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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
June 19, 2018 · 12:11 AM · LIGHT
Saratoga Springs, NY
Bright light that dims and brighten. Disappears when passing by aircraft fly by then reappears after plane passes. Seems to dance slowly from side to side.
June 16, 2018 · 10:50 PM · FORMATION
White Plains, NY
Stepped outside to walk dog and looked up to see orange lights on night sky approaching and following a northern flight pattern. Objects were small, round, soundless and clustered in two to three at a time and space between seemed to be 15 to 30 second delays. There were other aircraft in area of normal altitude and sound but these seemed higher and without any sound as they flew over in northern flight pattern directly over Ridgeway in White Plains. Night was clear with new moon and minimal clouds. Witnessed by two persons.
June 16, 2018 · 1:00 PM · CYLINDER
Carmel, NY
Object was thinner than a blimp, but fatter than a cigar-shaped. It had no wings, no windows and it was flying low enough that features like this would've been perceptible. It appeared to be made of metal and it was close enough that the witness could see ribbed features, almost able to make out bolts in it as though individual sheets of metal were fashioned together vertically. It felt like something manmade, somewhat primitive, not by any means advanced, but it was like nothing he'd ever seen before. It flew slow overhead across the Taconic State Parkway. He watched it fly over his car until it was completely out of sight (mainly due to the winding of the road) but it flew slow and low. He watched it from the driver's side window to the farthest stretch of the right end of his dashboard. Nothing protruded from it like you'd expect to see from a blimp. It felt like machinery, like something that should've had an engine making a lot of noise, especially for ! how low it was flying, but when he lowered the volume on his radio and opened his window all he heard was typical highway sounds (wheels on the pavement).
June 12, 2018 · 10:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Binghamton, NY
I was looking down at my phone walking down the sidewalk. Of the corner of my eye I seen an orange light. When I looked up I seen three triangles a triangular formation. It looked like the Zelda triforce. It was an orangish red color but more on the orange side. It shot off really quick and left a light trail like when you move a flashlight really quick.
June 12, 2018 · 9:30 PM · CROSS
Staten Island, NY
Cross shaped consisting of multiple white lights does not seem to move. Lights stay on and don't blink. I looked through binoculars. This is not a plane!
June 11, 2018 · 9:20 PM · FORMATION
Bethpage, NY
Smoking cigar on my terrace, noticed a large number initially (10+) of bright orange dots rising from the horizon to the south/southwest in small clusters, eventually fading from view. Additional clusters of these lights rose from the horizon every few minutes for the next half hour or so. They seemed to be quite a distance away from my position. Took 2 pictures with my Samsung phone, also 2 videos, video quality very noisy.
June 9, 2018 · 1:11 AM · LIGHT
Watervliet, NY
Very early yesterday morning, I was in my back yard, at approximately 0110 Hrs. doing some stargazing. I was looking generally to the north, with large trees to the extreme left and right of my field of view, and a two-story neighbor's house in the center. I had observed several high flying passenger aircraft (typical light/strobe pattern), satellites and a meteor or two. Suddenly, from behind the left hand bunch of trees, travelling from left to right, at a viewed angle to just clear the top edge of the neighbor's roof, appeared a VERY bright white (PULSING, not flashing) light. The pulse pattern was: (gradual increase, hold a second or so, gradual decrease)(3 second pause)(repeat) The time from minimum to maximum brightness was about 2-3 seconds. Pulsing was not quite regular, but not random either. The color of the light was absolutely one the purist whites I have experienced. I would estimate the distance to be middle distance, as it wasn't at airliner flight level, appearing much lower in altitude and close. I thought maybe it MIGHT be a helicopter, but there was ZERO noise. We have an Army National Guard base nearby, and UH60s overfly regularly, as well as the local Lifeflight. They make a racket all the time, and I am quite familiar with helicopter noise. During this event, however, there was NO SOUND/DEAD QUIET. In addition, there were ZERO other strobes, anti-collision or flashing lights observable. The light was about the size of a nickel held at arm's length, gliding along at a slightly sedate pace. The path was a straight line path from left to right, until is disappeared behind the right hand set of trees. It FAILED to appear where I estimated it should based on course and speed. I quickly moved in my yard to see if I could re-locate it, but no luck. Now, during the last few seconds before it disappeared behind the trees, I was able to observe the object with my binoculars. What appeared in my view was a neon blue...Aura? Haze?, and within this haze was a tumbling, jet-black multi-faceted rectangular-ish shape. Confused by the blue light, I pulled my binocs away, and that is when the object disappeared behind the trees. I can honestly say this is one of the most unusual & unnerving things I have ever seen.
