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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 7, 2018 · 11:00 PM · CROSS
Syracuse, NY
the object looked like a plus sign with one larger light in the center and three smaller lights to each of the four sides of the plus shape. At the end of each seemed to look like a faded headlight. I first saw it about 11:15 PM and by 11:38 PM it seemed to have just up and disappeared. Then half hour later it was back, watched till the clouds came in maybe 20 more minutes and couldn't see anything.
August 5, 2018 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Islip, NY
I am located in Suffolk County, Long Island, NY, South by the Atlantic Ocean. It wasn’t a airplane, it was moving to quickly to be one.
August 4, 2018 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Baldwinsville, NY
4 orange orbs low in the sky. They were stationary and silent. They were in a diamond like pattern and disappeared instantly. We were kayaking on Seneca River just north of the bridge on Plainville Road when we spotted them over a farm field.
August 4, 2018 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Eastchester, NY
Sitting in my backyard, looked up into the sky on a clear sunny evening. I see a black triangle appear, the craft made no noise. As it passed it appeared to warp speed away out of sight. I heard loud aircraft shortly after seeing the ufo, but did not see any aircraft giving chase.
August 2, 2018 · 5:35 AM · UNKNOWN
Akron, NY
Awoke 5:35 a.m., hearing noise/soft pattern lights outside, thru west-open window, like loud mass of insects- buzzing, and my 9yr. grandson got up from same on 2nd floor and saw unknown object a few seconds (much to describe).
July 29, 2018 · 10:20 PM · SPHERE
East Aurora, NY
No noise. Changed speed and direction. No blinking lights. Way too big/bright to be a drone. Moved slowly, traveled in circular pattern. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 21, 2018 · 8:45 PM · SPHERE
Haines Falls, NY
A friend and I were sitting by our campfire when I noticed a red-orange ball of light moving from right to left (east to west) above the tree line. I immediately mentioned it to my friend who was sitting next to me, and my sister who was just stepping out of the tent. The three of us quickly ran in the direction the object was heading, which happened to be the campsite driveway onto the loop road, where we could get a better view through a clearing in the trees. The object appeared to be about the size of a basketball (if you were extend your arms and hold one out in front of you), however, would have to be much larger since I would estimate its altitude to have been about 300-350 feet above ground and its horizontal distance from us to be about 150-200 feet. It was a perfectly spherical red-orange ball of light that would have to have been extremely bright to be visible against the early twilight sky. It moved silently and steadily at a moderately slow pace across the sky. My sister and friend noticed the object had dropped in altitude and at a sharp right angle to its right slightly before continuing on and disappearing beyond the tree line to the west. We were all baffled and discussing what the object could have been when another one appeared from the east, following the same trajectory (although at an even lower altitude and closer distance than the first). The second object was identical to the first and moved at the same pace, silently across the sky until disappearing over the westerly tree line. I am a consumer drone enthusiast and pilot which is how I was able to estimate the altitude and distance. Also, a popular consumer drone at that altitude and distance would be audibly noticeable. I can easily hear the buzzing of the motors and propellers of my small drone at a 300 foot altitude in a noisy urban environment. These objects were completely silent against the relatively quiet backdrop of the campground. The object in question would have to have been 10 times the size of a small consumer drone and also contain an large amount of extremely bright LED lamps to achieve the same luminosity.
July 20, 2018 · 11:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Cheektowaga, NY
My son was learning about the moon and stars in school. So we got a telescope just so we can look at the Moon. And then this happened couple days after we started messing with the telescope. It was around 11:30. I went outside to have a cigarette walked out to the middle of my driveway I just looked up to see if I could see anything I could see with my telescope when I looked towards the back of my house I seen six lights they were all white. I have an airport near me that's like two streets away a little Cessna Airport. And then the Buffalo International Airport is about 10 miles from me. As I'm watching these things I'm wondering why I don't see colored lights cuz I'm used to seeing colored lights because of the planes flying by all the time. But then I noticed there was no sound either and being so low I should hear something. As I'm looking at them the one to the left turned towards the Buffalo International Airport and the other one to the right turned flying towards Niagara Falls air base ( which is super far away from my house) so I watch the one going to the Buffalo Airport it flew for a short distance towards the airport and then turned around to follow the other one. I have no idea what it was kind of creepy if I knew this website existed I would have said something about it long time ago when I was flushing my head
July 15, 2018 · 5:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Ellenville, NY
Still curious about what I saw while in McDonald's parking lot while waiting for my boys to get back dropped off to me, so it had to be around 5:00 pm est. 1 military net in front, 1 behind , 2 slight staggered on each side of a black box/rectangle about double the size of the jets.. little smaliler mabe.. the sound of the jets were so l
July 10, 2018 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Garrison, NY
This was a brief but very interesting sighting. I live in a valley. Our house sits about halfway up on one of the sides. It was summer and was bedtime. I was getting ready for bed and my wife had already gotten into bed with the lights out. As I was walking through the bedroom, I caught a glimpse of two golden orange orbs floating through the valley. They were next to each other and I am telling you, they were going for a little exploration together or something of the like. I explain in other orb stories that I have written that; the orbs have a personality; you notice it immediately. You can almost “see” their character. It’s as if they were going on a stroll together up the valley and conversing along the way. Their movement was at a slow pace and not so much in a straight line, kind of wavey. I would estimate that their size was about the size of a volleyball. The light was not that bright, it was more of a glow. The window That I was looking out at them! through was small, so I lost view of them as they traveled past quite quickly. I ran into the other room to try and see them but lost sight of them.
