New York UFO Sightings in 2001

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bright light being followed by fighter jet repeatedly for approx 45 minutes At approximately 3a.m. sunday morning, I heard the sound of a fighter jet in the sky, I went to the window to look and saw a white/yellow bright star shaped object in the northern sky, moving west and behind it at a higher altitude, was one fighter jet.

The object remained very bright for about 20 to 30 seconds, and then light dimmed to a small white object/ball while still moving ahead of the fighter jet going west. This happened every 7 to 8 minutes for 45 minutes. Every time the sound of the fighter jet would approach, the objects light would appear in the same spot moving in the same direction, continuing to dim and move in a somewhat fast pace, always ahead of the fighter jet.

It seems they were going in circles from west to south to east and north. The night was extremely clear with a full moon. What do you think????.

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Darting lights over NYC on 12/29/01 On 12/29/01 into 12/30/01 about midnight the moon was very bright. It just happened that the restaurant we were leaving faced the moon perfectly. We all stopped to look at the moon & stars.

There were about 8 of us looking at it when what we thought were stars ,what we were looking at started to dart and shoot all over the sky. There were so many!. Some lined up in order and then just went off in their own direction.

just to zip back nd forth. Others looked like they were playing a game of cat & mouse. They were darting all over the sky for the longest.

It was so strange that I ran back into the restaurant and called the people inside out to see it. We were all in shock and disblief.

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Many moving star balls I sent a report a few days after the incident but I'm not sure if I did it right , so here it is again. My family and I had gone out for my birthday that evening. It was a beautiful night with a full moon.

The restaurant door opens on a corner so it made it so condusive to looking up to the moon.It looked like the sky was full of stars but then they started to move. I don't mean like a shooting star, it was like each one had a mind of its own.

They each moved in their own direction, then about 5 lined up straight then took off in opposite directions, some looked like they were playing tag, it was wild. None of us could believe what we were seeing. The star balls were doing this for so long that I ran back into the restaurant and called the people who were inside to look at what was going on.

Everyone ran outside and were freaking out. I'll never forget that sky.

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I was heading out to my van for some more tools, {contractor by trade} I heard to helicopter flying overhead about two or three o'clock so I took a glance to see what type it was.After viewing the chopper I notice a small dark object over the tree line across the street moving at a high rate of speed. I stopped dead in my tracks and watched as this object move across the tree line and disappeared into the distance heading North east at low altitude.

I thought to my self that this object looked so low as if it was going to crash in the distance. I stood there for about three or four minutes just couldn't believe what I just saw. I waited to see If I could here any noise but there was nothing, just a small noise from the distant chopper I had seen earlier.

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Dark object at very low altitude traveling at a high rate of speed with no sound. walking out to my work truck to retrieve some more tools and I heard a helicopter in the sky so I looked up to see what kind it was. After noticing the copter which was at at a pretty low altitude (heading Northwest)I spotted something over the trees across the street (route 347), this object was traveling at a high rate of speed with no sound , all I heard was the distant chopter which was out of sight my now.

The object was dark in color and looked like large rock, I saw the object for about 5 to 7 seconds and then it was gone. This object appeared to be traveling in North east direction, right over the heart of up town Port Jefferson Station.

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Bright, motionless, Orange Circle decended very fast vertically towards the ground behind the tree line. We were driving around 8:30 somewhere around 12/21/01. We looked to the left side of our car and saw above the tree line a large, bright, orange cirlced object.

We looked at at for about 2 minutes, it was almost motionless the entire time so we disregarded it as a helicopter. We looked closer and saw no blinking lights or a search light. Suddenly the craft decended at a very rapid speed to the ground MUCH faster that a helicopter.

It fell stright to the ground behind the trees. We got nervous so instead of going to find were it went down we went home. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

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A bright low humming circle. It was early in the morning and i was getting ready for school. As usual my sisters were already up.

I was entering the bathroom when my sister let out a loud gasp. She called my name a couple of times, i ran to her to see both of my sisters looking out the window. I saw a very bright circular object above the tress.

it wasnt too close t the trees, it was as far as a helicopter would be. I thought it was just a helicopter. But to my amazment it wasn't.

what i did was i opened the window and expected to hear the helicopter but all i heard was a low humm. It was very low, then we got scared and tried to hide ourself with the window curtains. Amazingly it turned from bright white to a less brighter orange.

then the circular thing got dim. After a few minutes another one came. It came very close to the original one.

It stayed there for a while then the original one slowly left . Then after a while the other white object left. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

PD)).

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Tonight is a clear night, I was in my backyard looking up at the stars when I saw 4 faded red lights in a half V formation streak across the sky. They were small dots in the sky, and headed south. I knew it wasn't airplanes or anything I've ever seen before because of their speed.

In less than 2 seconds, they went from above my head to the horizon and out of sight. I am not a UFO fanatic. Just someone who saw something that is not physically possible.

Anyone who saw this, email me at ((e-address deleted)).

