NUFORC UFO Sighting 184829
Occurred: 2024-12-03 21:39 Local
Reported: 2024-12-06 13:28 Pacific
Duration: 25 Minutes
No of observers: 1 - Military

Location: Winthrop, MA, USA
Location details: Observed while looking south/southwest from Malden Ma (towards Boston)

Shape: Circle
Color: Multi
Estimated Size: Unknown
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: South/Southwest
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: greater than 5 miles
Estimated Speed: Very Slow
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Observed hovering then moving slowly for approximately 25 minutes

I noticed the unusual light and watched for a few moments before recording. As I was recording I noticed it was changing positions as aircraft from Logan Airport picked-up.




Posted 2024-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 183692
Occurred: 2024-10-18 19:31 Local
Reported: 2024-10-18 20:08 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: Winthrop, MA, USA
Location details: looked up, watched aircraft approaching Logan airport. Noticed light behind way in the distance.

Shape: Light
Color: very pale blue
Estimated Size: 600 feet long
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: south east
Angle of Elevation: 70
Closest Distance: five miles
Estimated Speed: 500 MPH
Explanation: Aircraft - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

I pointed out (to my daughter) a light in the sky

I live across the water from Logan airport. Constant airplanes landing and taking off, night and day. While helping my daughter bring in the groceries, I looked up to notice a commercial airplane on approach to Logan airport. To the right of that plane, I noticed a (very pale blue) light in the distance moving from right to left. I figured it was an aircraft that was flying at a much higher altitude. I watched it as it travelled, then pointed it out to my daughter. I said look at that interesting light...... We both witnessed the light turn more blue, slow down then gradually disappear, My daughter and I have seen several UFO's throughout the years.

Posted 2024-11-08

NUFORC UFO Sighting 182553
Occurred: 2024-08-08 16:00 Local
Reported: 2024-08-08 16:51 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2 - Military

Location: Winthrop, ME, USA
Location details: Our private property on a residential street in Winthrop, Maine. Our property is heavily wooded.

Shape: Sphere
Color: white
Estimated Size: Over 30 feet
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: northeast
Angle of Elevation: 80
Closest Distance: 40,000 feet
Estimated Speed: 500 MPH


Highly reflective spherical object following a passenger aircraft at a high altitude

My wife and I were outside, near our cabin. I was looking up at our cabin and in my peripheral vision I noticed a very bright-appearing passenger jet flying northeast to southwest at a high altitude. I mentioned it to my wife and then we both noticed an unevenly bright object not far from it. It appeared to be keeping pace with it but because I don't know the object's size, it was hard to tell if the object was above, below or at the same altitude of the aircraft. It seemed to be keeping pace off the aircraft's starboard side and slightly behind it. The object appeared uneven in brightness possibly due to it being spherical and reflecting the sun at varying angles to our vantage point. I could not get a photo because our property is heavily wooded with only a few gaps in the tree canopy. I went inside and immediately went to the flightaware website to identify the passenger aircraft. As best as I can tell it was flight RJA261 from Amman, Jordan heading to New York's JFK for a 4:50PM arrival. It's altitude was 40,000 feet and speed was 499 MPH heading from the north-northeast to the south-southwest. No other aircraft in the area appeared to match the flight characteristics of the UFO/UAP - they were all smaller aircraft heading in differing directions, none matching or closely matching RJA261.




Posted 2024-08-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 171190
Occurred: 2022-08-15 03:34 Local
Reported: 2022-08-17 17:22 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Winthrop, MA, USA
Location details: On Winthrop shore drive looking toward the north, coming in my direction toward the south then right

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Large lit in orange’ sphere

I was in my front room when I heard a random noise outside which prompted me to look at my camera shooting toward the street overlooking our car, what caught my eye was a very bright white flash on my monitor. I looked out the window but saw nothing. I went out to my front porch which faces me toward the south. When I looked up I saw a sphere, orange in color and the color seemed to be generated by lights. Not a fire orange. It came in my direction which would make the sphere to be traveling south. It sounds crazy but I felt like it knew I was looking up at it because it suddenly took a turn towards the ocean which would be toward the east. I picked up my phone and logic would tell me that it was going to reappear after the treetops that it flew behind but it was gone. Vivid vivid vivid I checked off ‘airplanes in the vicinity’ because Logan airport is nearby but there were no obvious air flight patterns going over Winthrop that night.

