NUFORC UFO Sighting 179943
Occurred: 2023-12-15 18:05 Local
Reported: 2023-12-20 18:16 Pacific
Duration: 2-1/2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Clay, NY, USA
Location details: Over the Great Northern Shopping area

Shape: Formation
Color: Silver with Lights
Estimated Size: !/2 the size of a small jet
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: ?
Angle of Elevation: 90
Closest Distance: Several hundred yards overhead
Estimated Speed: 25-35 MPH
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams

This looked like something out of 'Star Trek'

It had 3 sets of wings, and would hover stationary, then move, then hover stationary again. It had flashing red, green & blue lights on it too. It went on for 2-1/2 minutes, then moved away in a straight line rapidly until it was out of sight.

Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 171456
Occurred: 2022-08-29 09:26 Local
Reported: 2022-08-29 07:37 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Clay, NY, USA
Location details: Residential neighborhood

Shape: Circle


Craft sped across the sky from east to north, sat and spun for a minute, then disappeared. No sound.

My son was sitting in the living room (facing east) and said he just saw something zoom across the sky. He came into my office (facing north) and said "there it is!". I went outside and filmed what appears to be a round craft tilted on the z axis, spinning what appeared to be in a clockwise rotation. There were no visible lights, ports, doors, windows. It was metallic and highly reflective. It moved in several directions, unlike if it was an object being taken by the wind. I filmed it for a minute and then it disappeared. There was no sound, no jet streams.




Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 163347
Occurred: 2021-05-16 00:03 Local
Reported: 2021-05-22 21:19 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Clay, NY, USA

Shape: Cigar


Cigar shaped light like a dull fluorescent bulb flying north of Syracuse, NY.

Shortly after midnight in Clay, NY (just south of Phoenix, NY), only a few minutes after the start of Sunday May 16, 2021, and about 5-10 minutes before the crescent moon set, I looked out an upstairs window to the north into a cloudless night sky to see the stars. I saw the usual stars and planets and also an unusual light moving to the south. The light was cigar shaped (rectangular) similar to a dull fluorescent bulb with a light blue tint.

Its length was about the same as the diameter of a full moon, in the east-west direction, and its brightness was about ¼ of that of the moon. After about a minute, I proceeded to wake my wife to show her the object. Although difficult for me to determine, the elevation of the object appeared to be where most airplanes fly going to the Syracuse, NY airport (say 4,000 ft. +/-) and at a distance of several miles to the north over Oswego County.

The light was moving to the south-southeast at what appeared to be the typical speed of an airplane. After 3 or 4 minutes heading south, it started moving to the east for about a minute, with the light remaining in the same east-west orientation while fading from view, possibly because it moved far enough east to no longer reflect the moonlight back to us.

We didn’t see any spotlights or blinking lights on the object like what would be seen on an airplane or one of the military drones that often fly out of the Syracuse airport. We didn’t hear any noise from the object through the closed window nor after we opened the window as the object faded from view.

I’m a retired 64 year old civil engineer and my wife is a 63 year old registered nurse, and we have never seen a flying light/object like this before. We have lived in this same house for a little over 38 years.



Posted 2021-07-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 158636
Occurred: 2020-08-15 20:30 Local
Reported: 2020-08-16 17:57 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Clay, NY, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

lantern like object traveled perpendicularly to the wind at consistent speed and direction and continued after flame disapeared

An Object was spotted travelling to the North on August 15, 2020 at dusk over Clay, NY. Object traveled in a straight line at consistent speed and made no sound. Altitude was in the range of 300-500 feet. It was a dark object on top and what looked like a flame a foot or two underneath. As the object approached our limit to see it, the flame disappeared but the object continued in the same northerly direction. Our best guess was it was a balloon or a lantern; However, since it traveled a consistent speed at a different direction than the wind and continued its trajectory after the flame disappeared, I thought it warranted a report. We did capture video of the object with a cell phone, but the quality is not great.



Posted 2020-08-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 153022
Occurred: 2019-06-30 01:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-02-03 19:46 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Clay, AL, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Animals reacted

Went outside to take a smoke looked up saw about 5 or 6 fireballs circling it was me and my step brother they looked as if they were all separate but it was dark they could've all been attached

I tried catching them with a camera on my phone but they didn't show by of the quality of my camera and the speed they were going was to fast but its something I'll never forget

Posted 2020-02-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 146971
Occurred: 2019-06-19 06:15 Local
Reported: 2019-06-22 05:38 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Clay, NY, USA

Shape: Disk


Flat disk moved slower than a aircraft then tipped right and accelerated up out of sight extremely fast

On June 19, 2019, at approximately 6:15 AM, I was driving South on Route 481 in the Town of Clay, NY. The sky was bright, mostly clear with the sun rising and mostly wispy high clouds. I spotted an odd, flat profile object moving right to left (West to East, roughly) straight across my windshield field of vision. The object moved extremely slowly, even slower than the aircraft I see landing and taking off every day as I drive near Syracuse Hancock International Airport. I also see Air Force drones flying all the time, as our base at Hancock Field trains Drone pilots for the Air Force.

The object was white to a flat light gray, uniform in color. It looked like a dime flat in profile, without striations on the edge. I followed it with my eyes for approximately one minute, when it suddenly tipped to the right (South) and as it did I saw a very bright glint of silver as it tipped its bottom surface toward the rising sun. It immediately accelerated up and to the Southwest at an approximately 45 degree angle. For a second, I could see its disk shape as it angled away an then it was GONE. Extremely Fast.

