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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
July 12, 2017 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Vernon, NY
Two objects(lights) were noticed after they had passed overhead. These objects produced no sound and there was no beacon as with normal aircraft. These objects were moving away from us and the intensity of the light didn't seem to change. Therefore, I am discounting landing lights as the source of illumination. I am unable to estimate height and speed due to darkness but it took less than one minute for these 2 objects to go from overhead to beyond the visible horizon. Also, as they moved away, they seemed to change position in relation to each other as if they were in a race.
July 10, 2017 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Elmira, NY
Some friends and myself were hanging out on my friends driveway which is on the top of hill overlooking a valley where you can see for about 10 miles. We were out there for a while so our eyes had acclimated to the dark and we were just talking and hanging out when we see a grouping of lights that kinda just looks like a low airplane but we didn’t hear anything. It was kinda headed in our direction so someone pointed it out and it wasn’t really that high in the sky. As it came our way we started to hear a humming kind of buzzing sound almost like a drone. Then as it got closer we thought it was just a drone because it had 3 green lights on and was triangular shaped. It was really dark so all we could see was the lights in town and the stars. As it kept getting closer it became apparent it wasn’t a drone because it just kept getting closer and was very large. If I had to guess I’d say 100 feet across. It very slowly made its way over us, almost seeming to slow down when it was over us. We were all just kinda of freaking out and all in amazement because none of us could explain what we were looking at. The lights weren’t overwhelmingly bright by any means and just looked like dull green lights in the corners of it’s triangular shape and no light coming from the body of the craft itself. You could only see the black silhouette of the craft blocking the stars and the dull green lights in the corner. I couldn’t make anything out on the silhouette. When it was at its closest I’d say it was probably only 100 to 150 yards above us and it wasn’t very loud, just a kind of dim, dull, hum and kind of buzzing sound almost like a drone but muffled. I’m not really a big believer of sightings and all that but I still can’t explain what we saw and all my friends who were there still talk about it. I only just heard about the site and the date I gave is definitely wrong but it was probably during that summer that we saw it. Just writing about its kinda giving me some paranoid kind of chills. Please don’t disregard. Thanks you
July 10, 2017 · 9:00 AM · LIGHT
Somerset, NY
My husband, my sister and I were sitting around a campfire at our campsite on the shore of Lake Ontario. I caught sight of something moving very quickly to my left (west) from behind a group of large trees. We all saw a bright orange ball of light that slowed down, hovered for a few seconds and then moved quickly to the Northeast out over the lake. There was no sound as the object moved over us. The whole episode lasted about 30 to 45 seconds.
July 7, 2017 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Locke, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 10:30 PM · CHANGING
Larmont, NY
After viewing fireworks set off from a boat in the middle of Premium Millpond, and after the sched New Rochelle Fireworks show ended, which we were able to view from a distance, The sky was clear. There was a lot of air traffic (planes and helicopters) due to airports nearby towards the city on and off throughout the night, but the sky was clear, very dark a the time my fiance' and I saw a glowing red light moving very slowly towards our direction (coming from the south) over the trees I believe had to five island park. As it got closer we noticed that there were no other lights, just a red circular round glowing orb, the outline of it was red and the inside was more of an orangish red color. As it moved even closer it started changing shape, by "stretching"? Downward almost like a teardrop until it was completely vertical, like a very short thick laser beam, it had a very wierd glow around it, It than went back up into its orb like shape. It ! did this same teardrop thing two or three more times as it moved across the sky (very low) To the right of us (east). At last sight of it the red orb was very big and bright, it bursted out in the way a firework would in the sky, but than it came back to shape very small and orange colored and just disappeared. We recorded it, but on the video where the orb morphes ito a vertical beam like thing, the camera captured a completely different maneuver. It looked nothing like it did as I saw it in front me. Both the sighting and footage showed an object doing things that are completely unexplainable.