Posted 2022-09-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 164192
Occurred: 2021-07-28 10:41 Local
Reported: 2021-07-30 10:05 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Winthrop, ME, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Silent white light.

I witnessed a single bright white/blue (like an arc welder) light traveling in a south easterly direction. Approximately 1500 feet high moving about 200mph. It was silent. No blinking lights. Not a plane, not a helicopter and not a meteor.

I had a bright flash light in hand as I was outside to observe an expected meteor shower. I recognized it was something unusual right away. I decided to blink my flash light at it, to see if it would respond. I blinked my light twice. The light immediately changed course. Now traveling straight up from my view point. It disappeared into space. The sky was extremely clear and made this all a stunning experience. It happened quickly.



Posted 2021-08-16

NUFORC UFO Sighting 162392
Occurred: 2021-03-14 06:10 Local
Reported: 2021-03-16 17:15 Pacific
Duration: 60 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Winthrop, MA, USA

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

large triangular craft fixed white lights slow moving with white haze / mist around craft west to east roughly altitude 4,000 ft no sound.



Posted 2021-03-31

NUFORC UFO Sighting 158565
Occurred: 2020-08-14 20:30 Local
Reported: 2020-08-14 21:52 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Winthrop, WA, USA

Shape: Cross


We saw four shapes flying too close to one another waving from side to side silently

Walking along the sidewalk, and looked up at the sky to see four objects that looked similar to planes and would’ve been planes if they made a noise. they were flying too close to one another to be planes, and they weren’t birds because they, didn’t have wings and didn’t flap their wings. they slowly flew past a hill/mountain and disappeared

Posted 2020-08-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 150374
Occurred: 2019-10-19 18:10 Local
Reported: 2019-10-19 16:10 Pacific
Duration: 3 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Winthrop, ME, USA

Shape: Other


My wife and I left Hannaford parking lot and headed east . What appeared above us is baffling. A very large boat shaped craft overtook us from overhead and behind . We both saw the craft and in an instant it vanished before our eyes. Black aircraft with a glow off to the side almost like it had some sorce of back lighting. Neither one of us heard any sound .

Posted 2019-12-01

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143619
Occurred: 2018-10-29 14:00 Local
Reported: 2018-10-30 00:15 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Winthrop, MA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Changed Colo

Green laser lights shining down or multi colored rings in sky over Boston outer harbor

Apparently those shapes of multiple lights shining over Boston harbor high up are coming from whatever that ship is that’s been floating around in Boston outer harbor or docked off of one of Boston harbor islands. If you look at the bright white lights with binoculars you can see the stream of laser lights shining upward towards the sky and then making these oval shaped rings of multi colors in the ring. Also that low flying plane with disco lights wasn’t a hoax. It appeared to be some kind of military plane that had a bunch of green lasers in the shape of a cone shining down to the ground. Further searching on web revealed that they are used for topography and also used for searching premises for explosives and narcotics. So much for search warrants.

Posted 2018-11-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143279
Occurred: 2018-09-01 02:17 Local
Reported: 2018-09-26 12:47 Pacific
Duration: <1 minute
No of observers: 1

Location: Winthrop, MA, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Animals reacted

disco flashing lights on low flying aircraft

Was outside with my dog and heard like a lawn mower (not airplane/not helicopter) sound coming from North of my house. Looking around both my dog and I until bright white & green disco flashing lights were all on the ground around me and over me it flew directly above my house headed south and disappeared into the sky.

