UFO sightings happen all the time in Upstate New York, and a website that collects witness reports shows that there were 65 such sightings in the region in 2018.

The National UFO Reporting Center is based in Washington State, and can't determine the validity of every report it gets, but the organization does keep a database of sightings of unidentified flying objects, alien spacecraft and even little green men.

The site does its best to omit "obvious hoaxes," and only list sightings that witnesses truly believe they saw. NUFORC contacts as many witnesses as possible, and makes notes about certain sightings.

Whether you believe or not, a 2017 study by Chapman University in California found that 35 percent of Americans believe that aliens have come to Earth in the ancient past. And the U.S. government recently admitted that they have studied the phenomenon.

The sightings are interesting to look through. They range from unusual light patterns and large triangular shapes to frightening creatures, and have happened in every corner of the Upstate NY region.

They are sorted below by region and date. Take a look below and see if there were any UFO sightings in your town.

NOTE: Photos below are not images of sightings below.

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Lenticular clouds have in some cases been reported as UFOs due to their peculiar shape (Creative Commons / Stahlkocher)

WESTERN NY

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January 5: Niagara Falls (Niagara County), 3:20 a.m.

"My son and sister witnessed a creature at 3:20 in the morning while letting dog out. They came in running and screaming. They said the thing was 7-8 feet tall, grey, green elongated head, no genitals and when they startled it it ran at an impossible speed covering over 150 in two seconds and was out of sight. We're all scared and wanted someone to know."

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April 15: Cherry Creek (Chautauqua), 9:00 p.m.

"Started as 2 bright red shapes at night on the other side of the valley hovering in the sky. Combined, then came apart and disappeared. Reappeared a minute later and now there were 3. Moving and hovering up and down, then across slowly, then lights turned off."

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May 20: Covington (Wyoming County), 12:12 a.m.

"Out to the west side of the house there was a very bright light showing in the distance through the woods. It hovered as if it was spotlighting something. It made me wonder if it was some kind of helicopter that was using a spotlight.

"I got out the binoculars but had a hard time seeing fully with the leaves just coming out on the trees. All I could see is that it was very very bright and moving very succinctly. There was no engine noise like there would have been for something like that or even an airplane. "

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June 19: Buffalo (Erie County), 9:13 p.m.

"I took a series of photos from my bedroom window down Buffalo, NY, because the sky was beautiful. 4 photos were taken one after the other with my android phone at 9:13 pm, June 19th, 2018. On June 29, I looked for the photos I'd taken as reference for a painting using the colors of the sky, that's when I saw the unusual light anomaly in the sky. There was no light behind me, I did not notice anything in the sky when I took the photo."

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July 4: Buffalo (Erie County), 10:00 p.m.

"A red beam appeared in the sky, it was just sitting there hovering then it changed to green lights. It was 5 points like a pentagon, each point was green then there was a green point flashing directly in the middle of it, then it changed back to red all in the same spot but this time it was just two dots next to each other two red dots. It took off flashing green. It looked like a disk."

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July 29: East Aurora (Erie County), 10:20 p.m.

"Large, bright, circular object. No noise. Changed speed and direction. No blinking lights. Way too big/bright to be a drone. Moved slowly, traveled in circular pattern."

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August 2: Akron (Erie County), 5:35 a.m.

"Awoke 5:35 a.m., hearing noise/soft pattern lights outside, through west-open window, like loud mass of insects- buzzing, and my 9 year-old grandson got up from same on 2nd floor and saw unknown object for a few seconds."

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September 29: Lockport (Niagara County), 7:00 p.m.

"Bright light like star in sky west of Lockport. Jet flying at high altitude with vapor trail to its left. There for 20 sec. Disappeared. Re-appeared 2 seconds, then shot straight across sky then disappeared in cloud. Then re-appeared closer, traveled in sky east slow speed.

"Could make out object was round. Bright white light on bottom like bright star. Then shot back into clouds."

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October 9: Hamburg (Erie County), 8:12 p.m.

"I observed a stationary triangle in the sky about 45 degrees from the horizon in a westerly direction from where we were standing, I told my friend to look at it as I retrieved my binoculars from the truck, we both got a good look at it and observed red, orange, blue and green lights that flashed around the perimeter of the craft, from where we were standing I would estimate it was over Lake Erie and about three times the size of jet aircraft I regularly see on approach to Buffalo airport but outside of their approach paths."

