New York UFO Sightings in 2002

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bright light It was a full moon, I saw a small light in the west, maybe a plane . As I was watching it the small ball turned into a huge flat light that zoomed to the south . I could still see the lights through the trees , then nothing, it was gone.

Checked the news and havn't heard of any sightings in this area. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD)).

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Small silver orbs moving among Manhattan skyscrapers, morning and evening events getting coffee from a coffee cart on the corner of Broadway and 43rd Street, glanced east and saw a small (about two or three feet) silverish orb with two slowly blinking lights on the bottom moving west over 43rd Street directly next to the Grace building about 20 stories up. I thought it was some sort of balloon toy or even paper blowing on the wind. The object had an unsteady movement as if being moved around by the wind.

However, the object was NOT falling but proceeding horizontally. When it reached 6th Avenue (one block away from my position) it made a 90-degree turn against the wind, without changing it's altitude, and continued south and out of view behind the Conde Nast tower. It gave me a creepy feeling like it was some sort of probe or reconnaissance device.

I believe in UFOs but have never seen anything as bizarre as this in my life, and I consider myself a pretty stable person. Later the same day, just past sunset, I was walking south on 7th Avenue, from 42nd Street to 34th Street. Around 40th Street I noticed several block south there were three more objects like the one I had seen earlier in the day, about as high up.

They were quite small in the distance but I could see the same slowly blinking lights on the bottom. The three moved, variously, horizontally and vertically over the avenue, and then grouped together and moved downwards a few floors in altitude. then they stopped their downward motion and moved horizontally (no downward movement) towards a building on the east side of the street and proceeded, next to it, to move out of sight down whichever side street they were over (somewhere in the mid-thirties).

In no case could I make out any details on the objects beyond the lights on the bottom, which appeared red or orange. I'm a professional working in Times Square.

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A large triangle or boomerang shaped craft, making no sound glided over my house. I was outside my house saying goodbye to my visiting daughter. It was December 03 2002, a cold clear night.

A movement in the sky caused me to look up and at first glance, I thought it was a flock of birds. I realized very quickly, that it was not. It was some sort of craft, shaped like a triangle or a boomerang.

I dont know how high the craft was but it was very large. It was dark at the time, but I could clearly see the outline of the craft. On the underside, as it passed over, I could see fluorescent type lights, equally spaced, under the craft.

There must have been at least ten of these lights. The strange thing about this sighting was that there was not a sound as it passed overhead,It just sort of glided over my house moving toward the southwest. I was amazed at the sighting.

I have never seen anything like it before.

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Formation of moving lights over Manhattan Don't know if this was a UFO, but here it is: Over Manhattan: I saw a group of lights. If it was daylight and they were not illuminated I would guess it was a flock of geese. It appeared like a typical formation of birds, but the shape changed as it moved across the sky.

At times it looked more like a string of illuminated pearls. Maybe it was just geese catching the lights from Manhattan. I'd never seen anything like it before.

I watched it for about a minute. Then it was just gone. Any guesses as to what I might have seen?.

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Bright orange streak speeds toward Albany, NY Driving eastbound on I-90 past Canajohairie-Amsterdam toward Albany. Just over the shoulder of Westbound lane, a bright orange missile-shaped flash streaked at extremely high speed east toward the city of Schenectady/Albany. No more than 100 feet in altitude.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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three large white lights on craft, chevron shaped notice three large white lights in sky. a few stories high. they were not moving, asked my daughter if she sees what i see.

she said yes i see those three stars. I then said that the lights were not stars. the lights moved over us, there was no sound.

They stopped again could see dark metal like craft. pulled car over craft slowly left area. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous.

PD)).

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took a picture of a flashing "v" shaped light. I looked out the window and I saw a flashing object that I thought was a plane, but it remained stationary for more than 5 minutes. I went to the other room and got my digital binocular camera, took pictures and downloaded them to my computer.

It was a "v" shaped object with multiple colored lights. It remained stationary for about 20 minutes, then disappear. It just stopped blinking and disappeared.

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strange morphing cloud scans city at night My husband and I decided to go up to the rooftop to see if we could catch a glimpse of the meteor shower last night. Because of the full moon and because of city lights visibility was very good. While looking northeast we noticed what looked like a string-like cloud in the very distinct shape of a bommerang moving towards us.

