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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 16, 2023 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE

Harrison, NY

I was driving on I-684, I saw it coming towards me so I looked up,It flew over my car, I looked at it, It didn't appear to have wings.

December 9, 2023 · 6:42 PM · SPHERE

My son aged 10 told me he saw lights in the night sky that he’d never seen before. I was in the shower and my wife was working in the other room. I came out and saw these orange lights. I hadn’t seen these lights before either. We called my wife in who also observed them. We watched them until they all floated into the clouds and vanished. My son theorized they were Chinese lanterns. Perhaps they were, but I felt it couldn’t hurt to alert someone to their presence. Thank you so much for taking the time to look into this. PS I have video but the file size was too large so I put some screen grabs for you to see. There was a screen in front of the camera lens but I opened the screen for the end of the video. [NUFORC annotation: Chinese Lantern - Possible]

December 4, 2023 · 10:45 PM · FLASH

Corinth, NY

Looked up saw blink flash appear then it was gone

December 2, 2023 · 6:54 PM · SPHERE

New York, NY

Ok so I’m leaving RiteAid and I looked up over the elevated train towards the clouds. Don’t know why. I see a perfectly round orb shape hovering - it looked like it was hovering - then it was up, then down. Went into clouds and came out either up or back to the left etc. it seemed to be hiding in clouds. At one point the shape changed and it looked black w a light in the center. I was watching this - looking for a second light - nothing. Then it just disappeared like poof!!! At one point I saw an airplane heading towards it. That caught my eye because I’m close to Manhattan and no planes are allowed over it now. So this plane looked like it came over the city - which you can see from here, and the orb disappears but after the plane veered away from it, the orb reappeared. It went east, west, up and down

November 30, 2023 · 4:59 PM · SPHERE

Gouverneur, NY

wife and daughter called saying I think we just seen a ufo . I went out back with my phone and watched the sky in the area they said and one orb showed up turned to 4 orbs from left to right two more times about 15 mins apart, I videoed with my phone both times. Returned inside and set up a small camera.

November 29, 2023 · 5:20 PM · TRIANGLE

Valley Stream, NY

I looked up and saw what at first was a bright light that appeared to be hovering. I was heading north at about 20 mi. per hour and slowed as the object oddly was getting closer and I could see far more detail. It was triangular and had five circular lights beneath. One light in the point of the triangle, 2 lights toward the center, and 3 lights at the bottom. I have never seen a plane with a configuration like that….nor a clearly triangular aircraft (resembled a stealth warplane, but larger. In my vision the aircraft seemed oddly to be moving very slow….then suddenly accelerated at an unusual rate of speed….over my head going west. I tried to stop and recapture vision, but it was gone

November 23, 2023 · 2:41 AM · CHEVRON

Grand Island, NY

Object was spotted too far south to be UAL1871 or VAL804 and too north to be DHK379 Appeared to ascend to the south of Ferris wheel at nearby amusement park. Vertical ascent and lights made me consider a drone at first, as it was almost disk shaped, but as it moved across the sky I observed it make a number of unnatural course corrections. Lights pulsated around it left to right, red and white lights. Speed varied and seemed to slow down as I called up to it.

November 19, 2023 · 4:00 AM · SPHERE

Pond Eddy, NY

White light in the shape of an orb was moving in different directions across the sky for about 30 minutes and then disappeared. It looked like it had white/gold strands coming off of it. It reappeared about an hour later in a different part of the sky. It was flashing red and green and white lights. It then disappeared again.

November 18, 2023 · 10:54 PM · TRIANGLE

Buffalo, NY

I was driving on Best Street heading East and saw what I immediately assumed was a plane. I saw two pinpoint flashing red lights on both the left and right sides of the object (east and West). Then I realized that it was not a plane. I could see the underside of the object which looked like the bottom of a mostly triangular shaped object shaped kind of like a bicycle seat. The grey color reminded me of the color of a jet. The object did not appear to be moving and if it was it had to be extremely slow as it was undetectable from my vantage point. I pulled over to to check the Flight Radar app and the closest plane was shown over Amherst, NY. The Buffalo Niagara International Airport is just a few miles from where I was so I wanted to just assume it was a plane. Planes don't stand still in the air or hover so I decided to report this. I really want to know what it was. I was approaching the turn for the 33 West and couldn't stay pulled over in the lane I was in so I had to drive off. The object was still there when I drove off.