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I was sitting on my bunk and a U.F.O appeared out the window with bright lights on it and it left with the disappearence of the haze.

I was sitting on my bunk bed, when suddenlly a U.F.O just appeared out the window.

I don't remember how it showed up, but I do recall on seeing that it was a small space craft.I was starring at it while I was hesitated of being freaked out.It was only after a while, when it started to get hazy.

The haze started to split open in half leaving it cleared up after a short moment.Once the haze was wholly of disappearence, so was the U.F.

O, leaving no trail what so ever. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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chevron shaped object sighting during Leonid meteor shower I submitted this report before, but it was not entered into the database. One "chevron shaped" object sighted moving SW to NE during Leonid meteor shower. Conditions were excellent: very clear skies, no moon or wind.

Object was originally thought to have dull orange "glow", but it is more likely object was reflecting light from high-pressure Sodium streetlights used in NYC (same "color" was seen reflected from passing aircraft, birds, etc before). No sound was heard during or after sighting that could be attributed to sighting. Object moved in a straight direction and was out of sight in about 15 seconds.

No "skidding" was noted of the object during length of sighting. There were no lights visible on the object.

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The night of the Leonids meteor shower some friends and I (one of which was an Earth Science teacher) were watching the showers in front of my home, crystal clear very dark (as there are no lights here at all). About the time indicated we were looking due west when appeared a triangular shaped craft perhaps the size of a large commercial jet. It was a triangle with lights all around the edge between 7 and 10 alltogether.

It moved form east to west at a high rate of speed, I have good experience with military craft and this thing moved too quick for any conventional jet. In addition, it was perfectly quiet, no sound no blinking lights and it appeared to be somewhat opaque in the center but yet retained some translucent effect as well, if it passed under a star it seemed as if the star would fade but not dissappear. After a it dissappeared to the west and we regained our ability to actually talk, my 2 friends went inside to warm up but I stayed, EXACTLY 11 minutes after this sighting 2 military jets possibly F-15 or F-16 fighters came from the southwest and rocketed passed my home heading northwest at a high rate of speed, the classic sonic boom trailing behind, blinking lights etc.

I have seen them many times, they were defenitely fighter jets scrambled probably from Newburgh Stewart Air Base. I know this is lengthy but keep in mind, the only commercial airport in the area is Westchester County airport and they are RESTRICTED from flying between 11pm and 5:00am that is the law. And that is why the jets were scrambled.

((NUFORC Note: The date of the Leonid Meteor shower was 18NO01. We have amended the date here. PD)).

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Circular craft during the Leonid Meteor Storm Set my alarm for 4:00 am to watch the Leonid meteor storm on Saturday. It was pretty cold outside, so I bundled up in layers and took my 2 dogs out with me. Meteor storm was strong and sighted many right away.

Pretty consistent and most noticeable along the horizon in a 360, so I decided to go to the front of my apartment and face South-Southeast to watch. All meteors had long, distinct tails. I live under one of the main flight paths for the Syracuse airport and I am used to all the planes.

About 20 minutes into my watching I noticed one plane that was going along at a slightly different speed, a little faster than normal for a plane with a very steady, smooth flight. At first I thought it was a plane, but quickly realized it had no landing lights on, no colored or blinking lights either. This was a strong white light, about the magnitude of one of the planets, and wasn't blinking.

The shape was circular and it did not appear to be attached to any larger body, just a light. I have to mention here, that it seemed to blend in very well with the star-filled backdrop. If I hadn't been looking in that exact location, I would have missed it.

I watched it transverse the skyline for approx. 4-5 seconds traveling west to east, and then simply fade out. It did not burn up like the meteors or have a tail, and it was on a straight horizonital flight path.

Sort of freaked out by it and getting cold, I decided to go into the apartment to warm up. At about 4:45 am I decided to stay inside and watch the storm from my glass door b/c the meteors were certainly strong enough to watch from inside. There are two trees in my backyard and I have to look through the branches to see the sky, but it worked fine for viewing.

It wasn't long before I noticed a second light just the same as the first, go from above my apartment and over the trees. This one was slightly lower in altitude and heading from the South to the North. It didn't go very far in it's direction before it did the same thing by fading out.

Very excit! ing.di dn't want to go to bed after this. I am a 34 yr old female.

Consider myself very level-headed, I don't do drugs and I don't drink. I just finished my bachelor's in geography last year as a returning adult. I work now in the environmental remediation field.

And I am an amateur astronomer, and have been since I was 10. I try to catch every meteor shower that is visible at this latitude, and am used to spotting satellites and identifying planets, constellations, etc. Also I think I should mention that I have had several "sightings" over the years because I am out alot at night.

This incident in my experience is a mild one. I have had other sightings that were alot more bizarre, and started at a very young age. I could fill out several pages with information from several different cities and in different states.

