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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
December 25, 2015 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Greene, NY
Three fireballs made a triangular pattern and a couple more flew overhead- the objects made a burning sound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 24, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIGAR
Angola, NY
15/20 Blue, cigar-shaped, craft appeared the same location, due north in the night sky, appearing to hover and blue lights flashing the length of the crafts. Animals in area, although normally noisy, had gone silent. Aircraft flew around the location as if investigating. Appearing over Lake Erie, seen between the trees in my backyard, in the same location as reported on the 20th. Astronomical star charts are not in the same location as the 20th, which makes me believe these are not stars for a few reasons: star locations are not in the location as previously reported, google sky maps do not show these stars as constellations or any known stars, and the colors are blue only, and move in a pattern that are not consistent with stars, satellites or faa-regulated aircraft.
December 24, 2015 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Cicero, NY
Saw 3 orange/red lights gliding through the sky, at an approximate equal distance from one another. Heading south at first, then they changed course and traveled east. They then disappeared. Movements of lights did not appear to be similar to the movement of an airplane or helicopter. No noise, either.
December 23, 2015 · 7:30 PM · DIAMOND
Rochester, NY
I was walking into an apartment building and noticed a very bright green light sitting still in the sky at what appeared to be maybe 7 to 10 thousand feet high. Just based on the brightness of the light and the fact that it was sitting stationary in the sky, I immediately pulled out my phone and started filming. I then watched for the next 12 or 13 minutes as this thing blew my mind. It appeared to be square, or diamond in shape. It changed from green to red then back to green in no real pattern. It did not make a sound. It traveled from one side of the city to the entire other in under 10 seconds. It dropped so low that it was out of my sight for a few minutes, then rose as if someone had a string attached to it and yanked it upward. I would say 1,000 feet to 10,000 feet in under 3 seconds. As it got close enough to me to really make it out I could tell the body of it was black, there were four huge perfect circle lights on the bottom, two red and two green, but at times there would be either no green or no red. I also saw a flashing white or maybe even amber colored light on the back? Maybe front? I am basing the size on a passenger jet which flew through the same vicinity as the craft moments after it disappeared which I also caught on video and I would say that it was half to 3/4 the size of the airplane which was a full size jet plane. It also appeared to be traveling 15 to 20 times faster than that plane which was descending to land and much much higher. This happened in Rochester NY and I witnessed it from the suburb Greece, NY. It was mostly south of my location, but at times traveled far enough north east (in under 10 seconds mind you) that I had to turn my whole body and face Irondequoit, NY, which is east of Greece, to keep recording it. I stopped a passing car and asked the young lady to look up and tell me what she sees so I know i'm not going crazy and she watched it for about 5 seconds, said oh my God that's a ufo! I said thank u for confirming and she promptly pulled away as if she was nervous. The craft made a lot of erratic movements. Stopping on a dime, zig zag patterns at times, shifting as if on an axis. At one point it started heading right at me and had me nervous enough to start walking back towards the apartment building for safety. It was acting as if it were investigating or searching for something. Truly a life altering experience for me, felt absolutely nothing like a drone which is the infamous explanation i'm getting for this. I own a drone. I know what they can do. I know there's a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and uses for them. This was not that. Oh and I don't know if this relevant or not but I experienced a really bad headache about an hour after the event which would not go away to the point that I had to take tylenol for it. I NEVER EVER have headaches that lead me to have to medicate. Cannot remember one time in life. I don't know if it was just from all the excitement or what.
