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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 26, 2020 · 2:00 PM · CIRCLE
Portville, NY
In our area military aircraft fly over frequently. Today at about 2 pm another fly by was happening and out of boredom I went outside to watch, laying on our hammock. Three planes moved overhead, but just as they passed over as they passed over the hill between the town and our house, at this point it the back of the formation seemed to hover, then massive balls of light drifted upwards as far as I could see and the planes flew on. I stared at it for so long, waiting to seen an explosion or something but nothing happened. When I looked back at my phone to see if some kind of news story or text came up, assuming I wasn’t the only one who saw whatever it was. Two hours had passed, but I swore it had only been maybe 20 minutes. I was listening to music and only five songs had played in the time I was outside all together. At this point I was freaking out and got up to go inside, but was caught off guard by two deer standing far too close for comfort. A few feet! closer to the house sat four rabbits. None of these animals are uncommon in our neck of the woods, but staring motionlessly at the sky, undisturbed by my movement. I ran inside and called my sister but the concept was so crazy I didn’t tell her and have been locked in my house since.
May 24, 2020 · 9:05 PM · CROSS
Coram, NY
It was almost pitch black with just a slight ray of light coming over the horizon as the sun was setting. I was coming home from work when out of the corner of my eye I saw something that looked like it was flying like a plane but it was moving too slow to be a plane and too fast to be a drone. However, I noticed there were no green or red lights underneath the ufo like how a plane or helicopter would of had them. Considering it was almost pitch black it would be strange to not have the lights on at 9:05 pm. I also noticed there were two white lights on each side of the vehicle that didn’t blink. Another thing I noticed was that the vehicle was completely silent and made absolutely zero noise in the night sky. The lights were too close together to be a plane and too far apart to be a drone. Let’s just say if it was a drone it would’ve been a massive 20 foot wide drone which I don’t think anybody in my area owns. I couldn’t make out too much of the sh! ape but the two bright white lights on each side makes me think it had wings. The ufo flew above the trees almost too close to them to be a plane and too high to be a drone. Where it was flying wouldn't have made sense for either purpose. It flew in a straight line for 20 seconds before it was out of my field of view. Only one flying object was observed.
May 22, 2020 · 12:15 AM · OTHER
Utica, NY
Video alien grey running in yard may 22 2020 I heard strange noises outside & went to investigate. Video Mufon Link https://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/109036_submitter_file1__5222020.mp4
May 19, 2020 · 10:00 PM · EGG
Kingston, NY
Witness provides no data. PD
May 12, 2020 · 8:28 PM · SPHERE
New York City (Bronx), NY
Sun was setting around 830pm noticed a bright object in the sky..I ignored it until I seen the moon on the other side.. had a shiny reflection to it.. looked like it was near the GWB or the palisades
May 8, 2020 · 3:30 AM · OTHER
Hastings, NY
I was outside smoking a cigarette and looking at the sky because I always do and it was a full-ish moon and clear. I can always spot Orion’s Belt and when I thought I saw it one of the stars left the belt suddenly but had the same luminosity, and I thought my eyes were just playing tricks on me and then I saw the same “star” shoot off into the distance. I’ve lived in the same place for years and debunked a lot of things. But I know what I saw
May 6, 2020 · 3:00 AM · OVAL
Massapequa, NY
Noticed following morning when I was viewing photos and short videos from late the prior evening. 2 lighted oval came into view, moved around, changed trajectory, and formation. Over the Long Island Great South bay. Near Jones beach.
May 3, 2020 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Ilion, NY
I was walking my dog and I always look up at the stars. I saw what I thought was a star moving fro West to East in the Northern Sky. I thought maybe I was seeing a satellite. When the first light was nearly out of sight to the East, I noticed another light coming from the West on the same exact trajectory, maybe a mile behind the first. This happened a total of 7 lights, each about the same distance apart, and looked like at the same height. No blinking of lights, a solid light, no pulsating, no change of color, no noise. Initially I thought an airplane, but no noise, maybe a star, but no twinkle, and moving west to East, another comes, another, another, seven times. There may have been more as I may not have seen the first light. Don’t know what I saw? I tried taking video with my phone but it looks like a blank sky.