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October 30: Batavia (Genesee County), 7:30 p.m.

"Black, triangular craft flew overhead towards Batavia. Flashing white lights on back, flashing red light in center. Roughly the size of a car or perhaps up to the size of a jet. Tilted on its left axis. Moving left and right. Flew past a second stationary white object not moving at all. The triangle was moving very slowly. It was too slow to be a jet, too quiet to be a plane, too big to be a drone. Also did not look like a plane."

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November 8: Tonawanda (Erie County), 5:34 p.m.

"I saw a very large orange-red spherical object emerge from the clouds, dipping down in a swerving fashion towards the north, then north east. It was going far too fast to be an airplane, drone or helicopter. Far too big too. When it turned east, it stopped in the air completely and I could then see a blinking light. The way it maneuvered, it could not have been any traditional craft."

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Photograph of an alleged UFO in Passaic, New Jersey, taken on July 31, 1952. (Public Domain)

ROCHESTER AREA, FINGER LAKES, SOUTHERN TIER

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February 21: Rochester (Monroe County), 8:00 p.m.

"On February 21st, 2018, at around 8:30pm-ish, my two friends and I witnessed a triangular shaped UFO near St. John Fisher College. The object was a large black triangle, with a bright light on each end of the object. The object also had grey lines on the bottom, which were visible as a result to the light.

"My friend pointed it out to us and thought it was a drone. The more we looked at the object, we realized that it was not a drone, it had to be something else. We were only able to look at the object for about 15 secs because it vanished out of no where."

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March 12: Binghamton (Broome County), 6:00 a.m.

"Woke up around 6am to dog behaving strangely. I tried to go back to sleep but realized there was something lighting up my room. I realized the light was only on one side of the room, in the window ... but saw nothing and heard nothing. I got scared, because I realized the only place it could be coming from that I couldn't see, was directly underneath the window.

"The day after these lights scared me, Helicopter (or multiple) kept going over this house repeatedly, at least 10 times between 9 am and noon, to the point that I stopped paying attention."

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March 22: Webster (Monroe County), 10:00 p.m.

"2 flashing lights seen directly over Lake Ontario about 500ft from shoreline. Started with one bright flashing orange light, too low to be a plane and was completely silent and too high to be a boat.

"Caught 5 min of footage halfway through another light appeared next to the first one for a bit, then shut off like a light switch. The lights came on/off for over 30min in different formations. "

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April 11: Rochester (Monroe County), 11:15 p.m.

"We heard what sounded like a car running outside of the house. After about 2 minutes I looked to see whose car it was, but I could see a car in sight the sky then started to light up.

"Not a big bright light but lightened up enough to where I was paying attention. What started as a single white flashing light far away in the sky kept fly closer. As it got closer, I could see 3 lights in the shape of a triangle, but kind of rounded a light in the middle with a red flashing light hovering the top middle light. I instantly made my boyfriend come and see what I was seeing and he was shocked. I stared out the window and saw the same light reappear in the same exact spot and come by the same exact way starting as a single light and turning into this flying object."

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June 5: Rochester (Monroe County), 1:30 p.m.

"We saw in the sky 3 weird objects that I can't explained, and it looked like it was just swaying and swinging itself in the sky. To be honest I thought it was a shooting star until it began sinking to the ground slowly followed by a loud bang and me and my friend ran back home, we were terrified."

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June 12: Binghamton (Broome County), 10:22 p.m.

"I was looking down at my phone walking down the sidewalk. Off the corner of my eye I saw an orange light. When I looked up I saw three triangles a triangular formation. It was an orangish red color but more on the orange side. It shot off really quick and left a light trail like when you move a flashlight really quick."

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July 6: Spencerport (Monroe County), 10:00 p.m.

"I saw a bright orange spherical object moving fast across the sky that caught my attention. It was moving around in a a wiggly 'S' pattern which I thought was peculiar and I knew planes could not fly this way. It also had no discernible shape, it was just a ball of light, so I didn't think it was a plane. I observed it for several minutes so I also did not think it was some sort of stray firework or something."