Posted 2018-09-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 94642
Occurred: 2012-11-17 18:12 Local
Reported: 2012-11-19 16:18 Pacific
Duration: 1-2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Winthrop, MA, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

At 18:12 I saw two orange balls hovering at about 500 feet above the ground.

As I was walking north on Yirrell Beach a plane passed overhead. This plane took off from Logan Airport, about 1 mile away, and was traveling west to east. As I continued my walk an orange ball appeared about a quarter of a mile in front of me. I thought it was a meteor entering the atmosphere but it stopped and hovered and then a second ball joined it. I called two friends in the area and they saw them also.

The two balls came in from the north and hovered at about 400 and 500 feet above a hill on which the Winthrop water tower is located. After about 40 seconds the orbs disappeared. The bottom orb disappeared first. They both appeared to turn west and then vanished.

There was a report on a local website of a person who saw two similar orbs at 19:30 on the same night. They reported that the balls travelled towards Logan Airport and then disappeared.

Posted 2012-12-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 91575
Occurred: 2012-08-07 21:10 Local
Reported: 2012-08-07 22:06 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Winthrop, ME, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

bright cigar shaped light in Winthrop, ME

My friend and I had stepped outside for a cigarette and saw an extremely bright cigar shaped light.

The object was moving quickly and had no other light color besides the intense white light it was generating.

It was very quiet and there were absolutely no engine noises as you would expect from the highth of the object. We stood and listened for several minutes after it went out of sight and still no noise.

It was moving from east to west, it was clear skys, and only was obstructed by view when it moved out of sight over the trees continuing its course...

very cool...



Posted 2012-08-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 72282
Occurred: 2009-09-13 21:00 Local
Reported: 2009-09-14 08:21 Pacific
Duration: 45 min
No of observers: 4

Location: Winthrop, WA, USA

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Multi-colored flashing UFO and White bright UFO.

We saw a round light which looked like police lights flashing above Patterson Mountain. It moved very quickly left and right, up and down, and in circles but stayed mainly in the same place. Then another bright white light appeared on the multi-colored's right side and slowly traveled to the right, then disappeared. Multi-colored one moved down and to the right after approx. 45 min. Then it went behind the mountain from our view.



Posted 2009-12-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 70872
Occurred: 2009-07-04 22:00 Local
Reported: 2009-07-04 22:44 Pacific
Duration: 15 sec


Location: Winthrop, WA, USA

Shape: Chevron


aircraft enters atmosphere over methow valley, winthrop, wa. 22:00, July 4, 2009.

came into the atmosphere above the valley at dusk. stopped burning and was visible flying noiselessly with no lights in a southerly direction. appeared to have wings or to be triangular.



Posted 2009-08-05

NUFORC UFO Sighting 64987
Occurred: 2008-08-01 14:30 Local
Reported: 2008-08-03 21:23 Pacific
Duration: 30 Seconds
No of observers: 4

Location: Winthrop, WA, USA

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Between 2:25 p.m. and 2:35 p.m. on August 1st, 2008, I witnessed what I believe was an F14 jet pursue a circular/oval shaped wingless object. I was on the lawn of a mountain resort in north central Washington state, having a telephone conversation with my brother. The area was being prepared for a corporate dinner by the hotel staff. The jet passed 1000-2000 feet over the hotel at high speed in a northerly direction and began a near vertical climb. The jet had vapor trails off its wing-tips and behind it. Just as it began its climb I saw a circular/oval shaped object above the jet at about a 75°. At first I thought the oval object was just slightly larger than the jet but then realized at the speed it was going I couldn’t tell how far in front of the jet it was. It was climbing much faster than the jet and seemed to accelerate at an impossible rate until it disappeared in the blue sky. Both the jet and the object seemed to be the same light color in the bright sunlight. I did not see any markings on the Jet or the oval object. The jet climbed to 20,000 to 25,000 feet before leveling off in a westerly direction. I only heard the sound of one jet, I could not discern any noise whatsoever from the oval object.

