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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
March 23, 2019 · 9:45 PM · CYLINDER
Babylon, NY
Out my window in the distance, I observed a very bright white light with no defined shape moving low and very slowly, almost hovering, I was looking for the northern lights tonight that may be seen in NY, a rare occurrence. At first I thought this white light was part of it but quickly understood that it wasn’t. It was dark and in comparison to a plane in the sky at the same time with flashing lights I determined after a few moments that this was not a plane and I could not understand what it was. We live off the coast by the water and in a busy flight path, so I am familiar with seeing planes. After taking my eye off of it for a second, I looked again and noticed that the object turned right and was going in the opposite direction. It was quite a distance away, but it looked circular/slightly oval, black with a bright white light. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 15, 2019 · 11:25 PM · DISK
Voorheesville, NY
A couple of my buddies and I were enjoying the weather and a few beers when my German shepherd started barking, figured it was just a animal in the woods we shrugged it off untill we smelled a foul strange smell. As we look around we all seemed to look up at the same time and we see 3 sets of purple and yellow lights flashing on and off. We stare up at them and as soon as about 20 seconds go by they flashed a real bright red and all took off in 3 separate directions.
March 2, 2019 · 12:20 AM · DIAMOND
Voorheesville, NY
When I was sound asleep I was woken up by my 2 year old German shepherd barking like crazy at the window. I figured it was the wind blowing the trees or something but when I looked out I saw 1 circle shape floating in the middlele of our hay field with almost blinding lights I stand up to get a better look and it bursed into 3 diamond shapes and took off in 3 different directions. I was speechless and didn't know what to do but my dog must have woken up my brother because he said he saw the very end of it
February 28, 2019 · 4:24 PM · SPHERE
Watervliet, NY
On 28 Feb 2019, at 1615 Hrs I was outside taking photographs of passing airliners using my Nikon CoolPix P900 (Superzoom) camera. The sky was clear & bright blue with some high-level haze and thin high-altitude clouds. The temperature was about 35 Deg F. At roughly 1624 hrs, I noticed a bright orb-like light or object appear to my right at 75* elevation, moving from right to left. Speed was moderate. As the orb moved, it slowed considerably, almost to a stop, seemed to emit or discharge some type of liquid or mist that dissipated in the atmosphere, continued for another couple of seconds before it abruptly faded from view. The liquid or mist was not a flare or fireball. Before fading, I quickly lifted and pointed my camera without using the viewfinder and took some photos in the general direction of the object. The orb did not leave a contrail like an airplane or make any sound/engine noise. I continued observing the sky and taking pictures of airplanes. Then, around 1700 Hrs, as I was facing due west, I noticed the same (or similar looking) glowing orb again suddenly appear in my line of vision, 30* elevation, moving straight down before fading away. There was no contrail or noise. I again quickly raised my camera and took some shots as it was moving downward, thinking I might catch something. Later, while reviewing my pictures, I discovered that I had managed to capture a total of four photos showing what seem to be the objects, two from the first sighting, and two from the second. I am an Army vet, and I am quite familiar aircraft recognition. I have also been observing aircraft with my photography for about a year now. I am quite familiar with how airliners, drones, helicopters, birds, stars, planets, meteors and errant mylar balloons look, in life and in my photos. I can say, with all the sincerity that I have, that the objects I observed were none of these. I do not know what they were, but they were highly unusual. Total observation time of both objects was approximately 15 seconds total.
February 16, 2019 · 12:30 AM · LIGHT
Clinton, NY
Looked out window before going to bed to see three lights high in the sky southwest of my location. They seemed to be dancing...almost like magnets, attracting and repelling one another in what seemed from my vantage point to be close proximity to one another. I watched, left the window then came back 30 minutes later to see they had moved left of where I had originally seen them. They were still doing the dance. I did not stay up to see how long they stayed there.
February 13, 2019 · 12:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Jamesville, NY
As I was driving home from work...I drive home the same way every day...I was coming down the hill next to the Jamesville Prison, and I see this craft what thought was an airplane, but was going way too slow across the sky to be a plane. It had lot of lights on it, white, red, green, blue. As I got closer it was to the right side of the road, I immediately slowed down and pulled over, to try get pictures with my phone, the lights were so bright my phone wouldn't focus. So I just watched it, it was triangular shape, quiet, and as I pulled over, it stopped going forward in direction and paused mid air, turned 180 degrees and started to slowly travel in the opposite direction I was. Like it knew i was watching or saw it. It also traveled in different speeds from slow to faster. Then it disappeared behind the trees.