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July 10: Greece (Monroe County), 5 p.m.

"My wife and I saw a silver cylinder object traveling east at about 15,000 ft in the sky about the size of a car it did not have any wings, did not leave a smoke trail, and made no noise. It was moving at such a high rate of speed that within seconds after it flew past us it looked like the size of a tiny dot and then it was not visible to the naked eye."

NUFORC: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous

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August 10: Rochester (Monroe County), 12:00 a.m.

"I was facing east by the Genesee River, when I saw an object flying north to south very quickly also going up and down behind the tree line in the same manner. Stopping on a dime. Also had solid red green and orange lights and made no sound."

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September 15: Moravia (Cayuga County), 9:30 p.m.

"I witnessed a light in the western sky about 30 degrees above the horizon. This was stationary for 40 plus minutes. It had white, red and green lights. 20 minutes after seeing this object, appeared a red flashing light at 1 second intervals. This light left to the south and east direction. 20 seconds after the first red light, a second appeared and went in the same direction. After 40 seconds these lights left the area traveling south and east. These red lights moves across the sky faster than any commercial aircraft I have witnessed."

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Weather balloons, like this one, have sometimes been mistaken for UFOs. (Public Domain)

CENTRAL NY

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February 21: Oriskany Falls (Oneida County), 2:15 a.m.

"My friend and boyfriend and I were standing on my porch when we noticed up the road there was a light coming from the ground. There was no way it was a street light or a car because no on was around and we live in the country, so we were staring at it trying to come up with a logical explanation for what it was and we started to walk towards it and it disappeared. About 5 minutes later a car came from the opposite direction towards where we saw it and when the headlights hit the area there was nothing there."

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March 24: Syracuse (Onondaga County), 8:00 p.m.

"I was looking at what I believed was a very bright planet, when I realized it was moving across the sky to the WNW. It was moving slowly and was about as bright as the brightest planet I've seen. I'm used to seeing all kinds of aircraft and have lived near airports and army bases most of my life. This thing eventually left a pinprick of a red spot but faded out before it had gotten far enough away to fade out. I knew it wasn't an airplane or a helicopter."

NUFORC: Satellites rarely travel to the west in a retrograde orbit.

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May 10: Camden (Oneida County), 9:00 p.m.

"We were sitting on the couch and we looked out the window. We thought that we saw what look like a plane. It was hovering in the same spot for over an hour. I then grabbed my phone and took a video out the window of it just sitting in the same spot. I go over and sit down on the couch and posted a video and then after that I look out the window and with a flash of light it was gone."

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August 4: Baldwinsville (Onondaga County), 10:30 p.m.

"4 orange orbs low in the sky. They were stationary and silent. They were in a diamond like pattern and disappeared instantly. We were kayaking on Seneca River just north of the bridge on Plainville Road when we spotted them over a farm field."

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August 7: Syracuse (Onondaga County), 11:00 p.m.

"The object looked like a plus sign with one larger light in the center and three smaller lights to each of the four sides of the plus shape. At the end of each seemed to look like a faded headlight. I first saw it about 11:15 PM and by 11:38 PM it seemed to have disappeared. Then half hour later it was back, watched till the clouds came in maybe 20 more minutes and couldn't see anything."

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October 4: Baldwinsville (Onondaga County), 5:00 p.m.

"I saw a very intense white light above me. Initially, I assumed it was an airplane with sunlight glinting off of metal. After a few seconds its light dimmed significantly. I could see a cylinder shaped object for a second then it vanished in thin air!"

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October 18: Syracuse (Onondaga County), 7:00 p.m.

"I saw two orange lights hovering in the sky with a helicopter somewhat near them. It was not an airplane or any sort of fireworks. The helicopter seemed to be on approach or circling them but I couldn't tell as I had to turn after the red light turned green."

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Roswell Daily Record from July 9, 1947 detailing the Roswell UFO incident. (Public Domain)

NORTHERN NY, ADIRONDACKS

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July 6: Chestertown (Warren County), 3:00 a.m.

"Object changed colors from white to yellow to orange and shape shifted."

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August 12: Malone (Franklin County), 10:45 p.m.