As soon as I saw the oval object I yelled at my wife who was close by in the swimming pool area. Her view was blocked by trees and she could not see the jet or the other object. There were three women close to me who had the same view as I did. I asked one of the women if she saw it too and she said she saw it but she did not know what she saw. I asked her if she saw any wings on the object and she said she did not. A waiter appeared and I described what I had seen to him. He said that he had seen things like that before in this location and had assumed the jets were practicing with some kind of remote controlled aircraft. I told him that the object had no wings and travelled at an impossible speed for any known aircraft. He seemed nonplussed.

The entire time this took place I was in cell phone contact with my brother so he heard the events unfold as they happened. This is a photo of my location when I heard the jet approaching. these pictures were taken shortly after the event.

You can see the weather conditions were mostly sunny at the time. The temperature was in the low 80’s.

I have a lot of experience around military aircraft at air shows around the country, I am very familiar with military aircraft sounds and maneuvers, I am used to working very close to operational military aircraft of all size and description. I spoke with a friend of mine who was a fighter pilot and described my experience. He said that if the military was training in that area it would be a restricted air space which he doubted it was. I checked online and saw that it was listed as MOA (Military Operations Area) temporarily through August 4.

I believe this is the type of aircraft I saw and about the same color. This photo has been flipped horizontally and rotated to a vertical aspect. My view was somewhat similar to this.




NUFORC Note:

Witness sends illustration of F-14 jet, which he indicates was most like the jet he says he witnessed. We have encouraged the witness to have hotel employees submit reports, as well. PD


Posted 2008-08-12

NUFORC UFO Sighting 55714
Occurred: 2007-03-13 22:33 Local
Reported: 2007-03-14 10:45 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Winthrop, NY, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Changed Colo

Bright shiny light-object, changes color and disappears when hit by auto-focus beam from camera...see picture

Bright shining light/object, approximately the size, maybe slightly smaller, of my thumb nail at arms length. Object/light hovered in one spot for about 2-3 minutes, then disappeared when camera auto-focus beam went off.

This just happened last night. I was at the computer...my wife was doing the dishes...we both kept hearing an unusually loud, low pitched, rumbling sound, going overhead...We could not tell, from inside if the sounds were jet engines, or the wind. I had gotten up and looked outside on three earlier occasions to see what it was, or if I could see something flying overhead. There was, in fact, a constant howling wind all evening. But, there also was a steady stream of jets, aircraft, or something overhead. I couldn't see them because of the cloud cover, but I could hear them, that is, apart from the wind. And, I could hear the Doppler pitch change in the engine sound as they passed by.

Except for the chemtrail planes (I have 100’s of photos) there are no regular flight paths over my place. There also are no major airports nearby. We have two community airports, Potsdam & Massena, each about 12 miles from my location; one due west, one due north. Fort Drum is approx 80 miles southwest of my location. There were no stars or moon visible, there was a low cloud cover, and it was quite windy...I could not tell from inside if the sound I was hearing was the wind or a jet engine...which is why I kept going outside and checking.

Just before I went outside for a fourth time (and this is where it gets a little weird), I said to my wife: "I keep getting a sensation like I am being watched, or stared at;" like when someone is standing behind you and is staring at you, and you can almost "feel" it. The thing is, she was off to my left, in my field of vision, doing the dishes; and we live alone? I went outside and this time there was a single very bright white light, shining like a star over my neighbor's barn, who happens to be a Detective, BCI, with the NYS Troopers, and who was outside with his family observing and commenting in an excited way about the light/object...we live approximately 150 yds apart. The light wasn't reflecting like the moon...it was shining, sparkling, or emitting light, and so bright, I could only see light, I could not see an object, just a light. I was looking slightly North of West, up at an angle of approx 35° from the earth...the object was slightly smaller than my thumbnail extended at arms length...there were no other lights in the sky...I live in the country, there are no streets lights or other forms of light pollution. The object must have been quite low in the sky, because there was a low, visible cloud covering/ceiling last night.

