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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
May 17, 2021 · 8:21 AM · CIRCLE
Staten Island, NY
Object at a standstill and then started moving. Object appeared to be falling then went back up higher and higher. The object then blinked a few times and disappeared.
May 17, 2021 · 12:06 AM · OVAL
North Tonawanda, NY
A fairly large aircraft was sighted flying above North Tonawanda. At first it had the appearance of several shooting stars. However, they where going the wrong direction. After watching it for a few moments it became clear that the light where attached to a fairly large aircraft that did not look like a airplane. In fact, it seemed 5 times larger than any typical airplane. The aircraft seemed to of had a elongated oval shape to it when the dark areas became more visible from the moonlight. It appeared to have three white lights to the rear when fairly even spacing in between. The brighter lights had a hazy streak of dimmer light going from the rear towards the front.
May 16, 2021 · 3:55 PM · OVAL
Niagara falls, NY
Oval to rectangular in shape, almost black with what appeared to be 2 windows and a possible antenna. Hovered well below clouds then all of a sudden shot straight up and disappeared. Don't know if anyone else saw it. Niagara falls airport about 3-5 miles away. Went really fast straight up.
May 16, 2021 · 9:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Rochester, NY
At around 9:30pm may 16 2021 we had a crescent moon so i brought out the telescope to look at the moon. while looking at a the moon very close, i think i was using 9mm lense and had a very clear and close view of every detail on the moon. I watched a rectangle shaped ship go from the bottom of the moon that was lit up by the sun and up to the dark part of the moon. The ufo moved very quick and traveled the surface of the moon in about 3 seconds. I also noticed it was fairly bigger than most of the craters on the moon and it left a shading on the ground as it traveled. I came to the conclusion it must have been massive for me to see it as i did. It had the shape of a rectangle if you rounded off its edges and thinned out the front of it.It caught me off guard so i didnt get many detailed on it but it was dark like black or smokey gray.The ufo had no lights nore did it leave a trail. I watched for several hours after that to see it it would come back around se! eing as it moved so fast but never did. I use the telescope alot to take a look at the moon. its a decent telescope and like i said i get really really close detail to the surface and never seen anything pass by the moon like that or that size or even leaving a shadow on the surface. It was pretty interesting. I sometimes see wierd things fly by but you can tell its usually something in our own atmosphere so i kno the difference between the two. Feel free to contact me.
May 16, 2021 · 12:05 AM · OTHER
Utica, NY
Was Looking Up At The Stars When I Noticed This Weird Stick Shape Object With Glowing White Lights Moving Through The Sky Moving From North To East For About 30-45 Seconds Until It Just Disappeared. I Took My iPhone Out To Record A Video But Came Out Blurry Since iPhones Pretty Much Suck At Night Sky Video Recording.
May 16, 2021 · 12:03 AM · CIGAR
Clay, NY
Shortly after midnight in Clay, NY (just south of Phoenix, NY), only a few minutes after the start of Sunday May 16, 2021, and about 5-10 minutes before the crescent moon set, I looked out an upstairs window to the north into a cloudless night sky to see the stars. I saw the usual stars and planets and also an unusual light moving to the south. The light was cigar shaped (rectangular) similar to a dull fluorescent bulb with a light blue tint. Its length was about the same as the diameter of a full moon, in the east-west direction, and its brightness was about ¼ of that of the moon. After about a minute, I proceeded to wake my wife to show her the object. Although difficult for me to determine, the elevation of the object appeared to be where most airplanes fly going to the Syracuse, NY airport (say 4,000 ft. +/-) and at a distance of several miles to the north over Oswego County. The light was moving to the south-southeast at what appeared to be the typical speed of an airplane. After 3 or 4 minutes heading south, it started moving to the east for about a minute, with the light remaining in the same east-west orientation while fading from view, possibly because it moved far enough east to no longer reflect the moonlight back to us. We didn’t see any spotlights or blinking lights on the object like what would be seen on an airplane or one of the military drones that often fly out of the Syracuse airport. We didn’t hear any noise from the object through the closed window nor after we opened the window as the object faded from view. I’m a retired 64 year old civil engineer and my wife is a 63 year old registered nurse, and we have never seen a flying light/object like this before. We have lived in this same house for a little over 38 years.
