Circle over Rosendale, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Mass sighting in 1984, two newspaper reports about it, police and other reputable peole also made reports.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1984-03-24 → 1984-04-10
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December 12, 2021 · 8:20 PM · OTHER
Rosendale, NY
I was out with my dog out back of the house when the object caught my notice. I live in a heavily wooded area off a county road, and it was pretty dark that night, even though there was a half moon. I took the dog in and went out on the porch and videotaped the object. For most of the video, there's only one object, but towards the end, another one becomes visible nearby--it may or may not have been generated by the principle object. It blinked constantly, and changed color--white/red/white/red, but not always consistently, or so it seemed. At first, I thought it might be an aircraft, but it made no noise, at least none I could hear from my vantage point. Eventually it moved off below the tree line and out of my line of sight, but it took a good long while for that to happen. When I got inside, I expanded the image and was surprised when it looked very much--I know this will sound funny, but I'm serious--a circular nipple with four lines set at regular intervals radiating from the edges, but stopping short of the center circle. The image is grainy, but distinct enough to show at least that much detail. Since that night, I saw it briefly a few nights ago, but it was low on the horizon and disappeared below the treeline before I could take another video. I sent the video to a friend of mine who's an experience pilot, and he couldn't identify it. At times it appears that the object changes direction very quickly and abruptly.
February 23, 2017 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Rosendale, NY
I was driving with my roommate, when I noticed about 50 feet up in the air a pitch black sphere. It was about 40 feet in diameter and dark like a black hole. It had another smaller very bright white light sphere orbiting it like an electron orbiting a atom. It was changing its orbit every time it came around. It was very close to us and moving very slowly closer. We watched as the small light orbited 3 times every time the light would go around the opposite side of the black sphere there was no light present refracting onto houses or anything around it was as if the black orb swallowed it. It was as if for a second it completely disappeared and then reappeared on the opposite side of the larger dark sphere. It lasted for about 4-5 seconds before completely disappearing.