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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 11, 2015 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Farmingville, NY
Bright orange light moving across sky low and fast no sound. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 11, 2015 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Coram, NY
Eight silent pulsating orbs of a fire or amber color were witnessed by my friend & I. This sighting took place on Saturday July 11th, which was the following Saturday after the 4th of July. People in the neighborhood were still setting off the last of their fireworks. The reason I mention this is because the lights seemed to be attracted to them, as they all headed in that direction one after the other. The first of the eight orbs even came to a complete stop for about five seconds as I was recording it from my phone. The flashlight on my phone was on & my friend said he thought that it could see me. At that point I started to shake my phone back and forth to signal to it. After the five seconds it resumed its direction towards the fireworks only a few blocks away. All of these objects moved like they were on a track, the were floating steadily above the neighborhood. We assume a nighttime sighting, and have amended the time above. PD
July 10, 2015 · 10:45 PM · TRIANGLE
East Amherst, NY
It got into a clearing above 2 trees, and it was easily visible, as the sky was still a dark shade of blue. I saw a black triangle with six lights on it. Five white, one red, and the red one was blinking. There was a white light at the front of the craft, another behind it, and three more white lights along the back. The blinking red light was in the center. It glided at about the same speed as a plane across the sky, and was flying pretty low. I would say it was more or less gliding than flying. It was also about as loud as a normal commercial jet if you were maybe 200 feet away from it.
July 10, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mastic Beach, NY
Approximately 9pm, I spotted a reddish orange ball shaped object. At first, I thought is was a firework, but the object began to rise slowly from the ground in a diagonal direction. It rose about 300 feet or so and appeared to stop, then it slowly faded away to a speck. This was on the south side of Smith Point Park Beach. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 10, 2015 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mastic Beach, NY
Approximately 9pm, I spotted a reddish orange ball shaped object. "At first I thought is was a firework" but the object began to rise slowly from the ground in a diagonal direction. It rose about 300 feet or so and appeared to stop, then it slowly faded away to a speck. This was on the south side of Smith Point Park Beach. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 9, 2015 · 10:15 PM · CIRCLE
Rochester, NY
I saw 5 red-orange colored, circular shaped slow flying objects with no sound and I was at the Greece Town Hall by the library.
July 5, 2015 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Palermo, NY
Have only lived in country yr & 1/2; Take advantage of dark nights for meteor showers. Went out to sit on deck for a few; noticed one of many bright stars...suddenly one started moving slowly westward toward Lake Ontario. Don't think I'm nuts; too slow for even satellite, not to mentioned slowly changed directions slightly. Am very familiar with the little high altitude plane traffic and lights, etc. This "star" stopped again a few times then continued. The only odd feature was an occasional white light possibly in front of the direction traveling; very white, not particularly far in front or outstanding-just very unusual. I don't "creep" out easily, but after going out a second time, and seeing the progress it had made, with nothing like it ever seen- I came IN! I don't think I'm nuts....
July 5, 2015 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Schuylerville, NY
This was a large orange light moving erradically from the west before moving to the east/northeast. It looked like it wasn't very high in the air and it was silent. It almost looked as if it was aflame. I watched it for about 2 minutes before it disappeared.
July 5, 2015 · 12:25 AM · CHANGING
Lindenhurst, NY
Took pic which came out looking like solid yellow ball. 2 sec later, it disappeared. Never saw a firework like that. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 11:50 PM · FIREBALL
Rochester, NY
We originally saw two red/orange lights in the sky. We thought it was a meteor shower and took a video. We ultimately ended up seeing five. They all followed the same path. One sped up in front of another. They all seemed to die out as they progressed, which is why we thought it was some sort of meteor shower, that and the red/orange colors.
July 4, 2015 · 11:48 PM · UNKNOWN
New York City (Maspeth), NY
I saw a reddish-orange object coming down from high in the sky over New York City. It seemed almost fiery. At first I thought it was a meteor and I thought we were all going to die. Suddenly, it stopped falling and began moving towards Maspeth at a very fast pace. I lost sight of it because of a large tree in the way. When I saw it again it was climbing back up towards the sky until I could no longer see it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Middletown, NY
I made a report the other day and have video and images I would like to share. This is going to sound crazy but after I seen the orange light July 4th night. I had a very odd experience in my room. I took pictures of that as well.
July 4, 2015 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Middletown, NY
At 10:15pm July 4, 2015, I seen what I thought was a firework in the sky. It was an Orange and Red glowing ball. I got out my video camera and started recording. I have it on video. It made no noise and was just one big glowing light it changes color from yellow to orange to red.
July 4, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
We watched the Macy's fireworks from a roof top in Brooklyn. The fireworks show ended about 10:00 pm. We went to street level and all of a sudden we saw this round shaped light {lite} reddish color moving very slowly towards Manhattan, but still on the Brooklyn side, and not to far from us. After about a minute it just stopped. The round light object did not move for at least a minute. Then the object started moving towards Manhattan, but all of a sudden, it went straight up and disappeared. We took photos of the object. In the photos the object was a bright white light.
