NUFORC UFO Sighting 173338
Occurred: 2022-12-08 17:15 Local
Reported: 2022-12-08 16:27 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Ava, NY, USA
Location details: In sky near town of Ava

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

5 horizontal lights dimming out then back in after shifting direction. Lights reappear in a loner line of them before igniting?

My husband and I were travel North on Route 26 near the town of Ava at approximately 5:15pm. Approaching the top of a small hill directly in front of us in the sky were 5 circular horizontal lights. They dimmed and there was a shift in direction of the craft (rotated?) before lights reappeared and the craft ignited? It started sparking and traveling East in a large ball of spark leaving a tail like a comet would in its wake before disappearing after 100 ft or so.

Posted 2022-12-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 148059
Occurred: 1990-07-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2019-08-05 05:07 Pacific
Duration: Unk
No of observers: 0

Location: Ava, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Aircraft nearby

As I write this, I sometimes find hard to believe, especially with all that was ensued the next day. Now rest assured, I am prior service military, and being a former boy scout - one thing I would not do with something like this, lie or fib! I am only telling the experience as I remember it. This is NO HOAX, but to those idiots that want to deem it as one, go right ahead - I can only tell you what I had seen, heard, witnessed, experienced, nothing more.

The date is approximate, but the time is about right. I was an 11 year old boy scout about to get his first merit badge - astronomy (how ironic). I was known as the astronomy whiz kid, and "teacher's pet" for the class that about 15-20 of us were doing. The age ranges of the other scouts - ages 10-16. At any rate, the day of our evening test, I was asked by the scout master for that merit badge to give everyone a brief practice that night before he came out to meet us to administer our test of the night skies.

At about 21:45, we all mustered up on the little hill in the field that overlooked the lake and the forest, the rest of the field, etc. I was testing the other scouts with various constellations and citing little facts, etc. One kid tapped me on the shoulder and said "Um, what is that!?" I responded "Oh that is Corona Boreal-".

I didn't finish my sentence. That night, was the most awesome thing I think anyone could have seen - this huge triangular object. I would say it was roughly about 100-250 feet in size (could have easily been close to the size of a football field). It made a whirring humming noise that most couldn't hear, but for some reason, I heard the harmonics of this black beauty. At each of the vertices was a point of white light, but a red one in the middle. The craft had to be I'd say about 75-100 feet up in the air over the forest; my conservation merit badge, which was next, taught me that the trees that we had there were roughly about 45-50 feet tall. The craft crossed over the lake, then over the forest.

Once it crossed over the shoreline, the craft began to send a red glowing ball/orb from the red light part of it. It would go at about a 45º angle. As the orb would descend, the craft would move forward to receive it. It was almost like it was optic sonar, at best. It did this between 3-5 times. Then it slowly lifted up and the next thing you know, without warning, completely silent, and at an angle no craft on this planet (save for the possible craft we built similar) could ever do! It would be about 5-10 minutes after this - two waves of jets (about 4 in formation) would fly overhead, and about 3-4 attack helicopters flew overhead with about 2-4 Pave Lows.

The very next day, I was with my conservation group of scouts, and we had just finished a very rainy morning hike - it was extremely miserable. There were probably about 3-4 other scouts from previous night that were with me that had seen this craft. Off in the distance, I saw what I thought two men I had recognized as a little boy from the Air Force (another report I will need to file - hopefully not as long), along with my scoutmaster, the scoutmaster for astronomy, and a few others meeting together. There were a couple of state troopers, local police from Rome, and kid you not - two men in black suits. MIB? Not sure. Wouldn't be surprised, but being an 11 year old and not knowing about all that, you just see what you see, right? The scoutmasters received a severe ass chewing. Later that day, we all had a meeting, and were told we had seen a very advanced fighter, and that the pilot somehow got lost. We were also told we were never to speak of this again to anyon! e - especially among ourselves.

As I have said, this was the account of that night, and I have had a couple of other experiences throughout. You can use to your discretion what you believe or not believe. However, most that know me will tell you I am probably one of the most brutally honest people in this world - and to question my honesty is a death sentence in itself. I will say there is not a day that doesn't go by when I don't think of this fateful night.

And what of the forest, you ask? I don't know - we were not allowed to go into that part of the woods the rest of the time there. But something had spooked the people that were working in there.

Posted 2019-08-23