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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.

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February 4, 2022 · 8:25 PM · TRIANGLE

Queensbury, NY

Triangle of three blue lights stationary in sky when spotted, remained in place nearly entire time before making abrupt turn to the east and speeding off in a straight path…quickly

February 4, 2022 · 5:34 PM · SPHERE

It was raining and there was a lot of mist or fog and the Empire State Building was lit up and had a nice pinkish glow to it so I took 4 pictures of it while waiting for a light at 5:34 on Feb 4th (was on the way to a social gathering). The first picture was in portrait mode and brought the image too close, so I went to photo mode and focused on the Empire State Building and took 3 more shots. The second and third shot were a 1X magnification and the 4th was a closer magnification. The next day I checked the photos on my iPad and I saw there were 6 white orbs around or beyond the top of the Empire State building. The 2nd and 3rd pics were a few seconds apart and it was apparent the orbs had changed positions, possibly moving NE and their relative positions had changed and the brightness changed slightly possibly as it was heavily misty. I did not see them in the 4th picture or the 1st picture. So this all passed over in probably less than 30 seconds. The glare from the Building light was so bright I didn’t noticed the orbs at the time and I can understand why this might have not been noticed by anyone on the ground.

January 31, 2022 · 7:55 PM · CHANGING

Sound Beach, NY

My chair where I watch TV is opposite the front door. I was sitting there as I do most of the time. My door has an arched window at the top. A large gold ring appeared in the window, which caught my eye...a half circle... coming up from the NW..from behind my neighbors house...it was very dark outside and this object was far away, but very bright and the ring shape was huge. My neighbos house is higher up than mine and across the street. (My second story is ground level to them.) Then the light changed and looked like a very bright spidery...super long light trails. And then it was a ring again, then again like a spider. It was a very large each time like it was close, but it was far away. Maybe the shape change was just my eyes or refracting on my door glass but I have never seen that happen before. I yelled to my husband in the kitchen to look in out the window, and ran into the kitchen, you could see it out the window, high in the sky over my neighbors house, but not very well through that window. We have lots of trees blocking the sky but it was incredibly bright. Still looking like a giant spidery star. I grabbed my husbands phone and ran back to the living room to the door. There is snow everywhere outside, and I had no shoes on, so I held the door open and took pictures. Instead of going straight over my house it had banked to it's left, giving me an extra few seconds to take pictures. I took two pictures, they are strange. The lights reflect down to my house, even under the eaves of my roof. The light is so bright you can't even tell it was behind many branches. I've never seen a plane or anything come that direction or be that bright, and we have had choppers fairly often. I thought I heard a hum outside but not sure where that was coming from. It is about 20 degrees outside. About a half hour later I took a third picture of the same area to make sure the street light wasn't any part of what I saw. Maybe because I was calmer than, but there was a whole different vibe outside: calmer, silent. And apparently that thing had lit up the area more. I have seen helicopters and planes at night, I always see the little lights flashing. This had no flashing lights and this was just very different to me. My husband also said he never saw anything like it before. I believe the direction it came from would be NW. Your site won't let me upload my images.

January 18, 2022 · 8:30 PM · CHANGING

Utica, NY

The objects at first sight looked like 2 mylar balloons drifting over the house behind me, coming from behind a birch tree. It was a glint of metal that gave me that first impression. I was standing in the middle of the back yard when I saw the 2 objects approaching from the south. As they reached my yard they began to veer east and pass over my back yard directly in front of me about 100-150 feet above. It was at this point that I noticed that both objects were undulating and changing shape constantly. It was almost as if they were turning in on themselves over and over again. They had almost a jellyfish like quality. There was a haze around them, and a bluish/pinkish glow. As they passed they maintained the same speed and stayed the same distance apart. The most striking feature was that they looked alive. Almost like something swimming through the sky. My dog was in the corner of the yard and remained motionless the whole time. I lost sight of the objects as they passed over to the front of the house. At this point I gathered the dog to bring her in the house. I quickly grabbed my phone and headed to the front yard, but the objects were gone. The realization of what I saw made the hair stand up on my neck. It was in many ways terrifying as I was rather close to these objects.

January 8, 2022 · 5:16 PM · LIGHT

Indian Lake, NY

Saw a light which moved quite a distance from when first observed above the trees across from Lone Birch and Cemetary area in I.L., Upstate N.Y. The picture and video I have will explain what I witnessed. Almost nightly for a year, UFO activity has been extremely noticeable to many people in town and probably far wider region(s) of noticability I haven't considered. My brother and I watched a light by the beach, went back to lone birch to see an invisible-mirage like triangle hovering with I think 3 lights, and down Abanakee Lake Road thereafter, two squashed sphere ufos with yellowish, rectangular "windows" that had rounded edges. Another time we saw what was like a cloud stretching out mirage like but moving like a ship made of a cloud.. My first encounter about a year ago, I noticed a light flash around me then when I looked to the sky and saw another flash above the clouds; all this after watching low level shooting stars and weird star/light moving and staying still odder snd odder the longer I watched. Please watch this about what was witnessed, there are several instances at different times I'll add.

