NUFORC UFO Sighting 179869
Occurred: 2023-12-17 23:00 Local
Reported: 2023-12-29 21:38 Pacific
Duration: 1 sec
No of observers: 2

Location: Amsterdam, ID, USA
Location details: Driving between Twin Falls ID and Jackpot NV

Shape: Sphere
Color: White
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 45


White sphere darts across highway above car

I was driving with my fiance from Northern Idaho to Jackpot NV. We were in the middle of nowhere, I believe we had already passed Twin Falls but it may have occurred between Boise and Twin Falls. It was a clear night punctuated with patches of dense fog. When we hit the first patch of fog a white sphere shot across the road above our car and was gone in less than a second. We both shouted and gasped WTF!? It was clear as day, moving at an incredible speed, clearly visible through the dense fog (now obscuring the stars), made no sound and left no trail. In the moment the best size comparison I could think of was a basketball at the height of a streetlight. My fiance thought it may have been further away and larger, her guess was 100 ft away and 30 ft across.

About an hour later she was asleep. I first saw a small shooting star (tiny with a trail, about 1 inch across my field of view) then I saw a similar white sphere as before (this time much smaller and further away but significantly larger than a shooting star). This sphere shot across my entire field of view from left to right in a second or two before fading off into the distance. My jaw dropped. It was the fastest thing I've ever seen but still no trail, no sound. Totally clear view at the time.

Posted 2024-02-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 128047
Occurred: 2016-06-22 08:25 Local
Reported: 2016-06-24 13:32 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Amsterdam, NY, USA

Shape: Light


Super bright light, circular, reflective, faded out and/or moved away at very high speed.




NUFORC Note:

We suspect a hoax. Time may be wrong. Witness elects to remain totally anonmyous. PD


Posted 2016-07-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 158128
Occurred: 2016-06-01 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2020-08-01 23:46 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes


Location: Amsterdam, CA, USA

Shape: Egg


walking my dogs in the evening in a suburb close to Amsterdam. I noticed an egg shaped deep orange glowing object close above me in the sky, approximately 10 meters high. The object made no sound at all and moved away from me going left to right and upward, not zigzagging.

When it went out of sight, another one appeared in exactly the same way as the first one, above my head, about 10 meters high and followed the exact same route as the first one, like a dejavu experience. I was too baffled to grab my phone to take a video of them, also I was walking my two big dogs for which I needed both hands. I know what I saw and haven't shared it with anyone, only at this site.




NUFORC Note:

This report initially was posted for Amsterdam, Netherlands. We since have learned that the location was Amsterdam, California. We apologize for the error. PD


Posted 2020-08-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 125499
Occurred: 2016-01-28 23:00 Local
Reported: 2016-01-28 20:39 Pacific
Duration: Several minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Amsterdam, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

My mother saw a weird craft flying in an abnormal pattern. She said it had suddenly stopped behind the tree.

She had called me over and I had saw what didn't look like a star nor doesn't sound/look like any air craft or tot craft I have seen. It was hovering in one area.

No noise coming from it. It flashed yellow, red, green, and a possible orange like color of lights. The green was mainly shown on the sides from my point of view. Where I was in my location, the width was about 1cm and the height was about half a centimeter.

It started to fly away north of my direction. As it did, a quiet humming sound came directly from it.

I don't know what I have saw. But it is truly my first time witnessing and unknown flying object, a UFO.


((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS))

I am sorry, I mean January 28, 2016. Again, sorry for the mix up

Sent from my iPhone

((END ADDENDUM))

Posted 2016-01-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 92947
Occurred: 2012-08-31 23:30 Local
Reported: 2012-09-21 15:50 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutess
No of observers: 2

Location: Amsterdam, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

I was driving East on Miami Ave, Amsterdam NY around 11:30 when I saw a large bright object in the sky. The occupant I was with recorded a video of the object, but the clarity of it is poor, only showing a white object. However, it was glowing bright red, but would dim slowly to orange, then return back to red. It did this repeatedly throughout the experience. Its movement was quite slow, and there was a lack of sound accompanied by the object. It was traveling in an Easterly direction. Elevation was roughly 1,000 to 1,500 feet in the air. I lost visual when the lights dimmed completely out roughly 3 to 4 miles to our West. The skies were clear with stars visible.



Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 39682
Occurred: 2004-10-08 18:52 Local
Reported: 2004-10-08 16:13 Pacific
Duration: one minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Amsterdam, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

i saw a small light in the sky that moved werey fast

i saw a small light on the horizon line it was positon south east of my house it traveled north west after it was vertical to me it stated to show a red light and two small white blinking lights they were very small then i couldent see it any more. The craft was also very samll and made buzzing engine type noise.



NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2004-10-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26300
Occurred: 2002-11-28 21:30 Local
Reported: 2002-11-28 19:39 Pacific
Duration: split-second
No of observers: 1

Location: Amsterdam (west of), NY, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

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


Posted 2002-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 16136
Occurred: 2001-02-01 20:00 Local
Reported: 2001-02-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 Minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Amsterdam, MO, USA

Shape: Formation


Bright light coming from Southeast to Northwest, then returning partway and dissappearing, anyone else seen this tonight?

My wife and myself, along with a potential landlord, were inspecting a house and 40 some odd acres in northern to mid Bates county in Missouri. After inspecting the house we walked the fenceline around the acreage and inspected the fence.

After stopping for a short rest we continued on and back towards the house. By that time it was dark and once we returned to the house we signed papers with the landlord and he went on home.

Living in the city at this time we decided to stay for a bit to look at the stars and the milky way. It was getting cold so we were preparing to leave. I got into the car to warm it up and my wife came around and waited for me to unlock her door.

Before she climbed in she looked up towards the sky again to take in the view and she called my name. I told her to hurry up and get in the car I was cold she asked if that was the ISS... I got out and looked for the light crossing the sky and she pointed me towards the southeast horizon. I thought to myself wow, finally I get to see it. I caught the light in my vision and watched its ascent overhead.

As the point of light ran across the sky we had to turn and look back the other direction, towards the northwest. As it streaked towards the northwest it stopped just above that horizon.

Originally we believed we had just lost the object to our vision and we were now staring at a star or something we decided to head back home.

My wife climbed back into the car, and I adjusted my Ham radio antenna from 40 to 75 meters. I turned back one more time and looked. To my suprise that 'star' was moving back in the other direction. Back towards the South-South East.

I yelled at my wife to come take a look. I didn't think the space station could manuever that way. The light or object stopped at 30 degrees from our position in the sky. We sat and watched it for about 5 more minutes and the light disappeared. We climbed back in the car and talked about it abit. We thought about what it might be, maybe an airplane or helicopter but it was too far out and moved too fast to be either of those. And I know of no helicopter that can travel at that altitude or speed.

The thing that appeared odd to me was the fact that it turned back and came about a third distance back across the sky and stopped. No space station or satellite I know of can do that.

I wanted to submit this in case someone else had seen the same thing, and maybe get to ask some questions or see if any radar had captured this.

Posted 2001-02-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 489
Occurred: 1995-05-03 04:05 Local
Reported: 1995-05-14 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 4 min.


Location: Amsterdam, NY, USA

Shape:




Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2892
Occurred: 1963-08-01 02:00 Local
Reported: 1997-11-19 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3-4 min.


Location: Amsterdam, NY, USA

Shape: Disk


Summary : Observed 2 saucer shaped objects, traveling at high speed, vertically and horizontally.

Staying with friends whose home was in the country. No surrounding light. I Awoke out of a sound sleep, went to the window and was looking out when I observed a round, large object with visible bluish-green lights around the bottom of the object. It was charging back and forth and up and down at a very fast speed. At that time I woke my husband to view this, and we then both witnessed a second, idenically shaped object approaching the first one. Together they would go up and down and after a minute or so they both took off at a very high speed. I called the local police station and asked if they had received and reports on strange events in the shy, and the officer stammered and him- hawed around and finally said "no Ma'M" I could tell he was obviously not telling the truth. Also the friends we were staying with had had a more spectacular experience about 10 months prior to this one. They had a greenhouse, and one night as they were potting plants a large round object hovered over them, above the greenhouse. At that time they became immobilized. After a couple of minutes, this object soundlessly lifted off and flew away. At this point our friends were once again able to move. Out friends at this time were mature, 50+ people. They were honest and never would have made anything like this up. The wife had told me the story, only after making me promise never to let her husband know she had told me. He rightfully thought that at time, people would think he was crazy. They have both now passed on so I feel free to relate their experience.

Posted 1998-06-02