NUFORC UFO Sighting 176176
Occurred: 2023-05-06 22:10 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-06-10 06:45 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute


Location: West Seneca, NY, USA
Location details: Standing on the sidewalk on my street, looking west, out over Lake Erie

Shape: Other
Explanation: Starlink - Probable


3-4 Lights appearing in the sky, going directly upward in a perfectly straight line, before one would fade out and a new one appear.

On the night of May 6th, 2023, I was walking my dog some time shortly after 10 p.m., when I happened to look up through the budding branches of a tree in front of my neighbor’s house, and noticed that the stars in the sky seemed to be moving. I thought my head was spinning or something, so I pulled the dog over and away from the tree to get a better look, and I clearly saw the following: there were little lights that looked like stars fading into view, before traveling directly straight upward and fading out again. Three to four of them would be visible at a time; as the one on top was disappearing, a new one would be reappearing at the bottom. I estimate that I was looking into the sky at a 40 degree angle from the ground, and this lasted from about 30 seconds to a minute, before everything suddenly faded out before my eyes. Their movement was perfectly vertical and perfectly regular (same speed and same distance apart). Everything appeared and disappeared in the middle of the sky at the same level; there were no clouds to obscure my view if they might’ve been traveling up from the horizon, and I could clearly see many other stars around. Further up northward, I could clearly see Venus, still visible in the sky, which was extremely bright, and looking a ways to my left, further south, there was another star which was at a similar level to my eyes as Venus. The lights I saw appearing and disappearing occurred somewhat close to the right of that other star I just described (sorry, but I do not know which star that was), and I believe this would have been occurring directly out over Lake Erie, although I have no idea how close or far away they were other than to say that they seemed to me to be at a great distance (due to their consistent visible likeness with stars). But that is a guess.
I have tried to make sense of this in my mind, but in all my years of looking up at the sky, I have never seen anything resembling this, nor can I rationalize what normal phenomena it could have been. It was as if many spacecraft had lined up to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and were following each other in a perfect rhythm, traveling horizontally (fading in at the bottom) and then vertically before leaving. The other way I could describe it was as if there was a giant, narrow ferris wheel or disc turned vertically up and down in the sky, with lights on its edge, which was turning, causing the lights to appear and disappear; the lights disappearing on top had reached the summit of the wheel, faded out and disappeared behind the wheel, and reappeared at the bottom. This would explain the machine-like regularity of the movement, but I SAW NO OBJECT. I only saw lights. I must emphasize that these are only my best ways of describing what I saw; not claims as to what it actually was.

Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 170148
Occurred: 2022-06-23 21:05 Local
Reported: 2022-06-30 13:26 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes?
No of observers: 1

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA
Location details: West Seneca ( suburb of Buffalo) looking North

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Left a trail

See video attached. It ‘fell’ very slowly even appeared to stop. From NE down toward Lake Erie dierection ( to see). Brightish. Had 2 tails/trails. I looked up- no comet or asteroid activity. Thought falling space debris/ satellite?

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 176518
Occurred: 2022-06-23 21:05 Local
Reported: 2023-06-29 17:38 Pacific
Duration: 1minute
No of observers: 2

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA
Location details: Southern Buffalo suburbs

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

Firey ball from northeast toward Lake Erie over Buffalo.




Posted 2023-07-10

NUFORC UFO Sighting 144424
Occurred: 2019-01-10 18:10 Local
Reported: 2019-01-11 10:03 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Teardrop


My wife an I were walking our dog at the Old Psych Center on East & West rd at 6:10 pm on the road that runs along the creek. My wife said OMG and pointed up above us and we both saw a large round shaped object that had a bit of a point and that's why we are calling it tear shaped. It looked gray in color, silent, guessing about 50 ft above the trees and it was like the size of a baseball diamond.

The object didn't move nor make any noise and after watching it for about a minute it then just disappeared. Our dog is older and seemed to not even notice it and just went about sniffing the little snow on the ground. We didn't feel scared at all but after it disappeared I did feel like the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I said let's go home which we did.

Posted 2019-01-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119264
Occurred: 2015-05-05 21:05 Local
Reported: 2015-05-31 12:06 Pacific
Duration: 12 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Brilliant red, circular object moved fast and changed to green color.

Stationary Red Circular object was observed in the eastern sky.

After a few minutes it moved horizontally to the left at a high rate of speed then stopped and turned Green.

Object then zig zagged and moved back to the area it was first spotted, turning to a red color.

A few minutes passed and the object turned green and dropped out of sight.

Before the object dropped, we noticed two drone planes flying past us in a northwesterly direction at a low altitude.

Posted 2015-06-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 109223
Occurred: 2014-05-05 23:04 Local
Reported: 2014-05-06 11:21 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Circle


Distant dot moved witnessed while looking at moon.

