NUFORC UFO Sighting 157163
Occurred: 2020-06-26 06:38 Local
Reported: 2020-06-26 17:31 Pacific
Duration: 50 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape: Sphere


Seen in Southwest sky for approximately 45 to 50 seconds, then disappeared.

I was running South, when I looked up and saw a sphere shape in sky, complete round ball, silver and bright in the southwest sky, I saw it for about 45 to 50 sec and then it was gone. Object did not appear to be moving.

Posted 2020-07-03

NUFORC UFO Sighting 112906
Occurred: 2014-08-23 21:30 Local
Reported: 2014-08-26 09:04 Pacific
Duration: 1 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Orange defined circle with interior slow burn flame passes slowly E to W following Glen Creek above tree canopy Watkins Glen, NY.

Looking up through trees of campsite, (Tuscarora Village N. side) Watkins Glen State Park, husband and wife observed orange red circle moving silently slowly in west direction up Glen Creek (East to West).

The object was orange in center and had a red fire like ring on the peripheral circle, which had fire like licks or prongs emanating into the center orange portion, similar to looking straight up into the base of a rocket outlet, but flame going inwards to center and flames were slowly intermittent like a dying ember not a fast burn.

The object moved slowly west (visible intermittently through the tree canopy) and did not appear to be relatively high, I.E. lower than commercial jet aircraft and about as high as local prop aircraft). The shape was definite perfect circle not rough like mold burn. Lost track through tree canopy. (No intoxicants involved with reporters and they are objectively trained and not subject to emotional speculation).

Posted 2014-08-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82493
Occurred: 2011-07-13 22:30 Local
Reported: 2011-07-15 18:53 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

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

Strange, Non-Aircraft Moving, Pulsing Lights Observed in Rural Upstate New York

On Wednesday, July 13th 2011, around 9:45 pm, we received a call from my Aunt that she had seen a UFO and was tracking other UFO’s associated with it between Watkins Glen, NY and Ithaca, NY on her way home from our family reunion dinner earlier that evening. After speaking to her on the phone for a few minutes, I got into the car with my mother and two of my cousins, one of whom is the son of my Aunt to whom we’d been speaking, to find my Aunt since she sounded frightened. My mother called local police who asked if my Aunt needed assistance, and since we did not know, they advised us they couldn’t do anything.

We got onto Highway 79 at the intersection of Highway 227 heading East toward Ithaca, still communicating with my Aunt; it was at that intersection that she had told us she first saw a large glowing orb and then up to 7 other moving, pulsing lights as she continued. We saw nothing, but as we crested the first hill, I saw two lights over the trees, at a high altitude, to my right (South) pulsing and alerted my cousins and my mother. We watched these lights for a few moments, debating on whether or not they were stars at first. Both lights were blinking/pulsing very rapidly and then they moved across the highway to our North and joined with a third blinking light. During this transition, there were a few aircraft flying toward Ithaca, and we were able to compare these lights to the light of a commercial aircraft, and the two were definitely not the same.

We observed these lights for nearly 10 minutes and our movement during this time resulted in the lights slowly shifting to the north of us so that I could no longer see them from my position in the driver’s seat without completely ignoring the road. At this point, my cousins (my mother was in the backseat talking with my Aunt on the phone and no longer actively observing) began to get very excited, saying there was a fourth object that joined the other three, which had maneuvered into a triangle formation at that point. My Aunt’s son said that if he observed the three lights that were in the triangle formation through the tinted rear windows of our van that he could make out a huge, dark triangle shape with the lights at its corners. He also reported that the fourth object “flashed” and disappeared.

As we entered Ithaca, we lost sight of the objects and met up with my Aunt, and observed local air traffic for nearly twenty minutes so that we could confirm none of us could see the objects we had previously seen any longer.




NUFORC Note:

Please see other two reports from Watkins Glen for this date. We spoke with one of the witnesses via telephone, and we found her to be exceptionally objective and eloquent in her description of her sighting. PD


Posted 2011-07-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82494
Occurred: 2011-07-13 22:29 Local
Reported: 2011-07-15 18:55 Pacific
Duration: 10 min
No of observers: 4

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

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

three lights in the night sky over upstate NY moving erratically and very quickly

We received a call from my sister, quite excited and agitated, saying that she was following some UFO lights. I was very concerned and asked her son and my son and one of our nephews to drive with me to find her, mostly to make sure she was all right since she was all alone driving in the dark. We left Watkins Glen and turned up the hill on Rt. 79 at its intersection with Rt. 227. Once we reached the top of the ridge, my son who was driving and our nephew who was in the front seat of the van started yelling that they were seeing something, and my sister’s son joined them in the front and also started spotting these lights.

