NUFORC UFO Sighting 178501
Occurred: 2023-03-01 19:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-09-28 14:40 Pacific
Duration: 30 Minutes or so
No of observers: 2

Location: Moravia, IA, USA
Location details: Lake Sundown

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Clear, cloudless evening. Looking up, noticed stationary bright objects in the sky. Record scene on camera phone.




Posted 2023-10-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 166646
Occurred: 2022-02-10 17:47 Local
Reported: 2022-02-10 19:14 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Moravia, PA, USA
Location details: Driving northwest on 76

Shape: Other


Saw “cloud like” structure flying

Saw a dark grey translucent “cloud” hovering approx 40 ft above my car, shooting from left to right in just a second…much much faster and lower than other clouds in the sky at that time. Went around a bend in the road and it was gone.

Posted 2022-03-04

NUFORC UFO Sighting 184131
Occurred: 2019-08-23 21:15 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2024-11-14 13:21 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: Moravia, NY, USA
Location details: Prison Yard Tower

Shape: Formation
Color: orange
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: south
Angle of Elevation: 50
Characteristics: Emitted other objects

One object split to 3 and the flanks move horizontally across the sky then disappear

On a late summer night back in 2018 or 2019, I was working my post in the prison Yard Tower. it was full dark between 9-10 pm. I looked out the south facing window and observed one semi-large fire ball entering the sky. I immediately thought it must have been meteor or space debris. it grew brighter and it appeared to enter slowly. For about a minute, then it stopped moving. It then split with two more fire ball looking pieces equal in size appeared. The were perfectly aligned. You could put your thumb up and nearly cover them all. They held formation briefly then in about 5 seconds the each moved exactly in line the left to the left and likewise the right object moved right. In those 5 seconds the moved a distance from the center object about two hand widths from the center object. They remained in line with the center, grew brighter in intensity and went from appearing stationary to appearing to move together across the sky. after 2-3 minutes they appeared to go from a bright burning ball to a very light color then poof no sight of them at all. My Background is that of a Marine veteran and the last 10 yrs in law enforcement. I'm not saying what I saw was alien, I still in my mind believe there may be a reasonable explanation but On my honor what I saw was real and I have never seen anything in the night sky as unusual before or since.

As for the elevation I'd say from my perspective which was about 25 feet above the ground it was between 45-60 degrees


Posted 2024-11-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 147453
Occurred: 2019-07-01 23:00 Local
Reported: 2019-07-09 15:41 Pacific
Duration: 7 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Moravia, IA, USA

Shape: Circle


It went straight. Did a circle and left the direction it came. Very very fast. Then it disappeared.

Posted 2019-07-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143160
Occurred: 2018-09-15 21:30 Local
Reported: 2018-09-17 17:59 Pacific
Duration: 40 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Moravia, NY, USA

Shape: Light


on 9/15/18 at 2130 hrs-2210 hrs i witnessed a light in the western sky about 30 degrees above the horizon. This was stationary for 40 plus minutes. It had white, red and green lights. 20 minutes after seeing this object, appeared a red flashing light at 1 second intervals. This light left to the south and east direction. 20 seconds after the first red light, a second appeared and went in the same direction. After 40 seconds these lights left the area traveling south and east. These red lights moves across the sky faster than any commercial aircraft I have witnessed.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2018-09-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 136510
Occurred: 2017-10-01 20:43 Local
Reported: 2017-10-01 19:20 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 5

Location: Moravia, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

A round red bright sphere was dancing in the sky then shot like dart across the sky and stayed for awhile

It was stationary for a min., then started to zig zag in the sky that's when I got my son and my phone I figured it would be gone by the time I got back but it wasn't so I videoed it and it zig zaged some more then shot across the sky to the right at that time my wife pulled in the driveway and i called her to check it out she seen it and at that time it was starting in one place so my daughter came to see and we where freaked out .then my next door neighbor was out side with her dog a came over to see what I was making such a big deal about and she could not believe her eyes. At the time a jet flu by and it still was there it almost seemed Like the jet was there checking it out. The whole ordeal was about an hour or so.