"We were watching falling stars, then out of the North sky these three objects appear in formation. They were Gold in color round but Fuzzy from the bottom. The three objects were about 1/2 mile up in sky and zoomed across in less than 20 seconds in a straight line heading south. There were no sounds."

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September 5: North Creek (Warren County), 1:00 a.m.

"A very strange ball of orange light that would light up and disappear only to come back a few minutes later. A solid ball could be seen at times when the light would return."

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September 5: Indian Lake (Hamilton County), 2:00 a.m.

"I am posting this for my friend who lives just across the way from me. She does not have access to a computer. We are very rural in the mountains, and late last night her and her two neighbors witnessed a large glowing orange ball in the night sky. I myself saw the same thing, except it was at 1 am I saw this. She said her dogs had been acting strange and howling and barking all night which is unusual they are older dogs and rarely bark. She said it flashed in the sky and pulsated she is very shook up by this. I told her I saw the same thing and not to worry. But she said the night prior she heard strange sounds outside her window all night like humming and then clicking."

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September 16: Massena (St. Lawrence County), 8:30 p.m.

"I saw 2 long bright flashing burst in two separate locations, and after the second sighting a loud but brief noise like a tractor trailer brake growling. Noise lasted for 2 seconds then complete silence."

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November 2: Oak Point (St. Lawrence County), 6:35 p.m.

"After watching it for 20 seconds or so the object did a 180 degree turn and headed East. There was no flare or flash -- the thing turned on a dime and went back the way it was going ... after another 10 seconds it was gone."

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November: 14: Lisbon (St. Lawrence County), 6:40 p.m.

"Flashes that lasted about 5 seconds each of red to orange light. Would last a couple of seconds. Then formed a line of 4 in one group and 3 in another."

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November 14: Oak Point (St. Lawrence County), 6:45 p.m.

"I saw 8 orange moving dots in two sets of four. These were two groups of orange colored lights about 8 to 10,000 feet and maybe 10 miles away. The two groups were running in unison and were maybe 1500 yards apart -- their movement appeared synchronized as the lights moved parallel to the Earth's surface. I watched them for 20 to 30 seconds and my son saw the tail end of the lights."

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November 23: Edwards (St. Lawrence County), 6:15 p.m.

"I noticed an object in the sky on the passenger side of the vehicle, I pointed to it and noted that it looked like a planet (big and bright) but it was far too big. It stayed stationary and we pointed it out to my son, but at a certain point my mother in law noted that it appeared to be getting bigger and moving closer to us. Seconds later it was near us and we acknowledged that it was a round object with white/yellow lights and a red light on the bottom. I slowed down to look at it and by then it was huge and close to the car."

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Fata Morgana, a type of mirage in which objects located below the astronomical horizon appear to be hovering in the sky just above the horizon, may be responsible for some UFO sightings. (Creative Commons / Navy2004)

CAPITAL REGION

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January 13: Oak Hill (Greene County), 10:24 a.m.

"One light broke into two and went in different directions. They were going really fast and then went back, right and left and continued in their path."

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January 24: Scotia (Schenectady County), 6:00 p.m.

"I saw 3 red orbs atop one another moving across the sky. I saw something big light up in the sky. It looked like a huge scoreboard all lit up.

"I pulled over. This large object glided in front of me. No sound at all. It looked like a goal post with lights all over it and the under belly was oval and lit up gliding past me."

NUFORC: The object she describes above is not at all apparent to us. We see a small, lighted object, which appears to be an aircraft in flight, with standard red and green navigation lights visible ... Witness insists that she had seen something else.

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February 5: Oak Hill (Greene County), 7:00 a.m.

"Looked a ball flying in a zigzag pattern."

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April 17: Burnt Hills (Saratoga County), 11:00 a.m.

"I was sitting in class and looked out of my class window and noticed a small egg-shaped object made of metal. It was floating above my school, but since I was taking a test I didn't point it out to anyway. But since I had my phone in my pocket I tried to take a photo, but as I opened my camera, the object was gone."

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June 5: Watervliet (Albany County), 1:15 a.m.

"Four extremely bright, almost dazzling, pinpoint-like flashes occurred in quick succession. The first 3 flashes were timed about 1 second apart with the last flash happening about 3 seconds after the third. The flashes did not move relative to each other, and were in the exact same location for each flash. I was very taken aback by how bright the flashes were."

