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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
5,054 entries
August 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Big flats, NY
Went fishing with my son and looked behind us when I seen the bright object in the air and asked my son to look what it is. I pulled out my phone and it took a first pic, but it had too much light it was bright and my son took one at the same time my first one didn’t go through. My phone ended up taking two other pictures after the first one didn’t go through then the object was gone. It was long looking in the beginning before it started going up then it looks like a circular craft as it’s almost gone in the sky. I saw red and that’s about the only color I could really make out besides regular lights.
August 19, 2022 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Cooperstown, NY
Friends and I went to The Brewery at Ommegang, I was standing next to friends, and notice just right above the tree line, horizontal lights. I couldn't tell if it was moving or not, I just kept looking at it. I turned to my friend and asked what it was and if it was moving, and she said that she noticed it first above the shed. She turned her back to ask her husband to look at it, while I kept staring at it, and it slowly faded out and almost like it recessed into a cloud, but it is a clear night. The shape looked like if you laid a tennis bracelet flat, it was long and rectangle in shape and moved slowly horizontally, like it was being pulled by a string. NUFORC: Starlink
August 19, 2022 · 9:50 PM · CIGAR
Gloversville, NY
Sitting on the beach late at night having a fire when my dad points out a long cigar/blimp like thing in the sky with what looked like 10 white lights in a row but way more compact than the star link image. It was in the sky for roughly 30-40 seconds then slanted slightly and disappeared into the darkness.
August 19, 2022 · 9:48 PM · DISK
Marcellus, NY
Round object, came into view for approximately 20 seconds. Slightly angled lights or vents from and engine. Came across the sky, my friend and I took pictures and as it made it's way to our right it slowly disappeared NUFORC: Starlink
August 19, 2022 · 9:47 PM · OTHER
Colonie NY ... a few miles west of Albany, NY
Bar looked like a neon night, about 3 inches long from our standpoint, and straight across, moving slowly, easterly along the sky..... that would make it several hundred feet long. It didn't appear to be moving upward or downward, just level. After it came to our attention, about 30 seconds later, it faded out slowly. My neighbor is 65 and an engineer. I'm 74. We are not easily impressed, but we see no way this was a jet stream, an aircraft, or anything else our imagination can fathom. There was no noise. We would like to know if anyone else saw this thing NUFORC: Starlink
August 19, 2022 · 9:45 PM · CIGAR
Indian Lake, NY
Sitting out in front of the camp fire on Lake Abanakee in Indian Lake NY on 8/19/2022. The sky was clear and all stars were visible . At 9:45 pm my wife noticed a white line that was very bright moving slowly across the sky over the lake towards the north west. It did not leave a tail nor did it have a bright head on it.. it was uniform in color . This line was moving across the lake slowly at a uniform pace for appx 15 seconds then disappeared . I have seen all sorts of shooting stars and comets throughout my life but never have seen anything like this Which is why I’m reaching out . The pics attached were what we were able to take of it. It doesn’t look like much but it was much brighter in person NUFORC: Starlink
August 19, 2022 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Red Creek, NY
Figured it was just an aircraft or drone maybe. Never seen anything like this change length and brightness then fade quickly. Appeared dim then got brighter and changed length, thin, short to long appeared to be white dot type lights. White lights in a line. From the distance we were at, guessing about a a couple of miles from the shore. At that distance I’d say about 100 feet + long or more and guessing around a few miles up. Appeared, got brighter, lengthened then faded out like someone turning a dimmer switch. No noise from where we were. Tried to get a video with my IPhone but was too dark and far to appear in my screen. Very dark star lit night. We did see other aircraft in the sky, but not at that altitude. Lasted about 3 minutes maybe 5. Four of us saw this. My wife and I , and my two neighbors that were sitting with us. Please note this is at my summer home in Red Creek NY. Can contact me if you wish, but not necessary, but felt it was necessary to report this, especially during global conflicts with Russia, China etc. and knowing Fort Drum is not too far away.