December 20, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIGAR
Angola, NY
Angola, NY: North sky, south east of moon, seeing 15 blue cigar shaped crafts, with blue pulsing lights in the sky, 10 times bigger than normal aircraft (which were seen flying through these crafts location, with their normal lights) only blue, lighting up across their lengths of the bottom of the craft. As of 21:02 hrs, still located north northeast in the sky. Multiple jets showing trails of exhaust flying through these blue crafts formation. Most likely above lake erie/Toronto
December 16, 2015 · 11:54 PM · LIGHT
Kenmore, NY
I was taking a bag of garbage to the curb, and since is was partly clear, I looked up at the constellation of Orion. (My home faces due South ). Off to my right a noticed a red light in the sky at about 40 degrees elevation. Since there is quite a bit of air traffic usually heading for Buffalo International Airport, I at first thought it was a plane. Then I noticed there were several small lights (yellowish-white) blinking left and right with not apparent pattern of the steady red light. The object proceeded from the SW to NE at a steady pace until it passed almost overhead to my East. I could not see any shape, just the lights but it had the odd effect of looking like it was moving side to side and forward at the same time. I at no time hear any type of engine noise of a jet. prop or helicopter. As it passe over the house I lost sight of it so took the garbage to the tote. When I turned around the object had changed direction to WSW. The red light still appeared to be in the center with the random flashing lights on either side. As it was almost out of view it passed close and below a small patch of clouds which became dimly lit with white light. I had no idea the altitude the object was at, so when I went inside I checked for cloud ceiling on my computer. There were scattered clouds at 10,14 and 23,000 ft. My guess the clouds I saw were at 10,000 ft. I never did notice any green lights. The impression of the shape would be a rectangle, but I could not make out any solid object.
December 3, 2015 · 6:05 PM · LIGHT
Clifton Park, NY
Driving north on RT146A at approximately 18:05 saw a very bright light that was hovering in the sky then a blackness began behind it from my point of vision which grew to a size larger than the light then the light moved into the blackness and could no longer be seen and then the blackness grew smaller and smaller until it was gone.
November 26, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Staten Island, NY
Ate thanksgiving dinner, and went out onto my back porch for a smoke, followed by my two sons, my oldest son (4 years old) points towards the Moon and says, "What's that?" and i look up preparing myself to say "it's the moon" when I noticed two stars zig zagging left to right from each other like so o<------> <----->0 meeting up then going apart this was going on about 4 inches away from the moons right side if you were to use actual inches and pointed it at the sky. then all of a sudden the dropped rapidly and were now about 100 feet off the ground in formation one behind the other, to which I started yelling at all my guests in the house to come outside quickly, My friend and my wife came out, and we witnessed two spheres glowing orange and pulsating kind of like they were made of flame, the flickering type of light movement and my friend was trying to see if they had the usual plane lights ( red and green) somewhere within these crafts , and they did not. They just stood there for about 2 minutes then they proceeded to "drift" slowly towards the ocean ( this is all happening on top of Father Cappodano Street right by the beach) the drift was going in an easterly direction parallel to the Verazzano bridge, in other words these spheres were heading towards Brooklyn ( Bay Ridge area). By the time they reached about waterfront level, the first globe sped away and became a small dot real fast and disappeared then the second one followed suit in the same manner. Absolutely No sound and we made a remark about it because there was a plane flying real high in the sky ( with contrail)and we could hear the plane very well. these spheres were 100 feet off the ground and made no noise, they only slickered in a bizarre way and they were opaque orange kind of like a flame off a campfire, but solid spheres. the most amazing thing i have ever seen in my life, and i pray that there were many witnesses because the Bridge is right there and it was very busy because at around 9 pm the mall opened for a huge sale and people were out and about. (( We spoke briefly
November 26, 2015 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
At first, I suspected they were Chinese paper lanterns, but their movement seemed to mechanical, suggesting that it was not that wind that was carrying them, and then my friend (the other witness) noted that they were in fact not going in the direction of the wind. The lights were orangish and quite bright. Witness elects to provide no contact information. We wonder whether the date is correct, but we have no means for confirming it, given that we are unable to contact the witness. PD
November 22, 2015 · 4:27 PM · OVAL
Jamestown, NY
Saw a silvery white object moving over the horizen and then vanished. Saw about a dozen more every 20 seconds or so. One was seen longer than the rest, and changed to red, green and blue before vanishing. At one point 2 objects appeared to be flying in formation. Seen northeast from Jamestown, about 10 degrees over horizen, and all appeared to be traveling in the same general direction.