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June 8: Hudson (Columbia County), 9:15 p.m.

"Stream Of 80 plus, lost count after 15 or so, large Orange glowing oval objects moved from North to South through the night Sky, some with Green Blue smaller orbs accompanying the individual objects. Objects were spaced apart by 1-2 minutes, with at least 12 visible at one time across the sky. The Stream of Orange glowing lights lasted about an hour and a half. The objects seemed to go to a higher altitude, almost disappearing, when an airplane approached its path, and then descended and returned to previous altitude."

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June 9: Watervliet (Albany County), 1:11 a.m.

"I was in my back yard, at approximately 0110 Hrs. doing some stargazing. Suddenly, from behind the left hand bunch of trees, travelling from left to right, at a viewed angle to just clear the top edge of the neighbor's roof, appeared a VERY bright white (PULSING, not flashing) light.

"I thought maybe it MIGHT be a helicopter, but there was ZERO noise. The light was about the size of a nickel held at arm's length, gliding along at a slightly sedate pace. The path was a straight line path from left to right, until is disappeared behind the right hand set of trees."

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June 19: Saratoga Springs (Saratoga County), 12:11 a.m.

"Bright light that dims and brighten. Disappears when passing by aircraft fly by then reappears after plane passes. Seems to dance slowly from side to side."

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June 21: Richmondville (Schoharie County), 1:30 p.m.

"As I'm gazing up at the stars I notice one moving from east to west. It was white and moving at the speed a passenger jet usually crosses the sky. It was far too high to be a plane however as one did happen to pass overhead later. As I'm watching this light traverse the sky a couple minutes later it approaches another star. It's been traveling in a straight line and I expect it to just pass. However, as it nears the star, that star flares up and goes out."

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June 28: Scotia (Schenectady County), 10:02 p.m.

"Clear sky with moon out. While walking due NE, I saw an object about the size and brightness of Venus, traveling NE in a straight line. It was moving much slower than a meteor, but faster than a plane. It was a steady, bright white light; it left no trail or streak. It moved at a steady pace high above the horizon, moving away from me, and suddenly disappeared."

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July 6: Richmondville (Schoharie County), 11:30 a.m.

"Saw a semi truck with trooper and military escort traveling east on Highway 88.

"On the flatbed was a craft that resembled a somewhat flattened bullet, with the back end flatter and 3 or 4 round things inside the back end for possible propulsion or exhaust function. No windows. No wings. Object was as long and wide as the flatbed, which are usually 48 feet by 6 feet."

NUFORC: Nice illustration provided by witness. We suspect that the object probably was some type of military platform.

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September 20: Gloversville (Fulton County), 12:00 a.m.

"Blinking lights and a oval shaped craft."

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September 27: Albany (Albany County), 6:15 a.m.

"On New Scotland Rd, in Albany, New York, myself and 30+ other witnesses watched as four red glowing lights moving asymmetrically, oscillating, and disappearing and reappearing. After 15 minutes, military planes (3) flew in the same area and lights disappeared."

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October 10: Gansevoort (Saratoga County), 8:05 p.m.

"I witnessed 5 round, circular orange colored objects hovering in formation."

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November 1: Albany (Albany County), 1:30 a.m.

"I was looking out my window facing the west in my dorm. There were no airplanes in sight, and a break in the clouds. I then saw in the sky a brief flash of white light, followed by it disappearing, with a streak following it as it accelerated north for about three seconds."

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November 3: Oak Hill (Greene County), 1:00 a.m.

"The object moved from left to right, then went up over the clouds and disappeared."

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A model depicting the supposedly crashed object in Kecksburg, PA. (Creative Commons / Navy2004)

HUDSON VALLEY

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January 12: Poughkeepsie (Dutchess County), 3:55 p.m.

"Single perfect sphere of white light in clear blue sky over Hudson River. It soon dipped down behind low-hanging cloud formation below, and did not reappear. I guessed it was a reflection off a plane (2 airports are nearby), but I don't see how that's possible because the sun was behind it."

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February 2: Pawling (Dutchess County), 4:45 p.m.

"While standing on my east facing deck I noticed an oval shaped object heading north to south, just above a tree line at approximately five hundred feet. The object was moving at a extremely high rate of speed. There was no noise associated with the object."