August 19, 2022 · 9:40 PM · DISK
Salem, NY
While outside on our deck, looked up in sky saw something above our residence, then fly off quickly, brushed it off as shooting star. My wife was then called out to the deck with our son to look at the stars. The sky was clear to see the stars. My wife then spotted an orangish yellow row of lights near the tree line, as she pointed it out to me it I grabbed my phone and proceeded to record. At this time the lights colors changed to a white light that was in rotation around the craft. The craft began to fly higher within the sky which then the lights started dimming. Assuming the craft may have seen the jets. We then saw the two jets fly over our house, side by side, right after the craft lights disappeared. The jets then circled the area where the craft lights were last seen. As I shut my camera off, I saw a quick flash of light below the jets, then we went inside because my wife and I felt like something was not right. We initially thought it may have been a rocket and the orangish color was the rooster tail of it until it changed to white.
August 19, 2022 · 9:15 PM · DISK
NNW of Lake George Village, NY
My wife and I were vacationing in Lake George Village on August 19, 2022. We went out at night to wait for a fireworks display planned on the lake. It was dark and very clear this night. I looked north west and could see a bright pulsating disc about 75 to 100 feet wide hovering stationary over a rock mountain that is uninhabited and very difficult to get to. When viewed through my binoculars the lights appeared stationary. Without binoculars it appeared the lights were moving in a circle on the outside of the disk in opposite directions. My wife also witnessed this along with about 4 other people that we did not know passing by. This lasted about 30 mins before it just dissapeared. I am a US Coast Guard Captain of 7 years and have never seen anything like this l, nor can I explain it. I felt the need to report this.
August 19, 2022 · 9:00 PM · CIGAR
Lakewood, NY
We saw a long staight series of lights that appeared to be part of a single object moving across the sky. It could have been a very long blimp moving swiftly but the straight series of lights were unlike any of us had ever seen. It appeared to be floating, but was moving quickly. It then abruptly disappear, either turning or… NUFORC: Starlink
August 19, 2022 · 9:45 AM · CIGAR
Baldwinsville, NY
Saw the long ship - it was NE of us and probably 2-5 miles away. The ship is atleast 500’ long. Looks like a slim submarine with portholes down its length. The portholes are lit up. This is the second sighting that my wife and I had - same exact ship. I’m December, the ship silently went right over the top of our house (only 500’ in the air). Did not get pictures in December but was able to get a few pictures last night. Like in December, this ship literally disappeared in front of us after viewing it for 20-30 secs. I’m guessing but the ufo from last night night seemed like it was very close to the Syracuse airport - I’d like to know if there were any other sightings reported in our area Starlink
August 18, 2022 · 5:47 PM
Gainesville, NY
I was taking pictures of clouds and didn't even see the object in the sky until I got home and was looking at the pictures. It is not something in my windshield. I have 2 photos and it is only in 1
August 18, 2022 · 2:00 PM · DIAMOND
Flushing, NY
Diamond shaped object which flew past Kissena Corridor Park. It was not a bird, because I was watching the hawks circle above Botanical Gardens. And it was not a plane, as I’ve seen those come and go. I watched it fly past for a minute or two. Seems like it may have been black, with a light that shined occasionally. Not sure if the light was coming from it, or if it was a reflection off the surface, from the sun. But the light is how I knew initially, that it wasn’t a bird.
August 17, 2022 · 4:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Batavia, NY
The rectangle lights were in a straight line, with approximately five or six rectangles in a row with no spacing between. These lights did not look like the "Starlink Satellite" images or video, those looked like white dots, what I saw did not. I was looking north out my front window, and they moved in a horizontal west to east direction. The month and year were August 2022, I do not remember what day. The time was just before the eastern sky began to get light, but again, I do not remember the exact time, it was a year ago. What I saw went slow and steady in a straight line with no zig-zagging. It lasted under a minute before the nearby trees obscured my view. Unfortunately I did not have enough time to grab a camera.
