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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
July 29, 2015 · 8:30 PM · FORMATION
Weedsport, NY
Approximately 20:30 in the evening my wife myself and another couple were outside having a cigarette and noticed three red lights in a triangular formation to the west moving southeast to southwest. After about 20 minutes, they disappeared one at a time in the same position in the sky.
July 27, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Diamond Point, NY
Around 10 pm on July 27th, 2015, notice three triangular object in sky. All three points on this objects were lit with a reddish glow. All three objects stayed motionless for 5 to 10 mins. Then with a blink of an eye, all vanished.
July 26, 2015 · 3:00 AM · LIGHT
Alden, NY
My brother and I were star gazing on the front porch, with as much light pollution eliminated as possible. We were looking for shooting stars and satellites. I have been an armature star gazer and into astronomy for over 15 years. We noticed what looked like a satellite moving sporadically and seemingly unintelligibly. Its ability to change direction, increase speed, and stop, was unlike I've ever ever experienced in my life. Clouds became patchy and light which hid the object on us several times yet the object stayed in the general vicinity of the sky. When the object became unable to see from a small cloud I noticed that there were actuall many such objects in the sky. They became easy to pick out due to their consistent light yellow tinge they had; not a bright white like your average satellite. At this point we realized this was exceptionaly abnormal and awoke anyone we could in the house and visibility was decreasing due to dawn beginning and cloud cove! r. My sister was visiting and saw them. My wife (in my experience is not the best at spotting stars/satellites/shooting stars) couldn't pick them out, but in her defense the cloud cover was getting dense and I could only pick out one obvious one to show her which she missed. Some objects seemed to operate alone yet some seemed to be in a disorganized group of three. Best part is this happened ten minutes after telling my brother about a satellite I saw way up north that moved from side to side and that I couldn't believe my memory cause I saw it when I was maybe 7 years old and I wish I could see something like that again to validate my experience. I am a ufo skeptic, I don't necessarily believe in aliens, I think most people who see ufos are nuts, and I always wished I could see something that would change my beliefs. I don't know if my beliefs are changed but that was the most bizarre and unexplainable thing I've ever seen in the sky in my life. I stayed up till the sun was up and they became no longer visible. They left the area tre! nding wi thout a straight course to the west. There was 10 to 20 of them...due to clouds and the objects activity it was almost impossible to keep track of them all. Wow
July 26, 2015 · 1:45 AM · FIREBALL
New York City, NY
There was helicopter activity 30 minutes after that, and the sky seemed to light up
July 25, 2015 · 9:50 PM · LIGHT
Merrick, NY
I was outside watering the lawn and saw a reddish light in the eastern sky, moving from south to north. It was silent and it moved more slowly than a plane. As it reached an area to the north, it changed direction and moved to the northwest and disappeared. We are college educated mature homeowners and have lived on Long Island our whole lives.
July 24, 2015 · 2:15 AM · OTHER
Bohemia, NY
At about 2:15am on the 24th of July, 2015, my girlfriend and I woke up to an unusually loud sound in the sky. We looked up by our bedroom window and saw the object as it went over the house low in the sky. It was travelling at a slow, deliberate speed that was practically hovering above us. It looked to be a large object at least the size of a jet plane yet the only lights consisted of two bright orange lights at the front and back of the object with no other lights or colors other than orange and glowing. We were suspicious of the object since we live near MacArthur Airport and planes stop landing at about 11:00pm each day. This was 2:15am. The size and close proximity made it a curious sight since it was low to the ground and was the size of a jet, yet a jet would have fallen from the sky at this speed. The sound was nothing we had ever heard before, almost a grinding industrial sound but not a helicopter or a jet plane or small aircraft sound at all.
July 24, 2015 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Staten Island, NY
Took my German Shepard for her usual middle of the night backyard walk. My yard faces East looking over the entrance of Atlantic Ocean into NY harbor. Almost a bright half moon [oblong shaped]was to the southern sky. I know this sounds crazy, but above the normal air traffic patterns was the star of Bethlehem shining brighter than the moon. I ran inside, got my wife, pointed up to it and it went from a bright white light to a greenish look, and in a second shot over to due south under the moon, then turned reddish,shot over to the west then turned blueish. Then shot over to the North with a yellowish look and then right back to its original East position. This thing was way up there and was huge. It moved at impossible speeds around the entire sky, and not 1 plane in sight.