January 8, 2022 · 3:30 PM · OTHER

White plains, NY

Around 3:30pm ET today I was in my backyard, w/dog, and something caught my eye as thought it was a meteor. Flashed across sky. And then just stopped. And then I noticed there were several more surrounding the one that stopped; they then all moved across sky in same pattern. They moved northeast. Vid and pictures attached.

January 2, 2022 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT

caledonia, NY

i have a video of the incident. there were 3 very bright lights in the night sky, way brighter than the stars, and they were lined up in a perfectly straight line. they looked as if they were blinking or the lights were going in and out of view, not in harmony. they sat there until i went inside and it freaked me out for days now. I routinely go outside on my back deck and watch the skies at night waiting for sightings and this was outside above my house. i have it on video. i know my view of the sky very well and this was never there before which prompted me to start recording. to reassure myself that it was one giant craft or three individual craft, and not orions belt, I have been monitoring the exact position of the sighting every night at the same time and what i saw has not returned and cannot be found in my sky anywhere since the sighting. very strange. while looking in its direction my vision felt distorted like the image was wavy as well. blew my mind. my dog began acting very strange and barking and hiding under the deck table as well. hes a huge dog too. he was freightened.

January 2, 2022 · 6:00 PM · TEARDROP

Batavia, NY

I’m a skeptical believer. But I’ve never seen anything that defined a phenomenon until earlier this year. Driving home from Canada, my boyfriend was driving and I was looking out the window at the sunset. I caught a craft that managed to cross the entire sky in under 3 seconds. The craft was cone shaped with lights on it, and was approximately the height and distance of a landing plane. The speed was what was shocking. I’m a scientist, and the speed that this craft crossed the sky and disappeared was bewildering. I was in shock for a few minutes after. I knew it couldn’t have been any sort of man driven craft due to how fast it was going, and it was a miracle I saw it. I was completely sober and wide awake as well. Even though the sighting only lasted seconds, I can visualize every detail.

January 1, 2022 · 12:58 AM · CIRCLE

Troy, NY

moveing vary slowly glowing red was seen hanging in the fog looked vary low in the sky.

January 1, 2022 · 12:47 AM · SPHERE

New York City, NY

I was walking southbound on the east side of the boulevard. I saw a round orange light going on a northerly direction. It was not very high. There were no flashing lights, green on the right wing and red on the left, so I knew that it was not an airplane. It had no other flashing lights so I also knew that it was not a helicopter. It made no sound whatsoever. It was also moving faster than an airplane or helicopter. Since it looked unusual to me I took out my phone to take a video. I did this even before I realized that it was not making any sounds. The route is used by airplanes going to land at LaGuardia Airport but you always hear the airplanes and see the flashing lights. There some low hanging clouds and I also noticed that there was not the straight beam of light you see at night when airplanes have their lights on. The next day I was walking northbound and an airplane went by. I couldn’t see it because it was goofy and musty but the noise was very loud and unmistakable. This was no airplane or helicopter. I have tried to attach the video but is not happening.

December 21, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE

Derby, NY

I noticed a white light in the dark but clear sky. At first I thought it was a plane until I noticed the strange moving patterns. It was moving in a straight line when it suddenly appeared to drop down lower in the sky very quickly. Then it suddenly and quickly rose up higher than where it started. It even moved backward very quickly at one point and then assumed it’s original direction. These odd movements continued until it was out of my range of vision. I have never seen movement like this before. I am sorry I didn’t have my phone with me to record it. I am a retired high school science teacher who never expected to see something I cannot explain. I was outside with my dog when I saw this object.

December 20, 2021 · 12:30 AM · CIRCLE

Troy, NY

On Hoosick Street in Troy NY looking North East towards town of Brunswick NY over the tree line a bright circular object appeared instantly then shot rapidly towards the ground. Right before making the tree line of the woods/lake area object took a sharp hard right turn and then disappeared without leaving a trail or any visible trace of the object. Witness works in healthcare and was outside of building when looking over the tree line.

December 17, 2021 · 3:30 AM · CIRCLE

Cambria Heights, NY

Reviewed RING indoor video security camera on 12/17/2021 at 0329 hours. Round moving object was picked up by camera. As can be seen on video, all blinds were closed at time of recording. Object changed directions multiple times and can be seen rotating then disappeared. Image lasted at least five seconds.

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.

December 14, 2021 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL

Brooklyn, NY

I saw a green meteor like thing with a tail fall out of the sky. It was red/yellow (pale) in the center with a green flame tail. From its relative size and speed I knew it was something big and close (moving too slowly to be far away). Way bigger than a plane (I was under a flight path). I asked someone if they saw that and they said no. I was surprised because with how close it seemed and the angle it was flying I would have expected it would have crashed and made a noise.

