NUFORC UFO Sighting 171910
Occurred: 2022-09-19 19:45 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2022-09-19 18:51 Pacific
Duration: 10min


Location: Lackawanna, NY, USA
Location details: Driving down Abbott rd near Martin rd

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

Flashing light standing pretty still in the sky seemed to fade in and out

Was picking my daughter up from daycare and on the way home my son and I seen an odd object hovering high in the sky with a single flashing light it seemed to fade in and out it was hard to focus on while driving

Posted 2022-10-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 113301
Occurred: 2014-09-05 23:00 Local
Reported: 2014-09-05 21:05 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lackawanna, NY, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Marks found on body afterwards

Big Aircraft Hovering Above Woods

A Flashing UFO Above The Woods And Just Flew Up in the air at like 80 mph. there was 1, but it was BIG.



Posted 2014-09-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 86855
Occurred: 2012-01-27 01:30 Local
Reported: 2012-01-27 17:31 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Lackawanna, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown


Was sitting in my quiet living room at 1:30am because I couldn’t sleep and heard a very high pitch sound hovering above of the house then moving slowly to each side of the house. Not sure what was making this noise and have never heard it before. This lasted about 20 minutes. Was too terrified to look outside.

Posted 2012-02-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76058
Occurred: 2010-07-01 23:00 Local
Reported: 2010-07-01 23:14 Pacific
Duration: 1/2 hour
No of observers: 5

Location: Lackawanna, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Approx 11 PM on July first I witnessed an array of three solid red lights and one pulsing bright white light fly over Botanical Gardens

I had been walking to meet my girlfriend when a friend of mine standing on the corner of the street i was walking down pulls me aside and points at an object floating in the sky. At this time it was still slightly light outside and it appeared to be a large floating extremely bright triangle.

Approximately a half hour later my girlfriend and I were walking through a park when we seen a fast flying craft of some sort fly over the park faster than anything I've ever seen. It look like a 3 red lights (solid) arrayed in a triangle with one BRIGHT pulsing light (slow pulse and very bright not like that of normal passenger aircraft seen around the city).

Posted 2010-07-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 10402
Occurred: 1999-07-04 21:30 Local
Reported: 1999-11-01 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 Minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Lackawanna, NY, USA

Shape: Diamond


Diamond shaped object of red tint hovered then moved in a north to south direction.

Initially, two witnesses observed two red glowing circular objects moving at a rapid speed in a east to west direction; criss-crossing before moving out of visual range. Approximate duration of sighting was 20 seconds. Second object of diamond shape exibiting a red tint color. This object hovered and appeared to be spinning. Moved in a north direction; stopped then hovered for a few seconds. This object then moved south; came back to the original hovering position then departed in a north east direction at rapid speed.

Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 9718
Occurred: 1999-07-04 21:30 Local
Reported: 1999-09-13 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 min
No of observers: 7

Location: Lackawanna, NY, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 different objects. one flash of red light bouncing across sky. one triangular shape spinning then jumped in a right angle. one wa 2 red lights spinning then flashed acros sky.

the first ufo was a bright red light that went east across the sky, stopped the went west. Again stopped then disappeared north. Witnessed by 5 people. The second was spotted by 3 people. It was a triangular shape that was spinning in place. It stayed that way for about 5 minutes then disappeared off to the west. The third was two red lights that looked like it could be the back of a craft. Again it stayed in the same spot then took off toward the west.

Posted 2002-09-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 8421
Occurred: 1993-09-01 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1999-07-21 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 20-30 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Lackawanna (suburb of Buffalo), NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

3 Triangular craft, each identical to each other with a different colored light in each corner, circling over Lake Erie, followed by a group of helicopters.

I'm not sure how useful this information can be since I'm not certain as to the date on which it took place, but it may be useful to mention that the show Sightings was still a prime time program then, and that a few weeks after this sighting, the show featured and event which took place in Russia involving similar craft. Also, I was quite young at the time (I'm 21 now), and the accuracy of this report may seem questionable because of it, but in order to prevent any distortion of the facts the relevant information of this event was previously logged by me, and this record rather than my memory is the source of this account. It started at my friend's house, who's backyard connects to a back street adjacent to some train tracks, beyond which are mostly more train tracks, the Bethlehem Steel Plant, and then Lake Erie, so the view of the area above the lake was relatively unobstructed. I was in his yard with him and his two younger siblings, and just suggested that we go look for UFOs. This would seem more unusual if you didn't take my age into account, but it was the first time I'd ever made such a suggestion. I had a small pair of binoculars with me, and we began to search the skies. It was around 7 or 8 pm, and the sun was about to go down, so there was still some light. Almost immediately, I spotted something in the sky directly above. It appeared to be a satellite to me, with blinking lights that flashed in a triangular formation. This was evident as the second flash would blink next to the first, and the third would blink behind the other two. This was rather uninteresting to us, so we headed out into his back yard looking Westward over the lake. It was probably 20 minutes when I spotted something moving South. It looked like many of the other planes we had seen going back and forth, but a bit slower, and I watched it since there was nothing else in the sky to watch. After a minute or so, this got boring to me, and I began to search the other areas of the sky. When I looked back to where I would have expected the light to be, I couldn't find it. Instead, I saw a large (compared to the original light) colorful, seemingly swirling ball of light sitting motionless over the top of the steel plant. I wondered about it, but then decided that it was probably there all along, just some light in the steel plant parking lot that just looks weird. I searched the skies again, and looked back after a minute or so. The ball was gone, but the smaller light was back, moving along it's original course. As we watched it, for now we were more curious about it, it seemed to be slowing down. When it appeared to have stopped, it soon became obvious that in fact it had turned and was headed in our direction. Through the binoculars, it appeared to be saucer shaped, with a flat bottom, thin edges, and a bulge in the middle. As it drew nearer, it began slowly to turn towards the North. It gradually came almost directly overhead, at which point we could see that it was triangular in shape. In each corner was a round, flat light, each of a different color. What these colors were, I forget, but they were plain bright colors (I'm pretty sure one was red, the others may have been blue, green, or yellow). Also, the craft was being followed by 2 others just like it. They moved extremely slowly, and made no sound. This made it hard to determine it's size, but I was under the impression that they were approximately as long as a passenger jet. Through the binoculars, the back end of them seemed hazy as if intense heat was being discharged. They continued a smooth turn and headed back towards the lake. A group of helicopters appeared from around the mainland and chased the crafts out over the lake.

Posted 1999-08-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83420
Occurred: 1988-06-01 23:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2011-08-25 09:24 Pacific
Duration: 4 min.


Location: Lackawanna, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object

spotlight at night, 90' away, no sound or wind.

I was about 14, snuck out of the house, calm quiet summer night, walking down Electric ave. I stopped when up ahead of me there was a very bright spot light shining down on the road, it's source was about 60' up, as the light moved across the street I tried to see what it was coming from and just saw dark, thinking it must be a helicopter, then realized there was no sound or any wind.

I was on one side of a small bridge and it was at the other maby 50' away, it traveled slowly across the street and along the edge of smokes creek, then was gone.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2011-10-10