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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
November 1, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT
Albany, NY
At around 5am a bright orange object emitted a smaller object seeming to track the area. I could tell it was not a star because it was moving. It seemed to prefer a higher area in the sky--it would come down and then go back up. It could change colors from orange to white.
October 31, 2016 · 11:00 PM · OVAL
Mastic Beach, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 26, 2016 · 8:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Schaghticoke, NY
Moving erratic, almost like a Z, appeared to be 200 feet above telephone poles. Last move was behind tree line and lowered towards ground, lights then went out. Witness provides no contact information. PD
October 24, 2016 · 11:30 PM · FORMATION
Deer Park, NY
On October 24th, 2016, about 11:30 est, I noticed a ragged line of five or six very dim orange lights (roughly the color but considerably dimmer than a neon bulb) about the width of my palm at arm's length. Each individual light round with a dark border and a bit smaller than the fingernail over my pinky finger. They silently crossed the sky broadside from east to west, across the constellation of Perseus in the space of about three or four seconds.
October 19, 2016 · 4:08 PM · CHANGING
New York City, NY
My partner and I were on holiday in New York city in October 2016. On the 19th of October at around 4.08 pm, we were at the 9/11 memorial taking photos of the new tower. A couple of weeks earlier, whilst watching the pictures that I took on my phone during my holiday, I noticed an odd shaped blue object sitting next to the One World Trade Center tower. I first thought that it was just an optical effect due to the reflection of the sunlight on my camera lens. Then I remembered that my girlfriend was also taking photos with her phone of the same tower at the same time. I took her phone and looked closely at her pictures and unsurprisingly, the same object is on 2 other photos taken with her phone. However, it seems having a slightly different shape on the pictures that she took compared to mine. I'm not sure how long this object was sitting there for as we did not see it on the spot but it is likely to have appeared/disappeared very quickly. We have several pi! ctures of the same tower but the object only appears on 3 of them. So we estimate that it was present for a very short time (no more than a few seconds).
October 14, 2016 · 6:30 PM · TEARDROP
New York City (Queens), NY
Saw a fairly large black teardrop-shaped ring "hanging" motionless in the NE Queens, NY, sky at 18:30 on 10/16/16. After 10 minutes it moved quickly further into the distance. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 14, 2016 · 11:00 AM · DIAMOND
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Three incidents first was, three objects diamond shaped flying in formation same speed. Fastest flying we ever seen.
October 14, 2016 · 10:40 AM · SPHERE
New York City, NY
Me and my fiance where driving over the Throgs Neck bridge heading into Long island at around the time i posted.. we looked into the horizon and saw what i first thought where airplanes but they where hovering still, than i thought helicopters which they can still be, but i wanted an opinion and some verification.. i have a video and photos. in one you can see a distinct range of symmetry forming a triangle.. kind of looks like the classic black triangle shaped UFO with 5 points of light. Possible hoax? We have attempted, on multiple occasions, to contact the source, regarding the photographic evidence, and have been unsuccessful in doing so. We do not know whether the time indicated by the source of the report is 10:40 a.m., or p.m.. We are uncertain whether the sighting was a daytime, or nighttime, sighting. PD
October 14, 2016 · 3:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Middletown, NY
At approximately 3:45am, I saw through the window what looked like a "star" in the sky which was moving and "undulating" with jerky movements unlike any aircraft, and which "shimmered" with bright light which varied in color from white-with-blue-hue (most of the time) to occasionally red-ish and green-ish colors. At about 4am I went outside to continue observing--mostly to try to figure out if it was a high-flying small copter drone, which was the only thing I could think of which could have similar jerky movements in all directions. The Little Dipper was just to the right of where the object was moving around in the sky. I occasionally saw little "poof" flashes of red light nearby to but not part of the object, like it had let out a silent firecracker. At approximately 5am I went back inside to mention the event to a friend, and to get a pair of binoculars to try to make out a shape of the object. Unfortunately all I could make out of the object through the binoculars was a bright white light with a blue hue -- not any detail as to its shape. The friend came outside and observed the object from ~5:30am-5:45am, going back inside after feeling chilled. I remained outside observing until 6:30am. From 6am-6:30am the movements of the jobject seemed more subtle than earlier and was slightly less bright, so I assume it was moving away from my observing location. If this was some kind of surveillance drone it would have had to be one that was brightly illuminated, could dart around like a nimble quadcopter, and stay aloft continously for 2.75 hours.
