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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.
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April 10, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Watervliet, NY
I was taking my dog out for a walk I thought to myself when I was a kid I loved looking up at the stars threw a telescope and just being fascinated by it all so I decided to look up for awhile and just enjoy the view. What cought my eye was this little dot dimmer then a star moving at a face pace (I kept having to look away so my eye could refocus because it wasn’t so bright). I figured maybe it was a satellite or a military jet super high up till I seen it completely change course of direction( it was going East and went north in a flash) so I brought the dog inside went in my hunting gear and got my binoculars and came back outside thinking I’m crazy and seeing stuff. I set up on the hood of my truck and waited a few minutes and out came another from the same direction going east so I pull my binoculars up to my face and watched. It moved quick I watched it for a few seconds and it disappeared. Then out came another then another same distance apart then disappearing. I watched it happen at least 10 times but they all went straight and just disappeared. Went inside came out around 11 pm and seen one more this time it was headed south coming from the north. I found this sight after googling and noticed somebody from Rochester ny kind of seen the same thing on the 8th so 2 days ago I figured I’d take the time to write this so maybe others will keep a look out and notice we’re not crazy.
April 9, 2020 · 10:44 PM · LIGHT
bronx, NY
Star like extreme bright light was seen for about 20 minutes , was not moving and near a smoke stack in The Bronx . I was checking on it periodically, at first I thought it was a plane , but when I noticed it wasn't moving it caught my attention. The brightness made me think it was a star, but it was way too low. I didn't see it leave but after 20 minutes it was no longer there.
April 9, 2020 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT
New York City, NY
From my 6 story building on my rooftop i was looking west towards the sunset. I spotted what i thought to be a shooting star but came to an abrupt halt. A bright light flying at incredibly high speed and smooth maneuvers, ascending and descending and banking. The light would dim and brighten. It looked to be over the Hudson River at approximately 23rd street. The sun was setting although the sky was still bright and very pink. Within flight paths of many planes and helicopters this object had only one constant light. No flashing or colored lights. It looked to be under 2k altitude.
April 8, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Rochester, NY
Witnessed on April 8, 2019 at about 9:45pm. I was sitting outside looking up at the sky when I noticed what I assumed was a satellite traveling along the sky, headed from Northwest to Southeast or so. I looked away for a moment and lost sight of it upon looking back up. I began searching the sky in that area to see if I could catch it again, but instead I saw another one coming from where the previous one had just come. I watched that one for a moment and after traveling along for maybe about 10 seconds (toward whatever dipper constellation that’s currently above my neighborhood actually) it seemed to just sort of vanish, despite there being no cloud cover. I then realized that there was another one coming from the same area with yet another following behind it. These were all traveling at the same rate of speed, which would be extremely fast for how far away they were, and were equally spaced apart. I witnessed up to three at the same time. They all traveled the same path and disappeared in the same general area. I watched this happen continuously for at least five minutes and, while I didn’t count them, there would have been 10 or more that I saw. I then saw three more come from further south, then travel toward where the others had headed and disappear in the same general area. There were no flashing or colored lights that I saw on any of them, nor did I see any evidence of exhaust, smoke or contrails behind any of them. There were also no accompanying noises. I tried to capture video, however my phone was unable to detect the objects. I am a 30 year old caucasian female and was not under the influence of any drugs, alcohol or substances otherwise at the time of my observation. I live in a residential neighborhood that is two miles south of Lake Ontario and have never witnessed anything like this before.
April 8, 2020 · 11:00 AM · SPHERE
Utica, NY
1 orb is seen moving left to right. my brother & i both experienced missing time on the same day which was on sunday 3 days before this encounter. my whole family has been having encounters with aliens the grays & 7 other different species for over 3 decades. no matter where we move the aliens always find us. We believe these craft are flown by aliens not of our world. there was no sound coming from these craft. Video Link https://ufostalker.com/sighting/107625
April 5, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CHANGING
Georgetown, NY
We were standing on our back deck and noticed a bright moving object. It was bright and ball shaped to the human eye. We got out our camera and captured what we believe to be a UFO. This was around 11pm. We watched for a few minutes the object disappeared and then came back. It wasnt moving fast at all.
April 5, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Sayville, NY
Noticed bright light during cloudy night. Watched it because it didn't seem like a star, too bright. After being stationery around 15 minutes it started to move quickly, horizontally a good distance and stopped. Then turned, very reflective, and went back to original stationery location. After another 15 minutes it took off to our south and disappeared.
