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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
April 26, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Rochester, NY
Two lights heading south from Lake Ontario (we were on the west side of Culver in Sea Breeze). Lights were about the size of ISS and faded to nothing as they made there way across the sky. They stayed equidistant from each other the whole time. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
April 18, 2017 · 2:30 PM · TEARDROP
New York City (upper West Side), NY
At around 14:30 I saw a silver object that looked like a balloon. It floated West, across Amsterdam Avenue and about 65th Street in NYC. It floated in the West/North West direction, out towards the Hudson River. At around 18:31 pm I was walking South on Riverside Drive, at around 71st Street, when I noticed a group of these same “balloons” floating West towards the Hudson River. They looked like balloons, but they also looked like UFOs. They were coming from a completely different direction and time than the one I had previously seen. There were approximately four UFOs in this small group. As they ascended, they all moved at the same speed towards the sun, making it hard to see them. One of the objects didn’t float in formation. It proceeded to move swiftly, heading North, before banking and heading South, now above the Hudson River. It did this a few times, changing direction smoothly. At the same time, it seemed to move in the general direction of the other objects. If they were a lot closer, I imagine they would have been relatively large balloons. The objects were silver, and, if they WERE aircraft, I imagine they were small…smaller than a car. If they were balloons, they were large balloons. The part that REALLY drew my attention was the time difference between the two sightings. There is no way that the one balloon I saw, descended to the earth, found three more balloons like it, then proceeded to ascend back on its course, four hours after the first sighting. Maybe there was an event in NYC, where a lot of silver balloons were let off…it was strange. I have some video of the two events. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite eloquent and serious-minded. We suspect that he is a highly reliable witness. PD
April 16, 2017 · 8:33 PM · SPHERE
Ronkonkoma, NY
Completely silent and travelled in a straight line with no deviation.
April 14, 2017 · 9:00 PM · DIAMOND
Woodbury, NY
We looked out our window and saw a blue, diamonds shaped light in the sky. It was descending into the sky for about 2 seconds then vanished. We went outside to check but nothing was there. We think it was silent.
April 13, 2017 · 6:20 PM · OTHER
Ronkonkoma, NY
Around 6:20 p.m. on April 13th, 2017, in Ronkonkoma, NY, I was headed eastbound on the Long Island Expressway, when I noticed a strange object in the sky. The object looked like a plane at first, but then I noticed it was "hovering" over the one spot in the sky. I've never seen a plane hover and it wasn't a helicopter. It was certainly smaller than a plane, but bigger than a hand held drone. It wasn't someone paragliding either (which is common in the region). It looked like a distorted shaped black object slightly elongated, just hovering in the sky. I drove off the expressway and looped around and still could see it in relatively the same spot as I drove closer to it. I tried to get closer, but it ended up being blocked by the noise barrier walls. I drove up further until it was in the view again, but it was gone by that point. This was near the Long Island MacArthur Airport but certainly was not a plane.
April 12, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Massapequa, NY
Myself and my Wife witnessed a large bright white light moving slowly from the North West, to the South East. It passed high over my house, and at first I thought it was a helicopter, but there was no noise coming from it, and it had no green or red flashing lights, just a large bright white light. I though it was one of those bags with lite candles inside, to make it lift, but it was too white and too bright and it stopped, after it passed my house, I watched it for at least 15 minutes more and it did not move, and just looked like a very bright star? I have been an engineer for many years, so I tried to rationalize what it could have been, but I cannot come up with any explanation of what it could be, I got up this morning and ran out to see if it was still hanging in the same location. It was gone.
April 5, 2017 · 4:08 AM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Cops were heard in the distance but it was quickly dead quiet only the sound of the neighbourhood dogs could be heard.