December 14, 2021 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE

Hurley, NY

Saw unusual bright light in sky. Watched it for 20 min and went back in house.45min later it was still there in same place. Took pictures and continued to watch it. It remained stationary for at least another hour. Just before I went to bed, an hour after last stationary sighting it had moved counter clockwise from initial location remaining in Hurley sky. Two weeks after sighting I remembered photos and downloaded them onto computer where I was able to enlarge them. I have not enhanced them other than enlarging and there is no photo shop. What you see is exactly what the camera captured. I hope someone will be able to explain the face in lower left of picture.

December 14, 2021 · 6:00 AM · EGG

Staten island, NY

Bright white blue football shaped object flying across the sky and arching straight up into the atmosphere

December 13, 2021 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT

Syracuse, NY

I was driving home around 10:30pm EST with my roommate when I saw a shooting star. When we had pulled into the driveway I had seen about 4 shooting stars at that point. We then continue to sit outside of our house and watch the sky for about 45 minutes. I then began recording in hopes of catching a shooting star on camera. I continued recording in hopes of making a 10 minute video. Just after the ten minute mark I was about to shut off my camera when I saw a ball of light shoot across the top left of my cameras view. I was in disbelief so I ended the video and reviewed it.

December 12, 2021 · 8:20 PM · OTHER

Rosendale, NY

I was out with my dog out back of the house when the object caught my notice. I live in a heavily wooded area off a county road, and it was pretty dark that night, even though there was a half moon. I took the dog in and went out on the porch and videotaped the object. For most of the video, there's only one object, but towards the end, another one becomes visible nearby--it may or may not have been generated by the principle object. It blinked constantly, and changed color--white/red/white/red, but not always consistently, or so it seemed. At first, I thought it might be an aircraft, but it made no noise, at least none I could hear from my vantage point. Eventually it moved off below the tree line and out of my line of sight, but it took a good long while for that to happen. When I got inside, I expanded the image and was surprised when it looked very much--I know this will sound funny, but I'm serious--a circular nipple with four lines set at regular intervals radiating from the edges, but stopping short of the center circle. The image is grainy, but distinct enough to show at least that much detail. Since that night, I saw it briefly a few nights ago, but it was low on the horizon and disappeared below the treeline before I could take another video. I sent the video to a friend of mine who's an experience pilot, and he couldn't identify it. At times it appears that the object changes direction very quickly and abruptly.

December 7, 2021 · 5:34 PM · UNKNOWN

New York, NY

Recently discovered a photo of world trade center and hadn't previously seen object near the building, curious as to what it it could be [NUFORC annotation: Bird - Possible]

December 6, 2021 · 12:30 PM · OTHER

Brunswick, NY

Shortly after 12:30 in the afternoon, I had gotten out of my parked car and happened to glance to my left, when I caught sight of a pure white trapezoid-shaped object just above the top of an adjacent portion of the building that was oriented SE-NW to right off from Hoosick Rd. I was at the SE end. The object appeared to be perfectly still within fast-moving low overcast flowing in from the south (left to right in the photo) that sometimes broke up enough for just a few seconds to enable it to be seen, thus popping in and out of view. It appeared to be slightly semitransparent and seemed two-dimensional. It was clearly trapezoid-shaped with straight edges and was about the size a medium-sized jet airplane might appear viewed from a about a mile away and a mile in altitude. I believe the object was either within the upper portion of the cloud deck or at some height above it. Immediately when I saw it, I shifted my head about to make sure it wasn’t a spot or reflection on my glasses I was seeing. But then I was sure it was there when it popped in and out of view. The sighting lasted about 10 seconds, and I waited another couple of minutes to see if it would appear again so I could snap a picture, but the overcast had thickened too much. The object was almost due west and about 15 or 20 degrees above the horizon. It was a slightly wide trapezoid; all straight edges with parallel top and bottom angled slightly down and right; the right edge at about a 90-degree angle to that, and the left edge angled downward to the left at about 135/45-degree angles. Because it seemed two-dimensional, it was as if I was seeing it head on. My reaction to this event was that as soon I saw it, I was sure it was nothing conventional, as it was large enough and clear enough to be interpreted with no doubt. I’ve included a photo of the view from my vantage point, taken about an hour after I spotted the object. It was almost exactly in the center of the image…just above the top of the building. I’ve also provided a drawing of the outline of the object as I saw it.

December 4, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT

Forest Hills (Queens), NY

Slowly moved in a straight line. Blinking lights maybe 30 yards long. I am attaching a photo, but I also have a short video upon request.

December 4, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE

Probable conventional

Corning, NY

The sighting started as one light then one by one about 20 lights appeared in a line. The lights were moving at a fair rate of speed and travelled about halfway across the sky in about two minutes. The lights then disappeared one by one. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]

December 4, 2021 · 6:30 PM · CIGAR

Identified

Goshen, NY

The object looked like it had a strand of lights trailing behind it. It moved in a direction of its length as it moved across the sky it slowly faded away until it was no longer visible. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]