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NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2017-10-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 40631
Occurred: 2004-11-06 18:57 Local
Reported: 2004-11-15 13:02 Pacific
Duration: less than 1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Moravia, TX, USA

Shape: Light


Rapidly moving object.

Immediately after leaving evening Mass at the Catholic Church in Moravia, Texas, at about 6:57PM, while talking to several parishoners, I noticed a bright light that appeared to be as bright as one of the close planets (such as Mars was earlier this year). I remarked to my wife that this was a very bright "star or planet" which was in the sky almost directly overhead. As I watched it, it began to move at a tremendous speed to the southeast, climbing almost straight up. It rapidly grew smaller and eventually faided to a pinpoint of light and dissappeared. All the while I was watching this object, I was trying to get those standing around me to be able to see it. It was moving so rapidly, I do not know if anyone else in the group ever caught sight of the object before it became too high and too dim to see anymore. It was the color of white light,as I said earlier, about the size of a close large planet which might be viewed in the sky at night. It was much brighter than any of the other star patterns in the sky. It left no vapor trail of any sort. The night sky was clear with no clouds. The moon was not visible in the direction the object sped off. It did not traverse the horizon, but instead appeared to be travelling upwards.



Posted 2004-12-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 10348
Occurred: 1999-10-26 19:10 Local
Reported: 1999-10-27 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 hours
No of observers: 4

Location: Moravia, NY, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Approximately 20 lights that sometimes flashed red and white were moving through the sky. They did not appear to be flying toward a certain destination. The objects were located throughout the sky, widely separated from each other and doing their own maneuvers. They were not in sinc with eachother.

On Ocober 25, 1999 I observed from my car some moving lights in the sky that sometimes flashed red and white and didn't think much of it. I saw approximately five. I saw the objects in the southeastern sky. I was located approximately 3 miles north of Moravia,NY just to the south of Owasco Lake. It was approximately 7:05 pm. On October 26, 1999 my fiance was the one to spot the lights at approximately the same time, 7:05. He had been in a tree stand hunting deer when he first noticed. He did not know that I had seen them the previous night. I always pick him up on the side of the road when he is done hunting just as it gets dark. On this night, he was already out of the woods when I arrived and was looking up at the sky. I knew at that moment he was seeing what I saw the night before. As I pulled over, he waved for me to get out of the car. We both saw approximately 20 lights, some flashing red and white throughout the southeastern sky. The azimuth was anywhere from 90 degrees to 180 degrees. The altitudes of the lights were anywhere from 15 degrees to 60 degrees approximately. When we looked at any one specific light, you could tell it was moving compared to the stars. It would flash and appear to stop and then move straight upward from its stopping point. Then it would disappear (the light) and reappear very close to where it disappeared a second or two ago. Eventually in a minute or two, another light, a different one would catch the corner of our eyes and we would focus on that. At one time, you could see approximately five lights without turning your head to a different azimuth. The five lights would be at different altitudes, but all of them flashed either red or white. They did not flicker like stars, they flashed. When an object flashed, it did not flash in a certain time interval. It flashed randomly. When the objects moved, they would only move in their own section of the sky. I did not see an object streak across the whole southeastern part of the sky. When it moved, it e! ither mo ved straight up from where it was stopped (about two or three finger widths at one time). Some of them would then disappear from view completely. Many of the objects moved in circular or curved paths. The total distance of the paths of any objects I could see for long enough without disappearing was about five to ten fingerwidths. None of them were going in a straight path parallel to the horizon. As we traveled back home, approximately six miles away from that area, we could still see the objects, but not as many. I called someone that lived in Moravia to view the objects. They saw them too. I also called someone in Locke, which is just south of Moravia a few miles to view the objects. They saw them too. It was approximately 8:30 pm when we could no longer see them.



NUFORC Note:

Under most circumstances, in a case in which objects are allegedly witnessed for 90 minutes, we would first address the possibility that the witness was observing celestial bodies. However, in this instance, a similar event was reported from the Dayton, OH, area, at approximately the same time. We are awaiting those latter reports at the time of this writing.


Posted 1999-11-02