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June 21: Kent (Putnam County), 10:30 p.m.

"First notice craft very high up moving extremely slow, almost hovering at times. It had very bright lights across the entire craft moving in a pattern. There was no spaces between the lights. Seemed possibly disc shaped. After the initial craft was out of sight about 1-2 minutes later, a very fast moving plane with only 2 red lights followed it."

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September 15: Middletown (Orange County), 9:30 p.m.

"Bright light above horizon, above the trees, moving towards sky, diagonally. It was blazing brighter red toward the center, and had a lighter, but yet still bright red trail around the outside. It was not of any particular shape, but seemed to look the shape of how tips of campfire burns."

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September 16: Middletown (Orange County), 9:45 p.m.

"After witnessing one, my daughter and I now seen two red firey bright lights with lighter red trails glowing around them, slowly moving diagonally up into the North Eastern sky, with few pauses. They, as well, were diagonal from each other, one up higher than the other."

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November 30: New Paltz (Ulster County), 4:30 p.m.

"Driving on interstate 84 east bound in a car, we saw what appeared to be a large airplane approximately the size of a 747 heading in what would be a westbound direction, approximately 5,000 -8,000 feet and it appeared to be suspended and not moving. The plane was not moving and what appeared to be a helicopter hovering near it."

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December 7: Westtown (Orange County), 4:26 p.m.

"If it was a star, it was several times brighter than any star I'd ever seen other than the sun. Within about 60 seconds of my observing it the star vanished. I looked at the place where it had been for maybe 20 to 30 seconds before giving up on seeing it again. As I was getting back in my car I looked up at an airliner above my head. There once again was the blue star only this time it was moving at the same pace as the airliner. There were no clouds, and it was right at dawn so I couldn't guess its elevation, only that I believe it was above the plane by a possibly 200-300 feet and it was over its right wing, The airliner was flying southwest. Whatever it was stayed with the airliner until the plane began turning east. Just as the plane began to do this the blue light disappeared again just as suddenly as before."

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December 26: Fishkill (Dutchess County), 7:45 p.m.

"Object seen was a very large disk or saucer shaped object with yellow and red lights blinking and appearing to rotate around perimeter. It was spotted while driving eastbound on I-84, just past Fishkill (a bit beyond the prison, I think). Object appeared to be slowly moving toward us, then at one point it stopped and hovered. Hard to tell as we were in a car driving, but no unusual sound was noticed when we opened the window to get a better look at it."

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Photograph of "an unusual atmospheric atmospheric occurrence observed over Sri Lanka" forwarded to the Ministry of Defence by RAF Fylingdales. (The National Archives - UK)

CATSKILLS

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March 24: Bloomingburg (Sullivan County), 6:00 a.m.

"I woke up at 6 in the morning as usual and opened my curtains. As I look East, I thought I was looking at a star flickering (as at times you do see them even in the early morning), but then it began to move. It would seem as though the light would shut off and then come on again in a different position. It then turned on and started moving all over the place so fast. It kept descending over on the Pine Bush area. Then it disappeared. The lights were bright yellow and slight orange."

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July 21: Haines Falls (Greene County), 8:45 p.m.

"A friend and I were sitting by our campfire when I noticed a red-orange ball of light moving from right to left (east to west) above the tree line. [We] ran in the direction the object was heading, which happened to be the campsite driveway onto the loop road, where we could get a better view through a clearing in the trees.

"The object appeared to be about the size of a basketball (if you were extend your arms and hold one out in front of you), however, would have to be much larger since I would estimate its altitude to have been about 300-350 feet above ground and its horizontal distance from us to be about 150-200 feet."

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April 14: Walton (Delaware County), 8:15 p.m.

"Saw 3 red/orange glowing objects moving south to north. The first two stopped and then a 3rd one came up behind them. They looked like fire but there was no flickering like fire. Just a steady, bright orange/red light. There was a plane flying from west to east that was in the vicinity at the same time. They were moving fairly quickly and were not planes, lanterns or balloons. They were less than 5 miles away and did not make a sound."

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November 12: Woodstock (Ulster County), 6:00 a.m.

"It was a light moving at a steady clip. There were no green or red lights or a strobe like a plane would have."

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