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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
October 22, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CHEVRON
Huntington, NY
ME and my girlfriend and her friend were driving down the road and i looked up and saw oddly strange light formation above in the sky, the lights were yellowish fiery color looked like a cheveron shape and it moved from east to west slowly then the lights started to fade and the lights moved in separate directions. for some reason, source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 21, 2017 · 10:30 AM · SPHERE
Huntington station, NY
Observed 3 orange orbs in formation traveling in a north easterly direction at a steady pace totally silent. Followed by 7 more staggered one minute later. Some video captured as well of the last two.
October 21, 2017 · 6:20 AM · LIGHT
Mooers, NY
So I was supposed to be headed to work well I was late and ended up not going well I had gotten into a. Fight with my gf when I just stepped outside walked across the road I had looked up to have seen a white spotlight bright be focusing down but not toward me as it had passed me already then this went on for few seconds until it shut off and it is as if you could still see it but it was like a star moving in the sky?
October 20, 2017 · 9:29 PM · TRIANGLE
Astoria, NY
Looking out my 5th floor apartment window in Astoria, Queens, which overlooks the East River and Manhattan's Skyline of the Empire State Building. All of the sudden, I see 2 triangles made up of lights floating by in the sky. There 1 second gone the next. One triangle was made of red lights and the other craft made of blue. My window was open ax
October 20, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Queensbury, NY
While eating dinner with guests about 7:00 pm on October 20, 2017, I happened to look out our sliding glass door which faces west and noticed two stationary side by side very bright flashing white lights just above the tree line slightly northwest of the house. They were quite close together and were brighter than the planet Venus would be. The object(s) were stationary and did not wobble like a drone would. I called the 3 other people in attendance and they all saw it. The sun had set and it was dark out. I went for some binoculars but by the time I returned, the lights had moved northish and out of view. No noise was heard. From our house, the object(s) appeared to be over the western part of Aviation Road in Queensbury, NY. A week later (10-27-2017), I was sharing this event with a friend and coincidently both he and his wife may have seen the same object while they were driving in their car about 7:15 pm. He reported it also as 2 stationary side by side very bright white lights but they were not flashing. Shortly thereafter, one light disappeared. They also said it was low in the sky. He’s not 100% sure what day it was but feels like it was the same Friday evening as was the one we saw. Also, no noise was heard. His sighting was about 5 miles northeast of our sighting and located in the Sunnyside Road area of Queensbury, NY. All parties involved are familiar with aircraft lighting and this object was definitely not lit up in a normal pattern.
October 20, 2017 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Looking south from a rooftop on North 9th (near corner of Meserole) and saw what looked like a grey cloud (it was a totally cloudless day). After a few seconds cloud turned to a goldish color then to a white/ silvery color (when it turned silvery/ white it looked like it could have been 4-6 smaller objects). It then disappeared and returned a few seconds later as a grey cloud. This cycle repeated about 10 times. It was too high to be birds and stayed in the same area of sky the entire time..
October 20, 2017 · 8:35 AM · TEARDROP
New Paltz, NY
10/20/2017 - 8:35 a.m. - Driving on Rt. 32 Southbound toward New Paltz from Rosendale, first observed appox. 1/2 mile North of Horsenden Road while passing Clearwater Park on left. Object appeared to be white-ish silver moving SSW at high speed (I was driving 55 mph), flying low enough to observe no wings of any kind. Appeared to be teardrop shaped with point facing direction of travel, no lights but did observe "glint" of light from Sun reflecting off surface of object indicating it was a solid, reflective mass. That part of Rt. 32 has trees on both sides, object clearly visible while following road then became obscured by trees. turned onto Horesenden Road, observed once through trees when turned onto road then lost. Did not see again once tree line ended and had more visible area to observe.
