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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
October 23, 2015 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Patchogue, NY
A bright white light came over the treeline in a SW direction, then quickly changed direction going NE, looped around, then hovered almost directly above my head. I still could not see the shape of the craft beyond the light. It then continued SW into the open sky, hovered, then disappeared in open sky.
October 23, 2015 · 11:20 AM · RECTANGLE
Tarrytown, NY
Date & Time of sighting: Friday morning, October 23, 2015 at approximately 11:25 am. Place observed: From my car as I was driving from Rockland County NY, on I-287 East in South Nyack, NY approaching the Tappan Zee Bridge. The object was just south of the bridge, heading northeast, slowly. It was rather low, at approximately a 40-degree angle from my location and large enough to be seen from the approach to the bridge on the Rockland county side of the Hudson River. The object was neither over the bridge nor the Hudson River but was overland on the Westchester county side of the river, just south of the bridge. The bridge is just over 3 miles long so the object was at least that far away from me at the time my girlfriend and I first noticed it out of the windshield of the car. As the road curves a bit the craft was on the left side of the car (south of the bridge) for most of the observation. Description: Rectangular and black. Though not a perfect rectangle. More cigar shaped but it was not round like a cigar. Slow moving, angling down like it was preparing to land. It was large, not huge, about the size of a large commercial or military jet, but much darker than the gray used by the USAF. Most striking was its slow speed and shape. Flight characteristics were more like a blimp then an airplane. If it was a blimp it is one I’ve not seen before. The object was visible to us as we drove almost the entire length of the bridge. We were driving in well moving traffic, moving at highway speeds for almost the entire length of the bridge. We lost sight of the craft as we approached the Toll plaza and just after we cleared the suspension portion (superstructure) of the bridge. At that point, it was too low from our angle to see anymore and was now to north of the bridge. My girlfriend attempted to record the object on an iPhone but she did not begin recording until we were already passing thru the suspension portion of the bridge and since the craft was now at a low angle (approx. 10 to 15-degrees), she was recording it as we were passing thru the beams / cross section of the superstructure of the bridge. Therefore, the recording is basically a series of beams passing by at highway speed but the craft was visible to the eye in-between the breaks in the beams. Unfortunately we waited too long to begin recording. The reason for this is at first we assumed it was a slow moving large airplane moving away from us. However, the more we observed it and had time to discuss it, we realized what we were observing was unusual and worth trying to record. If there had been no traffic on the bridge, I would have stopped and gotten out of the car to witness it longer – it was that unusual. Duration of observation – approximately 5 minutes. Conditions: Bright, clear and sunny. A beautiful day. Perfect conditions for observing the sky. And this dark, slow moving object was perfectly visible and stood out quite vividly. Feeling – an odd aircraft that neither of us could identify. It did not look extra-worldly or intimidating in anyway just out of the ordinary.
October 21, 2015 · 5:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Southold, NY
At the Peconic Dog Park with dogs when I saw a metallic brown object the size and configuration of a brownstone building slowly moving north over the trees from the Hamptons. Flew under aircraft flight paths. Slowly advanced silently, I tried to get others to see it but they "couldn't". I watched as a red dome light went on and it turned left (or east) and slowly continued until it was gone. There have been previous times when I have seen pale white oblong objects traveling west very fast in flight paths. These have been observed with me at least once with two other people. All of these sightings took place at the Peconic Dog Park in Southold New York.
October 18, 2015 · 9:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Mountain Rd, NY
Huge transparent rectangular craft with red & orange lights. Appeared for a second disappeared then reappeared seen by my husband and myself heading into NE PA.
October 18, 2015 · 8:13 PM · DISK
Buffalo, NY
One UFO spotted, had four circle shaped lights, two red and two green, shape not very clear due to clouds, appeared to be a disk. Flew diagonally at about the speed of an airplane, seemed to be tilting or rotating. Was making a humming noise, hard to describe, sort of like a mechanical howl. Couldn't see color, I would assume black, but it was dark, so color might have just not been visible. We suspect that the original date is flawed, and that the witness intended a date of October 18, not September 18. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to contact him/her, in order to confirm the date. PD
October 17, 2015 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
East Aurora, NY
While driving home I saw a big, bright, purple-green light in the sky that hovered and bounced around to the south. It did not flash, fly in a straight line, or make any noise. It was definitely not a plane. It seemed lower to the ground than any plane I've seen in the sky. Then, as I was waiting at the red light the purple/green light turned red, hovered around a little more and then looked like it slowly started falling to the ground and out of sight behind the buildings, etc.. I didn't see any more of it after that, as I turned and was driving to the west. However, I did keep checking to the south.
