NUFORC UFO Sighting 92962
Occurred: 2012-09-21 20:30 Local
Reported: 2012-09-21 20:08 Pacific
Duration: 7 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Mallory, NY, USA

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

Mother and 10 yr. old daughter witnessed green sphere of light in the skies of Mallory, New York on 9/21/12

My daughter and I were driving North on County Route 12 nearing the main intersection of the hamlet of Mallory, NY 13067, and thought we were seeing a shooting star falling. There was a small white light coming down from the sky and then it seemed to stop. As it stopped, it flashed (morphed) into a big, bright green oval-sphere. After about 2 seconds, it turned back into a tiny white light. We then heard a giant boom noise. It proceeded to move very quickly, and sharply to the left a little in one tiny motion and zoomed extremely fast down to what looked like towards the earth. We were driving on the road, and we could see it a little ways above the trees over the water. When it flew down, it looked like it went behind the trees that were behind the water. The green light that it omitted was so bright that it hurt our eyes a little even though we were far away from it. From where we were, it was close enough that when we seen and heard the boom, at that time! it was fairly low and obviously was already in our atmosphere. My daughter and I were scared and got very teary eyed. I have never seen anything like this before in my life. I would like to know what it was, even to know that there is some kind of simple explanation. I went to my mother's house directly afterwards and told her about it. When i left her house she called 911. When I got home and called her she told me that 911 had several calls about this sighting and wished to talked to me because they were very concerned. Also, when my daughter and I were driving to my mother's house right after the sighting, we noticed several cars pulled over. We assumed that they witnessed what we had as well.



Posted 2012-09-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17676
Occurred: 2001-05-15 22:45 Local
Reported: 2001-05-17 00:00 Pacific
Duration: few seconds
No of observers: 0

Location: Mallory, NY, USA

Shape: Flash


brilliant, flashing, point of white light, travelling at unexpected angles

I enjoy watching the stars from my home as the sky is regularly dark enough to observe magnitude five, sometimes better. The evening of the event I had just returned home, noticed the clear, moonless sky with only a slight haze that reduced visibilty approaching the horizon, and decided to spend some time seeing what I could see. I shut off all the lights on my property but one that was blocked from my view by a tree, other than that the nearest light source was from my neighbors over 200 yards away. As my eyes were somewhat adjusted to the dark by my drive home I was able to see that even through the haze lower in the sky magnitude four stars were still visible, except to the south where the glare of Syracuse blocks all but the brightest. Scanning the sky for the usual satellite pass (I'm a great fan of Heavens Above & J-Pass) or even better the elusive meteor I caught a flash in my peripheral vision. Knowing well that it was probably too late to see the display I turned in the direction of the flash (northeast) looking for any trace of a faint afterglow of the shooting star. To my surprise in direct and clear view, three more flashes, points of light, brilliant, white, each about a second in duration, travelling on a path from low in the North to high in the East, each at a different angle. At the time the lights seemed to rotate as though what I was seeing was actually sunlight shining off a highly reflective spinning satellite, or it may just have been twinkle do to the atmosphere. The event was only a matter of seconds. This was like nothing I have ever seen and over the years I've seen alot. (hundreds of satellites & meteors, aurora, fireballs, and even a re-entry!) Continuing to watch the sky for about fifteen minutes for something to help me realize what this was turned up nothing, no "flying star" of a satellite, no regular red, white, green pulse of an aircraft, no jet noise. I did not realize immediately because of an ubstructed view but the lights occurred in the constellation Cy! gnus, sp ecifically in the triangle described by Gamma Cygni, Delta Cygni, and Deneb. The lights (I would equal to the shine of the ISS on a good pass) were much brighter than these stars as well as nearby Vega. I have checked the mentioned Web sites and found satellites in the general wide area of the lights, but I do not believe that is what I saw. (no fade in/out of a satellite) I am skeptical of UFOs but not ETIs, so here are some wild theories based on what I saw: a bird or bat flying in and out of the shine of the one floodlight I left on; a satellite boosting to higher orbit; shooting stars entering head on in my direction. I find it hard to believe any of these.

Posted 2001-08-05