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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 10, 2020 · 5:06 PM · CYLINDER
Albany, NY
I was sitting on my front steps. Something caught the corner of my eye. A small white tictac shaped object was silently streaking across the sky, right above the church, across the street from my house. I watched it for probably 5 seconds before I realized I could record it with my phone. It continued across the sky until out of sight.
August 9, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Marlboro, NY
Before the moon rose, several lights were witnessed following a trajectory overhead going both directions, north to south. I acknowledge this activity was taking place during the Persied meteor shower, and several meteors were seen as well, but these lights moved back and forth like they were traveling along some sort of cosmic highway. There were moments where lights would phase in and out in stationary positions, as if one were turning a light bulb on and off. The event lasted from dusk until the moonrise at approximately 1am EDT.
August 8, 2020 · 10:17 PM · CIRCLE
Commack, NY
At approximately 10:30 pm I felt the entire house start to vibrate initially I thought it was a tractor trailer because we live next to a main highwa, but as the vibrating intensified. I stood up and ran out my front door and looked up to see two circle shaped flying objects with extremely bright green lights flashing green lights. The objects seemed to be flying in a downward angle and also my looked connected to each other or flying extremely close together. At this point, phone in hand to shocked to even think to record I yelled out at the top of my lungs WTF IS THAT. Following extremely close to the objects was a black or dark colored helicopter after the initial event three more large black helicopters came following in the same direction. I’m Not saying I just witnessed a U.F.O, but whatever I just saw was extremely strange and the fact that 4 large black helicopters were following it made it even stranger. So I leave you with this WTF DID I JUAT SEE !!!!!
August 8, 2020 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Plainview, NY
I was sitting out side with 5 other people. One person jumps up and screams” is that a UFO” everyone hops up and sees the same thing. The aircraft passed in about 10 seconds. A military jet was chasing after the aircraft. The UFO was 10x bigger than the military craft. about a minute later two military choppers were going full speed over the house. About another minute passes and there’s another chopper. Everyone saw the same thing. We all saw a figure 8 glowing green speeding past us.
August 8, 2020 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
New York, NY
We were on a rooftop viewing the Persiuds when the glowing green ufo passed directly overhead at a low altitude, followed by what sounded like a military aircraft. The green lights were revolving in a figure eight as the craft moved quickly From east to west towards Manhattan. The military Aircraft that appeared to follow it was very loud.
August 8, 2020 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Flushing, NY
Object flying straight path north west 3 orbs blue green in color with a center object making a roaring noise moving at a high rate of speed @1000 FEET HIGH ? NO BODY OR SHAPE RECONIZABLE WITNESSED BY 4 PEOPLE WERE STILL TALKING ABOUT IT AN HOUR AFTER IT PASSED !
August 8, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Islip, NY
I toke my dog out and noticed a light blue light flickering. At first I thought it was a plane until I noticed its flight characteristics. It stopped in mid air and shot to the left at a high speed and came to a complete stand still. After watching it drift upwards it shot downwards and made a sharp right turn and came to a complete stop again. Realizing this was a ufo I ran in the house with my dog to get my phone to record it. When returning outside it was completely gone.I have been looking in that direction every night since them and nothing! N ow when I take the dog out I bring my phone..
August 8, 2020 · 5:00 PM · CROSS
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Traveling from west to east,there were eight white cross shaped objects,flying approximately 50,000 feet. Then, six of them continued eastbound, as two started traveling southbound and hovered for around 3 minutes,then continued south out of sight.
August 7, 2020 · 10:20 PM · CIRCLE
Kennebunkport, NY
We saw 3 orange circular lights that floated in the air, came closer then disappeared.
August 3, 2020 · 3:00 AM
Seneca Falls, NY
On August 6, 2020 at approximately 3 AM I saw a bright light in the sky to the right of my house. I am emailing two photos of the object for your review.
