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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 4, 2015 · 8:47 PM · UNKNOWN
Poughkeepsie, NY
Empirically, this object moved at incredible speeds (vertical and horizontal in particular); object moved across the sky to where fireworks were igniting in sky. Besides the speed, what caught my attention was the object displayed two quick on and off light display. As if it was taking a picture. We have amended the time above, and reposted on July 10, 2015. PD
July 4, 2015 · 7:40 PM · RECTANGLE
Plainview, NY
I just saw four lights in the sky in plain view they made a perfect square and hovered above my car and stayed in the same spot for like 4 minutes. Then hovered off, the The lights where 2 red and 2 white and did not blink. It was high up and fire works where popping but I heard a hum as well
July 4, 2015 · 7:15 PM · OVAL
Syracuse, NY
My husband, daughter and I were on our way home from a cook out driving down Wolf St. When we noticed the fireworks show and decided to pull on the side curb to view the display. Upon seeing the display my attention kept focusing on the orb in the sky. It was just hovering so I thought it couldn't be a plane. May-be a helicopter? Can a helicopter fly that high? Wait a minute this thing is a oval shape glowing. Now I'm still in the car with my 2 year old grandson but at this time my husband and daughter were already out enjoying the festivities so I thought. My daughter (21 yrs) knocked on the window and said mom" Do u see what I see?" I rolled down my window and said (I thought I was the only one. Record it and see what happens.) So she recorded this thing hovering,flying left to right, changing bright colors and eventually dropping out of site behind the trees. Then we left after that not caring about the firework display. Still questioning what we saw. Then I look up above our car their were 2 acorn fireballs in the sky. They were flying at a perfect distance apart from each other bright orange. I tried to get my husband to pull over but he refuse. When we pulled up in front of our house the fireballs remained across in the distance. We stood out side no longer having doubts what we were witnessing. The fireball on the left flew to the left and disappeared within seconds. The one on the right remained about 30 seconds and appeared to follow the other fireball repeating the same path. We came in the house in a amazement. My daughter went to lay her son down for bed and I heard her say "MOM". By the time I got to the window they disappeared again.She saw 3 more fireballs in a triangle shape formation. Seriously!!! I may of had doubts in the past but as crazy and maybe even insane as this may sound I am now a believer.
July 3, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Henderson Bay, NY
Saw 2 bright white lights with a little bit of red to them. They looked circular in shape and what appears to be about 3 miles out onto Lake Ontario. They were flying in formation and then would just stay put in one area. One of the objects started to fly straight up in the air and disappeared and a few moments later the second object did the same thing. About 30 seconds later one of the objects appeared about 1 mile in the opposite direction and flew directly over my head and I could hear no noise from it. It kept going back out into the lake and just disappeared.
July 3, 2015 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE
Phoenix, NY
On Friday, July 3rd, 2015, at 9:20pm, as I was leaving the Nice-n-Easy parking lot in Phoenix, NY, I saw a stationary object in the southern sky above St. Stephen’s Church. I extended my left arm toward the object and raised my thumb as a reference for size. This object was the size of my thumbnail. I estimated it to be approximately eight hundred feet above the ground. I based this estimate on the objects location in relation to the peak of St Stevens Church below it, and the cumulus cloud cover behind it. I would describe this object as a ball of light. It was bright red, and twinkled orange to yellow at its core. I had determined at this point it was not an airplane, helicopter, drone, or fire work flare. It was stationary. There was no sound associated with the object. I drove out of the parking lot on to Culver Street and traveled west intending to cross the bridge to lock island. I continued to view the object. I slowed down in order to observe the object for three or four seconds at a glance. The object was now moving west parallel to my line of travel. It had matched my speed of fifteen miles an hour and was visible at sixty degrees to my left as I traveled South West. While I was on the bridge I again compared the object to the landscape and my thumb nail. The cumulus cloud cover remained a reliable reference in the background. It was now just above the trees located in the area of the old paper mill. I estimated the object to be approximately two hundred feet above the ground. Its size was still consistent with my thumbnail. I continued on Lamson Road and turned onto Pendegast Road. After traveling only a short distance, I pulled to the side of the road. The object was behind me. I stepped out of my truck. At this point the object passed very close to me, approximately fifteen degrees off my zenith. As the object moved in front of me I began to record it on my cell phone. It was now in front of me traveling in a Northwest direction. The object climbed steadily and maintained a trajectory of approximately sixty degrees above the horizon. The length of my recording was forty-one seconds. The time stamp of the recording was 20150707_213513. I estimate the entire event lasted approximately fifteen minutes. If you have questions please contact me I would be happy to talk with you.