July 4, 2015 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
New York City (Manhattan), NY
I was standing on the northwest corner of west 4th street and ave of the americas in nyc talking to a neighbor on the corner. I was looking south when I saw 2 objects in the sky that caught my eye. One of the objects was far away and then came down and got big and round and was orange reddish. I fumbled with my camera trying to record what I saw. By the time I got the record on I only could catch a little of what I saw. I am emailing video separately. The first 13 seconds shows one of what I saw although if you listen to the whole recording, someone walking by us must have saw something too, by his expression. If you stop & go very fast on the video you can catch some of the round object. I would ignore anything you see next to the streetlights or buildings as it could be a reflection of anything. Look at the video and be the judge.
July 4, 2015 · 10:30 PM · SPHERE
Middletown, NY
I have provided links below to my sighting on July 4, 2015. I was flashing my flash light at the UFO and it kept coming over top of me. Please view the video and put it with my sighting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3fnbX_Tgxk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaZfa4SAsBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA1W-XkpYgI
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Patchogue, NY
I live near a lake in North Patchogue so the area is often clear enough to see fireworks on July 4th. My sister and I walked a few blocks, arriving there around 10pm. As soon as we got there, we stood in front of the lake, facing north, and watched the fireworks until 10:10. Around that time I pointed out a glowing red circle in the sky. It wasn't any plane or aircraft I have seen before. The red circle was still and not blinking like a plane or helicopter does. It moved from the northeast were I spotted it, across the north and after looking at more fireworks, moments later it suddenly disappeared. We saw 4 or 5 of these lights before leaving. They all appeared and disappeared without notice. There were some clouds that night but after watching these orbs disappear behind the clouds they never reappeared on the other side, but instead disappeared abruptly. They were high up in the sky but were very bright and we did not hear any sounds coming from them. Each orb appeared in the east/northeast direction and moved North/Northwest. The most of these orbs I saw in the sky at one time were 2, one in the East and one North. We left around 10:30, with these orbs still appearing in the sky as we were leaving.
July 4, 2015 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Webster, NY
My husband and I were on our deck watching fireworks. A bright object no where near the fireworks display caught my eye. I told him to turn to his left and look up. It was a bright red/orange fireball. It moved vertically, very slow. My husband thought maybe it was a meteor, but it was too big to be that. After traveling in a fairly straight line, it just disappeared. Others must have seen this strange object also, as many people would have their eyes to the sky tonight!
July 4, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Levittown, NY
Two red/orange lights, appearing as lights/flame tracking a course se to nw slowly. Altitude approx. 5k feet. Another similar light appeared to the west. no sound or aircraft lights visible. Not moving, then fade out. Minutes later another similar light due north, moving slowly and it then faded out.
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Dix Hills, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
Syracuse, NY
My family and I went out tonight to see the fireworks here in Syracuse, NY... I think it was around [b]9:15-9:30[/b] PM EST. We weren't there 3 minutes when my wife pointed something out to me and then I saw them over and over and over again. Orange orbs. As everyone else was fixated on the massive fireworks display that seemed to engulf the entire city, I was looking out for these mysterious orange lights. I kept seeing them and pointing them out to my daughter. They were moving southeast but they seemed to be moving up as well, as they would disappear from sight. But they kept coming... It was getting a little creepy. One of the orange orbs we were watching sped across the sky at a much faster rate than the others! As the fireworks died down, we were trying to determine if we would go home or try to seek out more of these strange lights. Well we didn't have to think too long about that as we kept seeing them all around and so we drove throughout the city trying to get close to them. We saw two that looked like they would pass right over us and so we pulled over and that's where I got this one picture with my daughters phone as my battery was about to run out. We kept driving around the city and kept seeing them... one off in the distance here... one there... two over here... And then we all saw a beautiful cluster of four! I jumped out of the car to try and get a picture of the grouping but the phone wouldn't focus on them and I didn't get that picture. :( I have no idea what these were or if I'll see them again. For a moment, as I was trying to come to some rational explanation, I thought of space debris burning up in the atmosphere as it crossed. These never 'fizzled' out though and they seemed to have a distinct pulsation to them. In all... on this 4th of July, I believe we counted at least 30 of these things. It was weird but very cool!
July 4, 2015 · 9:30 PM
Orchard Park, NY
It was there before we were, but we watched it for a about 20 mins, and then it took off west and could be heard from the ground. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Maspeth, NY
Orange-red fireball heading west toward NYC, and climbing until we couldn't see it any more. We recorded it the best we could. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We have no way to contact the individual to request the footage. Hoax? PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · OVAL
Syracuse, NY
During the fireworks display at the basball stadium on July 4th, I noticed something strange hovering in the sky. It took me a moment to realize it was not of human origin. It changed colors every few minutes, as if just fading from blue to pink to purple to orange. It moved in a way I've never witnessed before. The way it bolted horizontally super fast and stopped instantly. Or the way it moved completely vertical with ease. It was as if the craft were watching the fireworks show. It was there for quite some time. And when the show finished. It simply lowered vertically super fast. And then it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD