NUFORC UFO Sighting 171116
Occurred: 2022-08-14 21:21 Local
Reported: 2022-08-15 10:03 Pacific
Duration: 120 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Raquette Lake, NY, USA
Location details: Pinebrook lean-to

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Animals reacted

While stargazing in the Adirondacks of NY my 14 year old son and I watched for 2 minutes as an uncomfortable amount of lights crossed.

While camping with my 14 year old son and daschaund my son and I decided to do some stargazing. We were in great spirits, dancing around the campfire, running around in the dark , being silly and having fun . My son was taking photos of the stars about 50 feet away from me . I looked up at what my brain wanted to initially call a shooting star, then as I processed that that couldn’t be correct my thought turned to “meteor shower” but my brain processed that that couldn’t be correct either . After about 15 seconds of initial sight I called to my son in a no nonsense tone to “get over here” while pointing out the objects to him .

We watched together for at least a full two minutes as from south to north a perfect line of lights appeared one after another moving at speed and in a manner that was inappropriate for anything our minds could make sense of.
- The lights were perfectly spaced from one another and moved in a perfect line .
-The lights “started” green in color but turned bright white . Not flashing , more like the green got so bright and intense it had to turn white.
- The lights were fast and moved at a speed comparable to shooting stars but never lost altitude or broke “formation” in regards to the spacing of the lights in front or behind it.
-At any given point throughout the sighting 15 to 20 of these fast moving lights could be seen creating a perfect line across the sky, though their colors were not constant with one another.
-The individual lights appeared rectangular or maybe pill shaped.
-The manner in which the lights moved across the sky was just “wrong.” I have a hard time articulating this . Aside from the speed and formation the lights “floated” or could maybe be compared to the way something glides across smooth ice.
-the formation these lights created were so constant and symmetrical I still question if we saw many small objects or one absolutely immense one

My son took video of a small bit of our sighting though we can’t see the lights in the video. The North Star is visible and constant and it appears other stars burn bright enough every now and then to blink up in the video . In reality it was a very clear night with many stars present.

After watching the last light in the string of lights . My son and I sat down unspeaking and unable to take our eyes from the sky . The mood wasn’t silly anymore . I said my sons name and he replied “ I can’t talk about it . Maybe we can talk about it in the morning. Don’t talk about it.” This place that only 2 minutes ago had been so fun and free now felt ominous, filled with dread, and just unsafe.
We both got into our tent for about 30 seconds and I asked him “do you want to be here ?” His eyes welled with tears and he replied “we can’t be here.” We got out of the tent and started shoving things into bags in any way they would fit and quickly tearing down camp .
About 30 second into doing so our very friendly dog who had not made so much as a yip or whine the entire day turned toward the Southern woods and started fiercely growling, barring his teeth, and barking frantically while oddly tucking his tail between his legs . This is notable as anytime the dog goes into an alert position (which is super seldom) we joke about him going into show dog mode as generally his ears will just perk and his long slender body goes into a perfect symmetry with his tail tip and nose being in a super straight line . The dogs actions caused both my son and I to instinctively scream . We grabbed everything haphazardly to make our way to the car which was parked about a quarter mile away through isolated woods. Without thinking I ensured that I had our alarm whistle in my mouth and bear spray in my hand for the trek . I blew the whistle loudly about every 10 steps . We walked by our loaded food hanging system without even discussing stopping to retrieve it . That wasn’t an even an option at that point .

We reached the car without incident threw everything in and locked the doors immediately upon entering. It took about 20 minutes of driving before we spoke . When we did we both broke down sobbing. I tried to assure my son everything was fine , we were ok. He disagreed and pointed out our body position which I hadn’t realized was hunched, arms in as tightly as they would go , it was like we were trying to make ourselves as small as possible . We drove the 3 hours home arriving around 1:30 am stopping only once in a well lit parking lot to sit in the car and just breathe for awhile. Upon getting home , my son would not leave my presence even for me to use the bathroom and demanded that I sleep in his bed with him . Imagine under normal circumstances how awkward being a 14 year old boy watching your mom use the bathroom and sleep in your bed would be . That discomfort was nonexistent and instead replaced with the fear of being in any sense of the word “alone.”

I realize the facts of the sighting are what’s measurable here . I expand beyond those because while we can tell you about the lights we saw , it was the sense of imminent danger, dread, and primal instinctive fear that they instilled in us and our dog that for me makes this experience so notable . We camp, hike, and backpack all the time. We love science and nature and logic . Maybe that plays into our reactions . What we saw defied all of those things and left us feeling very defenseless and unsafe . The occurrences of last night were by far the most terrifying of my entire life.





Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 31459
Occurred: 1999-08-30 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2003-09-14 02:12 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 2

Location: Raquette Lake (Golden Beach Campground), NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

A second object joined the first after the first had circled repeatedly for over 45 minutes, leading us to believe that it was a milita

I am writing this after reading the other sighting from Raquette Lake. I am not sure of the exact date of my sighting, but it was about 22:30 on a summer evening and it was very possibly 1999.

While standing on the beach (very dark) at Golden Beach Campground with my father, (we were viewing shooting stars and had on a different visit witnessed a very bright flare, or flash from a iridium satellite, now defunct) we were able to see a airplane with lights making repeated large oblong circles over the mountains. The plane was south of the lake, in the general direction of Sagamore, or Cedar River Flow to Moose River Plains, but probably was only a few miles from Raquette Lake.

This activity made us very curious and we watched very closely as the plane continued the loops. Finally, a similar plane entered from the east and closed the distance on the initial plane. The second plane was now trailing the first one by a very short distance and was following an identical pattern. This remained the situation for quite a while, only now they flew off into the distance. (Subsequent conversations and internet searches have led me to believe that they were military planes that were practicing refueling maneuvers over the desolate and isolated Adirondack Park) An hour or so later, one of the planes flew extremely low over the the main street of the campground (and it contiued west over the lake) as I stood in the street between campsite 13 and 18 and the plane did not appear again.



NUFORC Note:

Date of incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2003-09-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 9659
Occurred: 1999-08-30 22:30 Local
Reported: 1999-09-10 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Raquette Lake, adirondack mts., NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects

my son and I were fishing in a canoe and we noticed a light in the sky that was traveling in spurts of distance. It was not a steady line of travel and it circled around.My son acted like a plane that was dragging a banner. After a short time of its circling over head, two other lights with a red glow began following it. Where ever the large light went the other two crafts followed behing it. Then all of a sudden the two crafts just seemed to join the large craft and became just one. Also about a month ago, while sitting on my porch, I witnessed to large white balls of light, that just seemed to explode and then would show up on my left and explode again. This was in my hometown of Fillmore, NY--50 miles south of Buffalo.

Posted 1999-09-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150711
Occurred: 1975-08-22 21:30 Local
Reported: 2019-11-15 10:59 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 200

Location: Raquette Lake, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object

The event occurred on the final night of sleep-away camp, August 22, 1975 at Raquette Lake Boys Camp, Raquette Lake New York.

All staff and campers (boys and girls camp, about 200 people) attended the final bonfire/goodbye ceremony, held in the middle of the soccer field.

The night was perfectly clear, with no cloud cover. During the owner’s speech, 3 bright green round disks approached from different directions, came together, formed an equilateral triangle, and began to hover approximately 10,000 feet above us. There was no sound. Within a minute or so, the craft began to spin, maintaining their formation. They remained above us for possibly 5 minutes, before shooting off in the originating directions. Again, there was no sound.

Posted 2019-12-01