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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

September 24, 2016 · 11:20 PM · CIRCLE

White Plains, NY

As i was driving I saw two circular orange flying lights. They were side by side with a distance between them. I didn't hear any sound. I saw them as I got out of my car then they were gone.

September 24, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL

Green light/smoke flashed across the sky followed by whirring noise and lights blinking as the craft came to a stand still. Very dark so hard to see but there appeared to be 2 crafts with two sets of blinking lights hovering in the night sky above the power authority in Niagara Falls, NY. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

September 24, 2016 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT

Buffalo, NY

The night was clear and the sun had set approximately two hours before I observed a reddish-yellow, silent, pulsing and stationary light, high in the night sky and an indeterminate distance away. At first I thought I was observing a plane or helicopter, but quickly decided that was not the case. After one minute or so I called my wife to see what she made of the light. She saw the light described it as "odd" and was frightened by it, and after watching it briefly ran to get binoculars. I observed the light for approximately 30 seconds with binoculars but could not make out any shape, although it was definitely pulsing (red to yellow). It then disappeared from the same place I first noticed it. Total time of observation was about three minutes.

September 24, 2016 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT

Syracuse to Phoenix, NY

As I was driving towards fulton on 690, I saw an intense blue/red/white flashing light. I thought it was a plane/sattelite, so I ignored it. I got around baldwinsville and saw it was still in a similiar spot in the sky so I got off 690 and watched it. I appeared to be moving slightly and getting brighter. I sped home and I noticed a similiar if not exactly the same kind of light behind me to the south. I parked on route 48 with my brother and we observed to Northern light getting dimmed but still flashing. The southern light was getting more and more intense. It got very very bright and the northern light vanished. The southern light hovered in place for 15-20 mins and then turned around and got very dim.

September 21, 2016 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT

Cicero, NY

21:30 To the NNW, there was a very bright white pulse of light, brighter than any star, for about one second. As the pulse diminished, a white object could be seen, moving NNW, quickly diminishing to the intensity of a star, and then invisible. 21:45 To the North, another bright pulse of white light, but could not detect any movement. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite responsible and sober-minded. PD

September 21, 2016 · 8:15 PM · CROSS

Cicero, NY

One conventionally lit, large aircraft was following a smaller object, which had only one light in the rear, and a soft glow to it, with an elongated, triangular shape, with a cross piece towards the rear of its fuselage. Estimated altitude 1,000ft. They were headed westward, matching speeds until no longer visible from my vantage. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite responsible and sober-minded. PD

September 21, 2016 · 8:07 PM · FORMATION

Cicero, NY

September 21st, 2016 Cicero, NY 21:07 Three reddish lights flying in close formation, heading NNE. Estimated altitude 1,000-2,000 feet. Two smaller lights in front, a larger one in the rear. The two front lights moved side to side, "bobbing" back and forth, the rear light stayed on one linear course. There was no flashing or blinking, but the rear light intensified for about 2 seconds. All three continued NNE until no longer visible. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite responsible and sober-minded. PD

September 20, 2016 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT

New York City (Brooklyn), NY

red light traveling slow and stopping not like an air craft or helocoppter, didn't make any noise and then after a few min slowly disapeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

September 20, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE

Amherst/Tonawanda, NY

I was driving to pick up my daughter in Amherst, NY, and in the sky a green sphere shaped object was moving slowly west toward Tonawanda. It seemed quite large considering it was a good mile from me (I was near Millersport. It was roughly at Bailey Ave) no sound. lost sight of it, but when I picked up my daughter, she had seen it also. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

September 20, 2016 · 5:00 AM · LIGHT

Phoenix to Syracuse, NY

Noticed twinkling light in sky 2 nights at same time. Seemed stationary. Could be venus or other planet however somehow seemed different, and I do not know of any that are currently visable. Durring 2nd night/morning what looked like a shooting star shot right middle center of it leaving a trailed light evenly distributed across the light. Witness provides no contact information. PD

September 17, 2016 · 10:36 PM · FIREBALL

Colton, NY

Possible advertising lights?? PD

September 16, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT

Baldwinsville, NY

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

September 13, 2016 · 10:00 PM · OTHER

Fort Edward, NY

We saw 4 solid white lights in close formation moving south west vertical to the ground the craft then went horizontally and the four lights seemed to become brighter! They then split into two separate crafts one went in the direction NW the other continued southwest!

