As reported

Light over Chazy Lake, NY

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The report, as filed

On a cold windy winter night, I was driving on Route 374 by Chazy Lake heading west. I saw a bright white light at the far end of the lake. At first, I thought someone put up a bright street light. As I continued west, I could see it better and by the time I was by the bay at the end of the lake (toward Lyon Mt.) I saw it close up. It was a huge white light sitting a few hundred feet in the air over the shoreline and not just bright but SCARY bright! I slowed down to get a good look and became very scared because of how close it was and how big and frighteningly bright! It didn't move at all – and I didn’t notice any sound either (of course I stayed inside my car). I would say it was probably about 500 feet away and at least a couple hundred feet in the air. It was just so unbelievably BRIGHT! I was very scared and took off and kept checking my mirrors to see if it had moved from the lake to the road behind me. It was definitely NOT: an airplane, helicopter, Chinese lantern, balloon, planet, or the moon. If someone could take something the size of a car (guessing only), turn it into the brightest whitest light you've ever seen, and prop it up 200-300 feet in the air over the shoreline at the end of the bay where no one lives, then I'd say it was that. I travel by the lake frequently and never saw anything like that before.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #153483). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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At approximately 12:02 am, Sunday, September 6, 2015, I was driving west on New York State Route 374 between Dannemora and Lyon Mountain. In the hamlet of Chazy Lake, I noticed a bright orange-reddish (more orange than red) light in the sky over the lake. It caught my eye because I’ve never seen anything that color in the sky before. It was hard to tell its altitude – I believe it was lower in altitude than a plane would normally fly. The brightness of the light was around the magnitude of the planet Venus. It was the brightest light/object in the sky. The night sky was crystal clear and there was no wind. I pulled off the side of the road where there were no street lights and exited my vehicle to get a better look at the light. I was facing south looking at the light over the lake. There was plane flying below it traveling east and another plane farther to the west of the light flying south. Once the planes were out of view, I listened and could hear no sound coming from the light. I watched it for a few minutes to see if it was actually moving. It was moving – very slowly – to the east. I could tell it was moving because I compared its position to the trees below it. I then got back in my vehicle and drove home.