LEWES, DE – Residents along Delaware Bay reported a glowing orb hovering silently over the water late Wednesday night, prompting a surge of calls to local police, the Coast Guard, and — according to one dispatcher — “at least two different agencies I didn’t know we had.” Witnesses described the object as “too bright to be a drone” and “too steady to be a star,” with several noting it cast no reflection on the water beneath it.
Within hours, the Coast Guard established a security perimeter and closed off a section of the bay. Unmarked black SUVs arrived at a nearby marina, where two men in hazmat suits were seen launching a rowboat “with the urgency of people who left something plugged in at home.” A third man in a blazer stood on the dock speaking into a satellite phone, repeating the phrase “we’ve got a Situation Commodore” as if it were a title.
Online footage shows the orb pulsing in a rhythm many viewers insist matches the bassline of A-ha’s “Take On Me,” while others swear it was Tiffany’s 1987 hit “I Think We’re Alone Now.” One Reddit thread posited the flashes were actually Morse code spelling out “NO WAKE ZONE,” though a separate group claimed it was binary for “WE SEE YOU.” Ancient Alien Theorists interviewed by a local cable affiliate said the timing “strongly suggests an attempt at cultural handshake using the human Top 40 archive.”
Federal officials have declined to comment, but a NOAA source speaking on background hinted the orb could be part of a classified “Maritime Lure System” — a program allegedly designed to “draw in and occupy unwanted visitors” without confirming whether those visitors were human, animal, or “formerly human.” The source refused to answer further questions after someone off-camera shouted, “They can still hear you.”
By dawn, the orb had vanished, leaving behind an iridescent slick on the water, a scorched buoy, and three seagulls reportedly “acting suspicious” — one of which, according to the fisherman who caught it on video, “kept whistling the bridge from ‘Take On Me.’”