It immediately caught our eye because it hung so low for a cloud and it moved at a steady clip. We kept watching it expecting it to dissipate but instead it continued on a steady path southward and began morphing into different shapes, ungulating as it moved in the way a deep-sea jelly fish might move. But this thing was much more elastic, at once spreading out like a string then shaping into a V, curling its tails around then gathering into more of a cloud shape and again stretching out.

It sometimes broke up into little tails or simply stretched out uniformly, like someone pulling at taffy. It felt as if it was scanning the city, never rising, never dropping, justing floating by at a constant speed completely silent. We thought we saw faint lights at the ends of the tails and it shimmering in general.

We also smelled a distinct acrid burn in the air, almost like an electrical fire, that would appear, disappear then reappear (in keeping with the ungulating nature of movement?). Our first reaction was it had something to do with the meteor showers, a "terminal burst in the lower atmosphere". But then, not knowing what that looks like, I would expect that to have the characteristic of linear progression i.

e. dying out, like striking a match. Instead this thing was in no way disappearing.

It had the feeling of living matter and we watched it continue its path through the city till it passed from our sight. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness, and she sounded credible to us. Please see other reports for this date.

PD)).

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A saucer hovering about 30 feet off of the ground with bright blue and red lights. A saucer hovering about 30 feet off of the ground with bright blue and red lights. Zig-zagging left and right before taking off straight up.

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Item floationg over statuette in NY I was just taking some tourist pictures in NY, and first discovered this morning, that there was something "floating" next to a statuette, as i developed it. ((NUFORC Note: Object looks like a "disc," but could be a bird, flying away from the camera, and down, with its wings spread almost straight. Object is unidentified.

PD)).

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Possible UFO sighting in Garrison New York I saw an array of red lights through the woods behind my house - hovering, some of the red lights were blinking. There was no sound. I couldn't see the outline of the object - just the lights but there is no tower or even any houses for miles.

I came into the house after seeing the lights in a stationary position for about 5-10 minutes and when I came out again they were gone.I'm an RN - have never seen a UFO and am not even sure they exist. ((NUFORC Note: We received a similar report from a commercial/instrument pilot in Vero Beach, FL, for an object there, seen moving to the north.

Sighting in FL occurred at 1920 hrs. on 26OC02. PD)).

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Aircraft made no noise, it was black with, 2 red, 1 blue, and 1 white light, it flew a speed faster then anything have seen before. Aircraft seen 10/23/02.The aircraft hovering over a house.

The aircraft was gliding at a very slow pace sometimes hovering app. 100 feet from ground. The object had 4 lights, all of them separated to each corner of the trianglangular shape.

The aircraft was black and had 2 red, 1 blue and 1 white light, in the center of the craft. Then the craft flew of so fast we couldn't tell where it was it appeared as it diasppeared. then we saw it appear floating again above another house quite a distance a way.

The aircraft no noise what so ever. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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An erratic light being "chased" by a jet, then two floating objects quite some distance away, At work, a co-worker pointed out a strange light very far off in the distance. A plane was in the vicinity, and was leaving a smoke trail. The Object flashed, and the plane made a dramatic S turn and began to chase the object.

The object disappeared, then reappeard a good distance to the right of the location it was first seen. The jet continued to trail. The light vanished again, only to reappear behind the plane, then vanish and reappear again quite a ways in front of the plane and it's second to last location.

The light climbed into the atmosphere and the jet continued to trail, with both shortly leaving sight. I went back outside at fifteen minutes later and noticed two small objects in the vicinity of the starting point of our initial sighting. They seemed to hover a small distance away from each other, and slowly floated upwords.

The first one climbed to high to be visible. At that time the lower one stopped, seemed to float back down at a 180 degree direction, the headed back towards where the first one disappeared. I began a group called the Northern New York Paranormal Research Society.

I have been investigating many occurences like this, and this was the oddest I have seen. I have not been able to contact any Air Force bases, or Fort Drum, which is in the direction that we witnessed the objects.