July 10, 2018 · 5:00 PM · CYLINDER
Greece, NY
me and my wife were skeptical until we saw this with our own eyes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 8, 2018 · 7:40 PM · SPHERE
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
In Prospect Park, my wife and I saw a sphere like object slowly move across the sky. It was stationary for long periods in the sky as well. My wife saw a accompanying red light in the moments the object was going further away. Interestingly, we also saw a jet
July 6, 2018 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Lindenhurst, NY
We saw a bright, orange object travelling across the sky, silent, almost as if on fire, but was not..just extremely bright yellowish/orange circle, like a ball. Nothing like I ever saw! Fast, clean line as if like a plane, but not a plane. Round, bright, like fire.
July 6, 2018 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Spencerport, NY
I saw a bright orange spherical object moving fast across the sky that caught my attention. It was moving around in a a wiggly "S" pattern which I thought was peculiar and I knew planes could not fly this way. It also had no discernible shape, it was just a ball of light, so I didn't think it was a plane. I observed it for several minutes so I also did not think it was some sort of stray firework or something. When I grabbed my phone to begin taking video, the object completely disappeared! A few moments later I saw two planes in the sky with rapidly blinking lights. The planes were going in opposite directions around the area where I had previously seen the orange ball of light. The ball of light then returned and shot out between the two planes at a much higher rate of speed than either plane was flying. The ball of light then winked out, then came back along the same path, then winked out, then came back again, then finally winked out and was gone for good. The planes continued on their trajectories for another moment and then both planes were also gone.
July 6, 2018 · 11:30 AM · OTHER
richmondville, NY
On the flatbed was a craft that resembled a somewhat flattened bullet, with the back end flatter and 3 or 4 round things inside the back end for possible propulsion or exhaust function. no windows. no wings. object was as long and wide as the flatbed, which are usually 48 feet by 6 feet. it was tied down with ropes and rope netting. it was silver with army camo painted on it. i've never seen anything like it, and find no images like it anywhere on the internet. since I was traveling I only saw it briefly. Nice illustration provided by witness. We suspect that the object probably was some type of military platform. PD
July 6, 2018 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
Chestertown, NY
Object changed colors from white to yellow to orange and shape shifted.
July 4, 2018 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Buffalo, NY
me and my friends was watching fireworks and a red beam appeared in the sky im like bra look, it was just sitting there hoovering then it changed to green lights but it was 5 points like a pentagon each point was green then there was a green point flashing directly in the middle of it, then it changed back to red all in the same spot but this time it was just two dots next to each other two red dots my friend was watching aswell, then in the end of the video it takes off flashing green it looked like a disk but when i seen the five dots then just two lol i didnt know no wtf was going on
July 1, 2018 · 1:16 PM · SPHERE
Riverhead, NY
An orb of light streaked across the sky during the day while I was riding my bike. It was a ball of light that disappeared after about 10 seconds after I noticed it. It was white, and a circle. It was a clear sunny day.