July 4, 2017 · 10:11 PM · FLASH
brooklyn, NY
To make things short. That plasma ship pulsed one time 4 feet above my head. I was alone but there was people about 50 yards from me doing their own things. Then all of a sudden it seemed like a spotlight was on me from above out of nowhere. I quickly look up and about four feet right above my head there was a pulse. Like a fireworks explosion. But this firework was so perfect. I was so star struck. It was like looking at a controlled star. There was no smoke. The absolute perfection of each burst syncing with the sound. Each burst all them synchronized in a burst like it was controlled magnetized plaza. It all was like something said to me, hey check out my perfect firework. I think I witnessed that orange star like plasma ufo right above me. I couldn't see through the ship. I couldn't speak for about a day right afterwards. oh, and as soon as it pulsed fireworks type of exploded above me I looked around quickly to see if anybody else had saw it and no one else was looking, they saw nothing. Then I looked up and the there was nothing there, no smoke. Then I looked up in the sky and it really seemed like I saw a firefly fly and turn while lit up. I couldn't tell if that was a fire white light type of firefly that was just yards from me or something way up in the sky. The burst was like lightning electricity branching perfectly each burst all forming a mandala and all synchronized with the crackling sound it made. Eah crackle each burst, billions. That was no manmade firework that exploded right above my head. This entire occurrence that happened to me has been on my mind and is now apart of me in different ways. [NUFORC annotation: Fireworks - Possible]
July 4, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Buffalo, NY
The lower right light slowly merged into the upper right light, then the left light disappeared, then the lower right light separated slowly then those two disappeared as well. Myself, one retired fire fighter, and one person with a Master's degree. ((initials deleted))... in unexplainable. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Queens)(Hollis), NY
At a eastern view in the night sky about 10pm on 7/4/2017. These 4 orange lights of gradual movements of 10 degrees than disappears, they appeared very high above flying aircraft region ceil. Then, I called Walter (17 years old) neighbor over to see, if saw he same. He concurred. They were seen by me for maybe 30 seconds. The night sky were clear. If I had to guess, they were 100,000 feet above the earth.
July 4, 2017 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Franklin Square, NY
On July 4tharound 10 pm my wife and I were cleaning up from guests and watching the neighborhood fireworks experts do their thing, when I saw a reddish ball in the sky looking north. It put on a showy display of flashing, pulsing lights. My wife was in the adjacent kitchen and came out to see for herself. The craft then displayed a white light that went left to right, then repeated, as though the light were encircling the object. As it was after sundown I could not discern the shape of the craft. I ran upstairs to get my video camera, my wife kept watching the skies, when I returned and trained my camera the object had decreased in magnitude and was gone before I could capture it. Approximately 15 minutes later, I saw an object, when looking southward. I was able to get my camera and record the event for two minutes. The object was glowing red, apparently spherical, it then disappeared briefly, but a flashing white light came from the location it had been. Another blinking object appeared lower left. The second object disappeared below the tree line, the first drifted off to the east as it grew fainter. Upon reviewing my footage I became aware of 3 additional objects. There is a white object that moves quickly across the screen, another that zigzags twice before seeming to split off into two different directions, as two objects. Here is the youtube link: https://youtu.be/3aAm3w6j_-c Thanks!
July 4, 2017 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Levittown, NY
Three orange lights appeared in a slightly curved line moving at an extremely slow pace. A forth light shone a number of feet behind them. They were not airplanes. They barely moved in the sky. Then the 3 lights vanished and the 4th one lingered for another minute or so. I saw this same thing approx. 4 years ago while again watching fireworks on July 4. At that time there were numerous reports of that sighting.
July 4, 2017 · 8:40 PM · CHANGING
Patchogue, NY
This craft was soon joined by a second identical craft. The lights on both crafts turned green. Each craft had multiple lights. Eventually, after the fireworks performance ended (around 10:20 pm), the two craft slowly headed North until they couldn't be seen again. We could only see the lights of the craft. They could have been drones. If so, they were expensive (high tech) ones.