February 11, 2019 · 11:00 PM · DIAMOND
Selden, NY
My son woke me up his room was shaking and his chair was vibrating. We went outside and looked to see what could have caused the vibration. We live on a very high street so it could not be a truck. we looked up and to the south of long island we could see a bright red light [very large] and a smaller one below it. We took pictures of this and as of right now it is still there, 20 minutes now. The light stayed steady but would glow brighter slowly and then go back.it looked to have red branches on the southern side of it that branched out.its wasnt so much a pulsating light but there was a definite pattern to it.changing approx every [2] minutes [EST]. It is a much brighter red on the rim and a lighter red on the inside, the smaller one is to low to really see what it is doing. The pattern would be very bright foe 5 seconds and then dim. The pattern then changed to bright red staying longer,[approx [4] min by watch.as i write this the vibration had stopped after 5 to 10 seconds and nothing since. we are going back out to see if it is still there. This cannot be a plane or a tower light we can see that also [the tower light] it is very large and seems quite low.with our cell phones we can actually see it turning shapes like a worm for lack of a better word. It stays in that unformed way twisting and seems circular but not solid.after approx 5 min its then glows into a huge red mass pulsating approx 3x and then goes into a unformed weird worm movement,yet you can see in the video it looks fluid not solid. We have a 10 minute video. It is still out there with the smaller one under it quite far away from the top one doing the same movements.
February 4, 2019 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Ithaca, NY
this was seen near Tompkins county airport flying in the same flight pattern as allot of incoming plane's.
January 30, 2019 · 11:45 PM · CYLINDER
Webster, NY
It was close to midnight and it was frigid outside, clear and windy. I live on the shore of Lake Ontario and waves were forming ice walls along the shoreline. I went outside to have a smoke and had been outside facing south away from the lake looking towards the road, I turned to face the lake (north and windward) And my jaw dropped as I saw a very large craft with lights on the the side facing me, can’t really say how many because the lights would go on or off and change color. Colors were red, green, yellow, blue or white and the off and on or off color changing showed no discernible pattern as far as I could tell. There were always 4 to six lit at a time. I stood spellbound as I watched the craft slowly fly west, or hover west and then stop and move backwards approximately 1/2 mile or so, craft appeared to be about a mile offshore with an altitude of 1000 to 1500 feet. It stopped and started moving west and then I thought of my phone and capturing a video thinking this is why there aren’t a lot of videos or photos of these sightings. I grabbed my phone and headed back out while opening the camera app and ran outside looked up and it was still there as I brought the phone up and hitting record but before I could get the record started the craft rapidly moved west then flashed and shrunk to just a dot of light in the sky which I was recording but all the video showed was darkness when replayed. I had only been inside I’d say 8 to 10 seconds max.... again the thought came to me about why there aren’t more videos/photos of these events, guess I know now. To finish I’ll add there was a lack of sound and again the craft was very large, I’d say about the size of 3 aircraft carriers end to end and there were no other craft flying with it.
January 30, 2019 · 11:20 AM
Saratoga Springs, NY
January 31, 2019. On the morning of Wednesday January 30, 2019, my wife and I were cleaning up snow from the previous evening snow storm. I believe it was approximately 11:20 am. The sky was clear and a brilliant blue which my wife was admiring and started taking pictures of with her iPhone 7. Since it was so bright outside she went into the garage were it was darker to look at the picture she had just taken. She noticed the object in the photo which she hadn’t seen in the sky when she took the picture, immediately she went back outside to see if it was still there which it wasn’t. The picture was taken facing northeast .
January 30, 2019 · 2:35 AM · DISK
Hilton, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
January 21, 2019 · 1:28 AM · LIGHT
Petersburgh, NY
I did not observe this in real time. Photos were caught on a wildlife camera.See attached photos.These are 4 of 5 photos on wildlife cam. • Photo 1: Numerous lights appear to be shining down from some central source in the air above our west lawn at 1:28 AM. Some low-level diffuse light seen to be lighting the lawn as well in later photos. It was a moonless night, and at this time of night if there was a moon shadow it would be from south to north at this time of year. Streaks do not appear to be snow falling as there are no branches above the lawn and snow on the nearby branches is not disturbed, so there was no air turbulence as from a helicopter (snow was powdery). Camera faces east. • Photo 2: Next photo at 2:53 AM, over an hour later, now shows increased diffuse light across the west lawn illuminating the west side of our house. Tree shadows suggest the light source is airborne and just above the tree crowns on the west side of the camera to be able to throw a long shadow of the tree across the lawn (shadow is west to east). • Photo 3: Next photo at 2:53 AM, still within that same minute, shows no change in diffuse light intensity. It does show a change in a single light beam coming down. It may be from point under an aerial object above the lawn. Would the aerial object need to be large to cast a tree shadow from the edge of the lawn and generate the “beams of light” from the north, noting the angle of the “light beam”? • Photo 4 at 3:33 AM over 30 min later: now the aerial object / source of the light shifts to the north or northwest slightly (note the tree shadow shift on the lawn and a shadow line on the side of the house going onto deck) but remains very close to the tree tops given the tree shadow stretches across the entire lawn. Questions … it is not clear how the camera would be activated as normal light does not activate camera. And why are there no pools of light on the snow? There is no line of sight to fly a drone at night, and trees surround this area. A helicopter this dangerously low would have blown dry, powdery snow off the branches in the photos.