August 14, 2022 · 9:21 PM · UNKNOWN
Raquette Lake, NY
While camping with my 14 year old son and daschaund my son and I decided to do some stargazing. We were in great spirits, dancing around the campfire, running around in the dark , being silly and having fun . My son was taking photos of the stars about 50 feet away from me . I looked up at what my brain wanted to initially call a shooting star, then as I processed that that couldn’t be correct my thought turned to “meteor shower” but my brain processed that that couldn’t be correct either . After about 15 seconds of initial sight I called to my son in a no nonsense tone to “get over here” while pointing out the objects to him . We watched together for at least a full two minutes as from south to north a perfect line of lights appeared one after another moving at speed and in a manner that was inappropriate for anything our minds could make sense of. - The lights were perfectly spaced from one another and moved in a perfect line . -The lights “started” green in color but turned bright white . Not flashing , more like the green got so bright and intense it had to turn white. - The lights were fast and moved at a speed comparable to shooting stars but never lost altitude or broke “formation” in regards to the spacing of the lights in front or behind it. -At any given point throughout the sighting 15 to 20 of these fast moving lights could be seen creating a perfect line across the sky, though their colors were not constant with one another. -The individual lights appeared rectangular or maybe pill shaped. -The manner in which the lights moved across the sky was just “wrong.” I have a hard time articulating this . Aside from the speed and formation the lights “floated” or could maybe be compared to the way something glides across smooth ice. -the formation these lights created were so constant and symmetrical I still question if we saw many small objects or one absolutely immense one My son took video of a small bit of our sighting though we can’t see the lights in the video. The North Star is visible and constant and it appears other stars burn bright enough every now and then to blink up in the video . In reality it was a very clear night with many stars present. After watching the last light in the string of lights . My son and I sat down unspeaking and unable to take our eyes from the sky . The mood wasn’t silly anymore . I said my sons name and he replied “ I can’t talk about it . Maybe we can talk about it in the morning. Don’t talk about it.” This place that only 2 minutes ago had been so fun and free now felt ominous, filled with dread, and just unsafe. We both got into our tent for about 30 seconds and I asked him “do you want to be here ?” His eyes welled with tears and he replied “we can’t be here.” We got out of the tent and started shoving things into bags in any way they would fit and quickly tearing down camp . About 30 second into doing so our very friendly dog who had not made so much as a yip or whine the entire day turned toward the Southern woods and started fiercely growling, barring his teeth, and barking frantically while oddly tucking his tail between his legs . This is notable as anytime the dog goes into an alert position (which is super seldom) we joke about him going into show dog mode as generally his ears will just perk and his long slender body goes into a perfect symmetry with his tail tip and nose being in a super straight line . The dogs actions caused both my son and I to instinctively scream . We grabbed everything haphazardly to make our way to the car which was parked about a quarter mile away through isolated woods. Without thinking I ensured that I had our alarm whistle in my mouth and bear spray in my hand for the trek . I blew the whistle loudly about every 10 steps . We walked by our loaded food hanging system without even discussing stopping to retrieve it . That wasn’t an even an option at that point . We reached the car without incident threw everything in and locked the doors immediately upon entering. It took about 20 minutes of driving before we spoke . When we did we both broke down sobbing. I tried to assure my son everything was fine , we were ok. He disagreed and pointed out our body position which I hadn’t realized was hunched, arms in as tightly as they would go , it was like we were trying to make ourselves as small as possible . We drove the 3 hours home arriving around 1:30 am stopping only once in a well lit parking lot to sit in the car and just breathe for awhile. Upon getting home , my son would not leave my presence even for me to use the bathroom and demanded that I sleep in his bed with him . Imagine under normal circumstances how awkward being a 14 year old boy watching your mom use the bathroom and sleep in your bed would be . That discomfort was nonexistent and instead replaced with the fear of being in any sense of the word “alone.” I realize the facts of the sighting are what’s measurable here . I expand beyond those because while we can tell you about the lights we saw , it was the sense of imminent danger, dread, and primal instinctive fear that they instilled in us and our dog that for me makes this experience so notable . We camp, hike, and backpack all the time. We love science and nature and logic . Maybe that plays into our reactions . What we saw defied all of those things and left us feeling very defenseless and unsafe . The occurrences of last night were by far the most terrifying of my entire life.
