NUFORC UFO Sighting 188602
Occurred: 2025-03-28 20:15 Local
Reported: 2025-03-28 18:34 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Long Lake, IL, USA
Location details: Was above house when having a fire.

Shape: Circle
Color: Blue
Estimated Size: 100 ft plane sized
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: NORTH EAST
Angle of Elevation: 51
Closest Distance: 10000 ft
Estimated Speed: 150 MPH
Characteristics: Changed Color, Animals reacted

Was having a fire with the family and we all saw a circle shaped ufo. Took a picture of it and sent it to friends who know about UFO'S.

Posted 2025-03-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 99943
Occurred: 2013-07-04 21:30 Local
Reported: 2013-07-08 11:57 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Long Lake, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

25 silent, circular, orange/yellow glowing objects moving slowly from westerly southwesterly to easterly northeasterly.

July 4 , 2013 Every year, for the past 20 years , we went on a family vacation to Long Lake located in the central Adirondacks in New York State.

We were waiting for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display to begin when at 9:30 pm we saw something we will never forget. We were sitting in a van located just south of the bridge on Long Lake, in an elevated piece of property with great views of the lake that runs southwest to northeast. We stayed in the van because of the mosquitoes.

At 9:30 pm we saw a slow moving glowing , circular object (orange , yellow) in the sky, about 5 times the size of the North Star, it was then followed by another, and another. I got out of the van to listen and yet they were silent. After about the third glowing object, others came in clusters, and then singles again. There were about 25 in all. It looked like an invasion. There was one that looked brighter and bigger then the others and stood motionless while the others passed. It disappeared! while they were passing it and reappeared when all had passed. They all moved slowly and made no sharp turns from a westerly southwesterly direction to an easterly northeasterly direction. This amazing sight lasted no more than 10 minutes, but we will remember it for a lifetime.

Posted 2013-07-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 96408
Occurred: 2013-02-21 19:00 Local
Reported: 2013-02-23 09:20 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Long lake, MN, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Stationary Chevron Shaped White Lights

Thursday February 21, 2013 Long Lake, Minnesota, approximate time 7pm driving West on the hwy 12 bypass. I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of airplane traffic on my way home from Bloomington, and some very bright stars looking to the west from Interstate 494 north but it was when I was approaching the highway 12 bypass, while still on Interstate 394, that I noticed an either extremely large or very low flying set of lights in the sky coming from the west. As other planes were also visible in the sky (they did not appear to be 'chasing' the object) I really didn’t take much notice of it until I registered just how big it was and then realized it didn’t appear to be moving.

I realize that depending on location of the objects and positioning of the viewer, some moving objects can appear stationary. This did not appear to be the case, and I could see all the other airplanes in the area moving in the direction of the airport. The object was on the north side of the road and above the trees. When 394W ends the highway splits, one way takes traffic highway 12 through Long Lake, and the other is the bypass.

The object was centered between the 2 highways. Had it been a normal road I would have pulled off to the shoulder, but that stretch of road is not safe to do so, but I could see it through the windshield by leaning forward and peering up at it. There were noticeably more lights on the front of the object than would be on an airplane, all along what would be the wings if it were an airplane; none were blinking and all were white; there were no red or green lights.

In hindsight, I wish I had circled back through Long Lake because I really believe it would have still been in the same spot.

Posted 2013-02-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 69877
Occurred: 2008-06-26 00:00 Local
Reported: 2009-04-29 20:55 Pacific
Duration: seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Long Lake, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

light in the sky

My family and I go camping in upstate New York every summer, and have been for years. In the mountains we are used to seeing alot more due to the elevation, including satellites, shooting stars, constellations, even planets, much more than we see in Massachusetts. What my older brother and I saw that night was nothing like that.

The rest of family went to sleep, it was just the two of us, sitting on a large rock looking at the stars. Out of nowhere, in the middle of the sky, a round white light appeared, it seemed to be as far away as the stars. Then as fast as it had appeared, defying all laws of motion, aircraft, it looped extremely fast and dissapeered in a trail. Very far from the city, nothing but trees, mountains in the distance, and a glassy lake reflecting it all, everything we see is plain as day. the best i can describe, is it appeared in a white flash, then blasted into a U shaped motion, leaving a white haze trail litterally as if it went into hyperspace. and it was gone.

As i turned to my brother to say "did you see that?" he spoke the same words, and we instantly knew we saw somthing extraordinary. However, my brother's account of the event, and mine, are different. I saw a flash of light that moved in amazing rate and direction, he said he saw a massive object, appear, then dissapeer. Maybe it was his angle, i did not see a large actual object, but for me to see this light if it was as far away as i think it was, must have been very large.