August 3, 2020 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Seneca Falls, NY
On August 3, 2020 at approximately 1:00 AM I was woke up by the rustling of several large oak trees. I looked out my window up to the sky and saw a thin contrail. It was in the opening in the sky that was covered by a huge gray cloud. There were only a few areas in the sky not covered by the gray mass. I thought it was unusual for a contrail to be in the sky at one am so I kept looking. A bright light appeared in an opening in the gray mask that was to the right. It was slowly moving and disappeared into the gray mass. Then I saw two more bright lights that were horizontally opposite of each other. In my opinion it seemed like the first light could have been in the center of these two forming a triangle. Then the the two lights disappeared into the gray mass as it appeared to cover the entire sky at that point. The next day I looked at our security cameras and unfortunately they do not reach the sky area; however, at the same time I saw the lights i! n the sky an unusual shadow was covering our backyard which gradually disappeared. I checked other nights at that time and for the entire week there were no shadows on the ground showing only on the night I saw the lights in the sky on August 3, 2020 at 1 AM. Thank you. Best regards, Joanne Blair
August 1, 2020 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
syracuse, NY
I would like to report a ufo sighting over Syracuse, New York on august 1st at 9 pm local time. i was in my backyard and i saw what i thought was a plane flying overhead from east to west. as it came closer i noticed a strange orange flame surrounding the object. i could tell it wasn’t just a plane on fire. there was no smoke trail and the flames weren’t behaving as if it was a plane on fire. the orange fire completely engulfed the object as it traveled across the sky. I couldn’t make out the shape but i saw a dark object in the center of the flames. i can’t tell exactly how big it it was. it appeared to be the size of a small passenger plane. It traveled along a straight level flight path at a constant speed, about the same speed that a small plane would. after a few seconds it then vanished. Several second later i saw an identical object. the second object followed the same flight path at the speed. it was identical in every single way. it had the same dark shape surrounded by an orange flame. it disappeared at the same points the first. Neither object made any sound. A small plane at a similar altitude would be loud and a larger plane at a higher altitude is usually very loud. the entire encounter lasted for about a minute and then it was over.
July 31, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Oyster Bay, NY
Looking at the sky over the bay Teddy Roosevelt Park, there was a light very very high up in the atmosphere, roughly the size of a star, but much brighter. It traveled across the sky at an incredible speed, perhaps 15 minutes from one horizon nearly 75% to the other. It moved with no sound or trail. It appeared to almost wobble as it moved across the sky. As it reached about 75% across the sky (relative to our perspective) it slowly vanished. The light just dimmed until it was gone. About 5 minutes later we saw another light moving in the same direction. Both lights were coming roughly from the North West moving towards to the South East. This location where this occurred is about 20 miles from Laguardia Airport, and so as the lights moved across the sky, there were aircraft present also in the sky. It was easy to contrast the speeds, apparent heights, and light from the aircrafts as significantly different from the 2 lights observed . Leaving the park, I believe I also saw something bright streak across the sky much brighter than a shooting star. This event was so quick that it was difficult to see, as by the time I turned my attention to it, it was gone. The lights, on the other hand, moved across the sky for about 15 minutes each so I was able to very clearly see and remember them.
July 31, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
New York, NY
streak of light, approx 1000 ft in the air, travelled a distance of approx 500ft toward the ground, zig-zagged, then shifted direction and disappeared into the sky.
July 31, 2020 · 6:40 PM · OVAL
Brooklyn, NY
I initially thought I was watching a black bird pass by a few hundred meters away, but I realized it didn’t bob up and down like a bird would. It had a much smoother trajectory and there were no wings. Whatever it was was a small black dot that may have been much further away than I thought. I couldn’t easily tell. As I tried to puzzle out what it was—it was moving across the sky, heading west , I noticed a second one sort of below the first. Both were obscured behind a building immediately after I saw the second one.
July 31, 2020 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Willseyville, NY
Many nights for the past year there’s “star” like lights in the sky but they move and will follow me. When looking at them threw binoculars they appear as a ball of energy. Some nights there’s 3. Some nights there’s 50 or more. They will dim and/or brighten there lights to appear to be stars. Also there are groups all together with no lights. These ones can only be seen threw binoculars or some magnification. Most times where I can notice one there’s 2 more with it. Use binoculars, or scope and the difference between a star and these is obvious.
July 30, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Waterford, NY
Appearing to be a star A bright light started moving among the nearby stars. moving at speeds and angles not from this earth. It would move across the sky then disappear and reappear on the opposite side of the sky. I have this on video and would like to share. i was watching for over an hour on my back deck. was a great show for sure.