January 20, 2019 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Saint James, NY
Hello Mr Davenport, I had the pleasure of listening to you on the Ground Zero podcast from last week. Your interview persuaded me to look up your website and report something seen several days ago (prior to my hearing the broadcast). I am reporting on behalf of my son. I was with him at the time but he was the only person who saw the actual occurrence. He is an adult and responsible. We were looking out of our home our windows to view the blood moon. My son looked out towards the south west and he saw a green light moving very quickly. the path direction was either moving away from us, further to the SW, or from high in sky, diagonally from upper left to lower right, down towards Horizon. He claimed it was faster than meteors we have seen in the past. There was no tail, no flare, nor change in the brightness of the light. It was lime green and somewhat blurry. We believe it was a far distance away based on my conversation with him. He also denies that it was a drone. Perhaps it was a meteor but it didn’t have those usual features and he seemed shocked to have seen it .
January 16, 2019 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Rochester, NY
Going down Carter Rd. we saw 3 bright white lights just above the tree line. At first we assumed it was a regular aircraft and said nothing. After 10 seconds it become clear it was traveling low as it was changing position quickly. It moved in a steady straight path as we drove until it was at our right hand side after 20-30seconds down carter rd. We exchanged words such as "do you see that too?" And when it became clear this was an unusual event my brother pulled over on the shoulder of the road to get a better view. Just as he pulled over it was passing by us in a smooth unbroken path and we saw it very close potentially less than 200 feet away. The reason im taking the time to write this is because I think this next part is important. We saw the lights reflection off of the "hull" and saw the light of the sky, stars etc was black between the 3 lights such that it became visually clear this was one solid object. It gradually disappeared over the trees out of sight going North North East towards Rochester. We later both drew pictures of what we saw when we arrived home. The pictures showed triangle shapes with 3 lights on either corner. To this day this experience has left me confused and upset.
January 16, 2019 · 12:40 AM · SPHERE
Oakdale, NY
Watching television (Seth Meyers Late Night Show) in living room on couch beside shadeless window which overlooks open wetlands. +/- 00:40AM, a bright light green colored glowing sphere about the size of a basketball from my point of view became visible approximately 50' above the ground, perhaps 200' away, instantly appearing against a dark sky. The object descended rapidly below treetop level within a group of trees to approximately 20', made a 90-degree turn and sped off in a southerly direction showing a slight bright white haze on the trailing hemispherical north-facing side, but after perhaps 200' of perfect horizontal travel, the object disappeared or went dark itself. There was no associated noise as would be heard with a drone. It was silent. I ran outside, but no sounds could be heard, no object could be seen. No aircraft in the area at the time. Incredible experience. I wish I had my camera on hand. This is all the information that I can r! ecall.
January 15, 2019 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Penfield, NY
I saw 3 non-blinking lights in a triangular formation flying low and slow. It was moving North/ North East. It was at most only 30 degrees above the horizon. We were facing south. I could tell it was not an airplane instinctively due to the lights not blinking and the strange triangle formation. I said "do you see that" and pointed. The driver said "yes" and slowed the vehicle and pulled over to the right side shoulder of the road so we could watch it and get a better look. We both knew immediatly this was something unusual. As we sat in the motionless car on the side of the road, the 3 lights came closer and closer and passed by us light 2 ships crossing paths in the night. We watched as "it" floated past us on the right and we could see underneath it as it was almost directly above us. In fact, it would have been directly above the golf course about 50 to 100 feet to our right. And was about 100-300 feet up in the air. As is travelled a straight path from directly ahead of us due south, over the golf course and finally off towards the skyline of Rochester it broke our visual contact behind the trees that bordered the golf course. It covered about a half mile in the minute or so we had visual contact so it was moving about 30mph. I call it an "it" because we saw the body of it. We saw all 3 lights were fixed to 1 vehicle/object that was clearly a triangle or triangular prism. We couldnt see the top as only the bottom was illuminated by the 3 lights, so it may have been a triangular prism. But we could see the matte black solid figure of a rigid craft because it blocked the moonlit sky and stars as it passed. I'll never forget the triangle shape blocking out the stars as it passed, visually showing where the edges were. The lights illuminated the hull, and the lights illuminated the cloud/fog cover around it such that we could see it was clearly 1 solid object. It was not 3 orbs of light. It was a solid craft that had distinct edges and a distinct shape. We saw not just the lights, but the distinct "hull," body or whatever you want to call it. We confirmed with each other what we just saw and he pulled up onto the empty road and finished driving home almost speechless.
