface in an instant.
The X Account Daily UFO, which has over 35,000 followers,
shared a post about Sycamore Knoll in January, noting how
Google Earth previously showed the tabletop formation and now
it is blurred. How convenient.
You just wonder why. Why are they doing that?
And then it has a pretty good I suppose This must be the older
image. Very detailed image here showing
this formation goes on, it says. Some have suggested that the
Google Earth image isn't an actual picture, so there's
nothing to blur, noting that it's a digital markup of data.
Well, that is true. The blur is just a lack of data.
Or maybe it's just data that they've blocked out.
Republican Congressman Tim Burchett also claimed in January
that an Admiral whom he did not identify told him about a UFO
that was moving underwater at remarkable speed.
We've have heard this talked about quite a bit, actually.
Tell me something's moving at hundreds of miles an hour
underwater, as large as a football field underwater.
The Tennessee congressman told former Republican Congressman
Matt Goetz, who now host a show on.
Oh, boy, here we go, right wing news outlet One American News.
So it's OK to have left wing news and that's just considered
news, I suppose. Very, very kind of almost
hateful bent here by this writer.
This was a documented case. And I have an Admiral telling me
this stuff. The renewed attention in
Sycamore Knoll also comes days after a UFO expert who released
a new video this week showing the infamous Tic Tac revealed
bombshell theories about the phenomena.
Jeremy Korbel, an investigative journalist and filmmaker known
for his work with George Knapp on military documented
identified anomalous phenomena. UAP has once again ignited
public debate over UFOs, this time with a newly released
footage captured award that USS Jackson in 2023.
He's got several witnesses coming forward and confirming
that what he has released is actually the real deal.
The we talked about this in the podcast a couple different
times. The video, made public this
month after a multi year verification process, shows what
Korbel and military witnesses described as a self luminous,
wingless tailless craft rising from the Pacific Ocean.
Now, remember, Korbel said that this wasn't just a situation
where somebody pulled their smartphone out of their back
pocket and recorded this thing off of a piece of military
equipment. This is actual video recorded on
the machine itself. And that's why he had to get
permission to release it. Even though I don't really
appreciate this back channel way of doing things, it is it is
interesting that he's able to get the stuff out there so we
can at least have a conversation about it.
Now, if you want to, you know, debate whether or not this is
limited hangout, that's a fair question.
But I, I appreciate a lot of the work that George and Jeremy has
done, maybe not always their theatrics, but definitely the
guys producing a lot of a lot of content of nothing else and good
content where we do have military folks coming out now
and say, Yep, that that's what it looked like.
I was there. I see it with my own eyes.
And it's been what, a couple years?
But we did finally get the actual video from that military
equipment released to the public.
However we did it, it goes on down, it says.
But Corbell insisted the new footage is far from an isolated
event. Well, obviously it's not.
I mean, you had you had the events Corbec what in 2004 with
the Tic Tacs that we've been talking about now for the last
couple of years. Instead, he said it's a.
It fits a broader and increasingly alarming pattern.
Repeated sightings of intelligently controlled craft
that defy known aerodynamics appear regularly in the same
offshore military training zone and may originate from below the
Ocean's surface. According to Korbel, the 2023
incident echoes two other major military encounters, the 2004
Nimitz sighting and a lesser known but well documented 2019
event in which a swarm of Uap's surrounded 10 Navy warships over
multiple nights. I guess what I do appreciate is
that Krobel has at least come out and attached his name to the
release of this information and stated, hey, I've got permission
to do this. It wasn't.
It wasn't handed up, handed off in a Pentagon parking lot
somewhere between unnamed sources.
At least the new footage, he argued, is not a standalone
revelation. That part of a growing body of
evidence pointing to intelligently controlled craft
capable of trans medium travel moving seamlessly through space,
air and water. You know, I might even include
time on this and other dimensions that have repeatedly
appeared over decades in the same region.
Warning Area 291 off the coast of Southern California.
Yeah, the very cool says the 2023 release was supported by a
new military witness, an active duty U.S.
Navy Combat Information Center operator who claims to have seen
the object rise from the ocean with his own eyes.
We went over this testimony in the podcast a couple days ago.
I think Korbel Knapp, known for handling the sensitive
testimonies, vetted the witness and aligned his account with
radar data and FLIR imagery. The native the Navy veteran
tracked the object using the ship's high-powered Sapphire
FLIR thermal targeting system. Radar detected 4 unknown targets
in the area. The two were captured on video.
According to the witnesses, all four Uaps performed in
instantaneous synchronized maneuver, shooting off
simultaneously without visible propulsion, suggesting
intelligent coordination. Well, there's definitely
something going on there, I can tell you that.