July 30, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CIRCLE
Rochester, NY
Two of us were sitting in a backyard. The sky had large white/gray clouds that were passing by close to the sun, but there were large patches of blue sky, too. We saw a circular black object that was extremely high up in the air- too high to be a drone or a bird, and seemed to be above the level of where planes fly, too. It glided across the sky towards the east, but then started gliding towards the west, where the large clouds were. It did not go into the clouds. It glided slowly, and then as it was getting to a gray area of a large cloud that covered the sun, it flashed bright white light three times, and then went into the cloud. When the cloud passed over the sun, the black circular object was nowhere to be seen. We watched this object for approximately 30 minutes.
July 29, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Commack, NY
On 7/29/20 at about 2130 EST I observed what at first I took to be a satellite. It was a small point of white light similar in appearance to a dim star. I initially observed it WNW of my location, at about 45 degrees elevation. What drew my attention to it was that it increased in intensity to about the brightness of an average star, then went dim. After about 10 seconds, it increased intensity to about the brightness of Venus, then went dim again. I estimate that each “pulse” took about one second to complete from off, to on, to off again. It was much slower than a strobe or blinking light that one would see on conventional aircraft, and was a gradual increase and decrease in intensity. The object continued alternating this high/ low pattern about every 10 seconds. It was moving slowly from its WNW location across the sky, almost overhead, heading approximately SE, and was difficult to track as when it was not pulsing it was not visible to my eye. As it rose from about 45 degrees to about 80 degrees, it “pulsed,” and also appeared to emit white sparks. It very much had the appearance of a sparkler type firework, but the sparks were only a few in number and lasted for a brief second. I initially thought the object had changed course due to the appearance of the sparks, but soon again saw it continuing SE repeating the pulsing pattern. I eventually lost sight of it when it was approximately SE of my position at about 45 degrees. I estimate that the object was visible to me for approximately 10 minutes. It is possible it was a military aircraft of some sort, but I have never seen or known them to behave this way.
July 29, 2020 · 8:21 PM · OTHER
New York City (Manhattan), NY
Tonight over Hells Kitchen in Manhattan at 820pm we saw two black crafts, that looked like they could be oval shaped, but changed to what looked like “S” or figure “8” shape from where we were standing. The crafts had no visible lights or propulsion system or condensation trials. These crafts were flying together and appeared to be flipping, they were flying too high and too far to be drones. The crafts continued to fly together, almost playfully and flew into the distance out of sight where they diverged, one craft flew North and the other North West over Manhattan.
July 28, 2020 · 10:20 PM · LIGHT
Pennellville, NY
Standing outside in the evening and I thought I a meteorite pass overhead and looked toward the left. My eyes fixed on a moving light that I initially thought was the ISS but it seemed too low to the earth. It traversed the sky in a steady direction and speed for about 1 minute and then it changed course. Approximately 30 seconds after changing course the light suddenly faded to nothing.
July 27, 2020 · 8:22 PM · DISK
Altamont, NY
There was a disc shaped object hovering under the moon. I watched it trying to figure out what it was. When it starting moving, I ran in the house grabbed my iPad to my upper deck. I filmed a disc moving a lot faster than any jet or plane I am used to seeing. Then it just dissolved and disappeared. Almost like it exploded. It did not go behind any cloud as you can see the couple of small clouds in the sky. There was no sound and the whole craft was lit.
July 26, 2020 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Merrick, NY
Family (two adults in their mid 40s and two children ages 13 and 11) in backyard. We all observed a bright red, spherical light moving vertically (upward) in the sky overhead. Observed the red light for approximately 45 seconds until it abruptly vanished. There is a fair amount of air traffic in the area (notwithstanding COVID) as we are close to JFK International Airport, however, we have never observed an aircraft “disappear” as abruptly and without traveling across the horizon as air traffic typically does. There was no sound. The sky was partly cloudy, however, we were able to observe all air other traffic through the clouds as they traversed the sky.
July 26, 2020 · 8:39 PM · DISK
Port Washington, NY
My husband and I were sitting in our car beside the Manhasset Bay when I decided to take a picture of our town across the water. Just after the picture was taken in my iPhone we both recalled seeing a flash of light in the sky. Realizing that my camera may have been in “live” mode, we played it back and couldn’t believe we had gotten the incident on video. (My camera flash was NOT on when I had taken the picture). What the video revealed was 2 separate aircrafts that seemed to be traveling in synch, but not on the same level. The larger one on the right traveled extremely quickly across the sky before disappearing completely, while the seemingly smaller craft follows along but can still be seen in the video after the first craft disappears. There is a distinct “clicking” noise that can be heard just as the first craft vanishes into thin air.