July 1, 2015 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Shirley, NY
All of a sudden I see this large white light kind of looked like the moon like fly up And stop. It stayed in 1 place for a few seconds I stood their and stared st it As I was trying to figure out what it was it took off to my left And was gone in less than a second. I told my son about it the next day and he said his friend saw the same exact thing. This is the same area where supposedly a ufo Crashed in smith haven park
June 29, 2015 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Sugar Loaf, NY
There were three crafts, moving at a speed faster than an airplane. They stopped and hovered very high. They appeared to be triangular, or at least the lights were triangular. One moved at a very slow pace and stopped again. I went inside after about 10 minutes, and they remained barely moving.
June 28, 2015 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Poughkeepsie, NY
While driving with a couple friends and myself, I saw a flying object, which appeared to be an airplane in the distance, and had a blinking, bright green light. It was traveling in the same direction (parallel) as the car. It was moving at intense speeds, but I thought nothing at the time, for it is like watching the moon while in a car; it seems to follow you. (For what i thought). The aircraft changed course perpendicular to my car. It flew right over the car and thats when everyone else in the car noticed it. As it was directly over the car, we all saw it was a triangular flying object, which had white lights on the bottom of the aircraft on each angle. Also, a blinking green light in the middle of the triangle. (Hence, the bright green light I saw first.) It zoomed pass us in the perpendicular direction at an un-normal speed and disappeared in a heartbeat. (ALL WITNESSES SAW THE SAME EXACT THING, WE WERE IN SHOCK. Also, we were all sober.) Witness corrects date. Terrestrial aircraft do not have blinking green lights. PD
June 28, 2015 · 7:20 PM · OTHER
Floral Park, NY
Upon entering my backyard after going shopping, my wife and I spotted this object floating low in the sky. To me it looked like a seahorse/drone-ish looking type thing, it was black. It's really hard to describe it. I have pictures and video to back up what we saw. The object first went north then headed east as it slowly climbed into the sky. I followed it using binoculars as it floated off to the east until I couldn't see it anymore. It also appeared to change shapes. At first I considered it to be balloons, but even upon looking at the pictures the object doesn't look like a balloon at all. Made no noise. I'm puzzled.
June 26, 2015 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
High Falls, NY
My friend and I were sitting outside on my porch, when approximately 30 bright white orbs came in a cluster to my yard. They stayed away for a while and kept moving around each other and exploring the far end of the yard. They kept gradually moving closer to us. Their size was approximately 2 feet in diameter. Eventually 6 broke away from the group together and came very close to us. The closest any one got to us, however, was about 6 feet away. Then they all left together. They never went higher than midway up the pine trees in my yard. They left from the far side of the yard where there are a lot of bushes alongside the road, so I couldn't see. When I mentioned the event to people who also spend time at the local swimming hole, they were not shocked--saying simply, "Oh, the orbs." I described them and my friends said they have also seen them more than once. Apparently a lot of people in the vicinity of my home have… ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I apologize for that. I realized almost as soon as I hit submit. The date was June 26th. I just found out about your site from a friend so I'm a bit tardy. ((END ADDENDUM)) We have corrected the date above. We wonder whether this is a serious report, or a hoax. We have attempted to telephone the witness, but unsuccessfully. PD
June 26, 2015 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Angola, NY
I was talking to a friend on my cell phone to a friend cell single was lost I looked up thinking it was a b2 I seen a read orb completely quite as a ufo investigator I judge it by the size of the moon about 20 ft. round traveling west at about mock 9 did not get a pick do to the high rate of speed and my week off no equipment to propyl gage it I figured I will report it I did report it to my team leader too
June 26, 2015 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Albany, NY