November 14, 2023 · 8:25 PM · CIRCLE

Stephentown, NY

I can't believe I'm filling this out. I was driving home and saw three lights as I was going up a hill toward the end of the hill at a junction from Nelson Rd to West Rd. I was surprised and thought the lights were a new radio tower or something. It was too close to be the only other lights which are further at a ski place about 6 miles down. I take this road three times a week so it was foreign and new. As I got to the crest of the hill overlooking the field where I expected a tower, there was none, and the objects were just floating. I turned my car southwest on cranston rd instead of going northeast as I usually do to get home to get a better view. At this point I could only see two of them. I was in awe, and had a clear view within my car of one of these things slowly moving east, and the other hovering straight above it, but that one didn’t move, only the bottom one. I was dangerously hanging out around the road and pulled over as another car was behind me and I got out of the car to get a closer look and see if I could hear a helicoptor sound or something as we get a lot of helicopters here. It was completely silent. I was hoping the car behind me would stop to talk about this but he kept going northeast but he was also driving slowly and erratic so I know he saw it. Within a few seconds they both did a small swirl which looked directly away from me and disappeared. I got home, and kind of shaken up by it, I called the NYS State Police in New Lebanon NY at 518-793-8445 to see if they got any reports of weird lights. They didn’t, but he thought it could be a starlink satellite formation. I felt very ackward and told the officer that I felt like a nut calling but I saw something, I have seen starlink satellite lights before and they are much smaller and much more distance than this. The time of the police call was 8:53PM EST and lasted about 1 minute. The total event from driving to me getting out of the car, to them disappearing was less than one minute, maybe around one minute exactly. I did think of getting my phone and taking a video but it just happened too fast and I was kind of stunned by it and didn’t grab one. But I am ordering a dash cam today because of this. What I really just want to know, more than anything, is did anyone else see these? I just want my sighting validating as being seen by someone else is my feeling more than anything. They were insanely bright orange, almost like a campfire, but circular. I am 50 years old, an engineer, a dad, high educated, no alcohol or drugs, well grounded and not a conspiracy nut, and I can't explain what I saw. The way it hovered, moved was not natural, it was clearly vehicular by nature and moved too fast for me to understand what it could be. It was too close to be a satellite, which I see often as I have clear country skies. Is there anyway I can be notified if someone else saw this ? The curiousity is killing me about this. I havent told anyone else other than the police because I didn’t want to sound like a whack job, but its been on my mind all morning. I do not want my name disclosed

November 10, 2023 · 12:15 AM · CHANGING

Fairport, NY

There was a reptilian looking alien thing standing on my front porch. Head shape changed smaller to large, neck was vibrating, had a gold orb thing floating around. Boyfriend couldn’t see him at all when looking directly at it.

October 29, 2023 · 11:45 AM · SPHERE

Bayport, NY

My son witnessed a black sphere or orb flying in a solid path over trees over our yard. It is a windy day and it was not a balloon swaying in breeze. It kept a direct path and speed without deviation. Seems to have a faint white sphere around object and put out a pulse shockwave around it twice in sequence as it traveled . Object flashed a sort of shockwave sphere around it not into the entire sky.

October 28, 2023 · 9:23 PM · UNKNOWN

Brooklyn, NY

I have video and pictures but what I saw with the naked eye is something I never saw before.

October 23, 2023 · 7:45 PM · LIGHT

West Haverstraw, NY

While doing a moon shot, I noticed 5 lights lining up over Hi Tor Mt/state park. They appear to align themselves hovering and idle waiting for 6th light, that appeared to be ascending from .the base of the mountain. The Hudson River is right there. Once the 6th stray light caught up, they disappeared one by one into the horizon. They did not fly across the sky on departing, just disappeared one by one [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Possible]

October 23, 2023 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE

West Haverstraw, NY

Taking moon shots, I noticed aligned lights over a nearby mountain. The lights became idle waiting for a stray light that appeared to be at the base of the mountain which ascended up to the group, then one by one they disappeared into the sky

October 14, 2023 · 2:00 AM · CYLINDER

Newcomb, NY

Middle of the woods lit up like a football stadium was a dome with lights attached or what looked like people or the dome thing coming at us we went up road qtr of a mile turned around and it was gone .