Yeah. Very cool stuff.
Let's take a look at this. Let's take a look at this
warning area 291 off the coast of Southern California.
Now this warning area 291, or I guess they call it W291, There's
something a little bit new to me.
I'm not sure I really knew about this.
I asked ChatGPT and I got the message of whoops, something
went wrong. And I asked it again and I got
the same message, something went wrong.
So luckily we have Grok and I went over there to Elon Musk's
site and ask it and it was a little more chatty.
It says. I asked and I said give me a
detailed description explaining warning area 291 off the coast
of Southern California. It says Warning Area 291 or
W291, often referred to as W291, is a designated special use
airspace or SUA located off the coast of Southern California,
primarily over the Pacific Ocean.
It forms a critical component of the Southern California or Socal
Range complex, which is one of the most significant and heavily
utilized naval training areas in the Eastern Pacific.
And then it says below is a detailed description of W 291
covering its location, purpose, characteristics, management and
associated activities based on available information.
So I guess here we go. It's some kind of a top level
Navy training area, says geographical scope.
W 291 spans approximately 113,000 square nautical miles.
Yeah, 387,500 square kilometers of airspace, making it the
largest component of spatial use airspace in the US Navy
inventory. It extends seaward to the
southwest, beginning roughly 12 nautical miles, or 22 clicks off
the southern coast of California and stretching approximately 600
nautical miles offshore. Goodness sake.
So this thing's what, 600 miles by 12 miles?
What a chunk of water coverage? The airspace overlays the ocean
and includes San Clemente Island.
SCIA key Naval training facility with the SoCal Range complex.
The area is situated West of San Diego with estimated coordinates
for certain activities, EG historical sightings around
31.7° N by 118.4° W approximately 100 miles West of
San Diego. Boundaries.
While precise boundaries are not publicly detailed and all
sources Well for crying out loud when you want to know it if you
were in the middle of a of a Navy territory.
W 291 is probably a broader complex that extends from Santa
Barbara to Baja California along the coast.
It encompasses ocean operating areas or operase OPAREAS and is
adjusted to other warning areas such as W 260, W 283, W 285, and
W513. Wow Purpose and activities W 291
is primarily used by the US Navy and Marine Corps for a variety
of military training and operational activities designed
to enhance combat readiness in a controlled and safe environment.
The airspace facilitates a realistic combat like scenarios
that are critical for preparing military units for deployment.
Key activities include air combat training, fighter
aircraft conduct air combat maneuvers, air defense
exercises, and air to air missile exercises.
These activities involve high speed military aircraft that
require extensive airspace to operate safely and effective
surface and subsurface operations.
The Socal Range complex, including W 291, supports naval
surface warfare and subsurface activities such as anti
submarine warfare and live fire exercises.
San Clemente Island and its surrounding waters are used for
amphibious training and other surface operations.
Goes on it says. Sink Exercises SINKEX SYNCX W
291 is a designated area for SYNC exercises where
decommissioned vessels are used as targets for live fire
training to simulate real world naval engagements.
Then we have radar surveillance and data collection 7 radar
sensors provides approximately 20% of W 291 monitoring air,
surface and subsurface activity to minimize the interference and
enhanced safety data on usages collected to support missions
planning and coordination. Then we have search and rescue
SAR Payless facility. FACSFAC San Diego, which matches
W 291, serves as the executive agent for SAR operations in the
Socal and Northern California Nocal operates.
And then it goes on in here. It says Management Oversight,
Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility San Diego
is where it's managed from. Coordinated from San Diego
operational guidelines, activities and W 291 are
governed by the FACSFAC San Diego's Operational Manual
Characteristics and Challenges Airspace classification.
W 291 is classified as a warning area indicating that activities
conducted within it may be hazardous to non participating
aircraft. It extends from the surface to
flight level 500, approximately 50,000 feet and can be activated
for specific periods as noted and notices to airmen.
For example, 2023 No Tam indicates W29 1EA sub sector was
active from May 8th to May 9th, 2023.
Now, if there's guys in an area where it's advertised or known
that, hey, don't be flying around here, it could be
dangerous because we got military exercises going on.
To me, that kind of negates the whole whole idea of, well, these
tic tac, tic tac UFOs are nothing more than drones.
If you're flying a drone in the middle of a air combat practice,
I I'd say you probably need to have a good loan talking to you
because who knows what's going on with that situation.
Environmental considerations It says Operations WT 91,
particularly around San Clemente Island, faces environmental
scrutiny due to archaeological and historical sites, wildlife
preservation and natural conservation, and concerns goes
on as encroachment pressures. While WT 91 is less affected by
Civil Aviation routes compared to East Coast ranges, it faces
challenges from Civil Aviation growth, oil exploration and
congested surface areas. Boy, yeah.
