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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 23, 2014 · 12:05 AM · DISK
Kenmore, NY
I noticed a very bright light in the sky, towards the direction of the city of Buffalo, which I think is West. It would have been about 2 miles away and not very high in the sky, as it was at about the height of the radio/tv tower on top of channel WIVB, which was to this light’s right. It was stationary for several minutes, then started to move slowly. It picked up speed, but not altitude. It went over my house and In the direction of Tonawanda. It had a flatish bottom and on one side of the bottom was a neon green light. It made the sound of a loud vacuum, a pulsing sound. Very unlike a plane or a helicopter. It made a fast circular maneuver and moved left and out of sight at an incredible speed.
December 21, 2014 · 12:00 AM · UNKNOWN
New York City (Manhattan), NY
I could not sleep decided to sit near my computer by the kitchen window facing South towards the Freedom Towers. The night was clear, all is very quiet, I felt as if something was there on my right so I looked and stared at the top of the building across and noticed an unusual object with colorful lights flashing red and blue just hovering above about 4 city blocks away at a height of 20 stories. I have seen stationary helicopters before at a same height and distance and they are very loud or have a fixed light undercarriage and at a greater distance have a vibrating noise very noticeable. This object was just hovering there between two roof lights at a distance, I told my partner and grabbed her cell phone to record, she looked at it and we questioned eachother; what could it be? then while recording this light moved straight up like an elevator and as if spotted then stopped traveled right toward the West in a fine precision turn very quietly into a straight parallel line then it made a turn our direction where it was about 200 feet away, this object was under 7 feet long about 4 feet wide but could not see a shape due to the lights; this is when I got startled because the window was opened and there was no noise coming out of the object just flashing colorful red and blue lights it stopped hovered for about 3 seconds; Then the object ascended about 1000 feet up and away then stopped where it started to descend slowly as if a slow falling star, the Freedom Tower is noticeable about now in the background. Then when at an equal height as in the beginning the unknown object made a left sharp fine left turn towards the East moving very parallel straight then stopped again then as if in an escalating motion continued in its path disappearing behind the buildings traveling East as if heading towards the East River; unknown object seemed to be heading towards the Williamsburg Bridge area. My research shows No NYPD, Commercial or News Helicopters reported in the area this date and time thus explains why I am reporting it as an unknown object
December 20, 2014 · 10:14 PM · LIGHT
West Hempstead, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 20, 2014 · 10:00 PM · CONE
Staten Island, NY
Some strange flying maneuvers displayed. I tried to focus in using telescope but image wasn't focused. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
December 18, 2014 · 5:45 PM · FORMATION
Staten Island, NY
Driving in New Dorp in Staten Island, observed several single red/orange lights, low flying, no sound towards the ocean, and 3 flying together in trianglular formation. Saw about 3 sets of triangle formation. They seemed to "float" almost reminded me of Chinese lantern. Took video which I will attach to an email.
December 18, 2014 · 5:45 PM · FIREBALL
Staten Island, NY
New Dorp/Staten Island /New York City: First a series of red dots low in the air below planes. No sound, and swift motion. Followed was a clear red orb that quickly went by the red dots. The red orb passed and for about 10 minutes after more and more red dots followed that craft. The location of the event is: Lat/Long: 40.57 deg. N/74.1 deg. W. The elevation is 36ft. Wind speed at this time was NW 16 G 26 mph. All movement was toward the Atlantic Ocean.
December 17, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Sherburne, NY
While driving South on route 12 just south of Sherburne N.Y. my wife and I seen a very bright vivid blue light on the sky. It was approximately 11:00pm (23:00) On December 17, 2014. At first it appeared not to move, we observed this for a minute ,the location and color was peculiar so I pulled over to the side of the road . It was a cloudy night , the clouds were high , no stars could be seen in the sky. The light was located high in the sky at 45 degree angle in front us ,above route 12 . Then it shot across the sky very fast to our left from in front of us to a ten o’clock position . It stopped made a few short up and down , right and left movements and real small tight circles then shot across the sky to our right to a two o’clock position, it stopped then disappeared . The light did change from the bright blue to and amber color a few times while moving > I attempted to take picture with a digital camera but it could not focus in and take pictures But I did get 47 seconds of video on my Ipod . I estimate we observed this for 3 to 4 minutes . The light was high in the sky above an open field when it when out .