October 14, 2016 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Smithtown, NY
I was talking to my friend before she was leaving my house one night, and I remember, looking up at the night sky. There were quite a number of stars out, as I live in the woods, so it was always nice to gaze up at them. Then from the corner of my eye, I saw something orange. Looking over, I noticed lights in the sky, moving at the same speed and parallel with each other. Upon seeing them, it turned out there were two more sets of lights. One of the sets of lights, reminded me of a colon symbol from the keyboard, moving straight over my house and over the trees. Following the same path was another set of lights only the looked as if a colon was on it's side. The third set of lights, broke the formation by going diagonally across the sky. It seemed to have started off with them but ended up breaking away, still staying parallel with itself. It was almost as if the sets of lights were attached in the pairs by a bar. These lights didn't blink, and they weren't slow like a plane. They also seemed to be flying too low for them to be a plane as well. I'm pretty sure they were actually in the atmosphere. As I watched them, I had three thoughts cross my mind. One was just surprise, but the other two thoughts stood out. These thoughts were "get inside" and "what are you looking for?". Of course, I had stayed rooted to the spot until they were out of site, before my friend and I said goodbye. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 11, 2016 · 4:34 PM · CIRCLE
Lido Beach, NY
On 10/11/16 I was driving on the Meadow Brook parkway heading south and noticed a large white round object above the sun. I was heading West at the time. I got off the Meadow brook parkway and onto the Loop Parkway heading South West. Approximately 8 minutes after I spotted the object, I started to see addition round white objects (around 30) in the sky as well. These objects were smaller than the original one and some appeared to be moving. I was driving approximately 60 miles per hour at that time. Some looked like they were heading into the larger object. A few minutes later, I got off the parkway onto Lido Boulevard and noticed that all the objects disappeared.
October 11, 2016 · 4:00 AM · DIAMOND
Vestal, NY
Hovering lights very high in the clear night sky. Observed for 44 minutes, from 4:00 a.m. until 4:44 a.m. Lights varying from blues to greens to reds, some white lights, circular at times, often in a diamond shape or pattern, once in a great while a white light shoots from it off to the west of the hovering. Observed to the southern sky of the New York/Pennsylvania border. It appears there are one or two also hovering smaller lights to the west of the hovering light pattern, also high in the night sky. It is all too close to be a satellite, and isn’t moving as the space station would or a plane or helicopter could or would. Two airplanes ascended at 4:30 a.m., but far too low and close to the earth by comparison to the hovering lights. The smaller hovering lights to the west of the diamond pattern lights are greenish and white. The smaller hovering lights are more concealed. How can those lights hover for so long? Fascinating to observe.
October 9, 2016 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
My girlfriend and I were looking at some odd cloud formations that seemed out of the ordinary to us, and they were moving VERY quickly. I was looking further across where the cloud came from and then I saw another cloud coming that was similar to the one we had initially seen. This cloud, however, seemed to grow in size significantly as it left our view. At this time, I noticed a small black dot which I had first nearly disregarded as being a bird. Upon closer inspection of it, I noticed that it had a light that blinked, which then made me think it must be a plane, but I noticed that there were no wings whatsoever, and then I saw the glint of the sun off of the right side of it revealing it as a perfect sphere. I tried to point it out to my girlfriend, but before I could get her eyes on it it had moved behind a tree out of sight. I have never reported nor SEEN what I believe to be a UFO and I am a Marine Corps veteran, fully aware of most aircraft that should be flying in the sky. I hope this report can be useful to anyone else who may have seen what I saw over Brooklyn near Avenue M and Ocean Avenue is my general vantage point of the sighting. The best description of the object I can give is that it appeared dark, as it first appeared to me to be a black dot. It was metallic in nature because I saw that it had a metallic type reflection, once the sun glinted off of it. It was perfectly spherical and had a white blinking light that went off periodically with absolutely zero sound accompanying it. It was not very flashy at all very basic seeming. The most bizarre thing to me was that I think it may have been generating its own form of cloud cover, as the clouds that were very nearby it seemed to be growing in size in a very unnatural seeming way that I had never witnessed before. I was unfortunately unable to grab my camera in the timeframe of the sighting due to it only being visible from where I was for a very short period of time, I didn't even have enough time to get my girlfriend's eyes on it before it moved out of sight.
October 7, 2016 · 5:30 PM · LIGHT
Hicksville, NY
I was driving home and saw three round balls of light flying around each other in circles, and also flickering in and out of the sky (western sky) while waiting at a traffic light. I videoed one of them by zooming up on it with my iphone. The object changed shapes while I was videoing it and then it got larger and sped up and flew away. As I continued to drive home, I saw a trail like you would see coming out of the back of a jet moving at a very fast speed but there was no plane or anything else at the beginning of it (also in the western sky). The trail stopped abruptly and a ball of light came out of it and then disappeared. Both of these events happened in the same area of the sky looking west just south of Manhattan.