June 8, 2018 · 9:15 PM · OVAL
Hudson, NY
Stream Of 80 plus, lost count after 15 or so, large Orange glowing oval objects moved from North to South through the night Sky, some with Green Blue smaller orbs accompanying the individual objects. Objects were spaced apart by 1-2 minutes, with at least 12 visible at one time across the sky. The Stream of Orange glowing lights lasted about an hour and a half. The objects seemed to go to a higher altitude, almost disappearing, when an airplane approached its path, and then descended and returned to previous altitude. There was also a considerable amount of regular airplane traffic at the time at which did not seem to be affected. Time of first sitting (sic. sighting) was between 9pm and 9:10pm and lasted till just after 10:30pm Eastern daylight Saving Time. The orange objects were greatly larger than any airplane seen in the air at the time. The speed of the objects crossing the sky from my view was about the rate of conventional aircraft, 3 to 4 minutes to cross the sky until fading out of view. The motion seemed to be as smooth as silk, compared to watching a conventional airplane. Have never seen anything like this before ever.
June 5, 2018 · 1:30 PM · OTHER
Rochester, NY
I was with my friend and we were in my backyard which is a very wooded area and it was pretty dark but we were just going for a walk. And we saw in the sky 3 weird objects that I can't explained an it looked like it was just swaying and swinging itself in the sky.to be honest I thought it was a shooting star until it began sinking to the ground slowly followed by a loud bang and me and my friend ran back home, we were terrified.
June 5, 2018 · 1:15 AM · FLASH
Watervliet, NY
At approximately 0110 in the morning, Tuesday, 5 June, 2018, I had to let the dog out to do his business. Weather was clear, very slight high haze and a couple of random puffy clouds. While waiting for the dog to finish, I observed several passenger aircraft cross the sky from west to east, very normal. I then looked to the south/southwest, approximately 65 degrees above the horizon. Four extremely bright, almost dazzling, pinpoint-like flashes occurred in quick succession. The first 3 flashes were timed about 1 second apart with the last flash happening about 3 seconds after the third. The flashes did not move relative to each other, and were in the exact same location for each flash. I was very taken aback by how bright the flashes were. As there was zero motion between flashes, it could not have been an aircraft, satellite or meteor, and the flashes were located much too high to be a drone or other hobbyist device. I did not observe any smoke or other pyrotechnic residue, not that I would expect any this late at night. I continued to intently observe this particular portion of sky for another 5 minutes, but I did not observe any further activity.
June 1, 2018 · 12:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Indian Lake, NY
Summer 2018. My wife and I were sitting at the beach by Lewey Lake in upstate NY, when we saw a strange tube coming from the clear blue sky. The tube was somewhat translucent and glistening and pointing at an angle towards the water. There was movement in the water, like a line was being pulled. But there was no visible line. The whole thing lasted about 15-30 seconds and then disappeared. We never saw a craft, just the tube. Trees obstructed our view of seeing a possible craft.
May 26, 2018 · 12:30 PM · LIGHT
Huntington, NY
Over Long Island. A Piper PA-32R Saratoga (N161MA) was flying over Huntington, Long Island during a trip between Minute Man Airfield in Massachusetts and Old Bridge Airport in New Jersey when the pilot encountered a strange object directly in front of his aircraft. He called air traffic controllers stating "I have an object in front of me, I don't know what it is." The controller replies "You mean like a drone or something?" The pilot responds: "I don't know if it's a drone... It's bigger than a drone." The controller responds "Ummmm, I don't show anything on radar." The controller then asks if the object is at his same altitude, the pilot responds in the affirmative. Then the controller asks if the pilot needs to make a turn to avoid the object and the pilot requests a slight change in direction. The controller then queries the pilot to report what he thinks the mysterious craft is as soon as he can. The pilot respond! s that he has no idea what it is and it has since gone behind a cloud. "Definitely something was there" the pilot states. The controller seems oddly adamant that they should assume it was a drone, stating "Ok, I mean, we'll have to assume that it was a drone, that's the only, I mean I don't know if that's the shape assumption or not but I guess that's what we will go by." The pilot responded, "Actually, it looked, uh, like it had lights on it." The controller responds "That's uh, really interesting, uh again, I show nothing on radar so I don't know what to say." The pilot then states "Ok and I know I'm not delusional." The next transmission we hear is from the controller asking the pilot to call in and make a report with specifics about the incident once he lands. He notes that the request is from his manager. The pilot quips "this is the first time I'm getting a phone number that I'm not in trouble!." The controll! er laughs and affirms to him he is not in trouble. He then pas! ses him the number and says they will be awaiting his call. The Piper stayed at about 6,000 feet during the cruise portion of its flight. Weather that day included clear to partly cloudy skies with the temperature in the 80s and benign winds. (The WarZone, June 19, 2018) http://www.nicap.org/match/audios/May-26-2018-1630Z%202.mp3
May 20, 2018 · 12:12 AM · LIGHT
Covington, NY
Out to the west side of the house there was a very bright light showing in the distance through the woods. It hovered as if it was spotlighting something. It made me wonder if it was some kind of helicopter that was using a spotlight. I got out the binoculars but had a hard time seeing fully with the leaves just coming out on the trees. All I could see is that it was very very bright and moving very succinctly. Woke up my husband and he caught a brief glimpse before it disappeared. We do have helicopters that fly by here regularly but I opened the window -- there was no engine noise like there would have been for something like that or even an airplane. All I can say is, it was attention getting as it is not the normal lights seen around here. Been an hour now and no bight light... I'm submitting report in case others do as well.