Looked at moon and noticed a very small, very distant dot (like an average star) that, from my angle, was moving left to right on the left-hand side of moon. Faint clouds covered up the travel path and the object was nowhere to be seen. Was not blinking like an airplane and would not have vanished after cloud cover. If it was a star then it would have still been visible after cloud passed. Moved slower than a shooting star but faster than an airplane. Had to have lasted no longer than 10-30 seconds.

Posted 2014-05-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 87882
Occurred: 2012-03-20 03:40 Local
Reported: 2012-03-20 10:08 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 2

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object

Triangular object, all white lights.

The Northeast sky contained a triangular object that had all white lights as opposed to an aircraft which alternates colored lights. It was not silent. Hovered low, to our eyes, and eventually moved on. My husband and I both noticed it.

I am out during the early morning hours 365 days a year. I deliver our local read and see late arrival aircraft on occasion. This was not one.

Only other thought is that we are not far from Niagara Falls Air Base and maybe this was a fight jet. I have heard fighter jets in the past and this did not sound like one. Also time of departure would have been an issue.

Posted 2012-05-13

NUFORC UFO Sighting 84775
Occurred: 2011-10-24 20:00 Local
Reported: 2011-10-24 16:30 Pacific
Duration: 20 Mins
No of observers: 1

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Changed Colo

White Sphere seen in West Seneca NY

I noticed a light flashing above the treeline. When I moved closer the object dimmed from white to dark then re appeared about 50 feet to the right. It was white and circle shaphed blinking on and off. (not aa aircraft because it had no red/blue lights

Posted 2011-10-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 83272
Occurred: 2011-08-16 18:00 Local
Reported: 2011-08-18 22:00 Pacific
Duration: two minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Strange orange-red fireball moving erratically, almost bouncing, several thousand feet in the southwest sky.

My girlfriend and I were in our suburban backyard, just southeast of Buffalo, NY. We just moved into the home one month ago. We previously lived in a country setting and never have I seen anything like what occurred on 8/16/2011. We were talking with our neighbor in our backyard and I noticed what looked like an orange-red fireball in the southwestern sky. It was moving slowly and without sound, it appeared several thousand feet in the sky, it was moving from the southwest towards the east. I asked my neighbor what it looked like, he said it looked kind of weird. My girlfriend saw it as well, she didn't know what it was. I commented that it did not look like any aircraft I have ever seen, nor was it shaped like an airplane, it also appeared to change shape and alter it's direction slightly up, then down, like it was bouncing or unstable, the movement was very quick. It also appeared that the color started to get brighter, then diminish, but not blinking. I guess you could describe it as looking like something on fire with erratic, non-linear movements. I would like to mention I was in the U.S. Army, my specialty or MOS was air-defense artillery. I was trained to recognize many, many types of military and civilian aircraft that were friendly and enemy. I spent years training for war and recognizing aircraft by the WEFT method, which meant wings, engine, fuselage and tail. I have been witness to many types of flares dropped from F-16's and other aircraft doing evasive maneuvers. This did not appear to be a flare or anything I have ever seen. My neighbor commented that it looked like a Chinese Lantern, but it was way too high up in the sky and too large to be something like that. Anyway, the fireball moved out of sight behind a huge cottonwood tree that was in our other neighbor's yard to our south. I waited for it to reappear on the other side of the tree but it did not. The duration of our ability to see this object was approx! imately one to two minutes. I walked into the street to try to! find it again but could not. It just disappeared. I would like to mention there are not any military airfields close-by or in that vicinity of the sky. The closest one is in Niagara Falls, about twenty-five to thirty minutes north of Buffalo. That airfield houses large transport aircraft, which I could easily recognize in the sky. Anyway, this "Fireball" was surely strange and without any sound. This is the first time I, my girlfriend, or neighbor have ever seen something like that.

Posted 2011-08-21

NUFORC UFO Sighting 76620
Occurred: 2010-07-17 19:15 Local
Reported: 2010-07-17 22:04 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Orb


Orb light seen flying westward over South Buffalo, NY.

My mother and I walked my brother and his wife to their car after dinner and I noticed both the half moon and sun were in the evening sky around 7:15 PM. My sister-in-law was already in the car when I told everyone to look up at the light moving across the sky. My mother and brother both wear glasses and have poor eye sight but I indicated description and the location of the light in relation to the half moon and light clouds in the sky. They could not spot it.

The light was the size and brightness of an average star you would see in the night sky only it was moving steadily in the blue sky in a westward direction towards Lake Erie. As I was trying to show my brother where it was it gradually vanished, this could have been from cloud cover but it was clearly visible moving through other clouds near where the Moon was in the sky. It appears that when I first saw the object, it was flying below the clouds.

