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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
September 20, 2014 · 8:16 PM · LIGHT
New York City (Jamaica), NY
They were 3 bright orange lights in the sky sitting still for a while. They were blinking. They were evenly spaced in a straight line. They sat there for like 2 mins then disappeared. They reappeared from time to time. Then after a few more sightings only one would appear in different locations in the sky above. Until it just vanished.. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 19, 2014 · 8:15 PM · OVAL
North Tonawanda, NY
Wile walking my dog. I saw an oval, bright orange and glittering. The object traveled at a constant rate of speed. Going from ESE to WNW against the prevailing winds.
September 19, 2014 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Patchogue, NY
When I lost visual contact I looked to see if the other one was still there and it remained stationary. I went inside. Kind of spooked!
September 18, 2014 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Balmville, NY
This object was recorded on one of 4 Cameras I use for Sky Watching. The footage is recorded on my Security DVR and I review when I have the opportunity to do so. This object comes from below trailing and curving to the right between a Break in The Clouds… Stops very briefly and with incredible speed leave the vicinity. It appears to have 3 lights or possible propulsion lights on it. I did capture and object earlier that evening as well. I will send both video links of these objects.
September 16, 2014 · 9:27 PM · CIRCLE
Newburgh, NY
This video was recorded on my Skywatching Camera that I use daily. I have 4 cameras set up and this was captured on camera 4. All my videos are recorded on a security camera DVR and are watermarked. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello Mr Davenport… I did send an Email to you last night with the video...If you did not receive it, I will provide a link here for the Youtube Link of it....there I provide an Audio presentation of my Captured Footage as well as variable speeds of the object.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5V7WA6vyWQ As I mentioned previously, this object was recorded on my Skywatching Equipment...I have 4 Cameras set up every night throughout the night time hours...I did not see this object personally only after going through the footage the following day....The camera were pointed straight up toward Lyra....I have approx. 11 secs of footage. Please let me know what you think about this object...I have witnessed satellites,meteors, planes even bugs and nothing fits this description.... Thank You for taking the time.... ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
September 15, 2014 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Goshen, NY
My girlfriend saw what started as an unusual light in the night sky. It was observed for aprox 30 min then noticed an aircraft overhead. Object then became bright, then dimmed to reveal a shape of an inverted wye. Then object became illuminated again moving to the left on the horizontal seemingly paralleling the aircraft and mimicking the strobe pattern of the aircraft. She then lost sight of the aircraft (plane) and the object was seen doing circular motions and then vanished to the right in the night sky. There is mention of hearing the actual aircraft (plane) overhead but nothing for the "object" and we had another sighting on sat 09/13/14 at aprox 2130 hrs as a blinking light white,red,green all at the same time from an object at a great distance. Object seemed to move within the same area for an extended amount of time before it not seen again. I almost called the PD to ask if there was helicopter traffic over Middletown but didn't want to come off as a freak. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 14, 2014 · 10:55 PM · FLASH
Dansville, NY
On the night of September 14, 2014, at around 22:55, I was walking into work. I always look up at the sky. I work in Dansville, N.Y., and that night it was a clear night. As I was walking in to work I saw a flash of Light. It lasted about 2 seconds and was bright enough to light up the sky and to be able to see detail of the hills like it was day time. I checked to see if there was any Storms in the area for lightning but, the closest lightning strikes was over 1,100 miles away. I also listen to see if I could hear the fire whistle because of the brightness of the light I thought that maybe there might have been an accident or maybe something exploded like a transformer. Something logical to explain the flash but, there was no noise and the fire department was not deployed. So I have no idea what the flash was. It was strange.
September 13, 2014 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Duanesburg, NY
Bizarrely, staring at the object gave both of us the perception of VERY large, red lightning streaks emanating from it. I vocalized this red streaks experience and my wife said the same was happening to her; the streaks appeared more orange to her. At this point we pull out and iphone 5 to capture the brilliance of it on camera. Naturally, the video just shows a bright white sphere against a black background. The camera could not see what we saw. We must have watched the sphere for a few minutes. We had the inclination to drive another .5 miles to go home and get a better camera. We started the car and the object lost its red brilliance. Within 5 seconds of losing the red streaks characteristics, it disappeared by closing in on itself. While driving and lamenting this fact, a much faster moving and closer red and white object was visible in the Southwestern sky. The first object was far away. This second one was so close and so low that it appeared to descend quickly just over some trees not that far away. The road did not exactly allow us to investigate exactly where we thought this thing was aiming to land. The second red object lacked the red streaks characteristic of the first one.
September 13, 2014 · 10:20 PM · CYLINDER
New York City (Queens), NY
At first I thought maybe it was a helicopter, but the object traveled from one side the sky to the other in about two seconds, then blinked and completely disappeared. The whole thing took less than five seconds. No airplane or helicopter I've seen ever moved this fast or blinked off like that. Wow!
September 13, 2014 · 10:10 PM · FIREBALL
Levittown, NY
Unknown object appeared to be flying at a very high altitude; too high to observe shape. It was glowing red/orange. We thought that it may be a plane on fire. Only one object observed. Flew by very quickly headed south. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 11, 2014 · 7:43 PM · FIREBALL
New York City (Brooklyn), NY
At 19:43 this evening of 9/11/14, I was walking West to meet my husband at his job.I was walking down 40th Street in Brooklyn toward 3rd avenue. I was on the phone with my friend from work and to my left, in the sky, I saw a ball of flames gliding in the sky. It was gliding at the rate which a balloon would glide,not fast or slow just an easy glide...I kept looking to figure out what it was,all I could tell was there were flames bouncing up and down inside this ball. The sky was dark behind it. You could still tell there was a dark halo above the flames,as if they were encapsulated in a ball, sort of oval/egg shaped encapsulated. It continued to glide in a North Eastern direction for about 2 minutes, until it passed over buildings and out of my view. There was only one,the color of the flames were red/orange glowing with white tips. I am going to draw a photo of what I saw and mail it to you, along with emailing a photo I got on my cell phone. My phone would not allow me to video. The video part was not showing up for me to activate, that was weird as well. I was able to enable video, once the fireball disappeared. It was at a height where you knew it was high up ,but low enough that it was clear to see the bouncing flames within it. I have never seen anything like this in my entire life.
