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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
October 31, 2020 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Rensselaer, NY
Oct.31st 8:00pm Est.Temp.35 F. Stepped out my front door facing West to retrieve my container of candy and flashlight. I noticed a few orange glowing objects heading due North over Rensselaer and over Albany NY. The objects seemed to vary slightly from a bright orange with yellow interference. The objects were traveling at a steady slow rate and equal distance 1/4 mi.apart from South to North. I Ran into the house to get my phone to document these bright orange silent objects. My phone had no data available at the time. I grabbed my 750 candle power flashlight and aimed directly at the last orange object and attempted to signal the object, it proceeded North and faded away over Albany.
October 31, 2020 · 8:00 AM · LIGHT
Geneseo, NY
I saw what I thought was a star and it had stayed there for quite some time. All of a sudden it dropped from the sky and disappeared over the horizon. My friend was standing right next to me. We were amazed at what we had seen.
October 25, 2020 · 12:00 PM · CIRCLE
Buffalo, NY
I have video the object can from behind the clouds so beautiful and I was able to record it.
October 24, 2020 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Gansevoort, NY
Approximately 8 pm 10/24/2020, my daughter and I were walking when we saw a massive line of lights jet accross the night sky from the north to south just above Mount Mcgregor. The sky was very cloudy and a bright moon. Clouds appeared to be moving from northeast to southwest. The line of lights slowed and met with a triangle shaped object with 3 flashing lights, a green hue appeared as the triangle appeared to be rotating slowly. I called for my son to come out. The line of lights disappeared and just 3 lights were visible in the clouds changing white to green in the clouds. We moved to a field without lights to see better. We saw 2 more sets of triangle lights and another some distance away that just move so fast it joined the others. They seemed to just sit there just above the mountain top within the clouds. We watched for another half hour before they disappeared. We drove over the mountain to see if they moved somewhere on the other side, but no luck. We checked through out the rest of the night, no other siting.
October 24, 2020 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Altamont, NY
We all say about 10 circles in a linear formation moving fast away from us late at night during an event. Multiple people saw it and no one knew what it was
October 24, 2020 · 7:34 PM · DISK
Hamilton, NY
We were eating supper when our 12 yo child looked out the window and thought she saw a shooting star. She paused for a few moments then mentioned to my husband and I that it wasn’t moving. My husband then looked out the window and said, ‘what the h*ll is that?!’ I got up from my seat and went to the window and saw a very large object in the sky, with large blue/white lights evenly spaced apart. There were approximately 10-15 lights all moving in unison. I could see the object rotating. My husband and I ran outside to get a better look and i could clearly see the saucer shape with the lights affixed to the edge of the object. The object had been hovering in place for at least 20 seconds from the time we all saw it, until we were in our driveway looking at it. It tilted left for a few moments, then leveled, then tilted right. It then backed away from us towards Otselic/Lebanon then moved quickly to our left towards Smyrna. The object again hovered for about 5 seconds, its lights could still be seen beyond the clouds for several seconds when all of the lights suddenly disappeared. During the course of all of this, a smaller airplane sized object moved at incredible speed ahead of the object. We do not know if they are related, but it moved faster than any plane we’ve ever seen in the sky.
October 24, 2020 · 7:28 PM · DISK
New windsor, NY
I was told by a friend said come outside now me my daughter and her friend ran out to see a wide craft with about 10-15 square windows. It was just floating there not moving at all. It was bright like the moon tonight. Then it started fading. I took a picture and with flash on it caught my finger. There were few clouds near the horizon from our point of view but not near the object. From where i was standing i would say it was towards maybrook ny. It just faded away no noise no smoke nothing. To my left i could see a plane leaving a smoke trail. But this object there is no explanation i am as big of a skeptic as one can be and always think people do these reports for attention but i have never seen anything like this ever. I would think someone was a crack pot for saying what we saw tonight but i still cannot explain it.