May 18, 2018 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
New York City, NY
(( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))
May 13, 2018 · 11:40 AM · LIGHT
Glen Oaks, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 10, 2018 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Camden, NY
We were sitting on the couch and we looked out the window we thought that we had seen what look like a plane it was hovering in the same spot for over an hour I then grabbed my phone and took a video out the window of it just sitting in the same spot I go over and sit down on the couch and post set a video and then after that I look up out the window and with a flash of light it was gone
May 5, 2018 · 8:36 PM · OTHER
New York, NY
If you go to the USGS website https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/, click on the gear logo on the upper right side and in the drop down menu select Satellite under Map Layers, on the bottom right of the picture you'll see the location of your mouse as you moving it around. Go to locations 42.366˚N 70.868˚W and 42.672˚N 70.572˚W. You'll find some interesting objects, slightly out of focus and seem to be somewhere between the satellite's camera and the ground. Just curious if anyone can explane what they're might be. We have looked at the photo, and the objects appear to us most likely to be either optical aberrations, or some type of contamination in the photo. PD
May 4, 2018 · 12:59 PM · CIGAR
Staten Island, NY
The head of Security moved the camera to see guys working on the roof which also caught the sky and a near by tree line, before going home that night on May 4th he forgot to move the Camera back to facing the parking lot . When he came back on the 5th he look at the footage, that when he noticed the craft materialize out of thin air, move forward and stop in mid air and seem to observe the camera and then leave. It wasn’t till a few day later that we realized that camera when first triggered showed one time and when the craft appears the time on the camera changes. This is impossible because you cannot change the time on this camera system un less you actually change existing time. This was even more strange that the cigar shaped UAP caught on the video. I have several shots of the video taken from my cell phone, I waited this long until the security office who showed me the video retired. I will show to video to you but I want to make sure that it will be my video, MUFON wants the rights I will not do that. Thank you
April 25, 2018 · 10:30 AM · CIRCLE
Liverpool, NY
Mom was walking the dog, I was outside with her then mom thought she saw a plane and asked if it was a plane and I said that planes don't look like that! there was small lights all around the bottom, and a big circle light on the bottom middle. It was really creepy looking and it passed by our trailer and then disappeared. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
April 22, 2018 · 2:00 PM · CYLINDER
Garrison, NY
This was definitely one of the strangest things that I have ever seen. It was a sunny Sunday afternoon. My wife and I were on the back deck enjoying the weather. I noticed an object come into view over the top of the trees toward the rear of our property. We have large cliffs in our backyard with trees on top, so the height of the object was about 200 ft and about 500 ft away. At first, I did not know what I was looking at. I then realized that it was something highly unusual. It had no wings; it was cylindrical and was spinning on its long axis. It was about 10ft long by 5ft wide. It was spinning clockwise. I stepped off the deck and walked into the yard to get a better look of it. What I know now is that it was keeping a consistent height off the ground to the top of the trees, so as it cleared the cliff area it got closer to the ground. I got as close as I could to it and starred at it intensely. It was spinning about one revolution per second and moved i! n a straight line at around five miles per hour. It was completely silent. There was something like a pipe that was on its side that was attached at a slight diagonal. I remember the color as a dark gray and also brown. I watched it as it moved away. Looking at it, I felt a strange sensation of an otherworldly presence. I noticed a part on top of the object that I did not see from the side. The fact that the entire object was spinning leads me to think that it may have been “morphing” or changing shape. The object moved away in a very strait and precise line. It was moving so steadily that it appeared to be shrinking in size opposed to getting farther away. I have never seen anything in the sky travel in such a precise strait line and so smoothly. It traveled across the valley and over the tops of the trees. That was it.
April 20, 2018 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Northport, NY
I have 5 photos of three unexplained single separate small lights in my yard that faces woods. There was alot of unexplained, and never seen before, light, and an unusually long sunset. I walked my dog an hour later after sundown and saw a round silent yellow orb about 7 feet wide glide gracefully and somewhat slowly across the distance near the woods where the small lights were earlier. I have never in my long life seen anything like it.
April 17, 2018 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
East Meadow, NY
I had stepped outside to get some fresh air on my deck… as I turn around while looking at the sky, I'm 5 feet from stepping back into my home and I see a large triangular shaped ship move towards the west. As I pause to watch the ship it comes to a stop and stops midair, no noise, no lights. The clouds betray its presence. As I continue staring at it… it starts ascending straight up until I can't see it any longer. However, before it disappeared out of sight, the last thing I saw was what seemed to be atmospheric disturbance; these 3 rib like structures appeared very high in the sky on each side of the ship. It was the most amazing sight and craft I'd ever seen. This was not a jet sized craft… it was huge; as big as a football field. Also, I'm not 100% sure about the date.
April 17, 2018 · 11:00 AM · EGG
Burnt Hills, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 15, 2018 · 9:00 PM · CHEVRON
Cherry Creek, NY
Started as 2 bright red shapes at night on the other side of the valley hovering in the sky. Combined the came apart and disappeared. Reappeared a minute later and now there were 3. Moving and hovering up and down, then across slowly, then lights turned off.