May 15, 2021 · 10:06 PM · LIGHT
Chautauqua Lake, NY
My friend and I were fishing heading South from Bemus Point toward Celeron to dock his pontoon boat. I looked up and directly above the boat was a bright white light heading west to east over the lake, about the speed of an airplane. The light looked like a star, but was much brighter and larger. It was traveling quickly, as fast as a plane would, but it was well below where planes and jets fly, maybe a few hundred feet above the boat. I pointed it out to my friend who confirmed he saw it too, which was a coincidence because we had discussed recent news reports of UFOs earlier in the evening. As we continued to watch it, the light suddenly faded away into clear sky A few minutes later I looked up and the same or similar light object was again above the boat as we traveled south. Again, it move eastward and vanished in approximately the same location as the first object, but instead of fading away, I would describe it as vanishing instantly. At that po! int, I sent another friend of mine a text message at 10:08pm that we just saw two UFOs in the sky above the lake. At 10:21 again, the same or similar light appeared above the boat (lat: 42.124, long -79.354). I was able to video record the object as it tracked above us, passing well beneath a passenger jet that was also in the sky, and over toward the eastern side of the lake. It went further than the other objects and didn’t vanish. It paused, turned south east and began tracking us down the lake until we lost sight of it. Given the darkness of the night and fact that I only had a cell phone, the video is poor quality but contains our description of the events. Several minutes later, we spotted another light above the boat moving west but vanishing before I could get it on video. Another few minutes later we spotted a sixth light, this time much higher in the sky, before it flashed a red light and appeared to split into two parts while vanishing.
May 15, 2021 · 8:40 PM · CIRCLE
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
We were sitting in living room and looking outside. One of us point out the first orange object, wondering what it was. It had no flashing lights to indicate that it was a plane and had no a single sound. It flew at a medium pace from W to NE. It was at a low altitude. After it flew out of view we noticed that there were two more following it,coming from the same direction it originated from. They glowed orange and looked like a ball but when one of them turned out their glow we noticed it was actually shaped like a disc or saucer. Many more passed going in the same direction, not changing speed and in total we counted about 11. We thought of all possibilities but could not think of any technology that was open/known to man that could move like this. It was low, had NO sound at all and had no beacons to indicate that they needed to be seen by other aircrafts. It’s a Saturday night in Brooklyn so if people are on their roof it should be seen by other civilian! s.
May 12, 2021 · 9:43 PM · RECTANGLE
New York City, NY
I walk my dog every night from 14th street and 5th Avenue to 16th street and Union Square West and usually take a photo of the Empire State Building for my zoom background for work. My firm is located in Overland Park, KS so my co-workers enjoy seeing the colors of this building as they change every night. I have seen similar craft on more than one occasion this was not my first time. My dog stopped when I did to take the photo but remained fixated toward the Empire State Building (18 blocks north of us and I had to pick him up and carry him home).
May 9, 2021 · 9:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Newburgh, NY
Flat all black almost like felt material coming toward road I was on. I thought it was a medical helicopter landing for a car accident, then it turned and kinda looked like a hang glider but it was so black i could not make out a good shape. I opened my window to listen for sound and there was none. I pulled car over and began to take video. It moved in many direction and then went straight up until i could not see it. It was the size of a small helicopter, kinda of liked like a giant black batman, but more of a craft. Daylight busy road. Hovered over the Hudson River for about 5 mins.
May 1, 2021 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Massapequa Park, NY
Fireball shape moving very fast through the sky. Did not have any sound. Seen moving in a straight line for about 20 seconds before disappearing into the distance.