((name and address of witness deleted)) Second Street ((deleted)) Albany, New York 12206 ((telephone number deleted)) About me: I am a former ((deleted--military)) trained and with other skills including observation. I later reenlisted in the ((deleted)) and stood watches looking for anything approaching and around the ships I was on at sea; this was in the water and air. After the military, I trained as a civilian pilot, but stopped my flight school during 2001 on 9/11. I watch the sky and know what I see. On 6/26 at approximately 2100 hours, I was southbound in Albany on route 787 on the ramp to interstate I- 90’s, the arterial. About 30 degrees north of the horizon and due south I saw three orange pinpoint spots in the sky. This was different from normal air traffic. There were no standard aviation lights which are green, white, and red. The spots went from two and one behind at a third. They were traveling at a high rate of speed and not on a normal flight path, usually in this part of the sky in the landing path to Albany Airport. They were far in the distance. Their path was from east to west. I was into a turn and couldn’t keep my eyes on them due to traffic. When I was out of traffic they were gone. They were not stars there were two planets in the low sky to the west that might be Venus and Jupiter, maybe Mars and they were white in color. I saw no stars. This was not glare or a reflection. These were moving and orange. The first two were about five degrees apart and the third back at ten degrees from the second and a little lower in the sky maybe by one or two degree. I do not believe they were any form of meteor (falling stars) because there was no trail or streak and they weren’t bright enough. They were traveling at the same rate of speed paralleled to the horizon. ((name of witness deleted))
June 26, 2015 · 1:30 AM · FORMATION
Rochester, NY
Sitting in car, originally observed 3 orange balls of light in triangle formation, slowly traveling southwest towards Brighton area. The lead light moved over trees and out of sight, then the two in the rear of the formation started to move towards each other until they were basically one ball of orange light. It then proceeded to move alone back the way they came (northwest, towards Irondequoit) after a couple of seconds it stopped and a 4th ball of light moved into view from behind trees heading in the same southwest route the original 3 were taking. The now 2 orange lights moved in what looked like a parallel formation, with one leading just a little in front. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 23, 2015 · 6:21 PM · CIRCLE
Forest Hills, NY
Rainy and high wind for few minutes. No wind and Rabin (sic. Rain) stop when craft enter my yard from North gate. It was spinning counter clock wise. The circular craft steeled (sic. Still) on the ground and spin stopped. Take off in about 2:00 minutes without any noise or smoke and no wind. Just gone in few seconds, great speed.
June 23, 2015 · 6:21 PM · CIRCLE
Forest Hills, NY
On June 23rd, 2015, at 18:21 PM New York time it was rain started with gusty wind for only few minutes. I was in my house by 2nd floor window. I saw a circular shape craft flying over the north side gate of my house yard. I had a cell phone in my hand; I start taking pictures. The circular craft was spinning at a very high speed counter clock wise. The craft speed did not create any wind or sound. Then I fill (sic. Feel) a wood burning type smell. The rain and wind stooped. A very low noise started like small firecrekers. The craft sateled on ground and stop spinning. I can see it was perfect round object. There was some haze around the craft. The haze was there but, there was no smoke. I can not see much details on the craft except it was about 25' to 30' in diameter. In a little while I lift off and gone with a very high speed. I can say in about one or two seconds. I take off vertical. This entire event happened in about 2:00 minutes. I took a total of 5 pictures. The grass in yard became lite yellow. We have spoken via telephone with both the wife, who allegedly witnessed the craft, and the husband, to whom the wife had recounted details of the sighting. Both parties sounded to us to be serious-minded, and credible. PD
June 22, 2015 · 11:55 PM
Endwell, NY
At approximately 11:55 p.m. tonight, June 22nd, 2015, recited (sic. Sighted?) an object approaching from the south heading north near our house and at first it appeared to look like a cloud it was sort of oval shape and then a light appeared in the center of it as it continued moving north and then it began to fade back to a smaller round ball shape and eventually just moved backwards away from us and disappeared. ((NOTE FROM MR. TED MOLCZAN)) Hello Peter, Your hunch probably is correct. The Sentinel 2A satellite was launched on a Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center, last night at 9:52 PM EDT (Jun 23 01:52 UTC). Coverage of the launch was here: http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/06/22/vv05-mission-status-center/ SeeSat-L received several reports of sightings near 23:49 EDT (3:49 UTC), of what appears to have been exhaust from the final burn of the Vega rocket's AVUM liquid fueled upper stage. That burn lowered the perigee to ensure that the object decays from orbit within a reasonable time, in order to curb the growth of space debris. http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0193.