October 24, 2020 · 7:27 PM · LIGHT
Buffalo, NY
As I was driving on the thruway, I noticed what looked like a line of stars high in the sky. I was stunned by the perfect spacing and linear nature of the lights. As I drove toward this dotted line of lights, it began to move away and shrink in size. When I got close enough to drive under it, I lost sight of it.
October 24, 2020 · 7:15 PM · CIGAR
Tribes Hill, NY
Fishing at night saw a huge line of lights and a massive straight line ship was bigger then anything I've seen before maybe 1/4 mile long if it was closer to the surface of earth it was very massive bigger then any plane on earth I was not the only one to see it someone I don't even know saw it too and someone who was with me
October 19, 2020 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Bayville, NY
Yellow to white sphere. Traveling at a high rate of speed. Traveling from south west to northest. Gradually gaining altitude. The craft was large, in comparison to the commercial aircraft that were near by.
October 17, 2020 · 8:20 PM · CIRCLE
Levittown, NY
There was a circular shape ascending and engulfed in flames. This last a few minutes. Then it descended and burned out. The trail of burned out smoke descended them. It was one craft. Very brightly lit as if on fire. Then was quickly extinguished. Almost like a lantern.
October 17, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
5:30 AM. It was dark (sunrise wasn’t until 7:09 AM). As I was getting cereal out of a cabinet near the kitchen window, I noticed a single, bright light that appeared to be rotating but staying approximately in the same place. I heard no sounds. There were only two visible stars (probably because of NYC light pollution, and because there was a bright security floodlight on a rooftop corner off to the left), and they were smaller, dimmer, unchanging, and not flickering. As I watched, I did see a much smaller blinking red light moving slowly in the sky toward the right edge and then out of my visual field, which looked like normal airplane activity—the contrast between this light and the brighter, larger stationary one served to affirm the uniqueness of the latter. I got my phone and recorded the light for about 45 seconds, unfortunately without raising the window screen because doing so is very noisy. I called my husband to the window (he is skeptical about th! is kind of thing) and asked him what he saw. He described what I described and said that the fact that the lighted object was stationary—not requiring propulsion to stay aloft, and clearly “spinning”—he couldn’t understand what it could possibly be. He left the room, and I went to the refrigerator for a second, and then turning back to look out the window, the light had completely disappeared. (What appears to be fast-moving light at the end of the video is actually my phone moving.) I wonder if anyone else saw this.
October 16, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Lewiston, NY
An object that appeared as a light was hovering in the sky. It was a far distance from where I was standing. It appeared to bounce a bit in the sky while hovering in the same location. My wife and I were the observers.
October 16, 2020 · 6:25 PM · SPHERE
Galway, NY
I was standing at my kitchen sink and looked up out the window and saw a glowing green orb rise slowly up off the ground and then it disappeared without a sound.
October 13, 2020 · 7:37 PM · LIGHT
Port Crane, NY
Blinking red and white light North east around the Pleiades cluster Have been watching it for almost an hour, now currently at 20:29 its is still there Couldn’t see it on camera
October 10, 2020 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
New York City (Bronx), NY
A blue-green ball of light shot across sky at a diagonal before disappearing. It was hazy, almost like how the moon looks behind clouds, and moving like a shooting star but close to the earth. Almost looked like it was going to collide with a building. Seen while driving on the Henry Hudson Pkwy.
