NUFORC UFO Sighting 178354
Occurred: 2023-09-15 21:15 Local
Reported: 2023-09-16 06:36 Pacific
Duration: 90 seconds to 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA
Location details: Lincoln Hill Farms music venue. Sitting on the picnic tables next to the pond

Shape: Orb
Explanation: Starlink - Possible


Lights moving diagonally thru Big Dipper, disappearing and seemingly ‘reappearing’ at the start of the line

I was at a concert with my friend rj and we were sitting at a picnic table looking at the stats during the break.
I noticed a satellite moving diagonally up to the right through the cup of the Big Dipper, then noticed one behind it at a fixed distance moving at the same speed. I assumed it was the Starlink satellite train and told rj “I think I see starlink” and pointed it out to him.
He had an experience once when his friend Cody and him saw Starlink, Cody freaked out and said it was a ufo, but RJ looked up a video of Starlink and showed Cody, so RJ has seen and knows what Starlink looks like.
We then watched and noticed there were three four or five dim lights following each other in a straight diagonal light. The light in the front would quickly fade our when reaching around the middle point of the cup of the Big Dipper. We noticed they were fading in in the start of the line, below the bottom left Star forming the bottom of the cup of the dipper, moving steady at a steady brightness and suddenly fading out near the center of the cup of the dipper. This went on long enough for us to have a whole conversation about what we were seeing. I would guess 90 seconds to two and a half minutes or so. I did not even get a full count of lights because you sort of needed to strain to see them, if I took my eyes off the one in the front I feared losing them.

The lights were dimmer than the stars making up the Big Dipper. Near normal satellite brightness and speed. But they would seemingly disappear and reappear where they started, sort of like marquee lights. I joked with RJ “maybe it’s one big craft an those are the lights on the side”

I looked in the sky along the same line that would wave been their path had they not faded out near the middle of the dipper and I saw absolutely nothing.

Eventually while watching it all they lights dimmed and all faded out. We sat there looking nothing for 20 more minutes or so. We say various planes and satellites and grabbed the other’s attention for it but after 10 or 15 seconds of viewing each of those we quickly decided that it was a plane or satellite.

Probably around 9:20 While looking at the big dipper a noticed what I assumed to be a bright star quickly fade away. RJ did not notice this as the light was completely stationary until disappearing.

Later around 9:30-9:45 the music was back on and while dancing I caught a glimpse of a bright light wiz across the sky headed north and disappear. It is possible this could have been a shooting star, but I have seen plenty of shooting starts and this streak was much longer than any I have seen.
Later after the show RJ and I sat on the back porch and continued our UFO hunt, again we say a few satellites and quickly decided they were such. I saw a few shooting stars, all in the same area of the sky all in the same direction, short dim streaks heading south.

As far as a mundane explanation for the first set of lights I saw I suppose it’s possible it could be some satellite train but the more I look into that the less likely it seems. The venue had lights on the stage but they were off during set break and there was a building in between us and the stage at that point.

Attached is a sketch at the lights in the Big Dipper




Posted 2023-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154387
Occurred: 2020-03-22 20:30 Local
Reported: 2020-03-22 18:10 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Formation


30-35 lights appearing from the horizon moving in a perfectly straight line and disappearing overhead

We observed a formation of lights moving in a straight line appearing from the northern horizon and going in a south westerly direction. They appeared to be coming from a single point on the horizon, one after another in an almost perfectly straight line approximately 300 to 500 yards apart from one another. Once they got to a point in the sky directly overhead, they would disappear into the night sky. We didn’t take an actual count, but best estimate would be at least 30-35 separate lights. They we’re not flashing or blinking like you would expect from airplane lights. And they were too low to be satellites. The whole event happened within 6-7 minutes and they we're not visable to my camera phone. Also, they didn’t make any noise like you would expect from jet engines flying at that height. I can only assume they we’re military planes taking off one after another, but I can’t imagine why they would release that many in a row, and why I wouldn’t hear they’re! jet engines? That’s why I believe we just witnessed a fleet of UFO’s.



Posted 2020-05-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 124138
Occurred: 2015-11-16 21:06 Local
Reported: 2015-11-16 18:13 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape:
Characteristics: Left a trail

Fireball south of Canandaiua.

Fireball south of Canandaigua.




NUFORC Note:

Possible meteor?? PD


Posted 2015-11-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 107712
Occurred: 2014-02-28 21:30 Local
Reported: 2014-03-07 17:10 Pacific
Duration: ~5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Teardrop
Characteristics: Left a trail

Falling fireball lit up the sky

Looking south over Canandaigua Lake.