August 13, 2022 · 9:39 PM · CIRCLE
Naples, NY
Went into my front yard to look at the stars and again observed a faint circular object in the night sky. I have seen many of these in our 9 years living here and this is the 2nd one of the night. These type of sightings I almost have to concentrate and look a bit differently into the night to focus my attention to the fainter objects which travel this area quite frequently in my experience. At other times these objects start of quite bright but then their light dims and disappears. After some disappear their light comes back but not as visible almost as if they know you are watching them.
August 13, 2022 · 9:35 PM · OVAL
Rochester, NY
It was a beautiful dark clear star lit night , when a small red light approach us in back yard of home , it expanded to approximately 30 feet wide and 15 feet high,,, hovering behind a tree at about 70 feet high ,,, it slowly moved to the right into plain view , glowing red , making no sound,, we were stunned, ,it hovered for about 1 minute, and then in blink of an eye shot up at 45 degree angle to about 20,000 feet ,, and green halo formed around it and then it it shot out of site ,,,what was also very strange is when it disappeared out of site the hot tub we were in stopped working, I tried to restart it ,, but it started on its own
August 13, 2022 · 9:12 PM · CIRCLE
Naples, NY
Refer to summary. This is my 1st report ever here. But we have seen multiple objects in the sky over the last 9 years of living here. The area is full of UAP's and UFO's almost every night I look into the sky with patience they come.
August 12, 2022 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
NY, NY
Looking at what appeard to be a star. High above it another pulsing object that changed direction and seemed to phase in and out. I could see the star looking object with both my phone camera and my naked eye. The other pulsing moving object,I could only see through my phone camera. After the pulsing moving object was no more, another object appeared to shoot down from the sky like a commet, but larger. It crashed landed somewhere in that direction.
August 11, 2022 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Youngstown, NY
This happened at the same exact place I made an unbelievable report a couple days prior. Once again we were night fishing, then above the tree line on the opposite end of the pond. We see a light just zip down, I searched up falling star, looking for a reasonable explanation. Most of the pictures show a trail, there was no trail. Not sure what it could’ve been, but since it was at exactly the same place we both witnessed some crazy stuff a couple days before. We believe it could’ve been another UFO.
August 11, 2022 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
New York, NY
Hovering in the air, growing very dim and then very bright, white light not appearing to do much. Disappeared abruptly
August 11, 2022 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Union Springs, NY
Viewing the night sky from the backyard on the lake at our fire pit, I noticed what I thought was a planet near the horizon that was unusually bright. I didn’t have my phone to check what could be seen in the night sky. We were viewing the west sky. From the south we heard than saw 2 or 3 helicopters, thinking military, fly in formation north over the lake out of sight. That was unusual in itself. Husband thought they turned west toward the UFO at one point. It was then that I remarked I wondered what that planet was and then the light grew brighter and larger, then smaller and began to move north. We also noticed a boat in the lake near our dock that seemed to moving around in a circle then left after the the light was gone. We rarely hear or see helicopters at night or boats on the lake at night lingering so near our shore. I assumed it was some kind of plane . My husband went over to talk to neighbors out at their fire pit and they all saw it too. Neighbors dogs had started barking prior to the helicopters arriving.
August 10, 2022 · 11:45 PM · LIGHT
Youngstown, NY
We were night fishing, the moon had just come out from the clouds and it got very bright, hardly any stars visible. I looked up for a second, & very very high up I see this bright light just zipping around in all directions doing impossible maneuvers. My buddy & I watch this for ten minutes or so, completely stopped fishing. We kept talking to the thing saying “show us something crazy” over and over, next thing to happen was the craziest part. While we were looking up, this insanely bright golden/yellow trail just absolutely RIPS over the tree-line directly in front of us & looked like it swooped up. It was hard to tell, we both saw it out of the bottom of our eyes since we were looking up, but you couldn’t miss it. My buddy asked me “did you just see that”, & we went absolutely crazy. it was without a doubt the coolest thing i’ve ever experienced in my life, & i’ll never forget it.
August 10, 2022 · 2:00 PM · CIRCLE
Amherst, NY
Sitting at the kitchen table and eyes drawn to backyard. About 6" above the fence, two white "headlights" about 2 inches apart, stationary. Watched without blinking for about 25 seconds when disappeared.