October 19, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Albany, NY
Redo: Sorry this took so long, busy, fired, then I got the flu that laid me up for a month or more and I broke a rib coughing. In that time my van’s battery ran down and I don’t have a computer on the internet. I’m at the Albany Public Library. First about me: 1) I served in the US Navy and had watch standing as a duty on ships where I was trained to watch the sky and look for any in bound objects. This entailed me having to give the location in the sky of anything in the sky, 2) I was in commercial flight school, second year, when 911 happened. I am familiar with standard aviation markings at night. On 10/19/17 I was driving to work in Albany, NY, and made a shortcut through a nearby stadium parking lot. It was night and I stopped to adjust my clothing which had bound up. As I looked toward the eastern sky at about 30 degrees off the horizon, due East I saw an object traveling at what I estimate to be about 100 plus knots straight up. The object was yellow with orange flashing lights. This is not the markings of any terrestrial aircraft and the speed excludes anything like balloons, and the altitude it reached was at I estimate over a mile up. I checked with the airport and the ceiling was broken at one to ten miles, where it disappeared in one to two minutes. Then I saw a second object and recorded it on my phone. The images move side to side from holding the phone. The sound in the background by chance is a rebroadcast of Coast to Coast with Art Bell on my car's radio.
October 18, 2017 · 3:00 PM · FLASH
Fire Island (Barett Beach), NY
At about 1500 hrs., on Wednesday October 18, 2017, while sitting on the stairs that go out to the beach , I observed a flash of light (yellow / green) heading in a south west direction. The observation lasted about 2 seconds. The color of the object is similar to natural gas given off by a kitchen range.
October 16, 2017 · 3:45 AM · FLASH
West Chazy, NY
We were driving on the Highway 87, going north, and we noticed a bright white light behind us. It would flash white every second and seemed to be following us. The object looked like it was flying close to the road, as we saw it pass over a bridge. We thought about a plane on an emergency landing, but it stayed behind is for too long. We where driving at 65 miles/hour. The object was flying close to the trees and was following the curves of the road (left to right). We were 5 in the car and everybody saw it. We are all sober, as,well. It got really close to the car (100 feet), and then got further.
October 15, 2017 · 8:00 AM
Fort Montgomery, NY
Witness provides no significant data. PD
October 10, 2017 · 4:20 PM · UNKNOWN
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
The objects weren't making any sound. They were slow-moving, changing flight positions and "tumbling", together heading southeast. During their flight one of the objects appeared to attach itself to another while they all flew. They were higher than commercial aircraft, so they looked like small objects. I watched them for about 2-4 minutes heading east/southeast until I either lost sight of them or they popped. I thought they might be weather balloons, but I wouldn't know what I was looking at.
October 9, 2017 · 6:00 AM · OVAL
Big Flats, NY
I went outside to check our gutters, since it was raining heavily. While looking up toward the gutters and the sky, I notice a very large object that blinked, and moved in a totally different direction than when I first noticed it. It blinked again and it once again was in another direction, The object was huge like the size of a football field. It blinked a third time and disappeared.
October 7, 2017 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Staten Island, NY
Driving NNW on Tompkins Avenue, towards Vanderbilt Ave., in Staten Island, NY (where I live), at about 21:50 (9:50 PM) on Sunday, October 8, 2017, I saw an array of maybe 8 to 10 orange lights, arranged roughly in the shape of a parallelogram, floating across the night sky. The lights were larger than stars or the flashing lights on the wingtips of airliners, and they were moving along in formation. I captured the phenomenon on my dashcam; you can view the video here: http://ammaze.net/video/orange-lights-in-night-sky.mp4 The map in the opening frame shows my location and direction. The lights are first visible right after 21:50:55 -- keep your eyes trained on the sky above road. You can see them floating left to right when I'm stopped for a red light. They continue to be visible after the light turns green. My best guess is that these were photography drones; see, e.g., http://www.zdnet.com/article/500-intel-drones-dance-in-the-night-sky/ Thank you.
October 1, 2017 · 8:43 PM · CIRCLE
Moravia, NY
It was stationary for a min., then started to zig zag in the sky that's when I got my son and my phone I figured it would be gone by the time I got back but it wasn't so I videoed it and it zig zaged some more then shot across the sky to the right at that time my wife pulled in the driveway and i called her to check it out she seen it and at that time it was starting in one place so my daughter came to see and we where freaked out .then my next door neighbor was out side with her dog a came over to see what I was making such a big deal about and she could not believe her eyes. At the time a jet flu by and it still was there it almost seemed Like the jet was there checking it out. The whole ordeal was about an hour or so. Do Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 30, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Harpursville, NY
Several circles in a cluster then separated into groups 3 with 3 to 4 in a group then one group went into a l shape then all disapeared
September 29, 2017 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Ronkonkoma, NY
While driving westbound on Long Island Expressway at approximately Exit 61 saw a green flash in the sky, which only lasted a few seconds then disappeared behind a cloud.