January 12, 2019 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Fulton, NY
We saw about 5 sort of circular orange-yellow lights in formation somewhat far away from each other all moving at the same speed. After a few minutes one of the lights appeared to drop a light from it that fell a bit and then disappeared. After about five minutes all of the lights disappeared at the same time. The lights were there when we pulled into the parking lot so we are unsure how long the event lasted.
January 10, 2019 · 6:10 PM · TEARDROP
West Seneca, NY
The object didn't move nor make any noise and after watching it for about a minute it then just disappeared. Our dog is older and seemed to not even notice it and just went about sniffing the little snow on the ground. We didn't feel scared at all but after it disappeared I did feel like the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I said let's go home which we did.
January 8, 2019 · 6:17 PM · CIRCLE
Rochester, NY
Large bright light stationery.. got larger then brighter.. then slowly disappeared, whilst not moving at all
January 3, 2019 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Rochester, NY
Getting up at 5am to go to the gym. Trying to wake myself up, stepped out my front door to smoke a cigarette. Directly across my front door in the sky was a very bright star like light that was a bright yellow white. Lower than a star though. It was in a area of the sky that the planes turn around to land at the Rochester airport. So my first thought was it was a plane turning around like they do. Again, this unusually bright star was BRIGHT, kinda flickering and in that plane turn around area in the sky right near Lake Ontario. While watching this bright light it slowly faded away and disappeared. It never moved from its spot in the sky. At that time I assumed it was a plane turning around but 15 seconds later it slowly faded back to its full brightness. It did this multiple times not moving from its spot in the sky for about 15 min. I continued to check on it while I was getting ready it eventually disappeared after a hour of this. I didn't see it leave but was definitely unusual. The sky was clear that morning, no clouds and was still dark. I didn't think to take a picture or thought it was weird at the time because I assume it must be explainable. When I got up the next morning and went to smoke it wasn't there so definitely wasn't a star. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 28, 2018 · 9:04 PM · TEARDROP
Webster, NY
Source, who remains anonymous, fails to provide any information about the alleged sighting incident. PD
December 26, 2018 · 7:45 PM · DISK
Fishkill (on I-84, eastbound; just past), NY
Object seen was a very large disk or saucer shaped object with yellow and red lights blinking and appearing to rotate around perimeter. It was spotted while driving eastbound on I-84, just past Fishkill (a bit beyond the prison, I think). Object appeared to be slowly moving toward us, then at one point it stopped and hovered. Hard to tell as we were in a car driving, but no unusual sound was noticed when we opened the window to get a better look at it. I was dropping a friend off at the Southeast train station; on the way back, I saw it again, but it appeared to vanish quickly.
December 7, 2018 · 4:26 PM · SPHERE
Westtown, NY
I cant recall the name of the road but I believe it was Ridgeburry Rd. I was on but it was in Westtown and I was driving north. I saw a light in the east/ north-east it was about 10° to 15° above the horizon. It was bright enough that I pulled my car over by a pasture with cattle and got out of my car to take a better look. This was at about 425pm. The sky was generally cloudless and the sun was almost down. It did not move so Id thought it was a star, it twinkled like one. I though it was Possibly venus however it was blue, like how whitelights can appear blue, not like a blue led but still between blue and white. If it was a star, it was several times brighter than any star id ever seen other than the sun. Within about 60 seconds of my observing it the star vanished. It was instantaneous. I looked at the place where it had been for maybe 20 to 30 seconds before giving up on seeing it again. As I was getting back in my car I looked up at an airli! ner above my head. There once again was the blue star only this time it was moving at the same pace as the airliner. There were no clouds, and it was right at dawn so I couldnt guess its elevation, only that I believe it was above the plane by a possibly 2 or 3 hundred feet and it was over its right wing, The airliner was flying southwest. Whatever it was stayed with the airliner untill the plane began turning east. Just as the plane began to do this the blue light disappeared again just as suddenly as before. When I checked the time again it was 4:28pm.
November 30, 2018 · 4:30 PM · OTHER
New Paltz, NY
Driving on interstate 84 east bound in a car, we saw what appeared to be a large airplane approximately the size of a 747 heading in what would be a westbound direction, approximately 5,000 -8,000 feet and it appeared to be suspended and not moving. The plane was not moving and what appeared to be a helicopter hovering near it.