May 3, 2020 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Bayshore, NY
Small lights from west to east They would appear from one spot in the sky in 4 minute increments
May 1, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Penfield, NY
I don’t know anything about unidentified flying objects, air travel, flight, and very very little astronomy- so please bare with me. I called earlier today and it was explained to me that I could have been experiencing a trick of the eyes or other phenomena as the object observed hovered in the sky for around two hours, and there would have been plenty of phone calls in that time about the object. I don’t know what to tell you. I’m not sure if it was high enough in the sky for a large enough group of people to see it, but I could be wrong. It was too high to make a phone photo or video worth much of anything. With so much going on in the sky last night because of the asteroid shower, I don’t know how others weren’t looking and didn’t notice and call in. I’m a prided skeptic. I don’t consider myself a “UFO person.” I have no history of mental illness or reoccurring hallucinations of any kind. However, last night was such a weird experience for me I searched out this forum thi! s morning and write this post. Last night around 11:10-11:30 PM my girlfriend and I interrupted a film we were watching to go outside and watch the asteroid shower. We were watching the asteroids for a while and looking up at the stars, when I noticed what looked like a star or a satellite that was moving what seemed like far off in the distance. We walked into the back yard, to get a better view over the house and because it was darker there. We both noticed it was moving a visible amount but it an elliptical, circular or linear fashion. Other stars in the sky behind it were stationary. On the phone I wanted to say “I *know* I saw it move!” but I knew you’ve probably heard that before. The only thing I can say is that it moved in the sky enough to travel over the tree line from our point of observation to back behind the same tree line again. It would stay perfectly still for a moment, and then it would move sporadically up and down, and then side to side before skidding over to another section of the sk! y. Over the course of an hour and a half, it made its way across the horizon- but not like a star or asteroid or satellite would. It would wobble, shoot forward, rotate slightly, and then remained fixed for a certain point- usually for a few minutes at a time. At a few points I was convinced it was a drone, but the movements were not similar to a drone‘s at all, and it wouldn’t have been able to fly for that long. Plus, it was so high in the air, it would have been closer to a helicopter in size. There was uneven light coming off it, and it reflected on the clouds. It looked almost as bright as Venus at a few points, but you could tell that it was reflecting more on the clouds around it than the surrounding stars or planets were- like it was closer to them. At first, we thought it was a star, and then we thought it was a drone or some other hovering craft because it kept moving back and forth in the air a very noticeable amount. At one point I thought it was an asteroid because of how much fluctuation there was coming from the light source in the sky, and how quickly the shape of the light was changing. I misspoke on the phone, it was East of my location, at 86 degrees exactly- I downloaded an app on my IPad to take note of that specifically. Within the first two minutes of observation, it moved a great deal and sparked in light intensity, and reacted to what looked like another light in the sky. They moved in a semi circle fashion in relation to each other, and then! one split away. It looked like an asteroid. They were just far away enough where any iPad footage I took would have been meaningless with the wobble from my arms. One departed out of my frame of view, traveling North-Northwest within the first five minutes of me noticing then phenomena. When I used a pair of binoculars, I discovered much the same- even with bracing myself, it was very difficult to see what the form actually was. It was moving, but I couldn’t get enough of a view to see what it was. At one point I could have sworn I saw an orange light shoot up into it, but I couldn’t be positive because it reminded me of an asteroid, and was very far away. It then remained stationary for a long while. I returned several times throughout the night alone, and each time the object was still there-however at a different spot in the sky. It would always move at some point though- and after a few minutes. Both my girlfriend and I confirmed movement in the same direction and the same time. She went inside much earlier than I did, and did not return outside. At first, the object looked like it had a trail, then it looked like it was surrounded in an aura of white light, then it looked like there were beams of light coming down from it three different directions. I know you guys probably get a lot of far out stories and dramatizations, but this really happened and is going to stay with me. At one point, it settled in the sky and seemed to rotate and descend a little bit beneath the clouds- and when it did, I got a clear view of a stream of curved light emitting from the edge of the illuminated point, and for a moment against the sky I saw a dark gray saucer. It rotated, and I saw a ring of red lights underneath it. I covered my mouth with my hand and started shaking. I had to go inside after and lay down this was around 12:15. I went to sleep around 1 AM. I checked if I could see it from my bedroom window before going to sleep at around 12:30-45 but I could not.
May 1, 2020 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Lockport, NY
Flying in a straight line evenly spaced. Move south East direction about 15 to 20 objects. Could not tell shape looked like a star. For approximately 20 mins. Second group of the same objects moving south for approximately 10-15 minutes. The last object in the second line appeared to break off and head north until out of sight .the two lines of objects appeared to reach a spot in the sky and disappear.