November 22, 2015 · 12:00 PM · OTHER
Tuscarora Indian Reservation, NY
A gas station attendant pointed out objects in sky to me & several drivers. Me & my grandson observed three objects in sky. We could not make out the shape but could see they were silver. I got out my binoculars for a closer look. With the binoculars their were three X shaped silver objects 10 degrees north of overhead, higher than the cumulus clouds. Originally in a triangle shape equal distance from each other. Then, after being obscured by a small cloud, they reappeared in a straight line, equidistant from each other. They appeared to be stationary. A power line was overhead, so when standing next to my truck, I could use the line to judge they weren't moving. After about 5 minutes the objects moved quickly straight up until they were no longer visible.
November 21, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
New York, NY
This very interesting light craft was captured on the west side of Manhattan after a CE5 indoor meditation followed by a visual sky watch. The light appeared stationary like a star, but much bigger, brighter, and closer. It had a disco color shape to it and as I zoomed in with my video camera, it appeared as it was morphing, almost as if it was a disco heart pumping. It turned into a donut with a black hole in the middle and I noticed that it was drifting slowly to the right based on how it was centered in my camera LCD. I have captured this light along with similar lights that have appeared after deep meditations. All videos are documented very well and are on my youtube channel. Link to this video is posted here: another video was documented on Nov 26, and another day light sighting back on September 17 as you scroll through my videos: https://youtu.be/vN0g-TF0MDg Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 17, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Massapequa, NY
We have amended the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting, which seems implied by the data. Source of report elects to remain anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD
November 17, 2015 · 2:23 AM · FIREBALL
Circleville, NY
I witnessed a large blue fireball while outside with my dog. It was an intense blue light that increased in intensity and lit up the ground all around us, like lightning would, but much brighter. It gave me the chills and my dog was barking and seemed very scared and skittish, and ran to my side. The glow increased in size and got brighter and then was gone. Like an explosion in space with no sound, fragmentation or trails.
November 17, 2015 · 1:05 AM · DISK
Middletown, NY
It was what seemed to be a huge saucer shaped craft but the first thing that caught my eye was the fact that it was shining very intense bright white/blue light. I had to stop driving and pull over it was so incredible. Before it disappeared into the clouds the bright light disappeared and I was able to see the actual crafts shape. It had no wings and had to be way bigger than you're common ARV. Incredible!
November 16, 2015 · 11:50 PM · CIRCLE
Canton, NY
We have seen this object most every night for several months. Possible sighting of the star, "Sirius," we suspect, but without more information from the witness, we cannot be certain. PD
November 16, 2015 · 9:06 PM
Canandaigua, NY
Fireball south of Canandaigua. Possible meteor?? PD
November 16, 2015 · 8:08 PM · TRIANGLE
Horseheads, NY
I was driving South on Route 14 in Horseheads when I saw three triangular shaped red lights hovering in the South East (over Elmira Heights). I pulled off the road to watch, the three sets of red lights were hovering in a triangular pattern. I could see that they were three distinct objects, they were not hovering perfectly still. The light to the West started to break from the formation and its lights went out. The other two objects remained hovering in their original locations for another five minutes. The lights to the East then started to break formation and the lights went out. After another minute the final and central set of lights went out. The lights were too large to have been helicopters, their formation was too precise as well, and there was no sound of helicopter blades, they would have had to have been the largest helicopters on Earth. The objects were too large to have been planes at that height and I have not seen a plane that can hov! er in place the way these were hovering. The red lights on each object were not flashing and did not look like lights on planes. I called a friend in the next town over to ask if they could see the lights in the valley, unfortunately they could not. I continued to explain to them what I was seeing for the entirety of the event.