March 25, 2017 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
New York City (Queens), NY
I took a look outside for fresh air, when I noticed two strange white lights circling the sky half faded and a storm looking like object a appeared right behind the lights. (( Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. We suspect an evening sighting, and have amended the time above. We wonder whether the lights might have been circling advertising lights. PD
March 21, 2017 · 10:45 PM · FORMATION
New Paltz, NY
Stepping outside of my home tonight I approached the backyard and peering at the sky saw seven to nine lights moving across the sky in formation. When I sighted the objects they were high in the southern sky, they moved northward changing formations changing from a line formation to a V with objects weaving in and out of each other and disorganized at times. The light emitted by the objects was a gently pulsating white light. As they continued northward I noticed a commercial jet in the distance, appearing to be ahead of the formation. It was then that the objects disappeared from sight completely. Around one minute later I saw another object of similar size and appearance cross the sky in the same direction, also disappearing. They were silent.
March 21, 2017 · 8:42 PM · CIRCLE
Livonia, NY
I am a senior and Lima Christian high school in Lima, NY. I have always been fascinated by space and what could possibly be out there, and tonight I saw something I cannot explain. As I was driving home from a school event going south on Plank Rd towards Livonia, when I caught a light out of the corner of my eye. Immediately I thought it was nothing, until it reappeared directly in front of me. The object appeared as a perfect circle and was bright green in color with a green glow emanating around it. As soon as I focused in on the object, it took off at speeds much greater than any aircraft I have seen and left a green streak behind it as it sped off horizontally across the sky.
March 5, 2017 · 8:00 PM · TEARDROP
Holbrook, NY
While driving I saw a stationary light, like an upside down teardrop in the western sky. I have seen the same light on two other nights this past week. Sighting of Venus?? PD
March 1, 2017 · 1:35 PM · RECTANGLE
Islip Terrace, NY
From 1 pm to 5 pm these objects slowly appear as round masses from a far away distance. As they come closer they for a rectangle shape. There is movement and lights flashing on the objects. At one time 2 of them joined side by side. My camera is a night vision camera and these objects are not visible with the human eye. These all take place during the day and there are usually between 7-9 of them. My camera is mounted at my bedroom window on the second floor and pointed at the sky 24/7. I have no idea what they could be. ((name deleted)) Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 26, 2017 · 5:50 AM · OVAL
Freeport, NY
I looked out my bedroom window and a light caught my eye. There was this ovalish craft flying west, it had lights all around the bottom of it that were flashing order of left to right. When they flashed the ones in the middle were very much brighter than the rest. Then it glided into the trees and I could no longer see it.
February 24, 2017 · 11:42 PM · LIGHT
Beacon, NY
I was walking into my kitchen in the dark and noticed an unusually bright light in the sky hovering directly over Mount Beacon. The round white light seemed to touch down on the crest of the mountain to the right side. As I watched, a series of smaller multicolor lights (red, blue, and orange) began showing and moving around the larger white light. This went on for over an hour, with the lights growing MUCH larger, moving, dancing, and finally disappearing. This is the second time that I have noticed unusual lights in this specific spot on the mountain, and found your site while researching what they might be. Just moved to Beacon a month ago and have a clear view of the entire mountain. There's definitely something happening there. The lights were completely different between the first and second sightings.
February 23, 2017 · 7:50 PM · SPHERE
Rosendale, NY
I was driving with my roommate, when I noticed about 50 feet up in the air a pitch black sphere. It was about 40 feet in diameter and dark like a black hole. It had another smaller very bright white light sphere orbiting it like an electron orbiting a atom. It was changing its orbit every time it came around. It was very close to us and moving very slowly closer. We watched as the small light orbited 3 times every time the light would go around the opposite side of the black sphere there was no light present refracting onto houses or anything around it was as if the black orb swallowed it. It was as if for a second it completely disappeared and then reappeared on the opposite side of the larger dark sphere. It lasted for about 4-5 seconds before completely disappearing.
February 23, 2017 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Syracuse, NY
I was on my phone in my bad and something caught my attention in my peripheral vision and I sit up and there is a light flashing and I look a little closer and notice almost a circle shape but not just one 3 combined and it was gliding away with a very powerful light and I do not know what it was but I do know it was not a aircraft I've seen or heard of it managed to capture a zoomed in video after I managed to snap out of my nervous shocked faze.