There was no trail like what you would see from an airplane, the object was high in the sky but appeared to be a white orb or light. Moving at that speed and distance I would rule out that it was a high flying seagull which would have a different shape and not be as bright. The weather conditions at the time were clear, no excessive humidity.




NUFORC Note:

Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We suspect that the date is flawed, and we have amended it above to read July 17. PD


Posted 2010-07-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 13843
Occurred: 2000-08-19 18:45 Local
Reported: 2000-08-19 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 5 min.
No of observers: 1

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Egg


Egg shaped metallic objects flying slowly in perfect sycronization without noise. South, south west flight path

Two egg shaped objects, moving slowly in perfect sycronization, flying south, then south east. No lights, color dark grey.as they slowly veered south east, they took on the glint from the sun, and shined like metal objects.No sound.I thought it was unusual, to fly so close in perfect sync. together.If I stretch out my arm, they are about 1/4 inch in size, flying just below clouds, then dissapearing in clouds and reappearing again.I saw this through the window, when I went out in the yard for futher obervation, they were gone.

Posted 2000-08-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 13587
Occurred: 2000-07-23 18:30 Local
Reported: 2000-07-25 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10-12 min
No of observers: 1

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Light


Very small, bright objects, about teh same apparent size as Jupiter or Saturn, 3-12 in number, showing no apparent movement

At about 18:30 I was in my back yard, grilling some syeaks. A small twin-engined commuter aircraft passed overhead, on a generally southerly course, and turning east. I looked up to watch him, and at that time obsereved 3 bright lights bearing approximately 110-115 degrees. The angle of elevation to the horizontal was about 40-50 degrees. I called to my wife & had her come outdoors, and had her bring a pair of binoculars with her.The objects were about the apparnt size of Jupiter or Saturn, when seen in the night sky. The were in an irregular formation, and showed no apparent movement. I cvould not see any detail, either naked eye or with the binoculars, nor could I estimate altitude. The number of objects increased to 12, and the slowly diminished , the last one disappeared about 10-12 min after I noticed the first one. I did not hear any sounds associated with the objects, and they did not show any apparent motion.The sky was clear (there were some cumulus clouds on the far eastern horizon)and the visibility unlimited, with little or no haze. I had a glass of wine at the time and did not have anything to drink prior to this event. Question: Is it possible that these were Bolides?

Posted 2000-07-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 54531
Occurred: 1978-10-20 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2007-01-06 16:13 Pacific
Duration: 10 min.
No of observers: 3

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Triangle


two triangler, dark grey objects hovering at tree top level.

two triangler, dark grey objects with turbine like shapes at each point on it's underbelly. hovering approx. tree top level with no lights, no sound.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD


Posted 2007-02-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 148107
Occurred: 1970-08-15 02:00 Local
Reported: 2019-08-07 05:38 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes+
No of observers: 1

Location: West Seneca, NY, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Landed

The dark object was within 15 feet of me, not earth made, blinding light, soothing loud deep low hum/whirl, and evidence.

Dear Sirs:

The area, though I’m not quite sure was part of the Reynolds farm land some time ago. This is not giving away an address or specific location, but of an idea of explanation on why the event occurred where it did.

This occurred in the summer of 1970. In the middle of the night, a bright light start coming toward our house. It was a steady white and bright light coming down on an angle extremely slow and quite steady.

Because the light shown directly into my bedroom window I thought at first it was a motorcycle. I complained about the light just hovering across the street, but it remained there as I peeked out the window. The center of the window frame and a tree could have blocked a lot more information. I remember saying freakin turn already. Then I realized it wasn’t a motorcycle, but a space ship. Its color blended in with the surroundings. Possibly due to the extreme brightness of the ships lighting. It made a very soothing hum with a slight whirling sound to it. The sound resonating from it could possibly help keep people asleep, if not for the extremely bright light in my eyes.

Please note: At the time I was 14, and terrified because of all the horror stories displayed on television. At the time I thought of waking my parents, but I figured they’d think I was a nut case and tell me to go back to bed. I distinctly remember uttering, “Don’t take me.” Dropped my legs off to the side and covered my head as if the bed was made up.

In the morning, I went to investigate. If it was meant to be, something of evidence would show.

In fact, the ship left about a five foot light gray colored prefect circle on the scrubby ground. The sparse 1 to 3 inch grass in and at the circles line was burned black and curled. The weeds, like dandelions were burned on the edges of the leaves but not all the way through. There was a circular patch of tan colored hay grass which had its shaft striped of leaves so as only the interior of the grass stem was left. The grass stood perfectly straight up, and the top looked more like wheat than hay grass tops. The ships calling card.

I haven’t measured the distance from the gray circle to approximately where the light was, yet.

However, best guess at this time would make the ship approximately a minimum of 50 feet plus.

PS: My father noticed the stop sign was lifted very high up.

Posted 2019-08-23