I am older and don’t see as well at night as they do, but I did move to the front of the van to see. I could make out three lights moving much faster and more erratically than any plane or helicopter could, traveling first in the sky over Ithaca ahead of us (due east) and then whipping around to swing in the sky to our left, which would be northeast. Their movements were unpredictable, very swift, and jerky. The lights I saw seemed to have a reddish-amber cast alternating with a yellow-white color. They were very far away and very high in the sky.

I am president and owner (with my husband) of an editorial services firm, college-educated, in my late 50s. I do not seek after paranormal or other-worldly events and was only along on this ride because I wanted to make sure my sister was all right. Though I definitely did see something that was not like anything I had seen in the sky before, I have no theories about what those lights might have been nor am I in a big hurry to find out.




NUFORC Note:

Please see other two reports from Watkins Glen for this date. We spoke with one of the witnesses via telephone, and we found her to be exceptionally objective and eloquent in her description of her sighting. PD


Posted 2011-07-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 82467
Occurred: 2011-07-13 21:40 Local
Reported: 2011-07-14 17:17 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape: Fireball


7/14/2011

At the intersection of Route 227 and Route 79 from Watkins Glen to Ithaca, NY, I saw a large stationary glowing yellow-white object in the sky, approximately 3 telephone poles high.

I stopped my car to get a better look, it was completely motionless for over a minute, then started to move to the right, soundlessly and smoothly.

I got in my car and followed it as I called members of my family to join me. The object flickered as it moved, the faster it moved, the more rapidly it flickered, yellow, white and gold.

It ascended very quickly until it looked like a moving star, and I saw it join up with three others just like it, then several more appeared.

Another orb appeared on the horizon line in front of me and seemed to be headed right for me, but it also ascended and joined the others far ahead of me, very high in the sky,

I counted 8 all together. They were all yellowish white, occasionally one of them would throw off what looked like and orange flare.! They circled each other fairly slowly and asymmetrically.

At that point I got in my car and continued to try to follow them as I stayed in communication with my family and they reported seeing the same thing.

When we finally met up they were gone.

This took about 20 minutes from my sighting of the orb to the multiple orbs disappearing.




NUFORC Note:

PD


Posted 2011-07-17

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76101
Occurred: 2010-07-03 21:30 Local
Reported: 2010-07-04 08:37 Pacific
Duration: 4-6 minutes each
No of observers: 8

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

3 Separate Sightings 15 minutes appart

July 4, 2010 We heard of object sightings over Seneca lake the weekend of June 26-27 from 2 separate and unrelated sources . . . .BUT- last night (July 3, 2010) at around 9:30 my wife & I were with 6 friends - (one of which had seen the lights the week before) were on the east shore of Seneca Lake about 10 miles north of the Village of Watkins Glen (located at the southern tip).

We are all professionals between 35 and 56 years old. We were watching fireworks around the lake from the dock. We saw 3 separate sightings of similar UFO objects about 15 minutes apart-they were NOT an aircraft that anyone could identify-no flashing lights typical of aircraft, movements were not typical of planes, and no airplane noises were heard.

The objects sight came from the horizon at the south-west (the first object came from a point furthest to the west compared to the other two) and traveled northerly up the lake pulsating a orangish/red glow. Their sizes at their largest point was about twice that of Venus, which was visible just above the western horizon and at least as bright if not brighter. Each time, their altitudes were at least a few thousand feet (guessing-based on the height of the surrounding hills from the water).

Most of their movements were similar in character to each other with erratic speed (fast then slow) and motions -veering off to one side or the other, sometimes instantly reversing their direction - sometimes appearing to stop or hover along their mainly northern route before continuing. None of the movements were super-fast.

All three sightings ended similarly in that they appeared to stop in about the same location to our south (distance unknown and very difficult to even guess) although their routes to get to that area were slightly different.