October 8, 2020 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Cicero, NY
As i was getting out of the hot tub (outside) i was looking up in the sky when is seen a fairly bright light moving east to west at a rate of speed that is not a airplane or a satellite...as i followed and wondered what that was, on the same path there were 5 of the same shape/light following, almost looking like a string of pearls. Never seen something moving that fast.Almost every night out in the hot tub star gazing and or watching them (tracking via app) air planes, but never seen this before
October 7, 2020 · 5:15 AM · CIRCLE
Youngstown, NY
At 5am a small light like a very bright star but in the tree caught my attention, a tree directly across the street from my home that is wilderness. I wished it wasn’t there because I had things to do, but it demanded attention. At first, I thought it might be a planet or star visible through tree leaves that made it obscured; but no, definitely not that. I went outside and could see intermittent pulsating lights that chased each other as if around the perimeter of a circular object. I moved around to observe it from different angles (it was not Venus or Sirius) A red ball descended and it was frightening, not normal. Thoughts that something might come out of the thick brush concerned me, but I heard nothing. My neighbor was rushing off to work, I tried to get him to come see, but he was in a hurry. From his truck, he looked at it, saw the lights, but he said it was a drone. Who flies a drone at 4am? It was very bright when it flashed, but I couldn't get a p! icture of it. I would estimate a three foot wide section, seemingly more than one section of lights in the tree. Lights traveled in a circle randomly, so pretty they mesmerized, chasing flashes of white. Strange. Several lights came down from it, not something a drone would drop. I took pictures but they are black. I stood out there staring at it for 40 minutes. It started to rain and I went inside. A few minutes later, I went back out but it was not there. Now I wonder if it dropped anything, but it is a thicket over there.
October 5, 2020 · 8:00 PM · EGG
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
White globe shaped. Flies side to side at very fast speeds then streaked southbound at high rate of speed. No marker lights.
October 5, 2020 · 5:00 PM · CIRCLE
Staten Island, NY
I was fishing on the pierre on SOUTH BEACH S.I. N.Y. 12 other people were also there a SILVER ROUND CRAFT was seen doing VERY FAST MONOUVERS THEN SLID OFF TO THE LEFT & DID CIRCULAR MANEUVERS AGAIN THEN SILD OFF TO THE SIDE AGAIN UNTIL OUT OF SIGHT. EVERYBODY THERE SAW IT
October 4, 2020 · 7:30 PM · FLASH
New Windsor, NY
Four white lights or orbs flashing in silent sequence over residential area. Shifting between triangle to square shape patterns around skyline of houses and neighboring woods.
October 3, 2020 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Ballston, NY
At approximately 8:30 pm on October third, 2020, while sitting by a fire and looking at the stars, four of my friends and I witnessed a moving object of solid white light, in the clear sky. This ball of light had a starting position at the bottom of the Big Dipper constellation, and then began to accelerate and head east at an initially slow speed, and then quite fast. We captured several video recordings of the object and in the videos you can see it moving past stars in the sky at enormous speed. You can also see the object "jump" from one position to another in a way that cannot be accomplished by human vehicles. As the object continued east it appeared to have gotten closer to us, and eventually flew over our heads (while still at a considerable distance away from us), and kept going generally east. Once it had passed us and there was some distance between us and the object, it gradually faded out, and entirely disappeared. We also have video e! vidence of the object fading away. It was almost as if a star decided to get up, fly across the sky, and then fade away gracefully. There were a total of five witnesses to this event, two of us independently recorded it on our cell phones.
October 3, 2020 · 5:41 PM · SPHERE
New York, NY
Spotted from a hill in Central Park off of 70's streets. Intense yellow light, a kind of ball of it, definitely not plane or helicopter; moved very high up across sky, slowly at same pace; behind it was a short trail of white smoke similar to skywriting. I can't answer "characteristics" below, none of them apply. It had a trail but didn't leave a trail. Nothing else appeared to be in the sky. Note that I calculated time via camera shots (on the ground only) & my camera may be off by 1 hr. Hence it probably was 6:41 pm. (18:41).
