NUFORC UFO Sighting 184307
Occurred: 2024-11-18 18:24 Local
Reported: 2024-11-18 15:30 Pacific
Duration: 3 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: West Shokan, NY, USA
Location details: In the sky

Shape: Light
Color: White
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: West
Angle of Elevation: 66
Characteristics: Lights on object

Three “Star” like entities shooting from one apex, movement was astronomically irregular

We just saw three lights in the sky, take off from the same point, at different times, moving farther, faster and higher than a plane, stop movement, change directions angularly, then shoot off into nothingness. We were able to observe each entity individually as when one dimmed, the others “fired” off. They were able to stop, change direction at an angle and then shoot off. They had no tails, no visual cues as to “breaking apart”, no visual cues as to combustion or implosion.

Posted 2024-11-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68283
Occurred: 2009-01-26 16:30 Local
Reported: 2009-01-27 07:15 Pacific
Duration: 1 second
No of observers: 1

Location: West Shokan, NY, USA

Shape: Fireball


Daytime ball of light flies at ground level only to disappear

I was relaxing on my bed watching TV and happened to look out my bedroom window (actually a glass sliding door) when I noticed something whiz by. It was a white ball of light about the size of a Baseball. The only thing I can compare it to is a large smokeless roman candle projection.

It was about 12 feet away from me and 6 feet off the ground. I got up and looked outside and saw nothing. As the ground is covered in snow (at least six inches) I expected to see a smoking visible hole as the trajectory would have had it slam into the side of a foothill behind my house. I found and saw nothing.

I considered it might be ball lightning but it was clear and about 30 degrees outside. It also made no sound I could hear.

Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 41636
Occurred: 1983-06-15 02:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-01-26 08:17 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: Shokan, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright starlike object disappears into space.

I am not sure of the exact date but I know that it was during the summer of 1983 in the early hours of the morning. I was on a night fishing trip with a friend of mine at the Ashokan Reservoir. The night was warm and clear with 1000's of stars. My friend pointed out a bright "star" that he had been watching move around for about 30 seconds. When I saw the object it was a stationary bright white light at an extremely high altitude. My first words were "thats a star", but after about 15 or 20 seconds of remaining absolutely still the object shot straight back into space at such an incredible rate of speed that it just got smaller and smaller until it was totally out of site. This departure took less than 5 seconds. This has been my only UFO siting and I wish I had reported it sooner but I did not know this site existed until recently.



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. We wonder whether the witness might have been observing a satellite pass overhead, just as it entered the Earth's shadow. In that circumstance, the satellite would gradually fade and appear to get smaller, which might lead the human visual system to interpret that phenomenon to mean that the object was shooting away from the witness quite rapidly. PD


Posted 2005-01-27