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0194.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0195.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0198.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2015/0199.html Marco Langbroek blogged his analysis: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2015/06/aurora-hunter-images-last-moments-of.html Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Best regards, Ted ((END NOTE)) . Out-gassing event of spent rocket. PD
June 22, 2015 · 9:10 PM · FIREBALL
East Meadow, NY
It was two objects that looked like flames at first very very bright coming towards each other... then they diverged in opposite directions and the one going towards my right frame of visions disappeared, the left one remained for a while longer then went straight up and then out in to the distance
June 22, 2015 · 3:00 AM · UNKNOWN
New York City, NY
I was shooting a video of the full moon and while I was making adjustments to the shutter speed some strange images appeared.
June 21, 2015 · 9:24 PM · SPHERE
Amherst, NY
I initially saw red orb light out my west facing window at 9:24 pm. I often look out my window, as i am a smoker. It was so unusual that i called my son over to have a look. \ As he did the red light seemed to have a bright white spotlight behind it. The spotlight then gave way to the red light, starting the size of a speck, and ending even smaller. Never bigger than a star in my eyes, faded gradually but steadily back into the night. I tried to film such encounter but only voice feed remains. I tried to stay calm, do the right thing. But, what is the right thing? What do i do now? What does this mean for me, exactly? What do i do? I am excited to hear of ANY progress and was most certainly excited to get your call tonight. Cant wait to hear from you again! Regards, ((name deleted))
June 19, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OVAL
Wilton, NY
Followed it for about 30 seconds, then it disappeared.
June 18, 2015 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Pottersville, NY
No sound or blinking lights, just the 12 objects moving slowly for approximately 60 minutes.
June 18, 2015 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
Webster, NY
Sitting outside at a small neighborhood pier, my friend and I spotted a flying object in the sky that was flying remarkably low. At first it was very far away, and it looked like it could be a small plane, but it was moving pretty fast. Shortly after we mentioned how low it was flying, and how quickly it was moving. It turned directly toward us. It mostly just looked like a large ray of light and its speed picked up even faster. At that point we started to run. I looked back as we were running to see where it was in the sky, and the object appeared to be dome-shaped with some formational lights located under the main light source – my friend says she saw 4 lights in particular – and it was extremely close to us; not shining any beams but simply progressing in our direction. We ran until it was out of sight, and it seemed to have just disappeared into the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 14, 2015 · 9:45 PM · FIREBALL
Raleigh, NY
Bright orange globe flying in straight line. Wife and I both saw it. No sound. No lights. Silent. Traveling from a North to South without changing course. Moving at an un-known speed or altitude. Hard to judge, since it was a bright fireball. I'm a private pilot, and have never seen anything like this. Traveled over the Raleigh Airspace, that isn't normal pattern for this area.
June 13, 2015 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Jamestown, NY
A bright, large, light that had an orange haze around its perimeter appeared in the northern sky. It was flying slowing at an altitude of approx. three to four thousand feet. From a distance, it appeared to have a few tiny sparks shooting out from the bottom. The sparks disappeared as the object got closer. It had no other lights of any kind that would identify it as a conventional aircraft. I did hear the faint sound of an airplane that was flying at a much higher altitude in the distance. This bright light that looked like a large star with orange around it flew past me and slowly ascended until it it completely disappeared. Just as I was trying to process what I had just seen, another bright light identical to the first one flew by me, repeating the same pattern.