May 1, 2020 · 3:00 AM · SPHERE
Rochester, NY
Early Friday morning, May 1, 2020 I happened to glance out the window early morning only to notice a sphere-like object hovering in the sky. At first I thought I was exaggerating but I could not stop watching it. Immediately I felt the need to start recording this object. My husband was laughing at me until he walked over and watched through the window with me. He became intrigued pretty fast as it was truly interesting. This object stayed there for at least the next 3 hours. As I had to get ready and get to work, I couldn’t continue to watch and daylight was coming. I tried my best to get the best images/ videos possible and in one part of the video- (about 1:35 into the video at the bottom towards the right) there seems to be some white object shooting up towards the light, extremely fast. I only noticed it after watching the video for the 3rd time. I don’t know if this object has any significance or not but it’s definitely noticeable once it catches your eye!
April 27, 2020 · 9:01 PM · FORMATION
Buffalo, NY
In the Southern sky, I looked up and saw a long queue of uniform glowing orbs, all in all perhaps 15 of them, whitish, in even concourse, moving at a steady velocity. They spanned the entire sky. They entered the atmosphere from out of invisibility moving Easterly at regular intervals. They were evenly spaced except a few were less or more close/far one another. What a sight! When I spotted them, the procession was already begun. They made no sudden movements. The sky was clear. In the West, the waxing crescent Moon was about 20 degrees from Venus. The UFOs were in the South covering the whole of the heavens as tho a pearl necklace. It wrapped me in sheer astonishment. Today is my birthday. I have been doing the most profound spiritual work of my life recently; forming profound mental connections and relationships extraordinarily rare; to wit, forming a walkable bridge through the syntax of ACIM (Holy Spirit) with Enochian Angelic Magic & Sacred Geometry & the Archetypal Mind (Tarot) & grasping the nature of time & timelessness as well as my own Christhood which I share with the world. Is it possible that this was a gift? I know these craft can shift their resonant frequency so that they become visible / invisible. I also was using a pyramid in meditation aligned to magnetic north; and charged water using it. It was a discovery I want to share about creating structured water. I am not surprised today they appeared, of all days. For mt dedication is total and I believe I have overcome the world; I but invite Christ now to be present-at-hand in the world thru my eyes, ears, hands, feet & voice. I am VERY ! curious if anyone else saw them. The timing of seeing them was highly personal. This was life changing. It's possible, empirically, they were satellites, but this seems highly unlikely.
April 27, 2020 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Binghamton, NY
I came home after a walk because the sun was starting to set. Went out onto my back porch and looked up into the sky and saw 4 or 5 white lights that looked like stars moving forward in a straight line all at the same pace. They were directly above my head and weren’t moving very fast although as they kept moving forward I saw more of them appear in my field of view. As they kept moving on I saw about 10 to 15 of them in total still in the formation of a straight line moving slowly forward away from where I can see them. I did try to get this on video but my phone wouldn’t focus and on video it just looked like a blurry clip of the dark blue clouds. I saw these lights go on for about 10 minutes I want to say.
April 27, 2020 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Valley Stream, NY
I looked up to see the stars and waxing crescent moon and saw the start of a straight line of small white lights, each one the size and speed of an airplane flying at altitude. I couldn't see any other red wing lights with the white lights. Some were evenly spaced, some were very close together, some were spaced like dots of Morse code (dot-dot space dot-dot-dot space dot-dot, etc). All the lights were moving in a straight line across the apex of the sky, like they were on a string. The line was moving from the northwest to the southeast. I watched for about 20-30 seconds. The line of lights was long and I couldn't see the end, so I went in and brought my husband out to see. They lasted for another 20-30 seconds. We couldn't hear any noise.