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I saw the object reported by FOX-23 from my place of employment A co-worker and I were outside the building we work taking lunch. We work on the State Campus which is located southeast of the Albany International Airport but within aircraft takeoff and landing patterns. We were checking out the sky, discussing how unusual it looked with the different kinds of clouds.

Suddenly from the west we notice something bulleting across the sky. It had a very narrow vapor trail which was so thin that I briefly thought if the puffy clouds were cotton balls it would pull them together like thread. It was also strange in the fact that the trail failed to scallop like the vapor trails of the jets we saw only moments before.

The object made no noise. As it shot more to the northeast it was going to be blocked by the corner of my building. I went down the steps just in time to catch a glimpse of the object.

It appeared to be football in shape only a bit longer and slightly deflated, with at least one fin on the top and bottom. Its color looked dark metallic gray. The air around it was a bit funny; gave the appearance it was traveling in a fuzzy bubble.

Since the military has been active in our area since 9/11, I thought maybe it was something new they were flying so I didn't report the sighting. I missed the orginal FOX report but my co-worker told me about it the next day. When I didn't see any followup a week later I wrote FOX email info line to make an inquiry and report that we had seen the object.

To date, I haven't heard anything from them. While I work in a civilian capacity now, my background is law enforcement. I was a police/peace officer/investigator for 25 years prior to my current appointment.

((NUFORC Note: The object photographed by the FOX 23 cameraman was visible for approximately 11 frames of video, or about one-third of a second. We would be surprised if people witnessed the same object with the naked eye, although the object may have slowed at some point during its presence in the airspace over Albany, NY. PD)) ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Dear Mr.

Davenport: Thank you for your quick response. While my report stays the same in every other detail, I failed to check a calender when submiting the date of our sighting and it wasn't the 20th. My co-worker and I work Monday-Friday.

Ours took place during the week, the day of the evening report of the Oct 20 object by FOX to the public. I do know that for sure as my co-worker came in the next day all excited because he had heard the report of the original object on the news the night before. He said that FOX had done a report on the object we saw (last time I listen to him).

I didn't see the broadcast and couldn't find anything on it until I found your site yesterday (I was using the wrong search word on FOX). I apologize for this inaccuracy. However, it does not change the facts that I have otherwise reported.

You asked if the object made any maneuvers while we watched it. No. It was the vapor trail that first drew our attention to the object shooting like a bullet across the sky.

It wasn't until I ran down the steps and the object changed directions (from traveling due east to NE) that I was finally able to briefly get the shape. Since we couldn't really see it before and I now could, I had the impression that it tipped a little and I was looking more towards the top of the object rather than the side. It was just so fast I only got a glimpse.

The whole experience was almost surreal in that something that big should have made some sort of a sound but didn't. Yet the vapor trail and its funny, fuzzy bubble around it told me it was really high up and something "different". I have been thinking about its vapor trail and the way jet vapor trails look.

This object appeared to be more seering the atmosphere than putting out exhaust. You ask if what I saw was like what the reporter filmed. His object appears to look more like a walking stick.

Ours was a bit fatter and the fins a bit broader. It looked as though the reporter's object devoured half of itself, just that much fatter. Ever since 9/11 when the hijacked plane turned right over us we have been sky watchers.

I have a window seat at work and can tell when something is going on at the airport, note the flight pattern changes and every type of plane that takes off and lands, including the military. ((Sentence deleted.)).

This was something I had never seen before. If I am following your instructions correctly on the degrees, it would be about 200 (coming from the W to NE). I appreciate your taking the personal info out of my narrative, as I know my ((deleted)) and my supervisor would not appreciate the FBI coming to see me.

I work for ((deleted)) and we always have enough of things happening in the building without my causing a commotion over something like this. My ((deleted)) would ((deleted)) me. Again, please forgive me for not doing a more thorough job in determing the accurate date.

I am usually better than that. Thanks. ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)).

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Strange Sighting over albany international airport Check out this breaking story in Albany New York at www.fox23.com FBI involved in cameraman's mysterious video capture of missle shaped UFO over Albany International Airport! At: http://www.

fox23news.com/Global/story.asp?S=980142&nav=83rSBuM2 A STRANGE SIGHT IN THE SKIES OVER THE CAPITAL REGION - NO ONE KNOWS YET WHAT IS WAS - BUT IT WAS ENOUGH TO HAVE THE FBI SCRAMBLING TO TAKE A LOOK.