My most bizarre is a low-flying stingray that looked as if it was cloaked several years ago. Other people that lived along the same lake as myself, described the same kind of craft at other times. All I could think is that it was straight from the scripts of Star Wars or Star Trek.

That was my best sighting.

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Lights over NY State (shortly after 9/11) After watching the Leonids meteor shower all night we decided to get some hot choclate to warm up. when one of my friends (An accomplished english Teacher, whom I had never met before this night) stated seeing something triangular in shape with 7 or perhaps 8 lights around its outer edge. It was HUGE and semi-translucent as it moved over head it covered the starlight so as to suggest that there was mass in between the lights.

It moved from East to West slowly. No sound, no engines no afterburners nothing. We watched until it dissapeared into the horizon.

This was shortly after September 11th 2001 and we all knew there was a restriction on ANY aircraft flying in the NYC vicinity, so we found it even stranger. Shortly afterward we heard the sound of sonic booms in the distance and 2 (which were EASILY distinguishable) military jets perhaps f-15 or f-16 flew over head at extremly high speeds from east to west in the same path of the first object, as if in pursuit, my girlfriend came running out because the boom from there engines RATTLED the house. and she was not sure what it was.

Very strange, very real.

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cigar shaped object, very large and traveling very fast I was looking at the sky while my dogs got their nightly exercise. Very dim lights traveling across the sky caught my peripheral vision. There were 4 or 5 of them that seemed to come from a long object traveling very quickly from North to South at about 60 deg from horiz.

It was silent. I could see the lights for 4 or 5 seconds then lost it in the glare from the Ford dealership lights.

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2 Triangular shaped craft in Putnam County There were two craft. One appeared closer than the other and they were hovering over a near by mountain range. The craft had lights positioned in a triangle formation around its perimeter.

THere was also one small light in the center of the triangle. I was driving on the highway so I didn't get to see them for very long. I imagine that they stayed there for longer than I was able to see them.

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An erraticly moving dot in the sky As I was waiting for a light in midtown Manhattan with my window open, I looked straight up in the sky. The night was clear, there were starts and exactly above there was a dot of light, as bright as an average star, moving erraticaly in all directions, covering about the area that would be covered by the full moon. I looked into it for 10-15 seconds, then I went on.

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white glowing craft with little blue dot chasing it i was in a park in brooklyn, i noticed that the sky looked like it was moving becuz the clouds were being blown by the wind. from behind the clouds i noticed a white glowing sort of teardrop shaped craft, behind it, tailin it was a little blue dot. It seemed to be attached or being pulled by a blue glowing beem.

It was moving pretty fast , but it seemed to circle the whole park which is at least 4miles in diameter. then it just left it made no sound at all.

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Low-flying triangular craft during snow storm I was taking out the garbage at night during a pretty heavy snow storm. The dumpster is in a well-lit parking lot. We lived in a building complex consisting of several houses in the middle of nowhere nestled alongside a large mountain-chain.

As I'm returning back to my house, I catch a glimpse of a light to my right out of the corner of my eye. I turn and I see a large triangular craft hover slowly overhead. It was clearly visible in the flood-lights in the parking lot, though no detail could be seen through the snow.

It was no more than 20 feet above the tree line, and moved no more than 15MPH. After it passed overhead and started to head off into the darkness, I was able to gauge its height above the tree line. I was also able to see a slight profile of the craft.

It seemed to be triangular in shape - more like a stretched out pyramid. It could have been boomerang shape, I'm not entirely sure because of the snow, but I was able to see blue-white lights on its edges/corners shaped in a triangle fashion. The craft made no sound whatsoever.

One thing I noticed is that my ears popped during the encounter. That could have just been a coincidence as it is common at that elevation. My opinion is that the snow storm was too bad for any known aircraft to be flying that low.

After this incident, I seem to be experiencing a phenomenon called "street-light interference". ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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fast moving lights jumping all over Manhattan sky I was driving along the Van Wyck Expressway with my girl friend and my girl friend said there were fast moving lights in the sky of Manhattan(we're in Flushing). I parked my car and she said lights were still there. Then I saw the fast moving lights.

Three lights were spinning and jumping in the sky not like any other aircraft I've ever seen. We were just standing there for alomost 20 min. ans wahtched them.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).

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thin black line moving accross moon 10-30-01 hope you can help explain this mystery. I live in Syracuse NY and back on October 30th 2001 while my son was driving me home around 5:00pm/5:30pm we both saw something very strange. There was a full moon (or it looked full to us) and starting at the 4 or 5 on a clock going diagonally across the moon was a thin black line.

It grew as it went across the very bright moon but stopped growing once it reached halfway then started to shrink back to nothing exiting at the 10:00/11:00 on a clock. There wasn't any air vapors before or after the moon and I tried to catch the news hoping there would be mention of it. We were on the road at the time (690 going east).

It was the strangest thing I have seen in a long time. My son believe other drivers must have seen it too because the traffic wasn't moving at the 60pmh it normally moves at.