Light over Cairo, NY

The report, as filed

I need to start this by admitting that the three of us who witnessed this had taken LSD about 20 minutes prior to our sighting. Despite this, the drug had not had enough time to take effect, and I am confident we all saw what we saw. Two friends and I were going to break into this abandoned cabin on top of the mountain and spend the night. We all took a tab of acid at the bottom, and started walking. After about 10-15 minutes of hiking, I remember noticing flashes of lights in the corner of my eye. We had flashlights to navigate the dark, so I didn't think much at first, assuming I was just seeing our own lights. The light would shine like a spot light, piercing a small area, and moved light a search light. It was almost like those lights at a movie premiere or something. It was intermittent and inconsistent, happening at different times, with different amounts of beams each time. We kept walking and I ignored it. I thought maybe I was just seeing things. I didn't feel like I was tripping yet but I blamed it on the acid at first We walked for about 5-10 minutes more before coming to a quick stop. We each caught our breath, drank some water, and one of my friends starts playing with his ken dama (Japanese ball toy). He lands a couple tricks, all whole this lights are strobing here and there. I ignored it and just watched my friend play, landing some nasty tricks. But one particular strobe hit us just the right way, and I noticed my friend stop for a second and look up in the direction the light came from. That's when I asked if anybody else had been seeing these lights. As soon as I said something, we all excitedly started to repeat each other. We had all been seeing these lights and ignoring them, thinking it was either our own flashlights or just apart of the high, yet none of us felt as if we were tripping yet. We turned off our flashlights, and the strobes continued. They came from all different places, but all in about the same direction, we didn't have to turn our bodies to watch them all, coming from the west of us if I remember correctly. We sat and watched for about 5-10 minutes before they're seemed to stop. We all still felt sober. We continued our walk but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. We finally got to the abandoned cabin about 20 minutes later. It was about this time I felt the drug start to kick in. We spend the night in the cabin without anything strange happening, but none of us still know what we saw. The next morning we left the cabin. While hiking down, we heard the distant sound of a snow mobile. My one friend (who's idea it was to stay at this cabin) prompted us to hide. We jumped to the side of the trail and waited as the snowmobile neared. It was a neighbor of my friend. The cabin, as it turned out, wasn't truly abandoned. It still the property of a friend of the neighbor on the snow mobile. The neighbor checks in on the cabin from time to time while out riding. We hoped he would drive on by this time, as we had left quite a mess from the previous night. As we get back to my friend's house, we hear the snow mobile coming back down the mountain. My friend prompted us to run. I had no idea where in the woods I was so I stayed behind my friend like my life depended on it. I had no idea where our other friend went but he sprinted the opposite direction We ran till we got back towards the road and his behind a trailer quickly. My friend that I had followed just the noticed that out other friend wasn't with us. As soon as he asked where he went, we heard someone scream "HEY YOU THERE". Instantly my friend got up to continue the run home and I followed without hesitation. We made it back to his house and ran up to his room. I was gonna grab my car keys (which I had left in his room) and go drive around looking for our friend, but he showed up before I made it out the door. Out of breath, we excitedly recount what had just happened thinking we had gotten away, but the neighbor had was able to track the prints in the snow back to the house. From the room we watched him turn around and go to his home, unsure what his next move was. We started to plan for the rest of the day when we saw two State Troopers drive down the road to the neighbors house. Once again, without hesitation, I got out of there. My and the kid that ran the opposite direction left our friends house. I dropped him off at his house, went back to mine, and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was told that the friend we had left had gotten arrested for Trespassing. Here's the weird part. When he was taken in and questioned, they asked about the lights. From what he told me they wanted to know if we were the ones shining the light, or if we even saw it. From what he told me, he denied seeing or knowing anything. Before being brought in he told his mom and dad what we saw, and they told him not to say anything about it. His father had told him that he had seen similar lights in the Mount decades ago. Over 5 years later, I still have no idea what we saw

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179122). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.