Other over Ithaca, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
One big V shaped object blinking white, red and blue at a stand still with random movements - multiple objects as well.
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 2010-11-09 → 2010-11-26
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September 28, 2020 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Ithaca, NY
We saw the craft lit up, above Danby Road, looking from the west side of Danby Rd. toward the east. The object hovers on the same spot 8 minutes after we spotted it. It may be a star, but does not look exactly like one. It hangs just south of Longview Senior Center and Ithaca College The shap looks linear, but that may be because of the light beams, just like a star. It is not moving from its spot, so maybe just a star. Not obscured though, by the clouds.
July 25, 2020 · 10:00 PM · DIAMOND
Ithaca, NY
This evening I attended a drive in movie featuring back to the future 2. Approximately an hour or so into the movie my eyes wondered into the sky and that is when I noticed the anomaly. The best way I can describe what I saw was a diamond shape configuration of lights going from a diamond shape to a flat line in a way that I would describe as similar to a jellyfish. It looked somewhat like it was swimming I would say. Another observation that I had about what I saw was that the anomaly seemed to have a path of trajectory but it did not stay on one fixed axis. In other words, it was going up, down, left and, right freely. I can’t identify what it was that I saw but I know that what I saw was real.
October 21, 2019 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Ithaca, NY
I was driving home around midnight from Ithaca, NY to my home 10 miles south of Ithaca. The road, Rt. 34/96, has very little traffic on it at night and there were no cars or others near me during the incident. About 2 minutes before I got to my left turn, I saw a 1 to 2 foot diameter light green glowing sphere to my left, out my driver side window. It was between 6 to 10 feet from my car and was at the height of my car window traveling in a straight line next to me and at the same speed as my car, so it was pacing me. I wondered if it was some kind of reflection (even though it didn’t look like one). I started to move my body around and then to move the car around (weaving a bit) to see if the “reflection” would change, then I put my hand over various parts of my window and windshield to see if I could “block” the reflection. I also looked outside for sources of light in the environment. None of these things changed how it looked or its steady movement along the side of my car. Then while I was still traveling straight ahead but just before I was about to turn left onto my road, the sphere proceeded ahead of my car and went down into a brushy area in the woods to the left, just beyond where I was about to turn. The brush was thick and I could no longer see the sphere or any light coming from it. I was too afraid to stop and investigate further. I quickly drove home. (I recently decided to report this incident after Stan Gordon, a UFO researcher, told me that in PA there had recently been an increasing number of low to the ground glowing spherical UFO sightings of up to 2 feet in diameter. These objects are seen close up and sometimes travel alongside a vehicle. For Stan’s discussion of this see: https://icebutik.com/ufo-activity-ongoing-in-pennsylvania-encounters-with-small-spheres-of-light-close-to-the-ground-increasing-august-13-2022/
February 4, 2019 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ithaca, NY
this was seen near Tompkins county airport flying in the same flight pattern as allot of incoming plane's.
November 5, 2016 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Ithaca, NY
I am writing this on Thursday, November 10th, regarding a strange occurrence I witness Saturday, November 5th, between roughly 9:45 and 10:15 and again, briefly, on Sunday, November 11th. Last Saturday, my wife and I were getting ready to watch a movie. As she normally does when we watch a movie, my wife began making popcorn. I went outside to walk around. This last summer I purchased a FitBit (pedometer) and I sometimes walk up and down our long driveway to meet my step count goal. We live just outside the city, on the margins of town, so while we are not completely in the country we usually have a clear view, if it is not too cloudy, of the sky. On this Saturday night, many of the constellations were out, it was so clear. Pacing back and forth on my driveway, listening to a podcast on my phone, with my earbuds in, I was struck by a set of, what appeared to be, constellations roughly 30 degrees north east of our location. This pattern of what I presumed to be stars were among the lowest and closest to Earth of all the stars in the sky. What struck me upon given these “stars” a second look was that they were fading and reappearing with increments of maybe 3-5 second. Had it only been one light doing this, I would have quickly assumed it was a satellite, but this appeared different because satellites are never clustered. There were five, possibly six, of these lights, fading in and out of visibility, out of sync with one another. There was no specific clear pattern or shape to them, although they were spread out from each other in what looked like a skewed pentagon (like a small child attempting to draw a pentagon). One of the lights was somewhat more central to the others and the fading in and out appeared a second slower than the others, although it was hard to tell because, again, they were out of sync. Staring at this with some disbelief, I moved into the road for a clearer view. There was a large tree in the distance which I was using to gage the location and movement of this cluster. No movement was visible to the eye, but after about ten minutes I could see that this cluster had indeed moved northbound and lower toward the ground. Using my phone, I called my wife inside the house and asked her to please come outside to look at something. When my wife walked outside the door, I flagged for her to come over toward the road. I pointed to the cluster saying, “there is a cluster of what looks like stars over there”, while pointing vaguely toward their direction. I stopped myself, however, realizing this might plant a seed in her mind of what I wanted her to see. I wanted her view to be as objective as possible. My wife is much more of a skeptic than myself. She almost immediately noticed what it was I was talking about. She, too, found it very curious and unusual. Assuming there was probably an explanation, quickly getting cold (the temperature was in the lower-to-mid 30s), and hungry for popcorn, my wife, after a couple of minutes, went inside. I stayed a few minutes longer, so that I could store in my memory what I was seeing. After watching the movie, which I had trouble focusing on at first, I popped back outside to see if I’d notice anything else unusual. By this point, the sky had become so foggy that no stars or anything else were visible. I would have written this experience closer to the date it occurred, but having a 2-year-old, being a teacher, and on the cusp of an election, I had not found time to sit and write this until now. It is worth noting that the next night I did go out to observe. I noticed one light, slightly stronger than any I’d seen the previous night similarly fading in and out. On this night, unlike the night before, I was intoxicated and became anxious and panicked pretty quickly, so I only looked long enough (30-60 seconds) to confirm with myself what I was seeing, but otherwise went back inside rather abruptly. I have always had a long interest in UFOs and stories of encounters, so I am very familiar with phenomenon stories, though, prior to this, had none of my own. Knowing that I am prone to believe such events, it was important to me to get confirmation from my wife that the pattern I observed was both real and unusual. She agreed. Even this morning, when I told my wife I would document my experience, she again confirmed for me that this pattern was uncanny. Additionally, several dogs in the neighborhood were barking or howling. Also worth noting is that the pattern I witness was placed, more or less, over the vicinity of our local airport.
July 12, 2013 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Ithaca, NY
Bright orange slow moving light.