So you've got commercial traffic bumping right against this
military training area. The last thing I think we need
is weather balloons and drones flying around unencumbered and
untracked. Usage statistics, high activity
volumes. It says in 2001, FACSAF San
Diego handled 67,531 air operations.
I mean, that's just a ton. Strategic importance of the
Socal Range complex with W 291 as centerpiece supports the
largest concentration of US naval forces globally,
underscoring its critical role in maintaining naval readiness.
So the largest concentration of naval assets we have and right
here seems to be what could be an underwater UFO base.
Might explain why we have all these sightings out there.
Notable incidents and public interest UFO sightings.
Now this is coming from Grok UFO sightings.
W 291 has gained attention due to reported Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena UAP sightings, such as the 2004 USS Nimitz incident,
which occurred in the area. Post on X in April 2025
referenced A UAP sighting and 291 approximately 100 miles
southwest of San Diego, highlighting its use for
sensitive naval activities that may attract public speculation.
These claims remain inconclusive without official confirmation.
I don't expect any confirmation, but at least at least Grok
mentioned it. Mystery booms.
Local reports have linked unexplained booms in San Diego
to activities in the West. 291 potential from naval exercises,
though specific causes are often unconfirmed.
So are these Sonic booms or are these some kind of other high
top secret weapon? What's going on with these
booms? Because we hear about these sky
booms happening all over the place.
It says critical analysis. While WT 91 is essential for
National Defense, it's operations which raise questions
about transparency and environmental impact.
The Navy's environmental studies, such as the Southern
California's Range Complex Coastal consistency
determination. It emphasizes efforts to balance
training with conservation, but public access to detailed
operation data is limited. Yet you're just not going to
know because they're going to keep it completely hidden from
you. Conclusion Warning Area 291 is a
vital military airspace off Southern California, enabling
the US Navy and Marine Corps to conduct extensive training
across air service and subservice domains.
Managed by FAX FAC San Diego, it supports high intensity of
operations within the Socal Range Complex, which spans
120,000 square nautical miles and includes San Clemente
Island. Despite its distance from
civilian air routes, WT 91 faces challenges from environmental
regulations, potential oil exploration, and urban growth.
Its role in the national security, in national security
is undeniable, but public curiosity about its activities,
including UAP sightings, underscores the tensions between
operational secrecy and transparency.
It isn't that something. So it sounds to me like in this
exact area where you're talking about the Sycamore Knoll, where
we have what some people think could even be a underwater UFO
base, we have this W 291 square Bill points out, which is this
highly used Navy area where they're doing all their war
gaming Atlas sort of thing, highest concentration naval
assets in the world. Really really something I just
want to close up here with a couple of of UFO sightings from
that area that I found over at Newport.
This one's dated 11/19/2003. It says duration 4 to 5 minutes.
Location Catalina Island California shaped triangle
lights on object aircraft nearby huge triangle object with red
with big red pulsating lights. My wife and I were sitting on
the out of our boat, tucking in from the wind and looking at the
sky for shooting stars. It was a mostly clear night with
a few clouds when we noticed a huge object coming from behind
the island, flying from our right east to our left W.
It had large red flashing lights and was in the shape of a
triangle. We could see the mainland and
planes going to and from LAX and Long Beach, which looked so
small in comparison. I would say the object we saw
was many many times larger and silent.
No sound at all. We watched it travel from our
far right to a cloud on the left side of our field of view.
It never emerged from the cloud. We can't explain why, but we
could normally follow planes from one end to the other and
see them inside or behind clouds, depending on the case.
The cloud was thin. Wow, out there in your boat just
chilling, looking up at the sky and seeing this large triangle
UFO. That had to be something.
Now the date on this one is 12/15/1993 says approximate.
It was reported on 2/24/2005. Duration 45 seconds.
Observers 2 Location Laguna Beach CA Shape Oval 1993
Observation of object moving at extreme angles and speed off
Catalina Island. I saw you on TVI have only told
three people of this story I saw.
What I saw is clearly as a laptop I'm looking at right now.
Absolutely no mystery to me. I could careless if people
believe me, but after seeing you I thought a valid sighting was
worth recording with someone. I don't tell anyone about it
because they would think I'm too odd.
My name is This is Emitted. I'm a 41 year old business owner
now living in Santa Barbara, CA. In October 1993, Orange County,
California was ravaged by fires. Hundreds of homes in Laguna
Beach burned to the ground. Approximately 400 hundreds of
other homes burned in the area as well.