February 19, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Queensbury, NY
as we were driving on rt 87 n in Queensbury,n.j. the backseat occupant noticed we were being followed by a circle of lights rotating and following the car alternating from one side to the other with no particular type of pattern.
February 19, 2017 · 12:15 PM · CIRCLE
Penfield, NY
I got up to use the bathroom and saw a ring of maybe 8 lights to the northwest, about the size of a bright, large star. At first I thought it was a plane but it stayed still and no flashing red lights. Then I thought maybe it was a helicopter, but twice it moved extremely fast, almost like a flash, then stayed put. Still no flashing red lights. I went out on the deck and watched it for a couple of minutes then came upstairs to get my iPad to photograph it. By that time it only looked like a very bright star and no separate lights in a ring like several minutes before. When I videoed it it flashed all over, but that could be because of my unsteadiness holding the iPad. Still, very weird.
February 19, 2017 · 7:30 AM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 18, 2017 · 5:00 PM · CYLINDER
Massena, NY
On our way home from the store, my friend and I thought we saw a ufo. It was a bright white cylinder. It was going pretty fast and disappeared a few times. When we got to the house, I tried to get a picture with my phone, but it couldn't zoom in enough. I went in the house to get my camera for a better picture, but it was gone when I returned. In the same area, there was now what looked like a star, but it elongated into a cylinder, then two stars. I thought my eyes were playing tricks because its the same location of the north star. I figure it may have just appeared to be doing these things. I did take a picture and turns out it is a cylinder. Not from camera movement because nothing else in the picture has motion blurs.
February 18, 2017 · 4:00 PM · CYLINDER
Massena, NY
On our way home from the store, my friend and I thought we saw a ufo. It was a bright white cylinder. It was going pretty fast and disappeared a few times. When we got to the house, I tried to get a picture with my phone, but it couldn't zoom in enough. I went in the house to get my camera, but it was gone by the time I got back. In the same area, there was now what looked like a star, but it elongated into a cylinder, then two stars. I thought my eyes were playing tricks because its the same location of the north star. I figure it may have just appeared to be doing these things. did take a picture and it is a cylinder. Not from camera movement because nothing else has motion blurs in the photo.
February 18, 2017 · 10:34 AM · OTHER
Scotia, NY
Two copper plates appeared and began forming a circle which was fill with some type of yellow liquid that was moving as if it had intelligence ounce the circle was completed the object just took off straight for the sun The object appeared over a big tree and four months after that even the tree just broke in half. If it was exposed to radiation will it still be in the piece that I have. I also went under hypnosis to confirm the event
February 16, 2017 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
Johnson City, NY
February 16 2017 at about 11:30pm EST I was sitting in our living room getting ready to watch television and out our front door an aqua light drew my attention. The light lasted only about two seconds. It was very bright but, hazy/fuzzy on the edges, but that could have been due to clouds. It was oval shaped and from my perspective about an inch big up in the sky (not sure how to explain it), it was almost as big as when you look at the moon. I saw it for only the two seconds and it disappeared, not like an airplane flying and the light was too big for an airplane. I would guess it was only about 2 miles up in the sky and going left to right. It was the south west moving north west at a slight degree upward. It was not like fireworks. It was just a bright aqua light. I jumped from my chair to look closer and it was gone. The light just stopped, it didn't burn out or fly away and get smaller. It was there really bright for about two seconds then j! ust stopped.
February 14, 2017 · 6:20 AM · OTHER
Auburn, NY
I ran downstairs as my brother was up getting his son ready for school. He and I ran to the window and the unusually large aircraft...long wing span with lights across entire length of wing span. It continued in straight line in direction of Skaneateles, NY. It was not loud. I have looked in news however have not seen anything posted or report of anyone else seeing it. I was a Flight Attendant and know aircraft...this was not ordinary at all. Highly unusual due to enormous size, wing span and amount of lights. I would really like to know what it was. Report submitted by airline employee. Jupiter currently is quite prominent in the eastern sky, but if the object was, in fact, moving, it could not have been Jupiter, obviously. PD