October 16, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Schenectady, NY
Orange ball that grew in size from a star to a small marble rising from the horizon in the north till it faded away into space at a point just below straight up, it as a clear night with no clouds
October 15, 2015 · 4:00 AM · OTHER
Ashville, NY
I had to let the dogs outside about 4am. In my mud room on my house, I have a back door for the dog pen and a front one to go outside to the driveway. I had let the dogs outside using the back door and noticed all the stars in the sky that morning. I wanted to look at more stars and decided to go to the front door and look at the stars on that side. Upon opening the door I noticed a round orange glowing light just over my neighbor's house and the trees right behind them. I have looked in the night sky in the same direction many times, so I know for a fact there is nothing in that direction to cause the light. It hovered for about half hour and in a blink of an eye it was gone. I know what I seen and it can not be explained.
October 11, 2015 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
North Tonawanda, NY
Looking into night sky to the north over where the falls would be is a craft illuminating red/blue/green lights alternating colors at a high rate of speed. Craft is still at time being with multiple planes flying under the craft. This has been on going for weeks and moves from Lake Erie down Tonawanda creek and ends up in middleport by dawn the next morning. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
October 11, 2015 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Poughkeepsie, NY
Was waiting to pick up my son who was visiting a friend at Marist College near Donnelly Hall when while sitting in the car we noticed two bright orange objects in the sky following each other, while trying to figure out what we were looking at, we noticed another dark oval shape object following behind the first two with another bright orange object following behind the dark one, all travelling slowly in a straight line. Bright orange objects appeared to flicker and dim and just disappear. It was a wide open sky with no obstructions and objects were gone. Drove around the campus quickly to see if we could see anything in the sky and nothing. Sighting lasted for about a minute. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 11, 2015 · 7:30 AM · DIAMOND
Binghamton, NY
The object had 5 Orange fireballs on each point of the diamond..it was slowly moving and went over the trees. We thought we were done but then a small object appears with 2 Fireballs and then another one. It's possible that the larger one object may have split apart to couple.
October 10, 2015 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Mexico, NY
While walking dog I noticed the craft in between trees. It was oval and hovering and it was oval in shape. It had green, white, and blue lights that were flashing in a rotation format at first. I watched for a few minutes and after it started to get lower to a group of trees next to our property, I ran inside to tell my husband. He came out to the yard. He too saw the lights and the hovering. Then we noticed 3 more crafts. Then two more for a total of 6. It appeared that the crafts were communicating with each other and they were flashing lights at each other. The lights would change color. At one point it would be blue or white then turn red. They def were not planes as they would hover and then dart up and down or side to side extremely fast. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
October 9, 2015 · 4:35 AM · LIGHT
North Tonawanda, NY
There was a bright white light when viewing this light at 20x zoom it had a white light, red light and green light on. It moved in a circular motion and was lower then the stars. It was an intense light that shot a bright white discharge that faded after 200 feet. This happened three times. After tracking this object for more then 3 years, I have never seen it do this before its always flickering red, green and blue. As of 10/10 its no longer to be found in the sky.
October 7, 2015 · 5:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Eden, NY
I was waiting for the bus and its still very dark and I go to put my headphones on and I hear a loud Erie noise, almost like a muffled aircraft... I look up and just behind my house I see lights, as It gets closer I notice the lights make up a diamond shape particularly orange in color, very bright. I stand there confused, thinking to myself im looking at a UFO. Few seconds later, I can faintly see a black mass (only because the clouds were in the way of the moon and illuminated the sky a bit) just enough for me to make out a very hard to see dark object. At first I thought it was a stealth bomber but then as it pasted over my house I saw that it was moving very very slow, the sound get louder, brights lighter and the shape of the object is more appearent and I just keep thinking about it. About 5 minutes later I see a light rise in the sky and start heading my way SAME EXACT THING, don't know if maybe military trading by my house or something bigger
October 6, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Massapequa, NY
I was looking at the sky there seemed to be lots of movement in the stars I saw want seemed to be the a few stars/ lights almost visiting each other one would fly to the next. Then I heard a siren from the firehouse and that's when I saw 5 or six ships flying together appear to cross overhead and head west. I noticed they did not make a sound I was shaken by what I saw. I wanted to call someone to tell them but who would believe such a crazy thing. I alway look at the sky at night I have never seen anything like this it was as if they where in a military formation I would say it was like seeing 6 mini fighter jets shooting through the sky at lightening speed. So high in the stratosphere to be a jet plane flew in a smooth motion disappeared so fast like 6 shooting stars in a flight pattern formation. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 6, 2015 · 7:15 PM · DIAMOND
New York City (Manhattan), NY
About 11 ufo Dimond shape except for the Mother ufo.
October 2, 2015 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Rochester, NY
I just saw 5 or 6 UFOS in the sky under cloud cover above Rochester, NY. I thought it was a spotlight advertisement at first glance, but then immediately saw the objects were large and far up--under cloud cover--but highly visible. They moved in loose formation and seemed to circle around a bit and then they kept going straight and disappeared. It’s 8pm in Rochester, New York.
October 2, 2015 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Kendall, NY
As we arrived at our destination we watched harder, and could see it was moving left, right, up, and down slowly. In this time it vanished and reappeared 3 times. I also recorded a blurry video on my phone...