November 16, 2015 · 2:22 PM · CHEVRON
Wilson, NY
I was in my front yard facing North across Lake Ontario when I heard a helicopter approach from the East. I watched the small, white, news type helicopter then noticed a shiny object higher than the helicopter. The helicopter went past and didn't hesitate at all. (they often travel this path). The shiny object seemed to be pretty stationary and not moving. I went into the house and came back out with a small pair of binoculars but I still could not determine exact shape of object. It was longish with something hanging below it so I thought it might be a big weather balloon. I have never seen a weather balloon. The object was very shiny and reflected the sun which was bright. The sun was over my left shoulder. The object began to move to the right, Eastward. It moved fairly slowly and almost seemed to be tumbling or changing shape. I really thought it was a balloon and tried to get some pictures with my cell phone. I got a few. The object was very far above the trees. I noticed a commercial airline going toward the East far above the object and not anywhere near it. The object was so high in the sky that it was impossible to make out its shape but it had to be pretty large because I wouldn't have been able to see it otherwise. Much larger than a party balloon. I walked into the field about 30 yards to my East to watch the object moving towards the East but after about 1/2 mile it changed direction and moved West and towards me. It then moved more Southwest slowly. I stood in the plowed field and watched it and it moved until it was overhead and to the South. It was close enough that I could make out the shape then which was an L or V shape. It resembled a very large L like that from a metal sign. It had no lights, made no sound but had square corners. I would take a guess and say it was much bigger than me at least 10 feet or so. It traveled into the direction of the sun and I could no longer see it. About 20 minutes from when I first saw it. I thought it might land in the 100's of acres behind the woods behind my house and I searched them a little later, but I didn't see anything.
November 15, 2015 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Baldwinsville, NY
I was watching T.V. and happened to notice out the window a flourecent blue ball of light falling in the horizon and had a little zig zag to it as it fell. It was falling rapidly so it only lasted a few seconds until it dissapeard from veiw behind across the street house. It was not a shooting star it was something I have never seen before and for it to be as evident as it was from me sitting about 10 feet from the window and an orange street light in the same window is astonishing as bright as it showed up.
November 15, 2015 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Wynanskill, NY
Driving home down my friends driveway and a light caught my eye and I pointed it out to my other friend I was bringing home and then he observed two other lights and then one disappeared and the other two lights moved around very slowly for 10 minutes and as we were about to keep driving it looked like there was a flash of lightning above the lights. Also, just realized this was near very long power lines. We have amended the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. Source of report elects to remain anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD
November 14, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Massapequa, NY
The sky is extremely clear out tonight. At first I thought it was an airplane until another appeared and they stood near each other and the flew off. They had red and white flashing lights. Then another 2 appeared over Burns Park and they crossed each other in an X shape and slowly flew in the sky back and then forth. I know that there isn't an airport near Burns Park in Massapequa and the 2 that crossed look like they came from that area.
November 13, 2015 · 4:30 PM · SPHERE
Albany, NY
It was a white orb in the sky next to an airplane. It was there and then disappeared.
November 12, 2015 · 4:10 AM · DIAMOND
Baldwinsville, NY
I woke up to use the bathroom at 4 a.m, I had just laid back down in bed, when I was startled by a loud sound, and flashing lights light up my bedroom, at this same time, my nightlight flickered. I looked out the window and saw a large, roughly diamond shaped craft moving over my neighborhood at a relatively slow speed. The craft was surrounded a glowing haze that made it slightly blurry, and was illuminated by six or seven white lights, one of which was flashing. The lights appeared to run around the perimeter of the craft, It also had one red light which seemed slightly off center of the middle. The lights were so bright they lit up my bedroom and illuminated the ground and trees, it was like lightening. The craft also made a really loud sound, that reminded me of an airplane and a lawnmower joined together. We often times see helicopters and planes flying over Baldwinsville, some quite low, so I am very familiar with normal air traffic. I am positive this was not a helicopter or any airplane that I have ever seen.