NUFORC UFO Sighting 182562
Occurred: 2024-08-08 06:58 Local
Reported: 2024-08-09 17:05 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Color: silver
Estimated Size: It was far away but looked immense,hard to gauge
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: NE
Angle of Elevation: 90
Closest Distance: unknown
Estimated Speed: unknown
Explanation: Aircraft - Possible
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby, Missing Time

Observed silver cylinder while going in to work. Thought it was a plane at first but it had no wings. The sky was clear blue with very few clouds and I stood there waiting to see wings. I thought it was a plane belly as it banked but it never changed. It became ridiculous at the angle because no plane would turn for that long.

NUFORC Note:

It is common to see an aircraft but not be able to discern the wings.


Posted 2024-08-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164355
Occurred: 2021-08-14 20:53 Local
Reported: 2021-08-14 20:12 Pacific
Duration: 30 Minutes+
No of observers: 2

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

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

Saw a light in the sky moving erratically, zig zagging and changing its rate of speed.

We were on vacation and crossing the ferry from Vermont to Plattsburgh. Saw the light on the ferry while looking at the stars. We could still see it when we got to our hotel. The light mostly was going in one direction, about the same direction the ferry was going in (from Grand Isle VT to Plattsburgh, NY). The light was bright enough to stand out from most stars.

What made it strange was it’s erratic behavior. It was stopping and starting, sometimes it would reverse in the opposite direction, but rarely. It would zig zag and change speeds. It reminded me of how electricity / water follows the path of least resistance, or how a drop of water falls down a wall in a shower, sometimes it would slow down and then speed up, etc.

The phone camera couldn’t capture it as the object was too far away.

I would just like to know if anyone else saw it, because it should be obvious to anyone looking up at the stars that night in the area.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 162378
Occurred: 2021-03-15 20:40 Local
Reported: 2021-03-15 16:56 Pacific
Duration: 1.5 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

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

it was in the sky , like how light fading away from fireworks looks like, it was a beam of red light horizontally and i turned my head to tell my girlfriend and it was gone, i don’t know how else to explain it. it was more red at the tip of it then the end was lighter colored. this isn’t a joke nor troll.



Posted 2021-03-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 123083
Occurred: 2015-10-24 18:30 Local
Reported: 2015-10-23 21:39 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

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

Translucent white/gray oval hovering over Lake Champlain

While driving along Route 9 South an oval type object was seen hovering over the water of Lake Champlain about 1/4 of a mile off Wilcox Dock. The object was a translucent white/grey in color and had a series of lights on the top of it. The lights were Red and orange in color. The object hovered over the water at about six feet above the lake. As I drove to get a closer look it simply took off into the sky at a significant speed. It did not make a sound.

Posted 2015-10-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 95306
Occurred: 2012-12-16 21:47 Local
Reported: 2012-12-16 20:07 Pacific
Duration: 7 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangle shaped black object.

I was driving home from droping my daughter off at work. on my ride home, i was listerning to the radio and checking the christmas lights out. I was looking up towards the houses on this street, all the lights looked really nice, when i saw the moon. it was really bright, and just following on the side of me in the sky, that's why i assumed it was the moon.

You know how the moon follows you when your driving or it appears to follow you. so i thought it was. i was doing about 25 mph when i had to slow down for the light. I am waiting at the light to change to green, when i look up through my windshield and there's the moon again now right infront of me. I am stairing at it, and all of a sudden there's two lights instead of the one light. which i was like wow.. OK it's a plane then. cause there's no way i just saw it divide. I honestly thought my eyes were playing tricks, cause of the christmas lights and decorations all around. the trees right next too my car as i sit idel at the light are only about 30 or 40 feet high.

Then I am thinking i am in the city, and i don't think planes can be that low. next thing i notice as i am sitting there, i look up again and it's lower and there's three lights in a perfect triangle shape. Now my heart is raising and i am searching through my purse looking for my iphone to take a picture. The light changes and i move forward swing a left into a side store parking lot, spin around in my car and i am facing it, and it's about 50 feet off the ground right infront of me.

