NUFORC UFO Sighting 153483
Occurred: 2020-02-22 01:47 Local
Reported: 2020-02-22 00:33 Pacific
Duration: ~2 minutes starting
No of observers: 1

Location: Chazy Lake, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright white light stationary over the lake in the middle of the night

On a cold windy winter night, I was driving on Route 374 by Chazy Lake heading west. I saw a bright white light at the far end of the lake. At first, I thought someone put up a bright street light. As I continued west, I could see it better and by the time I was by the bay at the end of the lake (toward Lyon Mt.) I saw it close up. It was a huge white light sitting a few hundred feet in the air over the shoreline and not just bright but SCARY bright! I slowed down to get a good look and became very scared because of how close it was and how big and frighteningly bright! It didn't move at all – and I didn’t notice any sound either (of course I stayed inside my car). I would say it was probably about 500 feet away and at least a couple hundred feet in the air. It was just so unbelievably BRIGHT! I was very scared and took off and kept checking my mirrors to see if it had moved from the lake to the road behind me.

It was definitely NOT: an airplane, helicopter, Chinese lantern, balloon, planet, or the moon. If someone could take something the size of a car (guessing only), turn it into the brightest whitest light you've ever seen, and prop it up 200-300 feet in the air over the shoreline at the end of the bay where no one lives, then I'd say it was that. I travel by the lake frequently and never saw anything like that before.



Posted 2020-02-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 121725
Occurred: 2015-09-06 00:02 Local
Reported: 2015-09-05 22:35 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Chazy Lake, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Bright orangish-red light silently moving slowly over lake.

At approximately 12:02 am, Sunday, September 6, 2015, I was driving west on New York State Route 374 between Dannemora and Lyon Mountain. In the hamlet of Chazy Lake, I noticed a bright orange-reddish (more orange than red) light in the sky over the lake. It caught my eye because I’ve never seen anything that color in the sky before. It was hard to tell its altitude – I believe it was lower in altitude than a plane would normally fly. The brightness of the light was around the magnitude of the planet Venus. It was the brightest light/object in the sky. The night sky was crystal clear and there was no wind.

I pulled off the side of the road where there were no street lights and exited my vehicle to get a better look at the light. I was facing south looking at the light over the lake. There was plane flying below it traveling east and another plane farther to the west of the light flying south. Once the planes were out of view, I listened and could hear no sound coming from the light.

I watched it for a few minutes to see if it was actually moving. It was moving – very slowly – to the east. I could tell it was moving because I compared its position to the trees below it. I then got back in my vehicle and drove home.

Posted 2015-09-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 89086
Occurred: 2012-05-11 17:00 Local
Reported: 2012-05-20 18:48 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Chazy, NY, USA

Shape: Egg


Small egg shaped object with blinking white light rose into the sky

I was out for a walk along Fiske Road near the intersection with Duprey Road, and observed what first looked like an escaped birthday balloon being carried along by the wind (it was a windy day) approximately 30 feet from the ground and maybe 200 feet away. In began to gain altitude slowly as if rising in the wind, but then accelerated rapidly and rose up and away and was gone. Before it disappeared from view I observed a white blinking light coming from it and at that point realized that it was a UFO! It made no noise. It could not have been anything else. Its shape was sort of fat and oblong from my nearly horizontal view of it while it was nearer to the ground.

Interestingly, there is a small electrical sub-station in the vicinity of where it appeared to have been traveling from. The object appeared to be small, maybe 3-5 feet in diameter.

Posted 2012-05-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 24411
Occurred: 2002-08-10 22:30 Local
Reported: 2002-08-13 11:22 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Chazy, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

2 lights in the sky

its was to hight , it was going from west to east croos the sky in about 4 or 5 minute we did not see it after that boht was going in the same direction

Posted 2002-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 51129
Occurred: 1973-10-15 17:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-06-26 22:34 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Chazy, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Landed

Exact location: 44 deg 52' 33.74" North, 73 deg 28' 52.99", thanks to GPS and Google Earth (didn't have either back then). Macadam Road maybe a couple hundred feet west of Ridge Road, Chazy, NY. Exact date may be a week sooner or later, not too sure of that but it was early samll game hunting season then.

3 of us were bird hunting in the area and it was getting dark fast. Done, and heading home, we stopped just to watch flocks of ducks landing in the (sanctuary) ponds to the south/south west of our position on the road. Overcast, maybe 2,500 feet with a steady wind from west as I remember.

During some of the joking and talking, I saw bright magenta (red) light descend straight down, unaffected by wind and with no smoking trail or sound, to the ground by the pond in front of the tree line slightly to the west of where we were looking and maybe 1/4 mile away, a good guess. It was a brilliant light with kind of a haze surrounding it. Size is hard to say...maybe from basketball to large beach ball in size. As it got closer to the ground it actually slowed down and the light turned off. I assume it was on the ground in tall grasses etc. That is when I mentioned it to the others because they were looking back in my direction as I recall.

Maybe 5 minutes went by, after swapping a few more stories, I saw the light turn on again and pointed at it...this time all 3 of us saw it ascend straight up, very fast, no sound, no smoke, no wings, no rotor blades, nothing but brilliant pure silent magenta light accelerating into the clouds, seemingly immune to the effects of the wind. Now that is what got my curiosity going, you know, something coming down and soft landing then, later, taking off at an incredible speed all with no sound and in a wooded/marshy area. We were close enough to hear ducks making noise but that thing was silent.

The other 2 weren't all that interested after seeing it, and I never thought about it again until a few years ago. As a former pilot I can say that it did not look like aerodynamic flight and so I do not know what it was. Thinking about it now, that was not a good 'alternate landing site' for any aircraft for any reason.

I wasn't sure whether to report this old sighting or not, I am sure of what we observed then, just don't know what it was.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-07-16