July 23, 2015 · 10:50 PM · CYLINDER
Wantagh, NY
Lights went on (all lite up like fire) and then went off. All three were apart from each other. Yard got bright also...the lights went off and then back on. We got scared and ran inside. But looked like ice cream cone shape with fire colors....took three pictures.
July 23, 2015 · 10:50 PM · FIREBALL
Wantagh, NY
then two went flying across came back three objects again same spot lights on and off.
July 22, 2015 · 11:45 PM · DISK
Monroe, NY
The object was in the distance, late at night, not so easy to make out as to exact shape. It basically hovered for a long time. It seemed to be getting closer for a few minutes, but then did not appear to have actually moved. We both thought it looked like a classic hat-and-brim shaped flying saucer, as depicted in films, with red lights at either edge and a greenish-blue larger light, almost like a spotlight directed towards the ground, in between the red lights. My husband thought he could make out a tower-like structure extending up over the object with a red light at the top. I attempted to shoot video with a small camera, but it was too dark; object just appears as a whitish blob. Can’t rule out a drone, but appears large from a distance.
July 22, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Amherst, NY
I was looking out my sixth floor window again and noticed off in the distance some interesting bright glowing lights. They were an orange yellow color, looked like several balls of light that were attached or at least real close together. From my vantage point the object(s) were to the SouthEast. They hovered in the same place for a minute, as i called two more witnesses to come see. We all watched in awe as the lights seemed to go slightly up and slowly down until it disappeared behind the buildings and out of our line of sight. The next morning i looked out at the same spot and there was a military plane..
July 22, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
New Paltz, NY
On evening walk as sunset occurred and saw bright pulsating orange/red light above treeline to my right. I ran to a clearing and watched the light apparently climb and then arc towards the SE and then slow down, almost to a standstill - with absolutely no noise. A commercial jet came into the field of view moving from North to South, with normal red and white navigation lights visible and with normal jet noise, and was at a lower altitude than pulsating light. The light then continued off into the southern/southeastern sky until it was no longer visible. So, no incredible speeds, but definitely and unusual brightness and pulsation to the light, and absolutely no sound. My first thoughts were a drone of some kind, but it seemed too high and moved too far for a recreational drone. Also, what I saw definitely sounds similar to what others in the area are describing recently on this board. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 20, 2015 · 9:00 PM · DISK
Monroe, NY
On the night of July 23, 2015, I was arriving home from a friend's house and I heard a small whirring sound, ignored it and entered my home. I had to run out to bring my cat back inside my house, and I noticed a strange blue light all around the back part of my yard, so I try to get a better view and I see two dimly lit red lights and a blue aura surrounding an oblate disk about 300 or so feet in the air, so I instantly ran inside to get a witness, that witness being my mother, by the time she came out in disbelief, it was still there, and I tried to take a video of it but I had 4% battery life, I was able to capture the full image of the disk but before I could save the video or stop the recording my phone turned off. Weirdly enough, when I re-entered my house my phone turned back on but with double the amount of battery life and all of my pictures, videos, and apps deleted off my phone. I was stunned by seeing this, I felt very strange and later on I. The night I heard the whirring again and again but I never saw the object again. Also to add in, my cat was no where to be found and still has not returned home, or eaten out of her food bowl we left outside that night.
July 20, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Centerport, NY
TOOK A VIDEO OF THE UFO. IT CAME FROM BEHIND A CLOUD AND CAUGHT MY EYE RIGHT AWAY, I HAD TO DO A DOUBLE TAKE. THE OBJECT HAD 4 ROUND LIGHTS THAT WERE RED GREEN AND WHITE. THEY CHANGED PATTERN AND SEEMED TO PULSATE OR BLINK ON AND OFF. IT FLEW SIDE TO SIDE CHANGING DIRECTION QUICKLY AND ELEVATED QUICKLY, AND AFTER ABOUT A MINUTE, DESCENDED BEHIND TREES, AND I LOST SIGHT OF THE UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 19, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Wilson, NY
Three orange red color ball shape objects in triangle formation moving west they were not lanterns because the wind was blowing to the east and objects were traveling towards west. Later that night, channel 4 new reported triangle shape objects in the finger lakes region. Wilson is about 3 hours west from there.