June 28, 2018 · 10:02 PM · SPHERE
Scotia, NY
Clear sky with moon out. While walking due NE, I saw an object about the size and brightness of Venus, traveling NE in a straight line. It was moving much slower than a meteor, but faster than a plane. It was a steady, bright white light; it left no trail or streak. It moved at a steady pace high above the horizon, moving away from me, and suddenly disappeared
June 22, 2018 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
New York City, NY
June 22, 2018, my wife and I had an after-dinner stroll along the promenade in Long Island City, New York. We took a seat somewhere between Long Island City and Hunter’s Point Ferry landings to rest and enjoy the view of Manhattan on the other side of the East River. At 8:30, or so, we spotted an object with a pair of red lights hovering above the skyline. The lights were a little too bright for me not to think it was odd. I joked that it was a UFO, without really putting too much stock in it. Still, there was something so strange about its brightness and its steadiness, like a snapshot in the sky, that I could not take my eyes off of it. The object made a vertical jump, held for a second, and then shot across the sky 3 to 5 miles toward the southern part of Manhattan in about 2 seconds, and that was when my jaw hit the ground. From where we sat, neither of us could determine the exact height of the object but it appeared higher than the Chrysler Building - a lot higher. My wife argues that it was probably a trick of the eye and that whatever we saw was in reality closer to us. She believes it flew lower and above the river’s edge. I disagree. I trust my sense of perspective. I can compare structural sizes and their spacial relationships as good as anyone. I can tell the difference between far and near, high and low, and I am convinced that what I saw was way up in the sky and away from the river’s edge! My wife said it was a helicopter. But after a real helicopter flew by, she clearly saw the difference. The helicopter’s lights were not as bright as the UFO’s. The helicopter was noisy. The UFO was silent. The helicopter wavered as it hovered. The UFO was as still as a statue. She said then it was probably a drone. I countered with the following: a drone has height restrictions. Again, the height and distance of what we saw could be argued, but you’ll never change my opinion. The UFO was at least a few thousand feet over the skyline and further west of the East River. After YouTubing videos of drone in flight at night, I can say that the behavior of a drone compared to that of the UFO is much different too. Like helicopters, drones are subject to air buffeting. They’re not perfectly steady. Their movements are not clean, sharp, symmetrically perfect like what I saw in the UFO. Describing the UFO’s movement was like someone using a right-angle straight edge on a laser pointer. It moved in two perfect straight lines, cutting over abruptly in a 90 degree angle. Also, like anything else in movement, drones display acceleration. The thing my wife and I saw did not show this. One moment it was there, the next it’s shooting across the sky. No acceleratio! n! It was amazing. One more thing: I don’t think the NYPD would allow anyone to fly a drone in an area crowded with helicopter traffic. Just saying. I wish I had recorded it, but I didn't really expect anything odd to happen. When it did, it happened too fast.
June 22, 2018 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Long Beach, NY
Last night at around 10pm I was laying in bed staring out the window with a view of the east end canal in Long Beach and saw two large white circular lights chasing each other back and forth at a quick speed. They were hidden within the clouds but the shape and light color were easy to see. The clouds seemed low last night because the orbs looked large. Saw them 3 times in a matter of a minute before they went away. Then about 5 minutes later just saw one traveling a bit slower and a bit farther away.
June 21, 2018 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Kent, NY
First notice craft very high up moving extremely slow, almost hovering at times. It had very bright lights across the entire craft moving in a pattern. There was no spaces between the lights. Seemed possibly disc shaped. After the initial craft was out of sight about 1-2 minutes later, a very fast moving plane with only 2 red lights followed it. Anonymous report. PD
June 21, 2018 · 1:30 AM · CIRCLE
Richmondville, NY
I’m a professional driver and pulled over to admire the beautiful, clear night sky of rural New York. As I’m gazing up at the stars I notice one moving from east to west. It was white and moving at the speed a passenger jet usually crosses the sky. It was far too high to be a plane however as one did happen to pass overhead later. As I’m watching this light traverse the sky a couple minutes later it approaches another star. It’s been traveling in a straight line and I expect it to just pass. However, as it nears the star, that star flares up and goes out. I’m not sure what I just saw and I continue to watch the light continue to traverse the sky. It shifts slightly to the southwest and continues on a straight path. It seems to be approaching another star and now I’m curious. Suddenly, that star literally takes off straight to the west at a high rate of speed and disappeared into the horizon. The other seemed to stop where that one had taken off from. I watched as it appeared to get smaller until it faded out, perhaps going farther from earth. I’ve seen these lights traverse straight across the sky before as well as seen them abruptly zig zag across the sky before zooming out of site in the literal blink of an eye, but never anything like this.
June 19, 2018 · 9:13 PM · DISK
Buffalo, NY
I took a series of photos from my bedroom window down buffalo, NY, because the sky was beautiful. 4 photos were taken one after the other with my android phone at 9:13 pm, June 19th, 2018. On June 29, I looked for the photos I'd taken as reference for a painting using the colors of the sky, that's when I saw the unusual light anomaly in the sky. There was no light behind me, I did not notice anything in the sky when I took the photo. One photo shows an image of a small source of light, backed by an evening sky. We do not know what the light is, but do not have enough information, we believe, to be able to conclude that it is an authentic alien spacecraft. PD