December 13, 2014 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Pawling, NY
Our family was sitting down after dinner in our dining room when one of our guests stepped outside to take a phone call. While he was on his cell phone, he noticed two red round and erratically pulsating objects off to the northwest. One of the objects dipped down into the treeline near a local park called Green Mountain Lake (which is off the Appalachian Trail and located near a ridge that connects to West Mountain.) The first object hovered visibly in the forest on the mountain-side for a few minutes. Then, it quickly turned white and shot off at in at a diagonal, moving southwest at great speed. The speed at which this object moved confirmed it was not a plane or helicopter. Being close to the door, our guest yelled back to us, "Do you guys want to see a UFO?" With that, 3 other family members including myself went outside and where we also briefly witnessed the second red glowing object repeat the same pattern: dipping into the treeline, hoveri! ng, turning white and shooting off at great speed. Our neighbor, who was walking his dog, also saw the incident and asked us, "Did you see that?" In addition, as we live in a high traffic flight zone, there was one airplane flying at a higher alititude moving in westward direction possibly toward Stewart Airport at the time.
December 12, 2014 · 9:10 AM · RECTANGLE
New York City, NY
I was taking a nap, and woke up out of sleep because of a loud sound, almost like an airplane jet. I looked out my window and saw a strange rectangle object in the sky. It stayed in my eye sight for nearly 10 minutes. I am a bit freaking out right now. I have pictures. When it left, it was rectangle shape and left on a tilted slant. It moved out of my vision once before it left, when an airplane was flying through (this object was not in the normal flight path of the planes ). Once the airplane left, it came back. The lights were green and white, i saw a red one flash in one picture making 3 lights. I think it to be rectangle but in one picture it looks like a disk. They are here!!
December 11, 2014 · 6:00 AM · OVAL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
As I was leaving to work at 6am, I sported it 2 very bright lights high in the sky. They had a oval shape and will moving in and out of the cloud. They were moving in the direction of the city. Then they just stop and stay there motionless for about 2 hours, like they were just observing. Then they both took off at a very high speed up and disappear. I have being very skeptical believing in ufo but I do now.
December 8, 2014 · 7:20 AM · CIRCLE
Yorktown Heights, NY
I've never seen an object like before. It last about 7 seconds and it was flying west towards Rockland/Orange County. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) I remember the object being round. There were no lights on the object. It seemed to be just a little bit bigger than the appearance of the sun in the morning sky. I saw it for 7 seconds, or so, as I was driving, but then trees and other objects blocked my view of it. It was just amazing and shocking at the same time... Best Regards, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
December 6, 2014 · 6:10 PM · TRIANGLE
Patterson, NY
As we approached, we lost sight behing the trees and buildings. We then turn right onto 292. 2-3 minutes later we see just past Mooney Hill road we see the same lights in a triangle hovering a few hundred feet over tue trees, remaining in one spot. It was raining pretty decently at the time but the object was far below the clouds. After continuing down 292 for another minute, we lost sight of the object behind a mountain.
December 6, 2014 · 12:37 AM · OTHER
South Shirley, NY
it was 12/6/2014 8:39 pm Saturday night started with unexplained electrical glitch, my cell phone untouched on desk called the house phone, the house phone number was showing on the television, me and my 8 yr old looked at each other and she said mommy your cells on the desk how did it do that, so i said i don't know that's really strange! even though i was shaken a little thinking in my head of maybe some kind of electrical explanation,i didn't want to scare her so i just left it alone, but knew there really wasn't one! So later on that night my husband had got a call for roadside triple A assistance, he was a tow truck driver asked me if i wanted to go, being my daughter was asleep i took a short ride with him, on the way back coming done with the call. We were on our way home heading south on William Floyd in south Shirley NY were we reside two blocks from the water it was very clear out weather wise, as i looked up i saw what appeared to be a massive black footb! all shaped object slightly on an angel with two lights one on one side and one on the other,it appeared to be hovering over a house but in all actuality it was so enormous Also very silent! It was over the Atlantic ocean close to the Island in the Long Island sound ! i looked at it for a minute without taking my eyes off of it, not believing my eyes i yelled out to my husband look what is that? what the hell is that? my husband driving looked up at it and twice as well in frantic fear said "what the ((deleted)) what the ((deleted))!!! He began driving erratically scared and in disbelief!! He turned the block and we were home not far at all from this ship or the sound. I did want to go back but my husband was too scared too i was more curious! The approximate of this was Latitude 40 44'18.24"N Longitude -72 50'39.95"W I am so positive in what i saw my eyes were stuck on it and the U.F.O was so low in hovering being completely still,there's no if and's or buts about it! They ha! ve interest under the water i believe! Later on that night my ! 8 yr old climbed in bed with us,saying she was scared being alone it was in the Am. As she was sleeping with us she woke up and said she saw next to my side of the bed a man as she described it with a cloak on but she said a long coat with a hood no face just dark with red eyes!and then it went away!she then went back to sleep! she had told us in the morning when we were up. my daughter was never exposed to anything or watched anything ever of the sort on television or anywhere else to know about anything like that.I believe all this was connected to the ship before and after the sighting i believe it new i was the curious one and explains why it was on my side of the bed!im not sure,but i do know there many different species of them do to the different kinds of ships!