Posted 2019-06-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 145642
Occurred: 2019-04-13 19:45 Local
Reported: 2019-04-14 12:53 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Clay, WV, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Black disc shaped object bounced around and vanished.

I was on a commercial aircraft above central West Virginia. We were at an altitude of 32,000 feet at a speed of about 400 mph at sunset. Some clouds in distance and craft was in front of those clouds. It looked to be at least 20 miles away. It seemed to move and stop. Then it disappeared and reappeared in a different place. I took two pictures with my Android phone. The craft seems very small but can be seen stationary in 1st pic and moving in 2nd pic.

Posted 2019-04-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70574
Occurred: 2008-08-29 20:30 Local
Reported: 2009-06-19 20:31 Pacific
Duration: 10 to 15 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Clay, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Something shaped like a big triangle flew slowly and directly over the top of my car

(I’m a ((deleted)) in Fulton, NY-so I’m nervous reporting this because I don’t want to be publicly humiliated-((age deleted)), married with ((deleted)) kids-I hope this doesn’t have too much detail but maybe if I write it all down I can stop thinking about it) My wife ((deleted--shops) at a grocery store called ((deleted)).

So I set out around 8 at night and it wasn’t dark yet. I drove south on route 481 from fulton toward clay. It was a beautiful clear night with only a few very well defined clouds in the air.

As I get near the Phoenix exit there’s a bridge over the highway and I notice two bright headlights on the bridge but not moving. I look up and I see that it’s not a car and the lights are above the bridge in the air, way far off a few miles. But they are bigger and more intense than the headlights on cars coming in the opposite lane. And the lights aren’t moving so I thought it was some sort of tower I wasn’t close enough to see yet. The lights were white but tinged with that warm yellow light, not like the bluish headlights some cars have now. So I keep driving. I do not even think ufo-stuff because I just didn’t think about that kind of stuff (back then!!!). My eyes go back to it a few times and in the back of my mind I feel a nagging feeling because I grew up here and have lived here forever and I didn’t remember a tower there before or seeing lights like that. It’s still not dark out but it’s close to that time where it starts to get dark fast. As I get closer the lights don’t move at all. They’re very low in the sky so the trees along the highway block it momentarily here and there.

After a couple minutes of driving I start being more distracted by it, because I’m not seeing any tower, and there’s absolutely no movement. I started to think it was a plane flying low, and that it was flying directly in my direction so it looked motionless, which I thought was cool. But as the highway slowly wound and turned, they were staying in the same spot.

I finally have driven a few miles and felt as though I was getting close enough to see the tower or plane or whatever it was. I was a little bothered because I realized I was getting extremely close to it, and I could see a cell phone tower or something on the other side of it, and it was a lot smaller. At this point it was dark, but not full night. I wasn’t noticing any other air traffic at the time, but maybe I just wasn’t looking for it in all honesty.

I finally came to a break in the woods (it’s farmy-kind of land) and looked behind me because there was light traffic in the oncoming lane, but none behind me, so I could slow down to about 40 from 65. At that point I passed the clearing on the left and saw that it was a plane that was so low and huge it looked like it was coming in for a landing, but it was hanging completely motionless in the sky, and the lights were very, very bright. As I passed, IT STARTED MOVING AND CAME OVER THE HIGHWAY AND DIRECTLY OVER MY CAR. I checked behind me and slowed to a crawl, stood up and put my face up against the windshield half-standing over my steering wheel. I had stopped breathing and was completely fascinated, and then scared. It took about six seconds to cross the highway over me and it’s only two lanes north and two lanes south. Someone could have jogged it about the same speed.

The sky and cloud above it were a medium gray purple, and I got a pretty good look at whatever this was. I thought it was a plane coming in for a landing because it was huge, but made no sound (I did have my windows up, but it was directly over my car). There were actually three huge lights, one in each corner, and this thing had no wings, it was shaped like a perfect equilateral triangle, black. (or I’m assuming it was black). In the center of this thing were some smaller red and bluish lights and all these weird panels and things. It was so foreign as to what I was expecting my eyes were having a hard time grasping that middle part. Nothing was blinking, no lights you see usually on helicopters and planes. When it crossed the road and got over the field, it banked to the left (south again) and CRUISED south. I sped up, and it was less than a mile to my exit and I was staying steady with it, I could kind of see it here and there through the trees. I got to the exit, there was a red light so I did down my window and leaned out and up over my roof of the car, then climbed back in because there were cars and I felt crazy. I watched to the right.

Over route 31 there are a million chain restaurants and walmarts and things like that. This thing crossed the highway and kept going south toward Syracuse. I turned right toward wegmans and tried to keep up and see it. When I got to another intersection red light I looked left and saw it further away, and it had stopped and was motionless in the sky again. The light turned green and I didn’t know what to do, so I just went and got my wife’s bread while in a stupor. On my way home, I didn’t see anything in the sky except three planes or helicopters way up in the sky in the same area flying around and around. I thought that was weird too. In all my life before or after I have never seen anything even closely resembling whatever this was.

I was really thrown for a loop when I went home and searched “triangle ufo” and a million hits came up. I didn’t see anything online as clearly as the thing I saw, but the three lights –one at each corner, was right. I wanted to call the police or an airport just so they could tell me what it was but I never did because I felt ridiculous-I didn't see anything in newspapers or anything so I kind of shut up about it. Hope I find out what it was someday. I am very very nervous, however, about having my name released-Fulton is a small town.

Posted 2009-08-05