NUFORC UFO Sighting 181918
Occurred: 2024-06-17 23:14 LocalReported: 2024-06-17 23:39 Pacific
Duration: 33 minutes
No of observers: 1
Location: Bainbridge, NY, USA
Location details: 4 lights in a square shape, but changed at times, drifting around my chicken coop.
Shape: Changing
Color: Just lights
Estimated Size: Standard brown paper bag when square. Linear at ti
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: (From the camera position vs me), it was West.
Angle of Elevation: 4
Closest Distance: (From the camera) between 100 -300 ft
Estimated Speed: Slow human walk to very fast glide (human sprint)
Characteristics: Lights on object, Animals reacted
It changed shape from square to zigzag, changed direction and ht, in my barnyard. Faced the coop and moved to front of my wood shed.
I checked my Arlo security camera on the barnyard before bed. Recently I have had a fox problem on the farm the past 2 weeks with afternoon attacks on my freerange birds and have been checking more than usual. Even as the birds are locked up at night (because a DEC trapper came out and set traps this morning).
I saw 4 lights in a square shape on the camera, as if the corners were lit up only. It was low lying mostly by my wood shed / corn crib. I watched to see if it was really just 2 animal eyes. It sort of hovered back and forth, and to the side and back. It changed shape to a zigzag and a vertical line and an irregular patterned line at times. I saw it move in front of the corner of the corn crib at one point.
It appeared to "face" left and "face" right (or, north and south) at times. Sometimes only two vertical lights were visible when it did. But usually I could tell by a slight tilted angle. It was on the small side I think (maybe the size of wreath) and stayed low mostly. But it rose up to about 4 ft at times. I was watching via a live feed of the camera from my Samsung phone. I don't think this particular camera model takes video without being triggered and I had, rather, turned it on myself. I went outside the house with my dog on leash (which isn't too close to where this was happening) and watched the live feed the entire time. This thing froze in position while I was out and only moved when I returned. I also noticed the neighbor dogs were barking wildly at the time. And actually my dog didnt want to go put whichnever happens. At the end of the half hr or so I was watching, it moved back about 100-200 ft to in front of the coop. It turned left and right and then moved to the side of the coop, lifted, and appeared to face the large window of my coop. It stayed there for about 5-10 minutes seemingly looking in. I don't know. That sounds crazy.
I'm a scientist (meteorologist/ climatologist) and I only look for rational explanation. It just couldn't have been an animal with 4 lighted spots. And I never stay up this late but it's sort of scared me.
At the end of the sighting my camera had trouble connecting to my wifi (though I had 3 other cameras on live feed oat the time and all were connected). That happens, I suppose. But when it did connect again the object/lights were gone. I might have seen it a few minutes later higher up than before by sheep barn but the trees on that part of the property blocked my being able to confirm that. So I'm not sure but I do have a feeling I was seeing it just with an obstructed view.
This is the first day of a heatwave and the temp was about 72-75°. The winds were light gusts to non-existent (stable nocturnal boundary layer).
I'm super perplexed by what this was but I did take a ton of screenshot of the live feed and they are time stamped. Some are zoomed in as I was trying to get a really close look. But the camera isn't that sophisticated with night viewing. The images do explain what I was seeing clearly, however.
Posted 2024-06-21