October 12, 2023 · 7:59 PM · CIRCLE

Yonkers, NY

I recorded 3 of the objects in different areas in the sky but all while I was facing West towards the Hudson River and New Jersey. I take sky pictures a lot, both day and night.Thursday night I saw lots of faint stars. Then I saw a brighter object. I thought it must be a planet. Then I thought it was two stars, but they were too closely se and looked shaky not twinkling.I looked through my phone camera and then cleaned my glasses. They seemed to be moving. I kept moving the phone from my sight and then back up. Then I only saw one of the objects. I didn’t record initially because I thought I was seeing things. I held the phone still but did record. I watched the first object I was observing move out of the camera frame several times before I recorded. Then I recorded a second object. Then another object moved too fast for me to record. My third recording is of the most erratic object. At one point, I thought it was gone, but it popped back into view. I think a fifth object can be seen very briefly in the lower left corner of that third video.it is quite fast. About me: I served in a medical unit in the Army Reserves and received an Honorable Discharge. I have been in ministry for a long time and am a retired professor. I have a degree from Bible college and two Masters in Education. I taught at Bible college as well as at a secular branch of a Jewish college for a total of about 16 years. I also was the Executive Director and Head Teacher of the college’s day care and UPK. I almost always held positions in administration and education at the same time while also tutoring almost all subjects. I was employed at the college for about 16 years. I also taught citizenship classes at a community center. I have 4 adult children and am a grandparent.

October 11, 2023 · 6:34 PM · DISK

Canastota, NY

Looking out of my back window I saw one silvery disc like object floating above my back field, I then went outside to get a better look I saw that it seemed to be floating forward in a straight line eastward with absolutely no sound, the ambient noise even seemed to be gone. I then tried to take a video and took a picture instead, when I switched to video and got the object back in frame it then disappeared entirely. I am a 42 year old Marine Corps veteran. [NUFORC annotation: Insect - Possible]

October 8, 2023 · 6:00 PM · FIREBALL

Greenwich, NY

We were looking out the window when my girlfriend pointed out these strange balls of lights that were chasing each other around, they flew around randomly then 1 of them split into 2 and then there was 3 of them chasing around until they went over the mountain

October 5, 2023 · 5:51 PM · CHEVRON

White Plains, NY

I was heading west on 287 in heavy traffic, the object was just northwest of me. As I was moving away from where I was a second object appeared.

October 2, 2023 · 11:08 PM · SPHERE

Lyndon, NY

Orange orbs that almost seemed hovering. Would travel up and down in a very fluid motion, then reform back to each other. Extremely rural area in western NY. This is located at a property that is in a cell phone dead zone, so I don't typically bother carrying my phone. Event occurred 1/2 mile from the nearest road. First heard what sounded like a bunch of spooked farm animals rustling through leaves. Walked over a hill and saw the three orange orbs hovering, they slowly floated off formed one, and then quickly crested another hill and disappeared. Orange isn't the best term to describe the color. I'd say they almost looked peach in color. Based on the height of the tree the closest orb was near, I'd say it was 6-8 feet in diameter

October 2, 2023 · 8:25 PM · LIGHT

Albany, NY

Driving north bound on I87 between exits 5-6 in Albany NY on 10/02/23 around 8:25 PM. Large light crossed the sky starting from behind my back right shoulder and flew directly forward of me. The light was lower than planes that were actively in the sky. There was no audible sounds that were heard during the sighting. The light travelled across faster than one could say one Mississippi. The light was white, with light trails coming off the sides of the object. The object appeared triangular in shape with no light trailing directly behind, only the sides. The light vanished directly infront of me at the edge of the horizon.

October 1, 2023 · 2:08 PM · LIGHT

Probable conventional

New Hartford, NY

While returning from a hike on McKeever Road, I took a photo of the trailhead sign on Route 28. It was only after we returned home later that I looked at my photos and noticed two strange clusters of lights and nearby what looks like a cloud shaped like a triangle. When I took the photo I didn't hear or see any planes or helicopters in the sky. In fact, no sounds were heard. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Probable]

September 29, 2023 · 11:00 PM · DISK

Victor, NY

No sound, this is not an airplane, helicopter, drone or satellite. I first noticed it Wednesday night at 11, and was up until 6:30 to watch. Tonight was the 4th night in a row it’s been above my house in the sky. I know what I saw. I have photos and videos taken each night. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Possible]