October 2, 2015 · 5:41 PM · DISK
Croghan, NY
On the afternoon of October 2, 2015, my trail camera took 2 pictures of a ufo. The area of the pictures was an open landing in the woods. The ufo appeared to be floating with 2 silver plates on top and bottom, along with numerous red lights in the middle. I would like to talk to an expert on this matter, I still have the 2 pictures, but will not e-mail them, only can be seen in person.
October 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
North Bangor, NY
To the west I seen a bright light appear and then disappear several times. After a few moments the object was beaming a ray of light off and on. This went on for a few minutes. My first thought was that it was a helicopter looking for marijuana crops, but thought it was odd to be looking at night for them. After several minutes, a fighter jet from the west raced to its location flying low and circled for about 45 minutes afterwards. The light had disappeared with the arrival of the jet. For the next hour after that, I watched doughnut shaped chemical trails blow across the sky.
September 30, 2015 · 8:15 PM · DIAMOND
Buffalo, NY
At approximately 23:15 my wife called me out to our screened porch and pointed south. Upon looking at the direction she was pointing to, I/we seen what appeared to be a diamond shaped object about 3-4 thousand feet in the air traveling from northeast direction to the south west direction. The object appeared to be emitting reddish orange color and traveling without any sound. It was traveling about the same speed as an aircraft would be approaching a runway several miles away (we have an airport about 5 miles away.) As the object then faded from our view and then disappeared, An identical object came in from the northeast direction and travelled the same route with the same end results. In closing, it was apparent that both objects remained at the same height throughout our viewing
September 28, 2015 · 9:47 PM · SPHERE
East Setauket, NY
To Whom It May Concern: I was traveling east on NYS Route 347 Nesconset–Port Jefferson Highway and, as I approached traffic light to make a left onto Belle Mead Rd on way home from school I noticed at first 5 orange orbs in the sky. They were very bright, more than anything in the background and more than street lights or anything else in my view. They moved in a random way at first like up, down, left, right. Some would approach each other, and then go back to a position where they were all traveling in same direction, which appeared north; this was toward my left. There was absolutely no sound from them or their movement. Once I realized I was seeing something I never saw before, I felt the lack of ability to explain it. I then started to snap pictures with my cell phone. I took five in total. Two while approaching the traffic light, and when said traffic light turned green I turned left which was the way home and they were still moving north. Once driving I tried to snap more pictures and zoom in with cell phone; I managed to get three more pictures. There were definitely six or possibly seven bright orange orbs. They almost flickered, like different parts or points within the same “orb” were brighter: Orange to darker orange –red, as they were very easy to see in the sky. This was while I was moving and so where they. They were above the trees and power lines and appeared far away, yet brighter and so pronounced they felt close. The size of each individual orb relative to me, is the size of the diameter of a pen cap if held at arm’s length. They were very fast as they went past my line of sight over the trees and I continued to drive home. After a split second I thought of attempting to follow them somehow, though I was confused and not actually sure what I had witnessed. This all happened in about 2 minutes time. This led me to search for information and this is how I found this site. So many people have seen things which sound as if they are what I have seen. I cannot un-see this, and have continued faith that there is some explanation and all is well in the world.
September 28, 2015 · 6:10 PM · FORMATION
Syracuse (20-30 mins away from), NY
My wife and I were driving to Syracuse, NY, and were approximately 9 miles from the Watertown exit on US 81. Time was 6:09 pm on Sept. 28. The sky was overcast, with a little sunlight still out. The event was about 5-10 seconds, but it is the most vividly amazing thing I have ever seen. I mass of grey, that seemed circular in shape with irregular edges, literally came out of the clouds. It seemed unstable or experiencing “turbulence” and was making an almost twisting motion. The surface texture seemed rough, not smooth, and the craft was obviously experiencing some sore of turbulence. I took it at first to be some sort of meteor or rock type of thing. It was almost unreal, honestly. After taking notice, I alerted my wife and she too witnessed the perceivably large unidentified object twist through the air. The craft then receded to the clouds, of which we could still see the shadow of faintly. It then was gone. There were no lights, and the craft of whatever kind had to be huge to be literally inside the clouds. It almost seemed like something out of a movie…I have always been extremely skeptical of these sorts of things. Yet, this thing was definitely SOMETHING and I have no idea how to explain it. Not a weather balloon, much to large. Definitely not a plane, there were no indications of shape or size of the sort. It was not hurling to the ground, so it wasn’t a meteor or anything of the type and there was no tail. The way it regained control of itself and receded back in to the clouds and the event of this object moving in the way it did were perhaps the most interesting and odd aspects. I really don't know what to make of it and my wife doesn't either.
September 28, 2015 · 6:00 PM · CIGAR
New York City (Manhattan), NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We suspect a so-called "twinkling" star. Possibly advertising lights. PD