May 1, 2021 · 4:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Glens Falls, NY
Walking on the bike trail with my wife when she pointed out 3 triangular objects following each other in a line. They were grey in color and had 3 lights on the back and the bottom. I estimate that they were at 9 to 10 thousand feet and very very large. I'm thinking it's military but my wife insists on me making this report.
April 29, 2021 · 11:59 PM · RECTANGLE
Oswego, NY
I saw red lights flashing high in the sky. At first it looked like three round lights close to each other but as I got closer it looked more rectangular with two lights on each end. I have three videos. I didn’t notice another moving object until I watched the videos. There was a small white object moving rapidly around the red lights in different directions.
April 22, 2021 · 10:23 PM · FIREBALL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
At 22.23pm my mom and I witnessed an object in the sky in Brooklyn NYC. I saw it first it looked like a pulsating fireball very steady and silent. By the time my mom got her iphone out to record it started to move away in the distance. It left no trail. On the video I hear a continuous sound in the background but it was a very still and silent night. We have video that we can send in.
April 20, 2021 · 8:30 PM · FLASH
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
At approximately 8:30pm eastern time, I noticed a 1 pulsating light that was stationary in the western sky facing east. As I approached the window with phone to capture footage, the object began to move move towards my location facing east. Colors changing from red , white and green. Very bright. I was afraid the object noticed me by the movements it was making as if scanning the location. Then suddenly this object made a move toward the northern sky in a L shaped movement. Once it turned to change the direction it appeared to change into a object with 2 circular objects and the lights changed from a bright spot light to lights similar to an aircraft, as if mimicking an aircraft.
April 19, 2021 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Glen Oaks, NY
I was westbound on the LIE heading towards Manhattan and saw a bright red orb pulsating as it was slowly floating over my car heading eastbound. I did notice the orb wasn't high up in the sky like the planes, seeing I was right by LaGuardia Airport. The orb was just floating maybe 30 ft above the treeline.
April 9, 2021 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Nyack, NY
Witness provides no details about sighting. PD
April 8, 2021 · 8:53 PM · CIRCLE
Rochester, NY
Observed silent orange, round object cross the starlit sky. Upon observation, I alerted my sister to record with her cell phone. There was no change to my initial observation compared to the captured video. This was not a meteor or satellite type crossing as to my opinion. Altogether, the object was the same orange type glow with no trail, no change in color or trajectory.
April 8, 2021 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Buffalo, NY
My husband and i were sitting outside on our front steps arou d 8:30pm on Thursday, April 8, 2021. The sky was perfectly clear and my husband thought we saw a "shooting star". But it definitely was not! It was circular in shape, blinking periodically..sometimes blinking white, other times the light looked more purple in color. We then thought it was some kind of aircraft or ufo. There was a line of lights that began to blink at the same time along each side of the circular light (similar to the way lights blink on an airplane at night) but it was not an airplane. Sometimes it would move in a circular motion, other times it looked like an orb of some kind. We have pictures but doesnt do it justice to what we saw in the clear, spring sky.
April 7, 2021 · 5:42 PM · OTHER
Jamesport, NY
There were 3 spheres in a row connected by a tic tac shaped craft that ran through the lower middle section of the spheres. The encounter lasted only a few seconds. I wasn't able to get my cell phone ready in time to take a picture. It was across the street and I could only see it between the middle of the wires. The object itself didn't cross through the wires (which would have made it very small, rather the wires were between me and the object.
March 31, 2021 · 6:35 AM · FORMATION
Camillus, NY
Cluster of three bright lights
March 30, 2021 · 1:12 AM · RECTANGLE
Huntington, NY
At 1:12 am on March 30th our ring device went off and we saw this strange object which could be a drone Showed it to many people and we’re all scratching our heads
March 25, 2021 · 7:00 PM · CYLINDER
White Plains, NY
walked outside of my house, looked up and saw an object moving in a NE direction away from me. No lights, no noise coming from object.
March 23, 2021 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Clifton Springs, NY
Changing coloring. Not moving very far. Seen the same the night before.