As reported

Light over Cheektowaga, NY

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The report, as filed

Bright light curves upward, disapears

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July 4, 2023 · 11:40 PM · LIGHT

Cheektowaga, NY

About 11:40 pm 7/4/23 saw first object flying south to north, bright yellow orange flickering light climbing slowly in sky. Another object followed behind along same trajectory and same appearance. Continued climbing and started turning east while climbing. First one then the second disappeared into clouds presumably. Seemed to have bright central light and 2 or 3 smaller lights flickering or blinking close to central light. Was not fireworks. Looked at Flightradar24 app at 11:44 pm, no planes appeared anywhere close to that trajectory or in a pair. I would guess altitude at 5,000 feet but difficult to tell. My impression was they were low. They were seen in the direction of the airport from my vantage but were not following typical flight paths. The lights were larger and brighter than airplanes. No sound of engines could be heard.

January 29, 2020 · 7:25 PM · OTHER

Cheektowaga, NY

It looked like a pyramid with 7+ white lights, 2 blinking red lights and 1 blinking green light. It hovered in the air motionless for about 1 hour and 10 ten minutes before moving south-southwest slowy untill it was out of sight.

July 20, 2018 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE

Cheektowaga, NY

My son was learning about the moon and stars in school. So we got a telescope just so we can look at the Moon. And then this happened couple days after we started messing with the telescope. It was around 11:30. I went outside to have a cigarette walked out to the middle of my driveway I just looked up to see if I could see anything I could see with my telescope when I looked towards the back of my house I seen six lights they were all white. I have an airport near me that's like two streets away a little Cessna Airport. And then the Buffalo International Airport is about 10 miles from me. As I'm watching these things I'm wondering why I don't see colored lights cuz I'm used to seeing colored lights because of the planes flying by all the time. But then I noticed there was no sound either and being so low I should hear something. As I'm looking at them the one to the left turned towards the Buffalo International Airport and the other one to the right turned flying towards Niagara Falls air base ( which is super far away from my house) so I watch the one going to the Buffalo Airport it flew for a short distance towards the airport and then turned around to follow the other one. I have no idea what it was kind of creepy if I knew this website existed I would have said something about it long time ago when I was flushing my head

February 5, 2016 · 8:10 PM · RECTANGLE