April 4, 2020 · 9:20 PM · FIREBALL
Kirkwood, NY
(Note for investigators: I'm submitting this for someone else, the contact info I gave is my own as I'm not sure if they'd be okay with me giving out theirs, however, I do have their permission to submit this here. I hope that isn't an issue). At approximately 9:20pm on Saturday, April 4th of 2020, my aunt and uncle were outside, back behind their out-of-town house. After a few minutes, they noticed an orange, almost reddish light above the far treeline that they'd never seen before, and after observing it briefly my uncle pulled out his phone and began recording it (1). After watching it hover in place for a few minutes, they watched the object slowly move towards and subsequently disappear behind the treeline, before reappearing a few minutes later (about 10 minutes or so), this time in a slightly different spot. My uncle pulled out his phone and began recording again, and then passed the phone to my aunt so he could use his binoculars to get a closer look at the object (2). My aunt, unfortunately, ends up losing sight of the object with the camera about 57 seconds in, and they head down the driveway in an attempt at getting a better view of it - but it ends up disappearing again. The third video picks up once it appears for the third time, and my uncle gets a good look at it through his binoculars. He described it as a ball of orange light with a sort of yellow aura around it, and the light emanating from it seemed to be coming from the bottom of the object, and traveling up it. The object made no noise (though there is a highway located a bit far in the opposite direction, and the noises you hear occasionally are from passing cars). After watching the object sit still for about 3 minutes, it begins to move again (though hard to see as the camera is zoomed in, it happens at about 3:28), and then 12 seconds later at 3:40 in the video, it completely vanishes from the sky. My uncle observes it as it does so, and says that in its place was what looked to be a black orb, with a sort of "smoke" around it. The object made no noise that they could hear, and this is the only time that they've seen anything like it there (they've been living in that area for some years). I've been up there as well and haven't seen anything like it, either. Playlist of the videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnMLjJ5K18MbvTPmv7w2ZKkGR5bIUrKPt (1) First video: A short recording, taken about a minute or so after they initially noticed the object. (2) Second video: Taken a few minutes later, after they watched it move in and out of sight and reappear. Around the 57-second mark, my aunt accidentally moves the camera too much and lose s sight of the object for the remainder of the video. (3) Third video: Taken once the object reappeared for the third time, and towards the end of the video you see it slowly fade out before disappearing. (4) Fourth video: Though taken a few days later, my uncle shows the spot they were in during the filming of the third video, giving you a view of the treeline.
April 2, 2020 · 1:00 PM · DISK
Marilla, NY
It was in the early afternoon and I was working outside on a very nice blue cloudless day when I saw in a distance what look very strange was what I thought was a very small patch of a cloud. There weren’t any other clouds in the sky just this one small patch. As I continued to work on our project I had my cell phone with me and took a picture of an area where we were going to add a pole barn to the south side of our property as I was laying out the size and location of it. As I went about my work I felt due to the light breeze that the patch of the cloud was getting closer and I told my wife I’m going to take a picture of this as I’ve never in my life seen just one small patch of cloud in a totally blue sky. At first I didn’t pay attention to the two pictures until later when I checked the location of the barn. It was then that the distance picture shows a bright light just above the lower branch on the left side of the tree in the picture. The second picture was when the cloud came closer and I took the picture again of what I thought was a small cloud. Later when I looked at the picture, I enlarged it on the cell and saw this round object with lights around the circumference of the object and at the bottom center was a large yellowish light. It was not as bright as in the first distant picture. You may be able to judge the distance of the UFO by seeing hawks flying in the distance. Had I enlarged the pictures at that time and saw what the photo’s showed I would have taken more pictures. The object came out of the south and was slowly moving/flying north. Once again slowly as if the light breeze was moving the cloud. I can go into greater detail when you call me concerning this. I’ll email you the pictures once I send this report. The pictures are better than that I’m sending you
April 1, 2020 · 9:00 PM · CHANGING
Babylon, NY
Looked up to see very bright light . Brighter than any star I’ve seen then proceeds to change shape into almost a weird expanding and then going back into a round shape. When it expanded it looked like it had points and would flare out . The video shows almost an orb like thing with multiples. There was also another blinking almost rotating sphere that was to the left somewhat farther and above.
March 31, 2020 · 10:02 PM
Hornell, NY
I was star gazing at 21:56 and saw a flash of light that looked like something that took off at warp speed (see previous report) 6 minutes later I saw two tall thin shadows that were the same shape and form looked like they were walking towards me from the outside of gate. Mind you, that my back gate is 6-7 feet tall. These shadow creatures where casting a shadow 2-3 feet over my gate. I just seen two outlines of a chest and heading moving towards me. I quickly ran back inside my house. I tried to tell my husband about what saw and he dismissed me (he was inside the house at the time). Saying that they were reflecting of people walking on the dike. I don't think this is possible because the duke stood 400 yards away and is obstructed by rows of houses. I just knew that this scared me and that it took me a long time to calm down afterwards. I think this was a close encounter. All I know is that I didn't want a repeat of this.