September 29, 2017 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Levittown, NY
I was walking with my daughter when a white orb--about the size of a soccer ball--rapidly flew overhead in a shallow descent and disappeared. The incident lasted approximately 2 seconds, only one was seen, had a bluish tail, and disappeared suddenly. It was maybe two stories high, which seems unlikely for a meteor. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2017 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
New York City, NY
UFO spotted on 9/25/17 at 7:30pm in New York City over the Hudson River, approx 1 mile north of the George Washington bridge. A red light in the sky, not moving, not blinking. I watched it for 15 minutes, then it finally moved. It dropped rapidly to a lower altitude, the light changed from red to blue. Then it stopped, changed back to red, and quickly flew West toward New Jersey.
September 23, 2017 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Yonkers, NY
Approximately five minutes went by and I looked up again. That is when I saw a green light. It was the size of a dot and only slightly larger than the bright star I was looking at just a few minutes before. It appeared to be very high in altitude in the night sky. It was to the left of the bright star that was slightly north of the other stars in the sky. This green dot was flashing. The green color was as vivid in color as a traffic light. The flash was one flash per second. Again, this was directly over where I was sitting. I went inside to call my neighbor in order to get a second witness, but she was not home. I came back outside thinking the object had gone away, but it was still there. It then moved to the right slightly blocking the bright star. The green flashing dot all of a sudden changed to a red flashing dot. Same tempo of flashes and red color as vivid as a stop light. For approximately one minute it flashed red and then slowly drifted east all the while flashing. It moved east until the tall oak trees in my yard blocked my vision of the object in the sky.
September 23, 2017 · 9:41 AM · TRIANGLE
Carmel/Kent, NY
There were four lights in a straight line all flashing different colors or red, blue, and green. a little bit in front of the line, there was one singular light that pulsated blue. It started moving towards us after two minutes, and started to fly over us. Right before it came over us, it emitted a sound that sounded like a dirt bike engine, then two side lights came on next to the big one. We only saw one light with our eyes, but caught all 5 on camera.
September 23, 2017 · 1:45 AM · OTHER
Smithtown, NY
Saw a silver color plane flying in the sky with shape like almost a eagle (two triangles on the side and pointy front) and round belly (disc) or base. It could camouflage, i believe.
September 21, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Saratoga, NY
I let my dog out this evening, while waiting for him to finish, i admired the night sky and saw what looked like a star moving. I stared at it for a while in disbelief and then it started moving again, it made several different shapes or patterns while blinking in several different colors. The object made a triangle, a circle, semi-circles, s and c patterns as well as move back and forth. The object looked like it was communicating with a similar shaped object via these patterns. The other object looked like it only had one color (light orange) but also blinked as it moved. The second object only moved after the first one, it looked like the second one was acknowledging whatever the first object was trying to communicate. I wittnessed this behavior for over an hour, I went back into my house and grabbed my wife and son to verify what i was looking at. My wife told me it was an airplane, so I showed her 3 airplanes moving in the night sky, I asked her to look again and after a few moments she reported seeing exactly what i was seeing, we watched for a few more minutes until she got too scared to continue looking at it. I went back inside to get my father, he did not care and stayed in bed so i woke my mother and asked her to come outside with me and look at something. My mother saw what my wife and i saw and was actually the one to point out the second object, she does not know what they are but pointed lo ut that they looked like they were both doing the same thing. I called a ufo reporting hotline which ive never done in my life. I was told to get wittnesses to the event, which i did. I was also told to identify stars and constellations using a smartphone astronomy app which i also did. At this time the second object was no longer in The sky. The first object apeared to be in the vicinity of Camelopardalis, however I could not place the object against anything definitive on the app. Im 31 years old, I look at the n! ight sky quite often but ive never seen anything like this bef! ore i am confident this was not an airplane or a twinkling star, ive seen both. to add to my background i am also an eagle scout. It is 1am now and im taking the time to do this report because i believe what i saw.
September 21, 2017 · 6:05 PM · OTHER
Farmingville, NY
At approximately 1805 hours, while driving north on Nicolls Rd at Portion Rd in Farmingville, NY, I witnessed a blimp, shaped dark colored stationary object in the sky underneath the cloud cover about 10 miles from my location in a northwest direction for approximately 4 minutes before I lost it behind some trees.