December 3, 2014 · 10:10 PM · CIRCLE
Stony Point, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 29, 2014 · 9:17 PM · FIREBALL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Saw an fireball come out of the clouds approx. From Myrtle Ave. crossing park and flew towards manhattan before it disappeared into the clouds at the edge of Brooklyn. The first one flew low enough on park ave and stood a few seconds observing me before it flew off. The center was like a yellow orange fire with a glow surrounding it. The others followed the first every 6 mins at higher heights.
November 26, 2014 · 4:30 AM · OTHER
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
I was on my way to work. 1 object, flashing lights, could not see body of object. It did not move like conventional aircraft. It moved from north to south. I thought it was a helicopter but copters don't move the way this did. The lights where blinking white and blue.
November 24, 2014 · 11:25 PM · UNKNOWN
Rochester, NY
I was driving home from work heading east down route 104 from route 259. I caught a very fast object heading left to right. The angle at which I saw it was about 20 degrees. I am aware this is not much to go by but I have seen plenty of meteor showers and plenty of air shows and this seemed very strange how fast it was moving and the location in the sky. I wanted to post this on hopes someone else had also seen the same thing.
November 23, 2014 · 9:03 PM · LIGHT
Waterloo, NY
Extremely bright white, large, stationary light in west. overcast night. No flashing or movement. Went into store, it was gone when we exited.
November 16, 2014 · 9:45 AM · CIRCLE
Albany, NY
We drove under it and we couldn't see it anymore. But as we drove under it we tried to hear if it was a helicopter or a plane. No plane could possibly move that slow and in circular motion. The object flew away, and we were unable to locate it.
November 15, 2014 · 8:20 PM · FORMATION
Elmira, NY
Formation of 20 Orange lights, chevron in shape - could have easily been one craft as all 20 lights moved in unison. I have never seen this in person, until now - but looked exactly like the video of the Phoenix lights! Watched for about 60 seconds before running inside to get my wife - by the time we got back outside the lights had traveled over half the town and quickly began "turning off" lowest light than in perfect sync all lights until only lead light was visible. Lead light continued traveling for about 30 secs before fading quickly. Not sure if there are any airforce bases in the area, as it could have been described as flares - but in my six months of living here I've never seen any airforce activity and it would have been dropping hot flares right into the city neighborhoods - and I cannot imagine them doing this. Furthermore, the perfect sync of the lights seemed unlikely for a flare drop. Absolutely amazing to see.
November 15, 2014 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Astoria (Queens), NY
Walking to N train on Hoyt ave when I saw a fireball seemed so close then it just fizzled out. Happened so quick.
November 15, 2014 · 5:51 PM · FIREBALL
New York City, NY
My sister and I was walking home.I squeeze her arm and yelled look at the blue light. We saw a bright blue glowing ball in the sky. It went so fast across and disappeared. It lasted no more than 5 seconds.
November 15, 2014 · 12:45 AM · CHEVRON
Cambria, NY
Stationary bright white light sometimes flashing also red green at times, sometimes large white middle Light flanked by two dimmer white lights on each side half way up from horizon below Orion, wife and I watched with 10 x 50 binds for hour stayed to the southeast stationary close to over bflo inter airpt
November 10, 2014 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Holtsville, NY
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD