NUFORC UFO Sighting 188056
Occurred: 2025-02-28 20:55 Local
Reported: 2025-03-02 12:57 Pacific
Duration: 2minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Elmira, OR, USA
Location details: Residential area

Shape: Circle
Color: Gray
Estimated Size: 30 feet diameter
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: North
Angle of Elevation: 60
Closest Distance: 1000 yards
Estimated Speed: 30 mph
Characteristics: Lights on object, Made a sound

Heard a rumbling engine went out to see a saucer type aircraft that had two blinking red lights and a yellow light

It sounds like a very deep growling engine. Loud enough to get me out of my shop. I looked up and saw a gray well lit saucer type aircraft with a large rectangular door maybe with two blinking lights above the door as I watched it. It hovered as if it was knowing that I was there. After a few seconds, as it was traveling away from me, I remembered to pull out my phone and take a video. The video is just the lights of the aircraft flying north of my location.




Posted 2025-03-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182683
Occurred: 2024-08-14 03:00 Local
Reported: 2024-08-18 10:33 Pacific
Duration: 7 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Elmira, OR, USA
Location details: vig orchard field

Shape: Rectangle
Color: Reflection of space
Estimated Size: one mile
Viewed From: Land
Angle of Elevation: 66
Closest Distance: 1 mile
Estimated Speed: 100 mph
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Watching shooting stars, a friend and I saw a very large rectangular-type craft moving fast that was camouflaged perfectly with the sky

Was watching shooting stars all night, then noticed a large section of the sky start moving fast as a body It looked as though it had all the the cosmos reflected on it, like it was camophlouged. Iy moved very fast, then changed driections seeming going downard.

Posted 2024-08-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164103
Occurred: 2021-07-21 21:00 Local
Reported: 2021-07-21 18:46 Pacific
Duration: 40 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Cigar
Characteristics: Lights on object

Tic-Tac shaped, wingless and no propulsion in the evening.

Saw the same UFO again, this time 2 weeks apart, roughly. It was located in the same location above neighborhoods in downtown Elmira. It had been silent and in the air for over 40 minutes. Tic-Tac, cigar-shaped. Several lights I could make out, mostly red. The craft appeared to be stationary for the duration of the 40 minutes until it disappeared out of my line of sight. No propulsion, completely silent. The most bizarre was seeing it in the same location as last time I witnessed it a few weeks prior. Definitely not a helicopter or a plane, especially having seen so many in the Big Flats Airport region. I don't believe it was a drone, also due to the fact that in the last five to ten minutes, it seemed like it was moving side-to-side. Wingless,no propulsion and silent from what I gathered. Second time I've seen it over the Elmira neighborhoods in July. The most striking was the changing of lights, almost like a star, but it wasn't high enough to be considere! d one. Interesting nonetheless.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 154526
Occurred: 2020-03-26 05:55 Local
Reported: 2020-03-26 03:26 Pacific
Duration: 2
No of observers: 1

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Light


numerous white dots crossing the sky from the west to the east

3/26/2020 approximately 0555 I went to take the dogs out, looked up in the sky and thought "there's a plane" but there was a line of "white dots" crossing the sky from west to east, there were at least 50

Posted 2020-05-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 165720
Occurred: 2017-07-10 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2021-12-04 22:34 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 6

Location: Elmira, NY, USA
Location details: Top of underwood ave at friends house

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Made a sound

5 friends and myself see black craft come through valley and hover over us

Some friends and myself were hanging out on my friends driveway which is on the top of hill overlooking a valley where you can see for about 10 miles. We were out there for a while so our eyes had acclimated to the dark and we were just talking and hanging out when we see a grouping of lights that kinda just looks like a low airplane but we didn’t hear anything. It was kinda headed in our direction so someone pointed it out and it wasn’t really that high in the sky. As it came our way we started to hear a humming kind of buzzing sound almost like a drone. Then as it got closer we thought it was just a drone because it had 3 green lights on and was triangular shaped. It was really dark so all we could see was the lights in town and the stars. As it kept getting closer it became apparent it wasn’t a drone because it just kept getting closer and was very large. If I had to guess I’d say 100 feet across. It very slowly made its way over us, almost seeming to slow down when it was over us. We were all just kinda of freaking out and all in amazement because none of us could explain what we were looking at. The lights weren’t overwhelmingly bright by any means and just looked like dull green lights in the corners of it’s triangular shape and no light coming from the body of the craft itself. You could only see the black silhouette of the craft blocking the stars and the dull green lights in the corner. I couldn’t make anything out on the silhouette. When it was at its closest I’d say it was probably only 100 to 150 yards above us and it wasn’t very loud, just a kind of dim, dull, hum and kind of buzzing sound almost like a drone but muffled. I’m not really a big believer of sightings and all that but I still can’t explain what we saw and all my friends who were there still talk about it. I only just heard about the site and the date I gave is definitely wrong but it was probably during that summer that we saw it. Just writing about its kinda giving me some paranoid kind of chills. Please don’t disregard. Thanks you

Posted 2021-12-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 115380
Occurred: 2014-11-15 20:20 Local
Reported: 2014-11-15 18:01 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

Orange light formation flies over Elmira New York

Formation of 20 Orange lights, chevron in shape - could have easily been one craft as all 20 lights moved in unison.

I have never seen this in person, until now - but looked exactly like the video of the Phoenix lights!

Watched for about 60 seconds before running inside to get my wife - by the time we got back outside the lights had traveled over half the town and quickly began "turning off" lowest light than in perfect sync all lights until only lead light was visible. Lead light continued traveling for about 30 secs before fading quickly.

Not sure if there are any airforce bases in the area, as it could have been described as flares - but in my six months of living here I've never seen any airforce activity and it would have been dropping hot flares right into the city neighborhoods - and I cannot imagine them doing this.

Furthermore, the perfect sync of the lights seemed unlikely for a flare drop.

Absolutely amazing to see.

Posted 2014-11-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 138717
Occurred: 2014-03-16 19:00 Local
Reported: 2018-02-16 08:20 Pacific
Duration: 45 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown


Sitting on my back porch, myself and four other individuals witnessed what appeared to be a moving star. We quickly dismissed it as a satellite. However, with the use of an iPhone application we were able to see that there were no satellites directly above us.

Then we witnessed the UFO change direction, multiple times, multiple directions, as well as remain stationary. We watched this occur for the duration of 45 minutes to an hour.

Considering the altitude of the object and its velocity, we concluded that it was a space ship.

Posted 2018-02-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 149197
Occurred: 2013-09-19 21:00 Local
Reported: 2019-09-25 22:58 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes


Location: Elmira/Pine City, NY, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Hovercraft followed car and shot into space

Was driving around the hills when I noticed a strange object hovering in the sky following me. When I got closer to the city, it rapidly shot up into space. White to reddish in color .

Posted 2019-10-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 101556
Occurred: 2013-08-24 20:00 Local
Reported: 2013-08-25 09:01 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Sphere


Redish/orange spheres seen over NY southern Tier 8/24/13

Walked outside looked up to western sky saw two bright red light. About 5 times the size of the largest start in the sky. Clear skies. No blinking , no sound. No fast movements. Just kind of floated away into the western sky and disappeared within a matter of a few seconds. Then turned to the north sky and saw another. This one came very close and seemed to be only a few hundred feet in the sky. This one then moved to the western sky and floated away in the same area as the other two. Have some video of the third one going into space and disappearing.



Posted 2013-08-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 90832
Occurred: 2012-07-07 22:10 Local
Reported: 2012-07-13 12:01 Pacific
Duration: 1 second


Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Oval


White object appears to have an eye and visits almost daily

July 6, 13 at various times between 21:30 and 0500, lasting 1 second to 2 minutes, a white round shape has been observed by my security cameras. July 7 was an extensive display. The shape appeared to have an eye and was observing the house, cat and camera.

Posted 2012-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 90824
Occurred: 2012-07-02 23:45 Local
Reported: 2012-07-13 08:32 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes


Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape:


White orb floating around security camera.

July 2, 2012, video tapped by my security system, a white round shape "flying" around my house in an erratic manner. The back ground is of the side yard.

Posted 2012-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 73620
Occurred: 2009-12-08 00:00 Local
Reported: 2009-12-08 20:18 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object

It was fast and there was a lot of dots, all blue/silver.

It started out as a V shape, then it started changing... It had a silver/blueish glow to it. It had to be going at least as fast as a plane, or faster.

Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70946
Occurred: 2009-07-07 20:45 Local
Reported: 2009-07-07 12:06 Pacific
Duration: UNKNOWN
No of observers: 0

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Circle


They wanted to see the "Fireworks tooo"

I CAME ACCROSSED THIS PHOTO WHILE EDITING THE OTHER FIREWORK PHOTOS ? IF NOTHING ELSE ?? ITS ONE HECK OF A REFELCTION WOULDNT YA SAY? i AM NOT CHECKING THE OTHER BOXES DUE TO THE DISCOVERY EDITING HOURS AFTER THE EVENT! WISH I COULD BE MORE HELPFULL ?? see email pic ((e-mail address deleted))

Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 71087
Occurred: 2009-07-05 20:45 Local
Reported: 2009-07-14 17:58 Pacific
Duration: unknown
No of observers: 0

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Disk


Best firework pic ever

I didnt know I had this and this is a follow -up to the original report.

Since I havent heard from anyone do NOT use this info unless you have contacted me for permission by phone or e-mail.


((

NUFORC Note:

To the best of our knowledge, we have not received the photo. We can't view it or post it, unless we receive it. PD


Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 48665
Occurred: 2006-01-10 12:30 Local
Reported: 2006-01-09 23:56 Pacific
Duration: 2 Hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

My wife noticed it first at 12:30 AM on the porch. She called me out and I saw it too. We decided to walk down near the Chemung river to get a better view. We were next to the river at 1:00 AM. It was a light that would change color from a very bright white light and would change to a red/white and orange/white to blue/white and moved in a counter clockwise circle. The lights were on for one second and off for one second and would move in the circle at odd intervals. However, a pattern did seem to exist. It slowly moved upward. Since it was getting cold, we decided to walk back home. By the time we got back home about twenty minutes later, the light was gone.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2006-02-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 42777
Occurred: 2005-03-05 21:00 Local
Reported: 2005-03-07 07:58 Pacific
Duration: a few seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Circle


a huge perfect circle showed up on radar over north central pennsylvania. Did anyone else notice it?

there were these perfect circles zipping around on the radar summary of the 11 o'colck news reports from Albany, New York which i have never seen before. They were flying around the north central part of Pennsylvania and they must have been huge, like the Mothership or something. I think they were traveling quite fast and they must have wanted to be witnessed by someone who might suspect what they were. One hovered on the sreen long enough to make me notice and the others moved quickly off of the screen. They could not have been storms.



NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2005-05-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 21511
Occurred: 2000-10-23 02:30 Local
Reported: 2002-01-22 15:11 Pacific
Duration: 10second
No of observers: 0

Location: Elmira, WA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Electrical or magnetic effects

arrow shape.orange-yellow-blue-orange-yellow.1000-ft.fly.

in mid-air, over wheat fields,pencil shape,orange yellow, blue haze,then orange yellow again.fly-ing fast at approx.1000ft.only one.

Posted 2002-01-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12296
Occurred: 2000-03-09 21:20 Local
Reported: 2000-03-09 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 25 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Elmira, NY, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object

I saw an object that seemed to Break the laws of aerodynamics and Physics. I have also included my first sighting in great detail.

At first I thought it was a plane because of the two bright head lights as it moved Northwest; however, it made an slow, short turn north-bound. It seemed to move slow north until it stoped. There were three colors of lights on base of the object. Two green lights, two red lights and one larger pulsating light at the center. The two green lights were perpendicular with the two red lights. I was driving down Clemens center parkway when I noticed the craft turning north bound while slowing down. It was on my left hand side about 40 feet in the air. It seemed to descend sightly. Then it stopped in mid air! It made no sound! I expected to hear helocopter or hovercraft engines, but I heard nothing! Even as I stopped at the light, still heard nothing. There were other small lights on the rim that gave it a disk-like shape. The wind was blowing quite hard from the North and yet it remained so still. You might have thought it was secured by a long tower base. It reminded me the of the CN Tower in Toronto, CANADA. I was intrigued how it seemed to break the laws of physics. After I had stopped the car at the light, the object began to move again northward. I wanted to turn left down fifth Street to follow it but the traffic light caught me. A police car was in the lane perpendicular to my lane so it did not behoove me to make a U-turn on yellow. Not realizing that there also was a police car behind me I backed my car up slightly since I just had missed the yellow light and tried to back my car up from the intersection. The Officer honked to make his presence known. As a result, I was unable to track down the object. As I hopelessly tried to quickly get on to Clemens center pkwy North-bound, I realized that I lost track of this stange phemnomena. This was my second sighting. My first sighting was an Iron-shaped object with a small pulsating blue light at tail tip of this a the top rear of the object. As I traveled down hoffman street in Elmira, October 1993 at 8:30 PM on a thursday, as my father and I were driving to Geroulds Pharmacy. I noticed the two bright heads lights from the distance. The object seemed to ascend from a distance as it appeared to come over a hill. As we were driving south bound I marverled at how slow this object seemed as it moved towards our car. Normally a plane would be faster. After parking in back of the westside Geroulds pharmacy my father went into the store to pickup his perscriptions. I got out of the Car to see this slow moving object pass by. The base of the object was trianglar and so metalic and shining that it reflected the Orange lights at the southern tier pedictric heath center. There was also a blue light at the two rear bottom corners of the object. There were no indentations where wheels might be dislodged, it was a completely flat mirror-like base. I'd say the vehihcle was about 7-feet long with small dark window sand moved no more than 15 miles per hour. This area was very well lite and I cound see every detail of this object. Another stricking feature of this object was that it had no wings. It was a dark gray color and gave off no emmissions. It literally looked like a flying iron without a handle. It flew just above the trees. It also made no sound. I pinched myself, and moved to different areas of the street to hear an echo of sound that might be ricorchete from buildings, yet I heard no sound at all. This craft was heading north-bound as I headed south. I have always been skeptical about UFO sightings. However, I have come to appreciate organizations who are familiar with this phenomenna. Now I do believe people who see these things are not inviting delusions. When I see airplanes, there some instances where they appear like flying saucers from certain angles. I was expecting a plane or helocopter, but saw objects that seemed to break the laws of aerodynamics. Nor did these objects resemble anything that I have ever seen. I am going to start keeping a camera or video camera in my car, once I can afford it.

Posted 2000-03-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 8385
Occurred: 1999-02-24 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1999-07-17 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20min
No of observers: 2

Location: Elmira Heights, NY, USA

Shape: Rectangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

A friend and I saw 3 objects over some houses they were the same distance apart so it looked like they were in formation they were not far off the ground. I pulled over in my car to see what they were and I even got out. After about 1-2 min they started to go up slowly then they made a triangle. Then one went towards the west which is towards a town called Corning, NY the other two went up they were heading kind of north west then the all disapeared up into the clouds they were still moving kind of slow.

Posted 1999-08-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 3609
Occurred: 1998-05-29 23:30 Local
Reported: 1998-05-30 00:00 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 2

Location: Elmira (at drive in movie), NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Electrical or magnetic effects

It was a triangle of lights. There was a big light at the top and three little ones under it. I was at a drive in movie when it flew overhead, silently. It was heading south. from what I could make out that was the only one

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--------- is kinda what it looked like.

I was just sitting in my car watching a drive-in movie when it flew silently overhead. I wasn't the only witness I know that. My friend was there with me she saw it too. I don't know who else saw it though. It was heading to the south. It caused some engines on cars to start up and stop.

Posted 1998-06-18

NUFORC UFO Sighting 50010
Occurred: 1976-06-30 21:15 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2006-04-07 11:59 Pacific
Duration: 10-20 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Elmira Heights, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Not dreaming becasue I went back to the same police officer

Dear Peter,

This is the first time telling anyone about this event since the occurrence, except really really close friends. What troubles me the most is the first time I saw the alien was at a very young age on my way home from school. But the siting was while myself and two friends were on our way from elmira up the road through elm hghts to purchase beer. I was 18 at the time and I am currently 48 years old.

Anyway, as heading down the road(Iwasin the back seat leaning between the buckets) and this light in the sky was coming right towards us as if it were following the road. We immediately pulled over and got out of the car, there it was hovering above (bout 15 feet above) the telephone pole. It zigged zagged acrossed the sky east to west 3 or 4 times like it was showing off or something.

Then headed up the road the same direction we were going to travel. As you probably can imagine we were yelling and screaming like three girls. ((deleted)) and the like.

As it traveled up the road it was like it wanted us to follow it cause the speed of this was never seen on this earth. After about 1/4 mile we were at the Chemung County Fair grounds where we pulled over again and it hovered over us and just kinda like it was taunting us.

My two friends stayed next to the car (as I recall) I went into the road and was screaming to cars passing "stop stop look up look up" people just looked at me like nothing was happening.

This haunts me to this day cause I know they'll be back again soon it has been a while since the last time. We went directly to the police dept in Horseheads to report this and the officer said "go home and sleep it off boys".

I wanted so bad to get some kind of evidence I called the local airport which is 10 minutes away and asked for the tower. They said because of the low altitude they could not verify anything on radar.

It continued to fly over the tree tops then we lost site of it.

The second part that is most troubling to me is a few years later I ask the one guy I was with " hey remember when?" He had no recollection of the event even happening, this really really disturbs me. I know I wasnt dreaming and I know we got that ((deleted)) beer after that had happened. I was ready to get lit then.

I havent spoke to the third party in this event cause I was afraid too after what already occurred. BTW_ NONE of the ((deleted)) pics match the craft "WE" saw.And the ((deleted)) aliens arent little gray men cause the ones that have visited me are 5 1/5 to 6 feet tall and are flatt black with no whites in thier eyes. The one time they visited me I was able to take my right hand and pinch my left arm sooo hard there was a black and blue mark when I awoke. I couldnt open my eyes or move anything else......no otherdrugs involved here.sooo those that don't believe will be the most surprised..




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date above is approximate. We have assigned an artificial date in 1976. PD


Posted 2006-05-15