March 31, 2020 · 9:56 PM · FLASH
Hornell, NY
I was star gazing and seen a flash of light in Northern sky. It appeared between the big dipped and the northern star. Only lasted a second and flashed like it hyper sped towards the west. The light was a very bright white light.
March 26, 2020 · 6:00 AM · FORMATION
Hall, NY
Saw hundreds of lights in the early morning sky before sunrise. All in a single line in the sky. Lights were stationary aside from a dozen or so moving along the line. (While driving to work) Formation stretched from nw to sw. Was unreal! I’ve never seen anything like it. Felt compelled to document somehow. Really hope that someone else saw it too but everyone I’ve spoken to didn’t see
March 26, 2020 · 5:55 AM · LIGHT
Elmira, NY
3/26/2020 approximately 0555 I went to take the dogs out, looked up in the sky and thought "there's a plane" but there was a line of "white dots" crossing the sky from west to east, there were at least 50
March 26, 2020 · 1:00 AM · SPHERE
Trumansburg, NY
Around 1am I stepped out to my porch for a cigarette. It was very clear, lots of stars. Before I could even light my cigarette I was startled by a big, bright, low flying sphere of light passing overhead. It moved faster than I've ever seen anything move through the sky and was completely silent. It was too low and far too big to be a shooting star. I stood outside for over half an hour hoping to see it again but it never came back.
March 24, 2020 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Waterville, NY
Green fireball skating between clouds and trees. Straight line trajectory. VERY BROUGHT. Lit up the whole sky.
March 24, 2020 · 10:05 PM · SPHERE
Kingston, NY
White/Green object was extremely close. It flew from behind a building, over the nearby grass and seemed to fade out. Approximately 20 feet off the ground. Travel distance approximately 50 feet before fade. Object glowed (slow pulse) and was fast. Duration was about 1 minute.
March 22, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Liverpool, NY
During the time of the sighting our dogs and bird had become agitated even though they could not visibly see the object.
March 22, 2020 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Canandaigua, NY
We observed a formation of lights moving in a straight line appearing from the northern horizon and going in a south westerly direction. They appeared to be coming from a single point on the horizon, one after another in an almost perfectly straight line approximately 300 to 500 yards apart from one another. Once they got to a point in the sky directly overhead, they would disappear into the night sky. We didn’t take an actual count, but best estimate would be at least 30-35 separate lights. They we’re not flashing or blinking like you would expect from airplane lights. And they were too low to be satellites. The whole event happened within 6-7 minutes and they we're not visable to my camera phone. Also, they didn’t make any noise like you would expect from jet engines flying at that height. I can only assume they we’re military planes taking off one after another, but I can’t imagine why they would release that many in a row, and why I wouldn’t hear they’re! jet engines? That’s why I believe we just witnessed a fleet of UFO’s.
March 21, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Astoria, NY
We thought its the moon behind clouds that is blue but it started changing colours purple, green, red , yellow and then bueagain. It wasnt moving and after a few seconds it disappeard
March 19, 2020 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Utica, NY
The cats were acting weired at the window I went to check to see what was going on. I saw a huge 100ft Black Rectangle UFO traveling from North to South Utica flying under the clouds it made no sound at all.
March 15, 2020 · 10:05 PM · CHEVRON
Peekskill, NY
Westchester county Yorktowm Heights on the evening 3/15/20 we were looking up at the stars. I saw a triangular v shaped black object with dim lights (3 on each side) boomerang like. It was very high up and moved like it was gliding but in a weird s shape path and then it darted away. It was like 30 seconds. The whole thing was over before I could think what it could be or if it really happened. Weirdest thing I ever saw in my 56 years. I have seen many drones flying at night and it wasn’t one of them ; or any type of plane.
March 13, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Coxsackie, NY
Went outside on the porch to smoke a cigarette looked up into the sky. And there I saw a white flash. Too big for a shooting star. Disappeared into the cloudy sky. I do not do drugs nor a drinker.
March 13, 2020 · 3:39 AM · DISK
Otego (upstate NY), NY
im 18 i woke up at 3 something buzzing outside my window i looked out and there was a dark siver ufo with bright lights i could bairy look at the thing my 3 cats were going nuts i will never forget what i saw i dont rember going back to sleep woke up at 6am next day with marks on my neck went outside where is was and there was a weard glue stuff on the ground asded my mom if amything happed to her and same this happed to her she saw the ufo we still dont understand what happend