After being stationary a few seconds-they got brighter and brighter then began to move south and upward slowly (in relation to our position) as their light dimmed and then vanished. The second object re-appeared briefly (and dully) after a second or so of turning south disappearing, remaining visible for one or two more seconds again - which helped to verify that it was still moving after we lost sight of it before it then vanished.

The first sighting was approximately 5-6 minutes long, with the second and third being a little over 4 minutes.

Posted 2010-07-06

NUFORC UFO Sighting 68492
Occurred: 2009-02-06 20:00 Local
Reported: 2009-02-06 18:04 Pacific
Duration: still-20:42
No of observers: 3

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Aircraft nearby

light seen with air traffic all around not consistintly mobile with too long of a wait for a copter, though still seems to have movemen

a bright light was seen and noticed too close to earth then a star and shown to a sibling. when later looking and keeping track of such light it was seen at a nother spot and when out side smokeing it seems to seperate like an illusion and appear in a mind altering apperiance of approximitly 10-20 feet away looking like eyes and a bit creapy. it is now about an hour later and such object has not left the area and neather has the two to three air plains in the area. no blinking lights indicateing that the object is fitting with air space requirements. when looking at it with a teliscope the lense is too unclear and all can be is a circle with some brown colored lights in the center. when looking at it with binoculars three lights can be seen two side by side and one above it in compairison in size the third light seems to be a tad bit smaller. this is not the first time bright lights has been noticed out there but no never mind has been taken though this is the first time that it has been closely examined in person i believe that it or some like it has been there before and the air traffic is always jets and helicopters. some really high some so low its like there going to crash into the house but never loud enough to really cause consern. thank you for your concern i hope it leaves or stops in for a smoke cause it seems to be intrested in the times i step out side for a smoke because it then brightens up. oh yeah did i mention that i has moved from the first time seen by my self it was in the western direction in witch it could be seen more off to the left then what seemed to be the direct center behind ththe house and now twords the right and can be discribed in a 8" differince to a 5" difference

Posted 2009-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 52864
Occurred: 2006-10-09 22:00 Local
Reported: 2006-10-09 17:50 Pacific
Duration: in the sky
No of observers: 5

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

My husband and I were out side talking, when I saw what I thought was a star at first.

I told my husband it wasnt a star at all.It had green, red, blue, and yellow, white lights on it. I wasnt sure what it was at first, I asked my husband to get his banoculars out of the truck, and then we could see it even better,I ran in the house to get my children thinking we would never have the chance to experiance it again. The lights were realy bright at first, then it disapeared for about 20 seconds, then it came back again it was there for about 45 minutes until we got cold and went inside.

Posted 2006-10-30

NUFORC UFO Sighting 17662
Occurred: 2001-05-15 21:00 Local
Reported: 2001-05-16 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 15 Minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

UFO

With the naked eye a white light with binoculars the lights were red, white and yellow but on video it shows only a white light. The object moved with motions very simular to a bumble bee up down side ways very fast. It stayed in the same location it was hovering. On video it looks like if you had a lasar light and were just moving it in all differnt directions on a wall.

Posted 2001-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 1678
Occurred: 1996-11-16 23:20 Local
Reported: 1996-11-18 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 sec.


Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape:


Caller was standing on an 800-foot high hill near Watkins Glen with five of his teenage friends. They had just attended a hockey game.

Suddenly, they all saw a "low-flying ball of fire, with a greenish vapor trail" streak across the sky from east to west. The caller estimates that the object covered approximately 110 degrees of arc in about 3 seconds. He thought the tail behind the light might have been "at least a mile long."

Posted 1999-11-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 34919
Occurred: 1975-10-20 03:15 Local
Reported: 2004-02-08 09:22 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Watkins Glen, NY, USA

Shape:


Large wheel of no substance flickering and copying itself.

Hope this is not too obsolete. We did not see a UFO but rather a UPO (unidentified parked object).

We were staying at the Fawn Motel located on NY route ll on the west side of Lake Seneca , one of the finger lakes.

Through the transclucent window we saw a large wheel avout 8 to 10 feet high. Light chartreuse in color. Thick rim with four thick spokes centering on a large hub. As we watched it flickered continually and when it did so it replicated it self totally to the right with the strongest duplication in the 6:oo to 9:oo sector.

Went out next morning a saw nothing.



NUFORC Note:

We presume the witness already has ruled out a ferris wheel, or some other pedestrian cause of the sighting. PD


Posted 2004-02-12