September 11, 2014 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
New York (Remsaleer Train Station), NY
3 spiraling and circling orbs over the Rensaleer Amtrak train station. They appeared to be intelligently moving, and winked in and out. They also darted off at high velocity and steep angles. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 11, 2014 · 2:00 AM · OTHER
New York City (Bronx), NY
It was a weird triangle shape. After some though it looked like a stingray (without the tail.) Behind it was a "pyramid" with flashing lights around the perimeter. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 8, 2014 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Fulton, NY
Witnessed a flashing light above the tops of the trees. At first glance I thought it was my favorite star flashing and warbling. Then realized it was too close to be a star but too far to be a plane or helicopter, as well as not really moving like a plane or like a satellite. It appeared to be rotating in an odd way, sort of warbling as it slowly dropped below the tree line diagonally to the right of its original location. It was flashing red yellow and white lights or reflecting something but no pattern could be discerned. Appeared to be drifting across the sky about as slow as watching the hands of a clock.
September 8, 2014 · 10:03 PM · UNKNOWN
Binghamton, NY
The object I saw was a good distance away. I'm not very good at telling distances but maybe around 20-25 miles away. When I first saw it, It seemed to be a plane but when I took a second glance it was very odd. It was flying horizontally across the night sky. It flew straight like a plane. It Also seemed to have blinkers on, also second glance I notice that the blinkers were like three separate lights. First one would go off the back of the object, then the middle, and then the front and go back the end of the object and start al over. Next Thing after it completed three blinks it seemed to skip forward a little bit and then start the blinking process all over again. Now I couldn't make out if it was a plane shape at all but it flew straight like one. I don't have an illustration because my camera wouldn't be able to pick anything at the distance up, and I couldn't make out a shape either. Hope this helps.
September 8, 2014 · 6:15 PM · FIREBALL
Liberty, NY
Driving on rt 52 going west saw a ray pointing north east in the sky - small not moving. A Star to the right of the ray and then another ray right of the star - ray was pointing northwest. Star disappeared (still light sky)
September 8, 2014 · 12:00 AM · EGG
Schenectady, NY
One egg shaped object with odd wings on each side. Orange / yellowish color hovering above the trees approx. 2 minutes then flew quickly across the sky an was gone from sight.
September 7, 2014 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Fort Edward, NY
One glowing orange (seemingly) rectangular sort of shape moving steadily as a plane would, from north to south across a clear evening sky. Constant orange glow, no flashing lights, or change of color. Once overhead,(12:00) the glowing disappeared at around the 2:00 mark. No sound could be heard. My wife and granddaughter returned from the store, and had been watching it while driving home. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 7, 2014 · 4:20 PM · LIGHT
Lisbon, NY
Was outside and saw a red light in the sky coming towards me. I noticed it was lower than a plane and had no noise at all. Called my brother and he went out and saw it also. It then changed direction and then vanished. During this time all the dogs around were going nuts also. I have never seen anything like it in my life.
September 5, 2014 · 11:00 PM · DISK
Lackawanna, NY
A Flashing UFO Above The Woods And Just Flew Up in the air at like 80 mph. there was 1, but it was BIG.
September 3, 2014 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Clarence, NY
UFO seen going over Harris Hill Road in the town of Clarence, NY on the night of 09/03/2014, around 9:30pm. I was driving toward an intersection and stopped at red light. Bright white light in distance was brighter than any planets, but not as large as moon. Upon starting to drive from red light, I noticed white light approaching pretty fast until trees on side of road obscured it. Then as I drove, I saw a flat-triangle-shaped (point facing up) object that was larger than a plane would be, flying relatively low to ground, about as high as the highest treetop and then a little higher. Red and yellowish/white lights (2 on each side of middle point) blinked in a radiating pattern outward toward sides. Object passed diagonally at a 45-degreeish angle from one side of road over and was then obscured by trees on left side of road. Not sure of sound as my vehicle is loud. No other witness in car (I was alone.)
September 3, 2014 · 7:00 PM · FLASH
New York City, NY
On the Yankees vs Boston Redsox Broadcast on September 3rd. They had a close up of the moon from one of their high lense television camera pointed at the moon (at about 1 hour 52 minutes and 24 seconds into the broadcast)(approx) If you look to the bottom left of the screen when they are showing the moon, you will see something streaking from the moon. Its very quick shot but definitely something shooting from the moon.
September 3, 2014 · 3:57 AM · TRIANGLE
Brentwood, NY
Heard loud noise, like a helicopter, when I looked out my window I saw a triangular type shape aircraft hovering just above the tree tops. It had a few white and red lights. It was not a helicopter. I have never seen an aircraft this shape hover as this one did.
September 1, 2014 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Glens Falls, NY
While skywatching at 8 pm I saw a bright white light traverse the sky from horizon to horizon. It travelled extremely fast at about 400 to 500 ft above the ground. The duration of the sighting was about 5 seconds. The light seemed to have a slight arc downward as it passed about two houses south of my home. It ocurred so quickly that I was unable to do anything but stare as it whizzed by, silently. There was no discernible structure, and it didn't blink, or flash. It just vanished to the east going below the tree line.