September 11, 2016 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT

Granville, NY

I’m not sure if this is the place to report this but it has me worried and I’m not sure exactly what I did see. I awoke at 3 AM and went to use the bathroom. For some reason I looked out the window, I was on the second floor, and started noticing strange lights on my neighbors’ property. At first I thought it was a vehicle shining lights on the trees or the barn, but longer I looked the more I realized it wasn’t a vehicle. I could never really see the source of the lights as there is a tree line between our properties, but they were in multiple places in their pasture and beyond to the woods behind their property. I could catch a glimpse of some sort of white light moving about. They must have been staying close to the ground because they kept up- lighting the trees. The lights turned on and off, sometimes fading out, sometimes shutting off like someone threw a switch. They moved around, they made no sound. One thing I did notice was right above that area was some small lightning bolts every now and then. There was no thunder. When I looked up all I saw were stars. We did have storms come through although not until after sunrise. I watched the lights for more than 3 hours. I was moving from window to window trying to figure it out. I woke my husband up to look at them. He did see them and went back to bed. I was too worried to go back to sleep and too afraid to wander onto their property alone to try to get a better look. I went up to check with the neighbors (after sunrise) and they heard and saw nothing. They were in bed. After I thought about it, I believe I saw those lights once before. I wrote it off as the neighbor being out on his tractor late at night. I guess it wasn’t so. If anyone knows what this might be or could tell me what kind of camera I could use to try to capture this if it happens again, I would greatly appreciate it.

September 11, 2016 · 12:00 AM · CHANGING

Hartsdale, NY

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD

September 10, 2016 · 9:15 PM · CYLINDER

Farmington, NY

looking south at the moon I saw object appear from se at a very high rate of speed, to the nw in a matter of seconds.clear night.it looked like a slim cylinder,bronze or gold in color.no noise,straight flight.no flames or sound.I am out most nights looking at satellites,moon,space station,planets weather permitting.ultra fast cylinder.location,fingerlakes,central new york state.25 miles southeast of rochester,ny

September 10, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE

Albany, NY

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

September 10, 2016 · 11:15 AM · RECTANGLE

Saratoga Springs, NY

Was driving, saw a cube floating in the air. Went to take a video and it was gone. Bronze in color. About 400-700 feet above the ground.

September 7, 2016 · 10:15 PM · DISK

Harrison, NY

I was driving on 684 South and immediately upon passing White Plains Airport, after realizing it was a beautiful clear night, I decided to look up into the sky. After seeing 2 sets of planes that were very close to each other and not making anything of it I saw another object just a little bit above and to the right of the right two planes that were in my field of view. Staring at this object for the first 10 seconds I didn't think much of it other than that it looked like a plane on it's side. It was the exact shape of a cross and at the ends of the vertical line which was longer than the horizontal line intersecting right above the middle point, there were two abnormally bright red lights at each end. On the horizontal line there were smaller white lights on each end. This very clearly formed a cross shape to any observer who had the same point of view. My first guess was that it was someone flying a private plane on it's side and was therefore waitin! g for it to eventually turn into the traditional horizontal form that a plane displays. I decided to speed up on the road since this object was just sitting in the sky and looked a little bit bigger than the average size of a visible plane. Upon making a left turn towards Purchase the object started to move and dropped down rather quickly diagonally to the left and very clearly was heading in the same direction that I was about to. After making my left turn I sped up and tried to keep up with this light, never once losing sight of it, still having the cross shape and red and white lights. I realized now that this was definitely very odd and bigger than I would have guessed. Still, never in my life would I have guessed that I was about to see what I did in about 1- 2 minutes. As the object started to be buried by the upper foliage of the trees on the right of my road I watched it's light pattern glowing and dipping down suddenly to the right. At this point I said scre! w it, I'm not going to Purchase, this is weird, I'm going to s! ee what the hell this is if I can. I sped up as fast as I reasonably could and made the first right that came about on this road. Finding a right turn I immediately jumped into it and started to slow down so that I could keep track of this glowing light that was still piercing and poking through the foliage of the forest like area of Harrison. At this point I was driving about 5-10 miles per hour so I could gage where the object was going since I was so worried I was going to overshoot it and miss it forever. About 10-15 seconds onto this road a car pulled in and I started to have to drive faster since it was tailgating me. Driving fast and starting to shake a little bit, all the while constantly ducking under the windshield of my car and looking out the left side I kept track of this mysterious light. Finally after about 15-20 seconds the car behind me made a left turn and I was able to slow back down. Almost immediately within seconds, on my left the glowing light was seen ! to pierce through the trees and foliage and to my amazement I had a realization that I was going to see whatever this thing was. Instantly the light got bigger and very red, white and a little bit of yellow, and all of a sudden, so big and boom....right over the trees on my left side...for a solid 2 seconds I saw a massive perfect circular disk with 8-10 massive crystal clear, blue, green, and red circular lights encased within the the circumference of the underside which now covered up about 75 percent of my field of view. Shaking beyond belief, with my jaw dropped, I had not a single thought other than that I saw a perfect flying saucer fly right over my head as clear as day. The lights were absolutely huge and the hood of my car and nearby area of the road and trees were lit up in glowing rainbow like colors. As it passed over me and over the trees on my right I drove faster while simultaneously looking backwards and watched it clear the trees and spin out behind it ! and to the right in a circular motion. I sped up in my car, r! ealizing this could have been the dumbest thing I've ever done and made the first left turn I found. While turning around in the cul de sac I immediately grabbed my phone and called my friend and told them to go outside and see if they could see anything, as I was freaking out more than I could ever have imagined in my life. Darting back up the road I watched the light pass through the foliage on my left side and start to disappear. Upon getting back to the main road where I initially made the off course decision to chase this thing down, I lost all sight of it for good. I never once expected to ever see that, and had I known that I would have seen a saucer over my head with perfectly clear colored circular lights in a circle underneath it, I never would have tried to follow it. I would also like to note that this object made absolutely no sound. This is singlehandedly the strangest thing that has ever happened to me and I hope it never happens again. Haven't been able to sl! eep the past 4 nights. Hope to hear that someone else caught sight of this so that I may have any validity here. If only I had another witness. Truly horrifying. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