October 6, 2016 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Slate Hill, NY
I have been watching this thing on and off for several days. At dusk, and sometimes late into the evening, I have been observing a very bright light that seems to pulsate from white to red. With binoculars, it is clearly a spherical glowing white orb or disk encircled by rotating red lights. It hovers in the sky Southwest of my house, for 20 minutes or more, then disappears. Last night I observed it, and watched it with my binoculars on and off for a hour. It hovered in place, with the red lights rotating. Some evenings it seems closer to my house, but last night it was the furthest away I have observed, yet the binoculars were able to pick up details and shapes quite clearly. When I went to look later, it was gone. We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD
October 5, 2016 · 10:20 PM · RECTANGLE
Ticonderoga, NY
When it got closer, and I mean maybe a half a mile over my head, it was rectangular, a flat bottom and I didn't see the lights on the back until it was almost over me. Don't believe in extraterrestrials or anything like that but I do believe that the government has machines out there that we don't know about but the kicker here is there was no noise at all. If I wasn't looking up, it would have gone over me undetected. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 4, 2016 · 10:35 PM · CIRCLE
Hilton, NY
NUFORC received several other reports about what we presume was the same object. Several witnesses emphasized that the object did not look like a meteor, although we suspect the event was caused by a classic meteor. Video footage of the event is posted to the American Meteor Society website. PD
October 4, 2016 · 9:26 PM · LIGHT
Wappingers Falls, NY
Pulled into my driveway with my husband. There was an extremely bright round light low in the sky behind my neighbors house. There was no sound and it seemed not to move. Watched it for a few minutes and then went inside to an upstairs window. There was a red/white/green light that seemed to be in a straight line. Lights moved and it stayed low but then it sounded like a plane. I could see a bright white light as it moved away. There was no sound prior to seeing the colored lights. I snapped a photo.
October 2, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
New York City (Queens), NY
Saw about 9 Orange lights in the sky while Driving south on 678 Van Wyck Expy in Queens, NY. No blinking lights just steady orange glowing lights moving randomly in the same direction but not in any particular formation. I Gave my phone to my girlfriend to record them. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 1, 2016 · 10:15 PM · FIREBALL
Long Island, NY
My friend and I were sitting in my car when I looked up into the sky and witnessed 3 floating red orange orbs at first I thought it was a flying lantern but when I realized it was intelligent by the way the 3 orbs moved I alarmed my friend and pointed to the direction to confirm what I was seeing. The 3 fireballs floated in a single line about a couple thousand feet above the ground, then started to move foward and disappeared into the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 1, 2016 · 9:15 AM · FLASH
Geneva, NY
Saw a bright green flash, of what appeared to be a firework or shooting star. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Time and date may be flawed, but we have no means for contacting the source of the report to confirm. We wonder whether the sighting might have occurred at 9:15 p.m., not a.m., and whether the date might have been November 1st, not October 1st. PD
September 29, 2016 · 11:30 PM · OVAL
Sanborn, NY
I was driving down a busy straight road when all of a sudden it looked like a white light shot straight up into the sky on my left hand side. So i pulled over and my girlfriend and I could see 3 orbs moving around as if they were dancing or chasing each other. This went on for about 10 minutes until slowly the moved location went higher up in the sky and seemed like they drifted away. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 27, 2016 · 10:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Penfield, NY
I was heading South on Baird Road. I was right in front of the library on that road, I looked up saw a bright white rectangle hovering. I was the only car and light source on the road. It suddenly stretched into a different shape almost arrow like. It was VERY bright white that got brighter and more narrow as it took off.
September 26, 2016 · 11:40 PM
Buffalo, NY
We were outside and we looked up in the sky. We saw what appeared to look at a very bright star moving across the sky. We kept watching it for a few minutes in and it beyond the clouds. We then saw a few more less bright "moving stars" following behind. I pointed them out to my friend because he didn't think the first one was a craft saying stars move. I explained that they don't move like that. '' About a minute later, we saw another six crafts in a different formation. I commented that they are really moving under the cover of the clouds in our area. When I scanned the sky again I saw two crafts in front of the original very bright craft that initially caught my attention. I have seen many crafts moving in the sky, but never this many - this close together. My friend said they were likely planes. I explained planes do not fly that high. Possible that they could be drones operated remotely, but I do not think this many in these particular formations or! at these speeds. Possible that it could be satellites but again not in these formations moving at these speeds or this many at one time. The crafts were moving from North Easterly to South Westerly direction. I never have reported sightings in the past and wasn't going to report this one. A quick search online showed a few articles indicating that a "cargo fleet" was moving through our inner solar system. I was very fortunate to view this from Buffalo, N.Y. 14240, USA under a partly cloudy sky with a dark backdrop beyond the sky. I just wish I had 1 - a scope & 2 - another enthusiast to witness this event! Note: The shapes of the crafts were not identifiable from the distance and I was viewing with my naked eye. We have added the time, date, and location of the sighting, based on a telephone conversation with the witness. PD