I am looking at this blacker than black, triangle shaped object, there's three lights and they are so bright, but look just like a star shaped. as i switch my ipone to camera and i am looking at this object it just vanished. I didnt see it go up i didn't see it go to the left or right it was just gone, in a nano second.

I have seen objects in the sky, crafts i couldn't explain since i was about 6 years old. this one was so different. I felt so different. I felt connected in some way, and then i felt excited and ill. and as i sit here typing this, i still am having trouble believing what i saw and how close it was. I am in shock.




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-12-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87912
Occurred: 2012-03-21 04:30 Local
Reported: 2012-03-20 23:15 Pacific
Duration: 30 sec
No of observers: 1

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

wide glowing scanner light glowing across sky like light through water.

sitting outside at 4am i looked up to what appeared as a strange wavy type line that passed over seeming to glow...like a scanner or what would appear like a bright idk i stood up pointed and said to myself that was real... because I am an aircraft mechanic candidate..it was no reflection my best explanation would be it acted like the flow of the northern lights quietly and quickly approximately 1-2 miles wide about 10-20 thousand ft swiftly moving over the city..it was real but im not sure what it was....my first thought was a scanner...thank you i wouldnt be up past my bedtime if i didnt believe this was real...again im an aircraft mechanic currently on 727 jet engines...and idk why starnge lights are going through the sky at this time..it was no reflecttion.it wasnt geese. it wasnt a formation of jets...it moved like light through water is my best analogy....i did see this..and my ufo expirience ive never heard of or witnessed this before




NUFORC Note:

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


Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 28452
Occurred: 2003-04-16 21:00 Local
Reported: 2003-04-16 19:35 Pacific
Duration: 1 min
No of observers: 3

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

It6 moved at a high rate of speed from northwest to southeast leaving no trail and showing no indication of being a manmade aircraft.

It moved from the northwestern to the southeastern sky from where we were. It was at an extreamly high altitude and was moving at a speed covering about 30 miles of sky in 1 min. My freind is a pilot and this is how we came to the conclusion that this was not a man mad craft( the we have ever heard of). It also did not have a tale ruling out a shouting star. Nor did it have any flashing lights. It was a constant white glow. This was followed shortly by the apperance of 2 fighter jets that usualy dont fly paterns this time of nite.



NUFORC Note:

We first suspected that the sighting might have been caused by the International Space Station, but it was not in the vicinity of New York at the time indicated. Several minor satellites might have been visible, but at least 13 minutes earlier than the time indicated above. The sighting probably was not caused by a satellite overflight. Sourc elects to remain totally anonymous. PD


Posted 2003-04-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18912
Occurred: 2001-08-10 05:00 Local
Reported: 2001-08-10 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 90 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

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

Mysterous object sighted in sky.

I am a 61 year old retired teacher, and never experienced any unusual sightings or events before. I do not know if what I saw was a UFO, but it diplayed unusual abilities. I woke up shortly before 5AM EDT, to use the restroom, I had been sleeping since 11PM, there were electrical storms in the area at that time, but none directly overhead. I was looking out the bathroom window at the cloud to cloud lightning coming from the west, the window faced west. I noticed to the northwest what I first thought was a star or planet, but it kept moving in a west to east direction, and as it got closer I believed it to be an aircraft trying to out-run the approaching storm. I saw what I believe to be wing red and green lights on the object which I took as wing markers. All of a sudden the object turned south and dove very rapidly toward the earth, I thought that it was going to crash. It stopped its rapid dive , turned to the north and rapidly climbed into the approaching storm cloud and disappeared.

Posted 2001-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 7097
Occurred: 1999-04-20 21:45 Local
Reported: 1999-04-23 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 7 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Plattsburgh, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

I saw what I thought was a star, and then a plane....then it started wobbeling. It had plane colors, but it didn't blink and didn't move like a plane. and then three smaller lights came from behind the mountain, and circled the big light. Then they flew up in formation, and I ran in side to get another witness. They were gone when I came back out. There is plane traffic in my area, btu this looked really, really strange. Not like a plane.

Im a college student, a male, and I admit Im a scifi fan, and that "technically' makes me unreliable, but Im sure I saw something wierd. You can contact me at my email but that is all I consent to at this time.

Posted 1999-05-24