I asked my wife to get my camera, a Canon Power Shot S2-IS (it gets a little weirder here). As I pulled the camera up to my eye, I was thinking I was going to have trouble finding the object in the viewfinder, shooting in total darkness and all. I was surprised to see the object, right there in the view finder, no problem at all finding it...I zoomed in some on the object and was I thinking; “I'll take this picture, and then I'll take another with the flash up/on and see if the object responds to it.” I had the auto-focus on, and when I squeezed the shutter to focus, of course it shot out that green laser beam. Then, just as, perhaps slightly before, the shutter went off (I have the camera set to make a sound like an old 35mm) and there was a slight delay in the shot because the camera had set the exposure to 1/8 of a second…. just after I zoomed in, and just before the camera locked on and froze the image, I saw in the view-finder the object change from a bright shining white light, to a blue, violet, and green sphere with white light shining through the colors with a blotchy sort look...it kind of looked like a picture of the surface of sun, except this was blue/violet/green...that's when the shutter went off...and that is what the picture shows. I can’t say if the object actually changed in appearance, or if it was the “zooming” that caused me to see it differently throught the viewfinder? My wife didn’t see what I saw, the change in the objects appearance/color from bright a bright white light, to a blue/violet/green sphere…she had just turned to shut the front door, it was chilly out, and when she turned back, she asked; “where did it go?” I could not see the object in the viewfinder anymore...it seemed to just disappear….I didn’t even think I got anything on the exposure. I pulled the camera away from my eye to see if I could re-find the object without the camera. There was a glowing in the cloud cover where the object had been. I could hear my neighbor and his family saying to each other; “Did you see that?”…Everyone sounded quite excited, so was my wife and I. It looked as if the object was now above the clouds and illuminating them from above. Although, I could not see anything of the object anymore, or make out any shape...just the clouds slightly illuminated from above where the object/light had been. The illumination was growing fainter quite fast...so, I pulled the camera back up and tried to get a second picture...it doesn't show much...just looks like there’s some slightly illuminated fog.

I haven’t talked to my neighbor yet. I've known him since he was born, and I don't know if he'll even admit to me, let alone anyone else, that he was outside looking up too? I can't imagine he's going to go on record, considering his position...he's a detective with the NYS Police, BCI, 25 years. I hope to see him tonight, or perhaps this weekend, I'll see what happens. Also, after I took the pictures…I remembered that I hadn’t yet changed my clock on the camera, which is why the time stamp is an hour off from my reported times.



Posted 2007-04-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 12791
Occurred: 2000-03-15 06:39 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2000-05-05 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 14 hours
No of observers: 441

Location: Winthrop, MA, USA

Shape: Changing
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Emitted beams, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects

The strang multicolored object was up in the sky changing shape. It would occasionally give off a bright flash of light.

It was pretty.



NUFORC Note:

Report is not consistent with a "twinkling" star, but there is not enough information in the report to be able to judge what the witness was observing. PD


Posted 2000-05-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 2860
Occurred: 1997-11-14 21:10 Local
Reported: 1997-11-15 00:00 Pacific
Duration: a few minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Winthrop, WA, USA

Shape: Fireball


Summary : saw out of window, thought was meteors. kinda orange.

was watching t.v. and heard my mom screaming at my brother and they ran outside. I figured that it was something normal. Until I looked outside, and I saw bright orangeish lights that looked like meteors. I ran outside and My family was on the deck watching it and e couldn't figure out what it was quite yet. Then they just disappeared behind the mountains.

Posted 1999-01-28

NUFORC UFO Sighting 18644
Occurred: 1997-05-10 23:59 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2001-07-26 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Winthrop, WA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Objects observed in mountain sky



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2001-08-05