October 3, 2020 · 4:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Lake Kinderhook, Niverville Hamlet, NY
I live on Lake Kinderhook, New York, in Columbia County. On the night of October 3, 2020, it was cool, so I built a fire in the living room. It was cozy and though a couple of lamps were still burning, I fell asleep on the living room couch. My Shih Tzu Tucker also fell asleep, at my feet. At 4 a.m. (I checked the time on my laptop computer, which I hadn’t turned off), I was still sound asleep. Tucker woke up and started barking furiously. He only barks when someone comes to the front door…a squirrel on the roof, for example, doesn’t alarm him. He kept barking and ran around the living room and into the sun room, very agitated. I got up and turned the lights out. If someone were in the yard, I didn’t want them to be able to look in and see me. I then moved to the sun room and peered into the front lawn. I saw nobody. Nothing seemed out of place. However, Tucker was still racing around, barking. I then moved back into the living room and peered outside windows on the left and right of the room. Again, I saw and heard nothing. Tucker was still barking and acting upset, so I moved into the bathroom adjacent to the living room and peered through the window into my front yard. From that vantage, across the expanse of my yard, in front of a white garage shed on the next door property, which I also own, there were two identical objects suspended at a height of about 12-14 feet, just under the shed’s roof line. They were small and rectangular, each about 5 feet in length, I’d estimate. They made no noise and were suspended in "straight line" formation, exactly parallel. They were eerily still and quiet. The tops of the objects were like very thick bars with very slightly rounded corners. They were a glowing, extremely beautiful blue. I had never seen such a beautiful blue before, Underneath each of the thick blue bars was a row of small circular “thumbprint” lights, a brilliant, also very beautiful, tangerine color. Those lights were pulsing gently, dim-bright, dim-bright. Tucker was still barking and I was terrified. I was trained in critical thinking, and quickly, I went through a series of possible explanations. I didn’t think they were drones because they were completely still and besides, it was 4 a.m. in a rural area. Who would be operating drones at that time, in our small hamlet? Then I thought of a possible laser projection, but these seemed like solid matter, not holographic, and again, the complete stillness of the suspended objects seemed wrong for a laser projection. Someone would have had to hold a projector; wouldn’t there be at least a slight tremble? Also, someone would have had to project them from someplace on my property, and there was no one there. I ran into the living room and turned my cellphone on, hoping to take a photo. This takes a couple of minutes, so I left the phone on a coffee table and raced back to the window. The glowing, suspended objects were still there. I did not hear any sounds, but both the dog and I felt hyper-alert at that moment, the way you do when you sense an intruder. I watched them in the dark, then retreated to the living room to get my cellphone. Before I tried to put it on camera setting to take a picture, I made a quick call to our local Troopers and asked them to do a drive-by if they were in the area. I did not want to go into detail and risk being perceived as crazy; all I told the dispatcher was that there were some blue lights on the next door property, my dog was very agitated, and that someone involved in low-level drug activity had once lived on the property and might have returned to search for something. The New Lebanon Barracks said they would send a car. I went back to the bathroom window then, with my cellphone to take a photo. But the two glowing, suspended objects were no longer there. I did not hear any sound of their leaving. They were just gone. My dog had quit barking, but afterwards he stayed unnaturally close to me, clearly spooked. When the Troopers came, we walked around the property together and saw nothing. That would have been the end of it, but a few weeks later, the charge officer of the New Lebanon Barracks called to ask about my report. I had put the event out of my mind, but quickly recalled the events of that night. She asked, “Is there anything else you want to tell us about the blue lights?” When I reported the conversation to my adult daughter, she had the sense that there probably had been other sightings. I just told the officer her troopers had been very professional and thanked her for their trouble. I did not choose to tell her the extent of what I’d seen. In late November, my daughter visited me from Manhattan. She also paid a visit to her college friend Kait, who lives in a cottage on my lane. Kait told my daughter that she had had an identical sighting a week or two later—but she had seen the still, suspended craft above a field off Route 9 as she was returning home from her teaching job. It was near a local landmark, Period Picks Antiques. The time must have been around 5 p.m.; in New York in November, it gets dark quite early. Kait had pulled off the road and watched the objects for several minutes. Then she drove home. When I talked to her later, she said the objects were the most beautiful glowing shade of blue she had ever seen. That was satisfactory verification, to me, that she had seen the same objects I had. Nine weeks later, I have not seen them again. If my dog had not barked and run around, I would have slept through the whole thing.