Light over Syracuse, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
extremely bright light moving back&forth southwestern sky Syracuse,NY disappeared upward
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 2009-02-06 → 2009-02-23
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November 4, 2022 · 9:46 PM · OVAL
Syracuse, NY
I was outside with the dog, who started barking. There were no other people or animals in sight. Then I saw a very fast moving, oval but slightly rectangular craft overhead increase in speed and suddenly move across the sky and out of sight. I thought maybe it was a drone at first, but it was absolutely silent, too large, and accelerated way too fast to be a drone. It seemed to reflect the light of the moon and street light, but did not have any lights on. It was bigger than a canoe, but smaller than a car. No aircraft that I know of could be that silent and close to the ground while moving through the air, or accelerate that quickly at a low altitude. I could not hear it at all, just the wind rustling nearby leaves. Then it flew out of sight past the tree line toward the lake.
July 23, 2022 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Syracuse, NY
There are no stars in the sky tonight due to weather conditions. These four lights stood out in the darkness, in a perfect diagonal line, spread apart perfectly and not in motion.
July 5, 2022 · 2:50 PM · CHANGING
Syracuse, NY
I studied it for about 7 minutes. It seemed to be something in the sky that I have never seen before. I looked on the internet when I got home but nothing about it was sighted by anyone else. People that worked there said what were you looking at? I said I'm not really sure. It wasn't a helicopter, a glider or anything thing like that. It went far away quick. The employees came out and it had vanished completely. The only reason I say it was a UFO because I couldn't identify it. I couldn't see people just the shape. There wasn't any lights.
May 26, 2022 · 3:44 AM · CHANGING
Syracuse, NY
I noticed weird flashing objects in the sky while I was taking photos of the moon. I continued to see them pretty much everyday. I have a lot of photos and videos.
March 6, 2022 · 8:25 PM · FORMATION
Syracuse, NY
This formation was spotted flying after seeing multiple orbs and other pairs of fast moving UAP. This is part of more footage.
December 15, 2021 · 3:15 PM · FIREBALL
Syracuse, NY
I am an Air Traffic Controller working the overnight shift at a local airport. The night is extremely slow like any other as we typically stay open in case of emergencies, weather diverts, delayed arrivals or cargo planes. I was sitting kicked back in my chair and looking at an array of screens and equipment in front of me that are spanned out horizontally across a low sitting desk so I have a good field of view of the sky. Its a clear night, visibility is well beyond our farthest reportable value of 10 miles. The lowest level of the trace clouds in the sky are 20,000 feet above the ground level. There are very few stars visible, and not a single airplane or even a radar blip of a moving object anywhere within 60 miles of me. These radars are accurate enough to often mistakenly pick up large birds momentarily, so there was surely nothing typical in our skies on this night. Counting the minutes until my shifts end, gazing blankly across my desk and into the dark night, is when I saw what I have no other explanation for than a UFO. Like nothing I have ever seen before, what appeared to be one object with two vibrant glowing green lights in a fixed orientation next to each other appeared several thousand feet in the sky in a rapid downward trajectory. The object was definitely several miles away from my position based on my day to day observations looking out these same windows when there are dozens of airplanes in the area. But the size of the object being several miles away, appeared as large as an Airbus only a mile away, flying into the ground, lit up like a glowing green Christmas tree. The object had appeared at what looked like several thousand feet above the ground, and within seconds it has descended to barely above my horizon view and a ridge line in the distance when it appeared to “pull up” like a modern aircraft would, but being its size and speed and trajectory, no modern aircraft would be able to pull up to a horizontal flight path that abruptly. Just as the object appeared to level, the lights vanished as instantly as any light would turn off from the flick of a switch. I have never seen anything like this, there have been no signs or even a flicker of light anywhere in that area or the surrounding sky in hours… I have been spooked, chilled and at an uncomfortable loss of words since.