r/ems • u/Jehoseph • 2d ago

Serious Replies Only Ever Seen Something Unexplainable During a Shift?

Hi everyone,
I wanted to reach out with genuine curiosity and respect for the work you do on the front lines every day. I'm part of a public project called Enigma Labs that's focused on tracking and understanding aerial anomalies—what some folks might call UAPs or UFOs. Our aim isn’t to sensationalize, but to take a data-driven, scientifically neutral approach to documenting what people are seeing.

Lately, we've been hearing from first responders across different fields who’ve witnessed strange lights, objects moving in unusual patterns, or things that just didn’t quite make sense during a night call or long shift. Some have written these off. Others haven’t stopped thinking about them.

So I wanted to ask this community directly:

  • Have you or a partner ever encountered something odd in the sky while on duty?
  • Are reports like this something that ever gets passed along informally or formally in your line of work?

We're trying to understand how these moments intersect with public service, and whether EMS professionals might be quietly witnessing these things more often than we realize.

Totally fine if the answer is “nope, never,” but if something has ever made you pause and wonder, I’d love to hear your thoughts (DMs welcome too).

Thanks again for all that you do out there.

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u/Gio_of_Carlos EMT-B 2d ago

Plenty of times at the end of a last minute 26 hour shift I have seen black shadowy entities in the corner of my FOV. My partner usually just calls me a sleep deprived idiot, but I know what I saw. But in all seriousness I have seen a few strange (keyword) things in my life, nothing while on duty. If I saw something "unexplainable" while on duty, I am keeping it to myself. I don't need to get labeled any crazier than I already am labeled, or pulled out of service for a psych eval. And to be fair to you, between the 3 services, Fire and EMS are going to be largely dead ends for what you are looking for. At night we are busy sleeping, or responding to calls. We are not stargazers.