Orange County was on fire. I mentioned this because it
seems like a rather insignificant event that may
have caused some interest to something.
We owned a wonderful ocean view home in the exclusive gated
community of Emerald Bay. A home burned down that month,
October 23rd I recall. With all we had left being a lot
full of ash, we would come from our rented home to walk on the
beautiful private beach of Emerald Bay.
On approximately December 15th, 1993, there had been light
rains. At that day, the clouds were
light and very high, but mostly it was clear.
We were walking down the beach for about 15 minutes toward the
North End. The Bay is about one mile long
from end to end. When we walked to the North End,
we turned around and walked back to the center to watch the sun
go down. The visibility was fantastic.
We could clearly see the island of Catalina and beyond.
After the sun actually set over the horizon, we got up and
started to walk back toward a car.
When I looked straight out over the ocean to the South of
Catalina, perhaps 15 to 20° up from the ocean horizon, we
witnessed an object in the air that still had the sun
reflecting off of it. No blinking light.
It looked round or Oval, I think metallic in its reflection.
At first it just stayed there for about 3 or 4 seconds.
We both thought plane and we're about to look away.
It seemed like a far away plane having the sun reflecting off
it. Just before looking away, the
darn thing shot off at an extreme angle and stopped.
This thing moved so fast that all we saw was a blur.
It stayed in that position for maybe 2 seconds and then shot
off again at an extreme angle to another position.
OK now it had our attention. I looked at my wife and said
does anything we have move like that?
We watched this thing for about 40 seconds or so.
It made about 7 angled moves before shooting off again at an
extreme angle only to not be seen again.
It appeared to be further out than Catalina, more than 20
miles out at least. I am extremely skeptical person.
Nothing I know of could move like that or take the G forces
involved. That is my story.
For what it's worth, I will say this, I absolutely believe that
object was not at his earth. I saw it, would swear by it,
take a polygraph, etcetera. I also definitely believe in
what I saw. I only wish I could have filmed
it. Can anyone tell me what can move
like that? Since this time I have become an
amateur astronomer. Though I know I will probably
never see something like this again.
I have become very interested in all subjects having to do with
our universe, especially observing deep sky objects.
My equipment includes a 25 inch Newtonian and my hobby has close
to $30,000 in equipment to give you some idea of how interested
I have become. Wow.
Then it says new fork notes witness indicates that the date
of the incident is approximate. Well, very cool sighting and and
what an impact they had on these people.
Let's take a look at one last one.
So we're finishing up here with this last sighting from the
Catalina Island, California area, which of course is very
near this W 291 naval exercise area.
And what we're talking about today, this possible UFO base,
Cherry Knoll, located off the coast of California there.
So this sighting it says happened on June 19th, 1992.
Now that's not necessarily exact date, but that's the approximate
date they give. They reported it on June 6th,
2006. Duration 30 seconds.
Observers 5 Location Catalina Island Cherry Cove, California
USA Shape flash characteristic lights on objects emitted to
other objects Strobe UFO over Catalina If you can imagine
looking straight over at your head and seeing a large clock in
the sky. It was shortly after dusk.
I was at a Boy Scout camp at Cherry Cove on Catalina Island.
We were all gathered around a bonfire as the camp directors
were doing some sort of presentation dressed like Native
Americans rowing a canoe to shore.
I can't remember if I was already looking at the sky or if
it was the sounds of a couple of other people noticing it first
that drew my attention upward. There was a flashing object
moving very fast back to the clock image.
Imagine a giant clock in the sky.
The object was moving from 12:00 to 6:00, what I believe to be
South to north. When it reached what would be
the middle of the clock, it shot straight out toward the three O
clock position, then turned and headed back toward the north,
making a pattern like a chair route in football.
That's the only image I get in my head when I think about it.
Then it started moving all over, appearing to have no specific
direction, traveling what had to be great distances in the blink
of an eye, changing directions even quicker.
Finally it shot off to the north, disappearing into the
horizon. Before it left.
It appeared to be hovering and spinning over the ocean, and
then started to shoot things out from both the top and bottom of
the ship. The flashes were bright white.
Wow, wasn't that something? Yeah, this thing really, I mean,
just sounds like it was travelling at a super high speed
and just acting in ways that there's no way this could have
ever been something man made, especially not back in 1992.
I think it's very cool that we have all of these really
fantastic sightings. We have this naval activity, and
now we have what many people believe is an actual underwater
UFO base, all located in the same area.
Lots and lots of activity happening.
Hopefully we'll keep getting some more of these Tic Tac
videos. Also get some more of these
videos and accounts as reported on New Fork.
Until next time, this is UFO warning over and out.