This was not a flare, or a plane, or anything i've ever seen in the sky before. i don't know of anything that can change it's course without being acted on by an outside force. Not looking for an investigation, we just want to help with the search for the truth behind all of these sightings, so I wanted to report this thinking maybe there were more sightings like ours in upstate NY. Thank You

Posted 2009-05-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 13786
Occurred: 2000-08-10 21:45 Local
Reported: 2000-08-15 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 11

Location: Long Lake, NY, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Formation of 3 lights, followed by fomation of 6 retangular white lights hovering in sky with no noise

At 9:45 pm while looking out over the west side of Long Lake towards Buck Mountain my mother noticed a retangular white light hovering in the valley between the mountain and the islands across from us. There was no noise. The lights came on one at atime from left to right. They hovered and faded out rather quickly and reappeared. We called a friend so he could go outside and observe these lights because we knew he would never believe us. After the lights went out two friends went down to my dock on the lake to continue to watch the sky. They (the two friends) had seen three lights appear in the sky 45 minutes before these lights appeared but didn't think they were much of anything. After a few minutes the three lights appeared again but they had shifted to the south ever so slightly but still hovering above the tree line. I was rather frightened but I continued to look and then six lights came on sequentially from left to right this time. Again whitish in a horizontal line and it looked as though those lights were turning, lifting up somewhat and then the lights vanished. A few minutes later my two friends on the dock spotted a very very bright light over Buck Mountain and they observed this light shooting straight down. AFter that no more lights were seen. The next day I talked to two campers that also observed the lights. I also found out that I had two friends at the South End of the lake see simalar lights that night, but they had also seen the lights on Monday August 7th. They saw 6 lights and then another row of 6 lights in a V formation after having seen three lights (looking at drawings we saw very similar formation) They didn't want to tell anyone because they figured no one would believe them. A few kids saw lights two days before I did in Minerva and chased the lights with their car but the lights disappeared. A witness also saw lights on his drive from Indian Lake to Blue Mt. Lake on Thurs, Aug 10th at approx 9:30pm. So we know we were not the only ones to see the lights. ! We made calls to the Air Force and apparently they were doing manoevuers that night but two of my friends spotted two aircraft much farther north and they spotted the aircraft several minutes after we saw the light formation. We also speculated Fort Drum because it is to the west of us but upon contacting The Adirondack Daily Enterprise after a story on the lights appeared there this weekend Fort Drum was ruled out. Are we the chosen ones? We were rejected and you know what that is okay with me because it scared the pants off me. Where I condsider myself a cynical non-believer at heart, this definitely altered my mind.
Peter,
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. First of all the area where the
lights were spotted were in a remote area of the Adirondack Mountains. In
fact where I was staying at the time there is no electricity on either side
of the lake at that point. There would definitely not have been a blimp
there at the time. In fact the posting from New York State from a location
near Watertown on the same day is most likely the same thing that I spotted
with my group of friends. The description is pretty accurate. As far as
having others post for you, I'll give it a try but most of the folks aren't
into the computer thing. I'll have my one friend that was with me at the
time submit his version because he started to see a light formation about 45
minutes before the rest of us. My cousin contacted an air force base
southwest of the Adirondacks and they confirmed that they were doing
manoevures that night but I feel pretty confident that this was definitely
not anything that was related to air craft activities. The Adirondack Daily
Enterprise is doing a story on the sightings and you can reach the reporter
if you want to at 518-891-2600, her first name is Victoria (sorry I can't
remember her last name) I'm sure she would be interested in talking to you
for her story and she can maybe put something in the article about posting
submissions. She has been contacting people around the area because many
people have called her because there was a published report in Sat August
12th's paper.

How would I send a map to you? If you get a map of New York State, Long Lake
is in the center of the Adirondack Park, south of Lake Placid, North of Lake
George... Sightings were also made from Saranac Lake (info from newspaper
article)

I also read a posting from a person that works at the prison north of LL in
Malone that described the UFO on Monday August 7th, my friends saw it on Aug.
7th too so I have the feeling these sightings are also related.

It's very interesting, have you ever spotted a UFO, do you have any thoughts
on UFO's? All I know was that it was extremely creepy and I ran in to grab
the children because I was totally afraid.

So yes the area was remote, full of wilderness. The Adirondack Park is 6
million acres large public/privately owned. I hope this sparks your
interest. Also I checked and someone in Massachusetts also saw a similar
formation (these are all from your website) so we want to know what it
was.....

Thanks again
((name deleted))

NUFORC Note:

we intentionally leave the newspaper contact information in this report.


Posted 2000-08-19