April 22, 2020 · 10:00 PM · CHEVRON
Clifton Springs, NY
On the clear, star-lit evening of April 22nd, 2020, I observed an unidentifiable aircraft while I went outside to feed my horses at exactly 22:00. Because my home is near two mid-sized airports (30 miles and 62 miles, respectively), there is a high volume of air traffic in the night sky I am familiar with identifying. This one was different. It was similar in shape to a typical regional commercial jet (~70-seater), but had a much wider cylindrical barrel with wider wings which had a sharper angle in reference to the rear of the aircraft. It had MANY continuously-shining yellow lights on the ventral surface, moreso on the left side than the right, and specifically had one brighter light towards the left side. The front end of the aircraft did have some red lights on both the right and left sides, but not on the wings. What confused me was the fact that it did not have the usual red blinking lights one would normally see a plane in the night sky use. Nor did it have any blinking lights at all. Usually a normal plane flying this low would even have visible lights on the perimeter of the wings, but these lights were illogically scattered with different levels of intensity. Even weirder, it barely made any noise in reference to how low it was flying. Had there been cloud cover, this aircraft would have been flying below the clouds, and there was barely audible detection of any air moving whatsoever. To put this in perspective, it was flying in an East-West direction in what appeared to be an ascent, and was flying very low in my northern horizon. Making sure I wasn’t crazy after the aircraft had passed out of my sight in the western direction, I gazed off in my southern horizon as well as directly above me, and as always, there were normal-looking commercial jets flying in the distance at much higher altitudes than this one, blinking lights and all. The sky was so clear, I even saw an orbiting satellite without any difficulty. Even when a plane is descending to land at either airport, they NEVER fly as low as this aircraft. There aren’t even airstrips near me that are equipped for this size of an aircraft to be flying that low, the closest one is 30 miles away. There were no helicopters flying in the sky at the time of the sighting. Because this is in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have certainly had more helicopters and fewer planes than normal. Also, we have had significantly less road traffic, and I even believe there is slightly less light pollution because of the quarantine orders. Because of these factors, there is less room for visual and aural error. I was just astonished to see something so asymmetrical, low-flying, and silent.
April 21, 2020 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Dobbs Ferry, NY
I saw what appeared to be a white/blue luminate object around 20-30,000 ft up. It had the appearance of a star. However, would blink on for one second, then off for 8-12 seconds. All while maintain altitude but shifting from one location to the next. I counted one Mississippi in between links and confirmed the light on was 1 second duration. Light off was random 8-12 seconds
April 20, 2020 · 9:16 AM · CIRCLE
Fishkill/Wappingers/Beacon, NY
Unlike Venus who shines the brightest in our Eastern sky, tonight my wife and I witnessed, photographed and videoed a circular object in the western sky, it was changing colors rapidly and quiet beautiful. I thought the first 20mins of observing/shooting that it wasn’t moving but then after going inside then back out an hour later I observed it moved East but maintained same height in sky. Also side note, 2 planes traveling in the direction of the object flew quite low.
April 16, 2020 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Riverdale, NY
Standing on my balcony just before the sun fully set so the sky was still lit up a bit, I was on the phone with my father. I began looking around the sky and right above me was a cluster of glowing orange orbs and they had to be about 20,000 ft up, close to planes. The instant that one orb would phase out another would light up in another spot, but there was no craft present after each light phased out. This went on for a couple of minutes, one orb disappearing and another reappearing across from it. I was on the phone but was speechless and mesmerized watching this and did not even think to take a photo or video and in fact didn’t even tell my father on the phone what I was seeing and cannot explain why other than I was just entranced. Eventually the lights stopped and were gone altogether, again no physical craft seen. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]
April 15, 2020 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Skaneateles, NY
Let dog out at 8:20 PM, stood on patio looking north. Complete overcast cloud layer, slight drizzle rain/sleet. Sky was 95% toward total darkness after sunset. Saw what I thought to be Mars (same color/size), realized sky was completely overcast and light was in wrong part of the sky. Saw slight upward movement over the period of 30 seconds of observation, then light grew larger (size doubled) over period of 30 seconds (perceived to be moving toward my location). Light then turned to the east, moved behind tree, and became smaller and moved upward until it was obscured by the cloud layer. Orange colored single light source, slight variation in intensity (not strobing) as it came closer. Total time was 3-4 minutes of observation. Reported sighting to my wife when I reentered my home.
April 15, 2020 · 7:00 AM · DISK
New Hartford, NY
ufo landing video saucer shaped craft closeup I was having some trouble getting my camera to record the ufo. finally it started working then craft began to open up on both sides thats when i decided to leave the area. audio removed because i was freaking out while recording the craft. This event has effected me big time I do not wish to be contacted. mufon video link here: https://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/107849_submitter_file1__452020.mp4
April 13, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
West Islip, NY
Fixed Light moved North to south very slowly.
April 11, 2020 · 9:15 AM · LIGHT
Byron, NY
Watch 1 object move drifrent directions at a speed that no air craft could possibly do.
April 10, 2020 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Clifton park, NY
A bright circle that appeared roughly in the same spot at the same for two nights in a row. Object was twice the size of a star but not as big as the moon. It did not blink and on occasion would move slightly to the left or right. Object would slowly fade away to not be visible and then reappear moments later. Did not reappear after the two hour duration.