July 3, 2017 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Lakeville, NY
In daylight, through a 6" Celestron Star Hopper telescope, we viewed a very slow moving sphere. The sphere appeared to be in orbit considering it moved out of view of my telescope about as fast as Saturn would. The object was visible by the naked eye, but it looked like a star, and you couldn't see its form. From the view of the telescope, the sphere had a skinny extension that was roughly 6 times the length of the sphere with a second much smaller sphere mounted to the opposite end. The larger sphere was stationary while the extension and rotated wildly around it. The rotational pattern held a consistent speed, but was inconsistent in direction. The only visible color was white. The object held a very stationary position in the sky. It was seen directly overhead, and traveled about 15 degrees south before disappearing. We viewed the object for approximately 10 minutes, and it was easy to keep it in the viewfinder of my telescope. This was just before the Canisius Lake "Ring of Fire" 3rd of July event where all lake residents light road flares on their lake front property and light off fire works.
June 29, 2017 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Lindenhurst, NY
Observed six full moon sized and shaped lights in the southeast sky. They appeared two at a time. As the first two faded away a second and third pair appeared in quick succession. These remaining four stayed bright and faded also.
June 29, 2017 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Massapequa, NY
Observed 4 glowing circles in the sky south of my house. Objects were glowing white/yellow and completely motionless. Objects then pulsed with light and 4 smaller glowing cirular objects appeared. They remained for 20-30 seconds then disappeared, appearing to burn the sky where they were. There was no commercial aircraft seen, no fireworks, no large light fixtures aiming into sky, no noises heard.
June 29, 2017 · 4:29 AM · CIRCLE
Huntington, NY
A round glow hiding behind a cloud slowly faded and then four smaller but identical shapes appeared on all four corners, at first i thought it was the moon behind the clouds until the four shapes appeared and then faded.
June 29, 2017 · 4:29 AM · CIRCLE
Huntington, NY
Previously submitted a report a few hours ago, I determined that the objects seen were actually a result of NASA's rocket launch. I wish to withdraw, thank you and my apologies for the false alarm.
June 28, 2017 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mastic Beach, NY
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 28, 2017 · 5:00 PM · OVAL
East Norwich, NY
It didn't fly out of the cloud. Then higher in the sky I saw a flash. It was metallic almost like a camera flash. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 27, 2017 · 1:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Lisbon, NY
We got our binoculars out and still could not make shape. Appeared stationary, then made fast horizontal movement and disappeared. I have reported from this area before of amber lights at night. Same craft but daytime??? By the way this is in the Norway-Nelson Road area. Approx 1 mi. south of the St. Lawrence River. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 26, 2017 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Gloversville, NY
My husband and I where both outside in our backyard having a fire. He was looking for satellites going by when he spotted a strange line and told me to look directly up. I saw it too, it was somewhat faint, slow moving streak in the sky. It came seemingly out of know where. Thought maybe it was a comet at first, but he said he saw individual lights in a line, I couldn't see as well because of the smoke from the fire. We both then saw a second line, both heading north, but at slightly different angles. They disapered behind trees shortly after. No sound that we where aware of.
June 25, 2017 · 6:00 PM · OVAL
New York City (Bronx), NY
i was riding my bike an notice something in the clouds. i stop an watched west bound into the cloud. first thought was to take out my phone in which i did. i begun recording the movement of this craft (ufo) in the clouds. i looked carefully an seen it was not an airplane thought they was fling around was well. this craft (UFO)was moving the the clouds slowly and move forward to other clouds then i notice that it (UFO) was not alone I seen 2 more in another clouds moving reperly then i turn my force by on the first craft (UFO) the movement was not a plane or helicoptor this dot or black ship was moving slowly in the clouds for at lease 30 and 40 minutes than disappaer
June 24, 2017 · 6:00 PM · DISK
Williamson, NY
Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
June 23, 2017 · 9:53 PM · CIRCLE
Seneca Falls, NY
Round object was hovering in the west skies for ten minutes, then in two seconds it flew above towards the east and sat not moving. The color was a reddish orange. I also took a picture.
June 21, 2017 · 5:00 PM · CHANGING
New York City (Manhattan), NY
video URLs: https://youtu.be/KS5gREkNpzg https://youtu.be/dwYCANyaWF4 My sister and I were driving in very slow traffic over the Manhattan Bridge, around 4 or 5pm on June 21st. She spotted this very slow moving object drifting over Manhattan. No idea what it was. We thought maybe a flock of birds or balloons but it seemed a bit big for both of them. When we saw planes flying they were small in comparison, reflective and moving much faster. Any ideas?