The sky lit up with a very bright white light that lasted about 5 seconds.

As the object fell, one stage burned out only to have subsequent stages at larger sizes.

At arm's length, the main fireball was about the size of a dime.

Most likely falling debris of some sort.

Posted 2014-03-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86947
Occurred: 2011-10-15 17:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2012-02-01 15:49 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 0

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

round brite silverish light

I was driving along the lake and i looked to my left to look at the lake and thats when i saw a round brite lite it was so brite it looked silver.

at first i thought it was a helicopter but it was so close i would have seen it and heard it and there was no sound and the light was to big for a spot light on a hilicopter.

it was just above the trees and maybe a 100 feet from me so i turned my head to the right to grab my phone off the seat to take a picture, and when i turned back towards the object to take a picture it was on the other side of the lake barely visible and then disapeard completely.

i keep on driving up the road about an 8th of a mile and there it was again same distance from the road and just above the trees i grabed my phone to take a picture but the thing shot back across the lake less then 2 seconds and disapeard.

Haven't seen it sence looking for it all the time to try and get at pic. am i crazy?




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2012-02-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 81993
Occurred: 2011-06-24 21:00 Local
Reported: 2011-06-29 20:23 Pacific
Duration: 6 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

A small fleet of UAP flying over a residential street.

As I was turning onto my block while driving in the car with my wife I noticed some red glowing objects in the sky. At first I thought they were fire works, or something.

I had my wife pull over the truck and I grabbed her iphone to snap a shot and got out. I quickly realized these were like nothing I had ever seen before.

As they came over the horizon they glowed a reddish/orange and made a noise like you would here with a jet or a plane. The noise quickly faded and there were about 12 glowing lights and 3 or so black disc shaped craft flying with them all silently.

The lights started to fade out revealing they were all black disc like craft. The lights would either fade out or dim down to one point on the disc, they all flew in the same direction with no noise.

I watched them closely until they were all out of sight and filmed a few minutes of footage showing the lit ones and you can see 2 of the non-lit ones flying in the bunch.

I do not know what I saw but I got this feeling like I was witnessing something not normal, and I have never seen anything like that before.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD


Posted 2011-07-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 78242
Occurred: 2010-10-08 07:25 Local
Reported: 2010-10-08 11:23 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Flash


Intense bright object moving at an extremely high rate of speed and disappearing out of earths atmosphere

Object appeared as a very very intense bright light. Object was at a very high altitude and started to move EXTREMLY fast, faster then any aircraft could possibly move. Suddenly object started moving up at a more rapid speed and disappeared and seemed to vanish from earths atmosphere






NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD


Posted 2010-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68931
Occurred: 2009-02-21 02:00 Local
Reported: 2009-02-24 17:39 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 Stationary flashing red lights west of Canandaigua, NY. 500 feet above the ridge west of Cheshire.

Around 2 am I looked out my west facing dining room window. I saw 2 synchronized flashing lights hovering about 500 feet above a ridge that is about a mile from my house. The craft, (assuming the 2 lights were on the right and left edges), was around the size of a half dollar held at arms length. I watched the flashing lights for more than 5 minutes & they did not move. Curious, I stepped outside to watch them more closely. Unlike helicopters I have seen and heard in the area, there was no distinguishable sound.

I have not lived in the house for more than a couple of months, so after about 10 minutes of watching the lights, I decided that it must be a communications tower that I had not previously noticed. I went back to bed. In the morning after the sun came up, I realized that there is no tower or any structure that could be confused with the object that I saw.

Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68455
Occurred: 2009-02-04 20:00 Local
Reported: 2009-02-04 21:06 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Emitted beams

On a cold February night in upstate N.Y., I looked up to see these streaks that went up into the clouds. There were two sets of streaks white and orange. The streaks lasted for over 30 minutes. Also there was an interesting object that appeared in the photos but not to the naked eye.



Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 36602
Occurred: 2004-04-28 23:00 Local
Reported: 2004-04-29 10:46 Pacific
Duration: 3 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Bristol/Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects

an object that was bigger than the light it projected , which through binoculars you could see some of the outline that was not lit

I seen an almond shaped disk type object hovering over the hills where my property overlooks . There were two other ones similiar but they would change shape as they moved back and forth , up and down . I have been trained to know the difference between planes, satellites and stars ...and these were none of those . They moved within milliseconds of any activity in the sky that I have ever seen . This is not the first time for me in witnessing ufo activity , but this was the first time they got this close where it felt like they were right on top of me, watching me as I watched them. If you stared into binoculars , you could see almost every turn they made and as they did , it changed from almond shape , to disk shape to something that seemed perfectly round , as though it hovered right over my house . There was a design ion the bottom of this one craft , almost looked like that of a phoenix or some type of fancy geometrical design . The one that came the closest was mostly grey that would shift into a bright blue , white and then it would flash something red once in a while . It had an aura around it and it would move towards the other two in the sky (which were farther away then the one I was observing), when that happened then the other two would seem to move rapidly and disappear at random moments and then reappear . As I watched this one come closer , I could feel a "pull" that is hard to explain unless someone knows or has experienced what I am talking about . I was outside when this happened and these objects were appearing in the eastern skies . I stood there studying them for about 3 hours . I lost track of time and then became too tired to continue . I remember before walking into the house around 3 am , there was a huge thing that swept right under it (the object)on my final glance and I am sure how to explain that one . Out of all the "suspected" ufos I have seen , this one concerned me most .

Posted 2004-04-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 35890
Occurred: 2004-03-27 18:30 Local
Reported: 2004-03-29 15:25 Pacific
Duration: 2 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

object acending in the sky

my husband and i were talking in our driveway and something caught my eye it was a disc shape spinning very fast then it shot straight up in the sky. it made a "zing" sound. it happened real fast. then it disappeared

Posted 2004-03-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 22539
Occurred: 2002-04-02 23:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-04-17 00:18 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Light in the ski like a star hovering

I went outside and noticed a light really super high in the ski. It almost looked like a star. The light would go in one direction and the turn around and go in the other. What made it stand out from a plane is that it would stop before turning in the other direction and just hover in the air. I ran inthe house and told my wife to come watch what was happening. My mother in law who lives and for boy friend I also told to come out and watch. We noticed four jets all coming from the same direction heading directly toward the light. The light then turned and went away from the jets super fast and disappeared over Canandaigua Lake. neither the jets or the light made a sigle sound.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-04-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54163
Occurred: 1996-08-01 20:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-12-26 17:49 Pacific
Duration: 15min
No of observers: 5

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

large triangular object, black with small red and white lights. Hovered for 10 minutes at 500 ft elevation

Driving up road near Finger Lakes Community College. Craft came in from East to West at about 500 foot elevation at slow speed. Stopped over left side of vehicle for 10 minutes.

Some other vehicles stopped. No sound. Size was about three large jet liners, black in color with several small lights on bottom white and red. Triangular in shape.

Next day many sightings in Naples, NY of same discription including local sherrif's department. This report was on WFLR radio. My window was down and I took off my glasses to make sure it was not a reflection. It was twilight but size and color could be seen plainly.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD


Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31482
Occurred: 1994-02-27 00:15 Local
Reported: 2003-09-15 07:37 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

It was rectangular and had 6 red lights on each side.

Another friend was driving me home on County Rd. 4 in Ontario County, NY. We both worked at the local VA Hospital, he was an LPN and I was a CNA. As we headed east we noticed a rectangular object flying very slowly toward us about 75 yards above the road. As we approached the craft, my friend rolled back the sunroof on his car and slowed down to about 10 mph. We went right under the belly of this craft. It was rectangular in shape and the nose of the craft was only half as wide as the tail end. It had 6 red lights on each of the 2 long sides of the craft and it had a very bright white light on the underside of the nose of the craft. My friend asked me what it was. I told him that no aircraft can fly so slowly and not leave a trail or make no noise and that it must be a UFO. It was the size of 2 football fields. And both sides extended well beyond the sides of the road in width. It was huge!! The craft was a shiny, black, metallic color. There were no identifying numbers on the underside as there would normally be on most aircraft. After we got out from under it, we sped off for home in record time. He still remembers the incident as do I. No missing time with this sighting as there was with my first report.



NUFORC Note:

One of two reports from same source. PD


Posted 2003-09-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31481
Occurred: 1991-08-28 00:30 Local
Reported: 2003-09-15 07:14 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Electrical or magnetic effects

It was a white sphere and it was keeping pace with my car

What we saw cannot be of this earth! I was driving home on a semi-desolate county road with a co-worker. She was sitting in the passenger's seat. We both were gov't workers at the time working the evening shift at the local VA hospital. She was an RN and I was a CNA. At 12:30AM, she looked out her window and saw what she thought was the moon and said it was very low and bright that night. I looked out her window and saw that it was moving through the trees and over the tops of the occasion house or two. We were heading east on the road. A couple of minutes later, it moved to my side of the car and was only about 100 yards from the road. It was keeping pace with us. When we came upon an open field, I decided to stop and get out to investigate what this thing might be. So I got out of the car and this sphere just hovered above the field. Again, it was about 100 yards away from me and about 200 yards above the ground. My passenger elected to remain in the car. It looked to be 3x the size of a basketball from the distance where I stood. No noise, no sound, no trail,no pulsing lights....just a bright white light that seemed to steadily emanate from within the craft. After a minute or two, I walked toward the thing and it moved away. I slowly walked backward toward my car again and it came forward again. I did this a few times and realized this was no weather balloon or any type of natural phenomenon. I finally asked out loud, "Who are you?" It then grew brighter and my car stalled and the radio began flipping through all the stations rapidly before everything finally quit on the car altogether. After what I thought was 10 minutes, I got back in the car to start it up and it wouldn't start. Then, everything came back on again and I turned the key and we were out of there in a shot! But the craft remained behind my car and it was in view of my rear-view mirror, but it traveled over the road this time. We were doing 80 mph for several miles until it disappeared. When I dr! opped off my passenger and got back to my house, the clock in the car read 12:50AM as did my watch. But, upon entering my home, I looked at the clock in my livingroom, it read 2:55AM as did the other clocks in the house. I called my co-worker at her house and asked her to look at her watch and then the clocks in her house. She, too, became scared and we both wondered what happened to the 2 hours that were missing from what should've been only a 40 minute drive. As it turned out, many people in the area saw this thing. 2 of my brothers saw it and they lived in 2 seperate towns. One in Victor, NY and the other in Ithaca, NY. Apparently this thing had been seen all around the Fingerlakes region for most of that evening. Most of my other co-workers also saw this thing as they drove home too. My passenger no longer remembers this incident, but I do! It still remains a mystery as to what happened to those 2 missing hours. I had another sighting 3 and 1/2 years later on this same road, which I will post in a seperate message. By the way, I now live in SW Florida.



Posted 2003-09-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 75720
Occurred: 1977-11-26 14:00 Local
Reported: 2010-06-07 21:45 Pacific
Duration: 1 to 2 hours
No of observers: 5

Location: Canandaigua, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangular craft watching Bristol Mountain Ski Resort

This sighting is going back some years now, but I can remember the precise weekend in which this UFO was seen by 5 people at the same time, just like it was yesterday. I have created a drawing of what I remember the craft looking like which I included with this report made on Microsoft paint.

It was 1977 at Bristol Mountain Ski Resort in Bristol Valley , Canandaigua, New York, the weekend that followed Thanksgiving Day which was November 24th, 1977. Bristol Mountain ski resort was teaming with activity for the holiday weekend, that’s when we really used to get snow.

I worked in the snack bar on the bottom floor of the Ski Lodge, along with 4 other people present that day. We cooked Hamburg’s, hotdogs, fries and such for customers visiting the ski resort.

The only window’s in the snack bar area were a row of windows located higher up on the wall just below the ceiling, facing the Mountain across the street from Bristol Mountain ski resort. These are the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, in the finger lakes region.

It had been a busy day this Saturday November 26th, 1977. Lunch hour was packed. Finally the business dropped of for the snack bar and we were all just goofing around and talking, when one of the guys I worked with yelled out, "Hey , look at this thing across street above the Mountain!" So we all looked out the window’s to see what he was making the big deal about.

There was a perfect view of this object above the tree line of the Mountain across the street. At first you had a hard time seeing it because it was a beautiful sun filled winter day with a dazzling blue sky. It was like a bright orange yellow glowing severe triangular craft, with like a boomerang back to the triangle, but the craft had a severe point to the front of the triangle like to a sharp point and the back although it had a boomerang shape was not a wide type. It looked like the shape of a paper air plain you made in school.

It was just sitting still over the Mountain top and was pointed right at Bristol Mt. Resort. Like it was observing all the activity going on there.

We watched it for sometime until we started getting busy again, and after that point I don’t remember if it just left or what?

Over the years I have told this account to different people at parties and such and always can remember it with clarity. I was completely blown away while surfing the internet, when I discovered that these triangular crafts have been seen by many people.




NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2010-06-10