September 7, 2016 · 8:00 PM · OTHER

Syracuse, NY

My husband and I were outside. He was sitting facing me. All of a sudden I saw three bright orange star shapes in the sky. I said to my husband GET UP LOOK AT THIS! - We continued to watch the lights, one moved up and then they moved towards our house and disappeared. They did not flicker like Airplanes and Satellites do , but stayed a bright orange. A few minutes later there were 2 more, they went in the same direction as the first 3. There was no noise, no change in shape. Very, very odd. We always have planes flying into Hancock Airport and Helicopters flying over. They have a specific direction and we can ALWAYS here them. These starbursts were silent and moved in a straight vertical direction before going over our house and into the clouds - Or wherever when they dissappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

September 6, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE

Kingston, NY

the object was seen looking west about 20-30 degrees over the horizon. It wobbled like an enormous star or planet but through binoculars I could see it consisted of a cluster of lights, white, orange/red and green/blue. I watched it for 20 minutes and it did not move, just kept hovering in a wavering motion. A helicopter and jet passed but didn't seem to notice. Don't know how long the object was there b/c after 20 minutes I went inside. I don't see it tonight. Witness provides no contact information. PD

September 6, 2016 · 8:50 PM · TRIANGLE

Albany, NY

No information provided by source. PD

September 5, 2016 · 10:00 AM · LIGHT

Webster, NY

We turned away to continue yard work and looked back a few minuets later; it had disappeared.

August 30, 2016 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING

New York City (Bronx), NY

at around eight pm, eastern time. I was sitting on the back porch with my roommate. We were observing everything in the sky as usual. For some reason this night we noticed more airplane activity than usual. i kept noticing to the right of me there was a object in the air with red and green lights, but it was just hovering over some buildings. it had to be at least four blocks away from us. About ten minutes later the object dropped rapidly and then came back up, the red and green lights were still lit up on the object the whole time hovering over the same location. my roommate and i were trying to figure out whats going on and what is it. I thought it was a drone or something. Around 8:45 pm we noticed a small,white, clear, rectangular shaped object gliding around the corner towards us. As it came closer i noticed a bright light in side of the object that looked like a light bulb. it was gliding towards us slowly. The object was actually within our reach. The object changed its form into a golden sphere, but it looked like a cage that was shaped into a sphere. It was still gliding towards us, the object still had the golden light inside of it. The object flew higher and started to travel to the right of us, i caught that part on video. The object changed its form again into some sort of mechanical ball, it then folded itself and disappeared. My room mate started to scream dial 911, and I called channel 7 news. I was told to send in the pictures. I was terrified because i could not understand what was going on. I called all my friends and family to tell them what i just witnessed.