ONE OF OUR VIDEOGRAPHERS WAS SHOOTING A PLANE TAKING OFF FROM THE ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - AT THE SAME TIME THE STRANGE OBJECT STREAKED THROUGH THE SKY - IT WAS MOVING SO FAST, HE DIDN'T EVEN SEE IT, UNTIL HE PLAYED HIS TAPE IN SLOW MOTION. WE'RE TOLD THE OBJECT DID *NOT SHOW UP ON RADAR. AUTHORITIES WILL CONTINUE TO ANALYZE THE VIDEO TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE FLYING OBJECT IS.

WE'LL KEEP YOU POSTED.

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Cigar shaped object caught on tape over albany international airport moving at an incredible rate of speed local news fox23 A local news channel fox23 albany new york had a video submited to them of a cigar shaped object moving at a high rate of speed that was caught on video by accident while filming airplanes landing at the albany international airport.The object is a long cigar shaped with two small wings in the front and the back almost like stabilizers on a missle and is silver and moves at a incredible rate of speed past a jet landing at the same time. The news handed the tape over to the fbi but is the talk of the town incredible footage there is no doubt from anyone that see's this video that it is real.

I am a 34 year old TSA security screener that works at this airport and saw the video.

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Telephoned Report: A commercial airline pilot (ATP rating) called to inquire whether any U. S. federal agency had contacted the National UFO Reporting Center to ask for further information about the FOX 23 video from October 20, 2002.

(Please see NUFORC homepage.) The pilot stated that the video looked authentic to him, and he expressed concern that no one was actively pursuing the issue. He stated that he found it upsetting that objects like those in the FOX video might be flying in the skies above our heads, and no one is telling pilots about it.

He also expressed his sense of disbelief that FOX is not pursuing the issue more aggressively. He suggested that it seems inappropriate that a news agency would have such dramatic video, and would not be playing the tape, and bringing the story to the American People in a more aggressive fashion that FOX has demonstrated in this case. The pilot refused to leave his name, or reveal the airline he works for.

We at NUFORC could not agree more!! No one at our FOX affiliate in Seattle (KCPQ) has returned our calls. Also, the FBI office in Albany, NY, has failed to return our three telephone calls to their offices. We would like to know whether they are planning to issue a statement with the results of their analysis of the tape.

Peter Davenport.

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Hey Guys, What about the UFO reported on Headline News on 10/23 or 10/22? This thing had extreme speed (by any distance)and DETAIL!!! The D.C. sniper stole furture headlines.

??? ps: I am a SKEPTIC who was in the Air Force. ((NUFORC Note: Apparently FOX 23, and their affiliates, have stopped covering the interesting video footage captured on Sunday, October 20. PD)).

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Is it possible the object filmed at Albany, NY was the International Space Station? The outline looks like the solar arrays and body of the ISS. ((FOLLOW-UP CORRESPONDENCE)) Dear Mr. ((deleted)), The object in the film traversed, I estimate, not less than 60 degrees of arc, as viewed from the video camera, in 11 frames of video.

Video cameras collect 30, or sometimes 60 frames, per second. Hence, the object captured on video by FOX 23 covered 60 degrees in approximately one-third of a second. The ISS does not do that while in orbit.

Do you concur with my analysis, please? Cordially, Peter Davenport ((RESPONSE)) Mr. Davenport, I'm afraid I would have to disagree, given the location it's quite possible that the flight path trajectory of the ISS would have been similar. http://spaceflight.

nasa.gov/realdata/elements/index.html ((NUFORC RESPONSE)) Direction of view, perhaps.

Elapsed time, no. Please see the entries at .

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Local news cameraman catches UFO on film. FBI investigating. Local Fox TV News cameraman was filming at Albany International Airport and caught an unidentified flying object on tape.

The object did not show up on airport radar. The clip was aired on Fox 23 news on Monday. The FBI took the original tape for thier investigation.

You can view a clip of the tape on fox23news.com. The object appeared to look somewhat like a missile and it traveled at a very high speed.

I am not certain of the actual date or time of the event. ((NUFORC Note: Please see the analysis of this event, and the video tape, on our homepage. PD)).