July 18, 2015 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Asbury Park, NY
A strange object hovering in the sky. Looked like a bumper car with red lights. Quickly turned around a couple of times and just vanishes. I have a full video of the event
July 17, 2015 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Sag Harbor, NY
On July 17, 2015, my brother and I were standing outside Barron’s Cove Inn, talking, at about ten past ten at night. I noticed a round flickering circle moving across the sky, from Left to right. There was first just one and then a second followed in the exact same path. There was a third and then two more which were side by side followed the others. A total of ten were noted-all flying along that path slowly. After about 5 minutes the first in the row disappeared. Each one in turn did the same. The two that were side by side disappeared together. No details other than the bright circular lights were noted by us as the objects were out over the water. This report was first posted on July 23rd, 2015, with the incorrect time of 10:10 a.m.. We have changed the time above to 22:10 hrs., and will re-post it at our earliest convenience. PD
July 16, 2015 · 11:15 PM · OVAL
Cicero, NY
I was driving home, when I saw an oval, almost eye-shaped orange, glowing shape in the sky. It caught my eye, and I immediately found myself trying to find a logical explanation for it. Unable to find one, I just kept looking, and it seemed suspended in the air. The object was rather large, and I saw another small one off in the distance, but this one was far enough off to not have much of a shape. It just looked like another star, but orange. At this point, I started to pull over to attempt to get a picture, but before I even came to a complete stop, the larger of the two objects disappeared into the distance at a speed which seemed to be an extremely high rate.
July 16, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Lake George (Lake George Village ), NY
Walking north on rt 9 heading back to our motel just past Shepard Park we saw 3 red lights appear in the sky over the water at first in an angular line but then they shifted into a triangular pattern. As we watched the lights just disappeared. A man and his wife who were walking in front of my daughter and I turned to us and asked if we saw the lights and the fact that they all disappeared at once.
July 14, 2015 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT
Patchogue, NY
An orange glowing ball was hovering near Canaan Lake, then disappeared, reappearing and flying silently across the sky, before dimming out and not seen again.
July 13, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Fishkill, NY
Observed orange lights, moving across the sky from SW to NE and fading behind clouds. Sighting started approx. 10:30 PM. Over a period of 10 minutes, observed approximately 12 orange lights at different times, in groups of 2 or 3. In one case, two objects moved transverse to their primary direction of travel, moving closer together, then moving apart again. All single or groups of lights moved in the same general direction. Given the distance moved across the sky in the short time period, these were not paper lanterns or similar objects. These were bright orange lights, but too far away to note any shape.
July 12, 2015 · 10:00 PM · TRIANGLE
North Tonawanda, NY
Saw what appeared as a red light in the northern sky, travelling south east. It stopped and started periodically. It stopped in the northeastern sky and as I focused on it I realized there were three lights tightly grouped in a triangle shape. The lights pulsed but did not blink. I know called into the house for my family to come out to see this, as I called the lights seemed to fade quickly and just disappeared. Odd coincidence, - we saw three shooting stars later that night. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 12, 2015 · 9:35 PM · FIREBALL
Syracuse, NY
After sunset, a single flashing/glimmering orange desk, larger than typical aircraft, approaching from west southwest, then turning south and elevating and disappearing. No noise.
July 12, 2015 · 8:35 PM · CIRCLE
New York City (Bronx), NY
Looking westward up into the sky I noticed a dark object slowly moving through a northerly direction. Object was at high altitude so it was hard to make out much detail other than it appearing featureless with no noticeable lights that most aircraft feature. It was still daylight as sun was setting and minimum clouds were visible. Object stood out as being the only craft in that section of the sky so it caught my eye. I managed to view te object long enough to determine it was no plane or helicopter. Object appeared to change direction from traveling northwest to northeast and seemed to be controlled by some intelligence so it was no balloon. I eventually lost sight of it as it appeared to disappear over the clouds. Not too many people were out in the area but I doubt anyone would've been able to see the object because it was really high up there. My camera phone wouldn't capture it at that distance. Would not seen this at night. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD